FCFI Week 6 Review and Week 7 Preview
With the fantasy regular season coming down the stretch, it is time to panic. College Sports Madness scored a season low 116.30 points in our loss to RotoWire last week. A loss is not too surprising considering all of the bye weeks we had, but that low score could come back to haunt us in a tie-breaker situation. Case Keenum was average by Case Keenum standards and Chris Relf will officially never play again. Even the seemingly great defensive pick up did not pan out.
Yet, with Case Keenum’s bye week this week, we are struggling for a quarterback…and this from the team that drafted two quarterbacks in the first two rounds. We’re in trouble. Russell Wilson is back in action against an awful Indiana defense, so that is good. Despite the plethora of signal callers on our bench, we will have to hit the waiver wires to find a second starter. Logan Kilgore joins Keenum in a bye week and Kyle Padron and Chris Relf we are holding onto for no apparent reason. The pickings are slim and it pretty much comes down to Ryan Griffin of Tulane or Steele Jantz of Iowa State. Sounds like a lose, lose to me. Griffin plays UTEP, who has given up 101 points in their last two games. Jantz plays a better Missouri defense, but can do some damage with his legs. But Griffin will probably throw more touchdowns than interceptions, so he is getting the nod.
Well, the bye weeks are killing our running backs this week too. Rex Burkhead and Cierre Wood are out, as are Ed Wesley and Benny Cunningham, leaving Chris Polk and a whole lot of nothing. That whole lot of nothing will include Asher Clark by default and whoever looks good on waivers. Darriet Perry, who I wanted to draft long ago, is available but he too has a week off. We’ll pick him up for later with the Sun Belt in full swing and finally drop some of those awful quarterbacks. For this week we’ll take a chance on Lampford Mark of Nevada coming back from injury. He had 15 carries last week and he should get an opportunity late in the game against an awful New Mexico team.
At wide receiver we are sticking with Jeremy Ebert and Jermaine Kearse. FAU tight end Nexon Dorvilus did not prove to be a good pickup, but we will stick with him this week against Western Kentucky. There just aren’t any good tight ends out there anyway and the matchup against WKU is a pretty good one.
The rotating kicker and defense will again provide a new team to cheer for. Carson Wiggs is a great kicker, but Penn State will beat Purdue 13-7, so we’ll want to do a little better than that. Hopefully Chandler Catanzaro can add quite a few extra points as Clemson beats up on Maryland. For the defense, it’s always fun to go find a good matchup. But this week I think we’ll grab a good defense in Temple. The Owls play Buffalo this week and they might be a decent play later in the season against teams like Bowling Green and Miami. We’ll see how long that lasts before I give up on the Owls.
With our lineup set…and looking really bad…it is time to see what we are up against this week. The competition this week is 3-3 College Football News and our first trip over to the Jim Tressel Division from our Butch Davis Division. Tevin Washington against Virginia, Bryant Moniz against San Jose State...we’re going to lose. Our only hope, barring a Moniz injury, is that the Big 12 passes a lot so Joseph Randle and Christine Michael don’t get a lot of points and the Big Ten runs a lot so Nick Toon and B.J. Cunningham get shutdown. Well, the Big 12 passing and the Big Ten running; maybe we aren’t out of this thing quite yet. We’ll find out on Saturday.
