FCFI Week 7 Review and Week 8 Preview
Well, it wasn’t pretty, but College Sports Madness got the win in week seven of the Fantasy College Football Invitational. We only tallied 138.45 points, but that was enough to knock off College Football News. Amazingly, my great waiver pickups of the Clemson kicker and the Temple defense actually paid off (not to mention Lampford Mark’s three touchdowns). Let us see what fun waiver moves we can come up with this week to get ourselves up to 5-3.
This week we play against Fantasy College Blitz, one of the many, many 4-3 teams in the Butch Davis Division. We are getting to the point now where any loss may be the end of our season. The tiebreakers do not bode too well for us, but we’ll take it one week at a time.
And we have Case Keenum back! How did we win during his bye week? With the Keenum and Russell Wilson combination, the quarterbacks should be in good shape. But watch out for that Spartan defense. And I believe for the first time in our six week history, College Sports Madness will start our top three running backs in Rex Burkhead, Chris Polk and Cierre Wood. Polk and Wood aren’t great starts with games against Stanford and USC, but I think Washington can keep it close enough to keep Polk involved. Notre Dame will lose to USC, but Wood is probably a better option than hoping Mark gets a bunch of goal line carries again.
At wide receiver we have to stick with Jeremy Ebert. The second receiver spot is a little more wide open with D.J. Woods, Jermaine Kearse and Marquis Maze all making progressively worse cases to get the nod. Not much doing on waivers this week, so I think we’ll stick with Nexon Dorvilus of FAU at tight end, Chandler Catanzaro of Clemson at Kicker and the Temple defense.
Fantasy College Blitz is sporting a quality lineup led by Ryan Tannehill of Texas A&M playing against a bad Iowa State defense and Tanner price of Wake Forest playing Duke. Their ground game is led by Chris Givens, also of Wake Forest. Go Duke! Royce Pollard and Josh Boyce are a couple of quality receivers who, with a good week, could be enough to put our little winning streak to an end.
