This is a 10-week competition. The College Football Season includes all 600+ college football teams in Divisions 1A, 1-AA, 2, 3. (I still call it 1-AA). Take all the teams and randomly match them up. I pick four matchups each week. See the above scorecard for Week 1.
For example, mighty, mighty Alabama was matched up against the Edinboro Fighting Scots, a Division II school in Pennsylvania. Oh my.
But, how could these two possibly compete? Here’s how scoring works. The number of points scored in their real-life game is the number of points scored in the CFS.
Say, Alabama played Fresno State and scored 41. This is their score here. Edinboro scored 20 points against Lock Haven. So, the final score here would be Alabama 41, Edinboro 20. Alabama wins.
BUT, since these teams are randomly matched up and not of equal strength, I set a spread for each game. I actually research these games before setting the spread.
What’s a spread? In this case, Alabama vs. Edinboro (+15) means add 15 points to Edinboro’s score, and this is their total score. So, the result of Week 1 was Alabama 41, Edinboro 35. Mighty Alabama narrowly escaped the Fighting Scots!
Here are the results from Week 1. I wrote in their real-life scores. Remember to add the spread to the second team (since they’re the weaker team on paper). The team that won their CFS game is circled.
This is my third season doing this, and I love it more every season!
thecollegefootballseason.com 