The Group of 6 Is Now In College Fantasy Football on CollegeFFB

When I built CollegeFFB, the mission was simple: a better way to play college fantasy football for every fan.

In my head, "better" meant two things. A better format, and a player pool you could actually manage. No draft night that requires 12 people to clear a Thursday. No waiver wire that punishes you for having a job. Everybody works from the same pool and the same $100M, and the game becomes a question of who you're willing to pay for. I still think the salary cap solves that.

What it did not solve was the part where "every fan" wasn't actually true.

I left out an entire cohort of college football fans who are just as loud, just as invested, and just as unwell about their team as the rest of us. People who drive four hours on a Tuesday night for a MAC game. People who have opinions about their offensive coordinator that they will share with you unprompted.

That's fixed. All of it. Every FBS conference is in the game.

So whether you went to Michigan or Western Michigan, Texas State or Texas Tech, San Jose State or USC, you're represented. We can't wait to enjoy the madness with you.

Transfers now has a G6 tab

Adding this many schools means a lot more names on a page that was already busy. So the transfers screen is split: Power 4, Group of 6, and My Squad.

Filter by conference and team inside each tab the same way you always have. If you want to build around your alma mater, go straight to the tab that has them and ignore the rest.

Pricing follows projection, not pedigree

This is the part worth understanding before you start building, because it will look wrong to you at first.

Prices are set off projected points. That's it. Not recruiting rankings, not draft stock, not what a scouting report says about a player's ceiling in three years.

Jeremiah Smith ($16M) and Malachi Toney ($15.5M) are not viewed the same way as Easton Messer ($14M) and Beau Sparks ($13.5M). Nobody is arguing they are. But if Sparks and Messer are projected to score a similar number of points against their own schedule, they get priced in the same neighborhood as some of the premier options in the game. The game doesn't pay for pedigree. It pays for points.

You can decide for yourself whether that's an inefficiency to exploit or a trap. Projections against a G6 schedule carry their own risk, and there's a real argument that the volatility runs higher down there. But the price is the price, and now you have a lot more of it to work with.

What this actually changes

Two things.

The obvious one: your team is in the game. If you've been checking in every August and closing the tab, that's over.

The less obvious one: the shape of a good squad just got more interesting. When the pool was Power 4 only, everyone was fishing in the same pond and ownership clustered hard around a dozen names. Now there's a whole second market, and most of the field will underrate it for at least a month.

Week 1 kicks off September 5. Go build something.