College fantasy football is about to get a lot more mainstream.
Yahoo Sports just announced a new season-long college fantasy football game for the upcoming season, built around players from the Power 4 conferences plus Notre Dame. Bigger rosters, a new team "Offense" slot, and a tighter player pool that actually looks like the sport fans watch on Saturdays.
That timing is perfect for us too. We just launched CFB Start or Sit on MyGameSim, a weekly tool that ranks Power 4 (and Notre Dame) players using the same game simulations behind our college football predictions and projected stats.
Why this matters right now
If you have played NFL fantasy for years, the weekly headache is familiar. Who do I start? Who do I sit? Matchups matter. Usage matters. And gut feelings alone will get you burned by week six.
College fantasy adds another layer. Depth charts shift. Freshmen emerge. Transfer portal stars change roles overnight. Yahoo's new game is leaning into that by focusing on the biggest programs and giving you more roster spots to work with. That is great for the product. It also means you will be making more start/sit calls every week.
We built CFB Start or Sit for exactly that problem.
What CFB Start or Sit does
Each week we pull player projections from our college football game simulations, score them with standard fantasy settings, and grade the slate for:
- QB
- RB
- WR (tight ends land here when receiving production leads)
- FLEX
You get a rank, projected fantasy points, a letter grade, and a matchup rating based on how many points the opponent is projected to allow. Higher stars mean a softer fantasy matchup.
The player pool matches the Yahoo approach: ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, and Notre Dame. No need to dig through every Group of Five depth chart just to find your QB2.
How we sort positions without full FBS rosters
College data is messy. So instead of relying on incomplete roster tags, we infer position from the projection itself. Big passing week? That is a QB. More receiving yards than rushing? Wide receiver bucket. Otherwise running back. It is simple, and it tracks how players are actually producing in the sims.
Who can use it
CFB Start or Sit is a GameSim+ feature, available on the base tier along with our other Start or Sit tools for NFL, NBA, WNBA, and MLB. Non-subscribers can still peek at the top of the board. Subscribers unlock the full weekly list.
If you are jumping into Yahoo's new college fantasy league this fall, bookmark this page and check it before you lock your lineup.
And if you want the raw projections behind the grades, our college football projected stats page is still there every week too.
Saturday lineups just got a little less stressful. Enjoy the new Yahoo game, and let the sims help you decide who stays in and who hits the bench.
