College Fantasy Coach

Jonathan Bentz, who grew up in Penn State Country before going to college at The West Virginia University, is going to be live microblogging today via his Twitter account from the Penn State - Michigan State game.

It will be cold. It will be loud. It will be fun.

Follow all the events at Bentz’s Twitter account: @jonathanbentz.

Getting to see college fantasy football studs like Javon Ringer, Evan Royster and Derrick Williams should be a lot of fun. Personally, I think Penn State is going to win this year’s battle for the Land Grant Trophy.

Southern Cal - Final Four of Cheerleading

I’ve always thought you should leave things up to the experts.

And, when it comes to girls, who is more expert than Playboy?

Playboy’s December, 2008 issues lists its “Final Four of NCAA cheerleading hotness.”

• University of Florida cheerleaders
• USC cheerleaders
• Arizona State cheerleaders
• UCLA cheerleaders

The Gator girls are master pom-pom shakers, exhibiting extraordinary sublety and nuance.  The Trojan mamas can hurl one another across the arena like WWE Divas.  The Sun Devillettes?  Ouch.  That’s hot!  But there’s nothing like the Bruin babes in action.  Judges?  Ten!  Ten!  Ten!  — (Playboy; Dec. 2008)

Here are the results of my individual draft in a recent 10-team, Onroo.com college fantasy basketball draft.

The draft was done online via an Autodraft, auction style format. I did pre-rank my teams based on some personal, twisted logic.

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Kevin Coble - Northwestern

One of the things that distinguishes college basketball from college football (other than the obvious fact that there is no real champion in college football) is that you’re never out of it.

Take Coppin State for example.  Last year, the Eagles won the MEAC conference with a stunning upset of Morgan State in the finals.  Hence, Coppin State, at 16-20, became the team with the worst record ever to make March Madness.

Division 1 has 341 teams in mens’ basketball.  Every one has a chance to make it to March Madness, but, in fact, 46 teams have never participated in the Big Dance.  Last year, Texas-Arlington made their first ever appearance and earned the privilege of meeting Memphis in the first round.

The biggest losers over the 62 year history of the NCAA Tournament include five schools who have been eligible every year, but have never participated.  The biggest losers include Army, William & Mary, St. Francis of NY, The Citadel, and Northwestern.

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WhatIfSports has fantasy sports in its truest form.

Unlike Yahoo!, CBSSports, ESPN, and those other sites that offer realtime, real life fantasy games, WhatIfSports hosts simulated contests between your favorite teams of this year… and yesteryear.

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To be honest, I had never heard of Onroo.com until last week. At College Fantasy Coach, we aren’t HUGE fans of team-based fantasy games, but we had to give Onroo’s game a shot because its FREE, a price we love for fantasy games more than how the game is structured.

Should you choose to accept the Onroo challenge, registration with the site gets you:

• Real time news and updates from Scout.com
• Access to FREE private and public leagues, plus a community forum
• Custom tools for the league commissioners who want to host their own league
• Universal rankings for comparison against the rest of the Onroo community.

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Da Wiz and Double T Nation has published some photos of ESPN’s Chris Fowler looking like he is cheering for the Texas Tech Red Raiders during Saturday night’s contest against Texas.

Here are two of those photos, published with the permission of ESPN, of course (kidding). The first is of the game-winning touchdown catch by Michael Crabtree. The second is from on the set of College Gameday.

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USA Today ran an article on October 28 that analyzed the situation regarding the Knight Commission

Mike Herzlich, Boston College

and its stand against the use of college football players’ names in its games.  The commission is specifically targeting the college fantasy football game marketed by CBS Sports.

Below are some excerpts from the USA Today article about college fantasy football.

The CBS site Sportsline.com this year introduced a fantasy football game that utilizes NCAA players and their statistics, after a court ruling over a similar issue involving major league baseball players was decided in favor of another fantasy league provider.

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Our favorite kind of fantasy football.

Happy Halloween from College Fantasy Coach.

If you’re looking for some running yards out of your quarterback, Navy’s Ricky Dobbs was your go-to guy last weekend.  Dobbs had 42 carries for 224 yards and 4 touchdowns in Navy’s 34-7 drubbing of SMU.

The Navy Midshipmen became the first major college football team to win a game without attempting a pass in 11 years. They ran the ball 77 times for 412 yards in a 34-7 time-of-possession nightmare against SMU (42:32). It is believed to be the first such time that Navy has done that in 60 years of keeping passing stats.

Navy has out-rushed its opponents 2479 to 978 this year in its first 8 contests.  The Midshipmen have been out-passed, however, by a mark of 496 to 1970.  In 8 games, the Navy is averaging only 6 passes per game!

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