2009 College Football Team Draft

On the 70th edition of THE FDH LOUNGE on SportsTalkNetwork.com (Wednesdays, 7-10 PM EDT) on August 19, we at FantasyDrafthelp.com bring you our fourth annual college football team draft. It’s a fun way to mix traditional fantasy sports with straight college football, as we will each compile a stable of teams that will be competing for us. Here’s our suggested league guidelines, which we will be following for the show.

Take 6 owners and conduct a 7-round standard draft. Points will be assigned at four intervals: when the September 27 Associated Press poll is released, when the October 25 Associated Press poll is released, when the December 6 Associated Press poll is released and when the final BCS poll is released after the national championship game. The September 27 poll accounts for 20% of the total score (with the exception of the bonus points, which are mentioned below), the October 25 poll accounts for 20% of the total score, the December 6 poll accounts for 20% of the total score and the final BCS poll accounts for 40% of the total score.

For the first three polls, scoring is as follows: 1st place (50 points), 2nd place (45 points), 3rd place (43 points), 4th place (42 points), 5th place (41 points), 6th place (38 points), 7th place (37 points), 8th place (36 points), 9th place (35 points), 10th place (34 points), 11th place (30 points), 12th place (29 points), 13th place (28 points), 14th place (27 points), 15th place (26 points), 16th place (22 points), 17th place (21 points), 18th place (20 points), 19th place (19 points), 20th place (18 points), 21st place (13 points), 22nd place (12 points), 23rd place (11 points), 24th place (10 points), 25th place (9 points). Points are doubled in the final poll, since it accounts for twice the point total of each of the three previous ones.

Additional bonuses are awarded for the following accomplishments: 25 points for winning the BCS Title Game, 10 points for earning a spot in the BCS Title Game, 12 points for winning a BCS Bowl Game, 6 points for earning a spot in a BCS Bowl Game, 5 points for winning a non-BCS bowl game, 10 points for having the Heisman Trophy winner on one of your teams.

With the guidelines having now been established, here is the FDH draft board for this event and one that could help any of you who are reading this in your own college football team drafts. The first number represents the rank that each team earned on our “Experts Draft Board,” which was compiled from an average of eight prominent preseason polls. The second number, in parentheses, is the sum total of how each team scored in the poll based on the above scoring system. With 50 points representing first place in a poll, Florida's perfect score of 400 means that they topped the polls in every one of the ones we tallied. Please note, however, that the pollsters were weighing in on their present perceptions of where these teams rank and our draft board is based on a series of predictions in terms of where these teams will end up at the close of the season. For example, an SEC team, who plays in the toughest conference in the country, may be penalized for that on a draft board like this.



TOP TIER
1
Florida
1 (400)
2
Texas
2 (358)
3
Oklahoma
3 (345)
4
USC
4 (331)
SECOND TIER
5
Alabama
5 (307)
6
Virginia Tech
6 (297)
7
Ohio State
7 (283)
8
LSU
10 (269)
THIRD TIER
9
Georgia Tech
12 (225)
10
Boise State
14 (219)
11
Penn State
11 (242)
12
Mississippi
9 (272)
13
Oklahoma State
8 (273)
14
Oregon
13 (224)
15
Utah
17 (156)
16
Georgia
15 (208)
17
TCU
19 (114)
18
California
16 (176)
19
Iowa
20T (100)
20
Florida State
18 (149)
FOURTH TIER
21
Kansas
20T (100)
22
Notre Dame
22 (91)
23
Brigham Young
25 (75)
24
Oregon State
23 (79)
25
Texas Tech
24 (65)
26
North Carolina
26 (74)
27
East Carolina
31 (9)
28
Nebraska
27 (65)
29
Pittsburgh
28 (31)
30
Miami
29T (10)
31
South Florida
29T (10)