CFB – Power 5 – Week 5 – Evening Slate
College Fantasy Football Picks for DraftKings’ Evening Slate
We have a solid 7-game night slate on DraftKings for College Fantasy Football (or Fantasy College Football, whatever the heck you want to call it).
The evening slates usually feature more competitive games with teams we likely prefer to follow out of the Power 5 conferences. That holds true this week as 6 of the 7 games feature two teams from Power 5 conferences squaring off.
Notably, the Ohio State/Nebraska game jumps off the page, and its O/U confirms that feeling, sitting around 67, which is good for tops amongst the games from the Power 5. But it’s not the highest O/U. That belongs to Colorado State and Utah State, the only non-Power 5 game with a player pool available to us. It’s also the only game you have to scroll to see on the DK schedule on the lineup builder page, so hopefully people don’t think to look at that game as sharply because of that.
Anyway, more on that game in a bit, but below we give you a free pick out of the 5 available, so enjoy that and hopefully we turn you from a browser to a subscriber moving forward.
Spencer Sanders – QB – Oklahoma State – $7,900
Analysis: Against Texas last week, Sanders was one of the top-priced QBs on the evening slate. Now his price drops under $8K for really no reason. Kansas State hasn’t played anyone even worthy of a mention here except Mississippi State, and the Bulldog offense is NOT the Oklahoma State or relatively similar to the majority of Big 12 offenses. Sanders looks like the real deal out there and his legs are really going to provide a safe floor with huge upside on the back end. He’s the third-highest priced QB on this slate and he really should be the second with an argument for the top spot. He’s rushed for 328 yards on the ground, scored 2 touchdowns while throwing for 890 more with 7 TDs, all in just four games this season. Texas was his toughest test to date and even in that high-scoring affair on the road in his first big-game action, Sanders scored nearly 30 fantasy points, which paid off his salary then. Now he’s back at home at an extreme price reduction in a game with an O/U around 60. Kansas State is a phony and their defensive “prowess” it its first three games has been baked into this price. Don’t buy the noise, buy the player and the upside.
