Prior to this season in order to encourage a couple friends who are NFL-oriented but know little about how great College Football is, I created quick rules for a FF style league where one assembles a conferece of teams rather than micromanaging individual players.

I kept rules straightforward for v1.0:

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-Snake Draft of 8 teams preseason.

-Regular season, every week select 6 teams from conference to broadcast/score and designate one of them "Night Game" for doubled scoring.

-Win/Loss/Draw against FBS teams 1 / 0 / 0.5 pts. FCS games are 0 points.

-Bonus +1 point for victory against AP top 25 ranked opponent at time of victory.

-Postseason: ALL 8 teams on roster considered active. No Night Game bonus.

-Conference Championsip Game Invitation=2pts. Victory=2pts.

-College Football Playoff invite = 2pts. Each Victory (except finals)=2pts. National Championship=3pts.

-Generic bowl invitation=1pt. Victory=1pt.

-Heisman winner=3pts.

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There was a waiver function to allow teams to pickup/drop 1 team a week, prioritized based on last place gets first priority, etc.

Numbered in draft order, first pick FantasyConference1 ended season with 120pts, FC2=124 pts, and FC3=107pts. Draft followed almost completely the preseason rankings. The winner, FC2, never used waiver.

FWIW, the final end-of-season teams:

FC1 (120pts): Georgia, Washington, Oregon, Missouri, PennSt, LSU, Tulan, James Madison

FC2 (124pts): Michigan, FlaSt, Alabama, OleMiss, Oklahoma, KSSt, Clemson, Utah

FC3 (107pts): Ohio, Texas, Louisville, Arizona, OreSt, Iowa, ND, Tennessee

It was fun, simple enough for the NFLers to get excited about matchups and polls, so in that respect very successful actually. But with the 12 team playoffs, there's opportunity to make v2.0 more interesting while still keeping it a little light. Biggest problem with v1.0 was relative dearth of upsets so preseason rankings more accurate than usual, and winner didn't really have to do any managing at all.

My first thoughts is to minimize reinventing the wheel as much as possible. Standard FF rules are 8 players active from roster, 1qb, 2rb, 2wr, 1te, 1flex(wr,rb,te), 1def, 1k. and 7 bench.

That would be 15 schools per each Fantasy Conference (FC) from about 133 FBS teams. Number of human players probably 3, but want a workable solution that accomodates say up to 6, so for 3-6 human players, that would be 45-90 teams used.

As a proxy for position, use real conferences.

So each week, start

-2x B10 teams (out of 18, so with 6 max humans, 3 apiece)

-2x SEC teams (out of 16, so with 6 max humans, 2.66 apiece)

-1x ACC teams (out of 15 total including ND)

-1x B12 teams (out of 12)

-2x FLEX (start two NON B10, NON SEC teams)

Roster is 16.

Keep scoring as v1.0, basically:

Win/Loss/Draw against FBS teams 1 / 0 / 0.5 pts. FCS games are 0 points.

Generic bowl invitation=1pt. Victory=1pt.

Conference Championsip Game Invitation=2pts. Victory=2pts.

College Football Playoff invite = 2pts. Each Victory (except finals)=2pts. National Championship=3pts.

Heisman winner=3pts.

Any game balance thoughts? Obviously doesn't scale well, but goal here is a sweet spot of about 3-6 players, with some interesting choices but not too heavy, and make it harder for one player to lockdown a victory because they have the One Great Team of the Year. The 12 team playoffs alone helps that alot.