Utter the words "fantasy football" to any passing stranger and they will immediately think of the players who take to the fields across America every Sunday and Monday night.

Orange juice isn't just for breakfast anymore, your father's Oldsmobile is history and now fantasy football isn't just played with NFL players.

For years when sites like CBSSports.com ran college fantasy football contests they were not allowed to use the player's names.  Rather you would draft "groups" like "Florida Gator QB's", "USC Running Backs", "Oklahoma Wide Receivers".  And yes, while you were covered in case of late scratches or injuries, these contests lacked a "personal feel".

Recently CBS crossed the line and stood up to the NCAA and announced that they would run traditional, season long college fantasy football contests (Ref WSJ article HERE)

This decision, which has gone unchallenged by the NCAA has helped open fantasy football fans' eyes to the fact that now both days of the weekend can be spent pacing between three TV's while simultaneously tracking your line-up's production online. 

Why should the NCAA challenge CBS and other college fantasy football leagues?  All they do is provide even more exposure for all NCAA teams, including the smaller teams that usually garner nothing more than a box score and small paragraph in the Sunday fish wrapper.

Barely a year old, the next generation of college fantasy football has already morphed into something that A) college fans; B) fantasy football fans and; C) gamblers should all take to very quickly.

Behold, "Weekly college fantasy football".  365FantasySports.com became the first site on the web to offer weekly contests with real cash buy-ins and real cash payouts each and every weekend.  "By Saturday night each week, just after the last west coast game has ended, our contests are over and our system is putting cash in the accounts of all of our players who won," quipped Neil Odze, founder of 365FantasySports.com.

Odze continued, "Just like our other daily contests there is no week-to-week point carryover and there's no roster carryover either.  The rosters that you select each week are for that weekends' games only.  Even within each weekend, many of our contestants can be found in multiple contests.  While some contestants use the same roster in each contest, others like to mix it up."

Since so many college football fans are tend to follow just their team and their teams' conference, 365fantasysports.com has created the only games on the web that are conference specific.  Every week you will find both "national" contests as well as contests for the Big Ten, Big XII, Big East, ACC, SEC and PAC-10.  Odze seemed to beam just a bit when he added, "Nobody else has contests like these.  Nobody."

Is this legal?  Absolutely.  Because of UIEGA (google it if you don't know), fantasy contests of this sort are totally within the bounds of the law.  365fantasysports is US owned and operated.  Customers can make deposits and withdrawls quickly & securely with their checking account or any major credit card through Paypal.  Contest buy-ins range from $6 to $110.  Payouts range from $10 to $600.  Your first contest is free upon registration.

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