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Brian has been writing about college and professional sports for more than 20 years. He is an avid fantasy player.
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Brian Dunleavy - RotoBaller (NCAA) has written 97 articles so far, you can find them below.
Fantasy College Football CFB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (10/15/18)
With baseball season over (for us) and hockey season essentially over (again, for us), and with basketball season (ahem, for us) over before it even starts, we have plenty of time to focus on college football. And good thing, too. For it was a topsy-turvy week in the Top 10.Featured Promo: Get any full-season NFL... Read More
Fantasy College Football CFB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (10/8/18)
Older readers will remember the Sports Illustrated "cover jinx." A player or team featured on the magazine's cover one week would suffer some form of bad fortune the next.Featured Promo: Get any full-season NFL Premium Pass for 50% off and win big in 2022. Exclusive access to our Premium articles, 15 lineup tools, new Team... Read More
Fantasy College Football CFB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (10/1/18)
Sometimes, life tests our ability to multi-task. This week, we've had a lot going on--off-the-field, so to speak--but we kept our eyes on the games across the country.Featured Promo: Get any full-season NFL Premium Pass for 50% off and win big in 2022. Exclusive access to our Premium articles, 15 lineup tools, new Team Sync... Read More
Fantasy College Football CFB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (9/24/18)
Lots of upsets on Saturday. We're particularly happy for Old Dominion, which beat Virginia Tech (in case you haven't heard). We have a friend who is an alum. But notably, none of our top 10 were affected. Which made things easy for us this week.Featured Promo: Get any full-season NFL Premium Pass for 50% off... Read More
Fantasy College Football CFB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (9/17/18)
A poor turn of phrase--and a racist comment--on "Monday Night Football" cost legendary broadcaster Howard Cosell his career in the 1980s. And rightly so.Featured Promo: Get any full-season NFL Premium Pass for 50% off and win big in 2022. Exclusive access to our Premium articles, 15 lineup tools, new Team Sync platform, Lineup Optimizer, Premium... Read More
Fantasy College Football CFB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (9/10/18)
We're back, which may be the biggest surprise of the week. However, we'll spare you the "inside baseball" of RotoBaller College Sports HQ, and just say doing these rankings week in and week out is a labor of love. And we're damn grateful for the opportunity.Editor's Note: Our incredible team of writers received five total... Read More
Fantasy College Football CFB Rankings - NCAA Top 10 (9/4/18)
Conventional wisdom suggests that you don't learn much from the opening weeks of college football season. Heck, we've probably said as much ourselves in this very space. And at cocktail parties. (Don't worry. We always leave early.) However, the truth is you can gauge a lot by how the top teams perform against their--usually--lesser opponents... Read More
Fantasy College Football CFB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (08/20/18)
Pretty soon we'll be flipping burgers and watching the Fourth of July fireworks before college football games. Like it or not, the "fall" season is upon us, with some teams--though, granted, none of the "big boys"--kicking off on Saturday. So, while we have to wait another week or so for the top teams to start... Read More
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (04/03/18)
We don't claim to get it right every time. In fact, we're usually our own worst critics. So, while we took it on the chin in the lead-up to the NCAA Tournament for putting down the SEC--a position for which we received some vindication as March Madness played out--we also note that we were wrong... Read More
NCAA Tournament Sleepers: Bracket Predictions
We all know the favorites. The likes of Villanova, Michigan State, Kansas and Virginia aren't going to sneak up on anybody. But who will surprise us during March Madness? RotoBaller picks five teams to watch during the tournament. NCAA East Regional West Virginia, (24-10; Seed: 5th) Seems absurd to call WVU, a solid Top 25 team,... Read More
NCAA Tournament Busts: Bracket Predictions
Filling out brackets is hardly an exact science. In the early rounds, even the best among us guess. Some of us more than others, in fact. Sometimes, even your intrepid reporter takes a few stabs in the dark, as the first draft of this article proved. However, one thing is for certain: Not all of... Read More
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (03/07/18)
It's conference tournament time, and because every conference wants to hold its big event in the Big Apple, schedules are all over the map. And, it seems a few of the teams in our rankings--notably a couple of Big Ten stalwarts--failed to update their calendars. As a result, there's been some shakeup in our final... Read More
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (02/28/18)
As we head into March, we know one thing is certain in college basketball: That nothing is certain in college basketball. With the cloud of the ongoing FBI investigation hanging over the sport, even the winners could be losers. Might our No. 1 team--or Nos. 2 through 10, for that matter--come under the law enforcement... Read More
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (02/21/18)
In desperate need of inspiration, we're listening to some records as we write our rankings this week. For all you millennials, a record is like Spotify, except you pay for it. Rimshot. Speaking of bad jokes, the knee-jerk reactions from the conventional pollsters in recent weeks are almost laughable. For once, we're proud of our... Read More
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (02/14/18)
Old habits die hard. Actually, we don't like to make changes to our rankings for change's sake. So while the conventional pollsters were quick to drop certain teams--and boost others--based on the result of a single game, we're don't generally have such knee-jerk reactions. Because, when we've had them, we've ended up looking bad for... Read More
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (02/07/18)
We get bored easily. It's one of our many flaws. It leads to a lot of channel-surfing, and a lot of unfinished business. And so, we were a bit concerned as we put together our Top 10 for this week. There are not a lot of changes, at least at the top, and that... Read More
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (01/31/18)
We've all heard the quotes from players, coaches and media types alike. You know, the ones that begin, "Good teams..." "Good teams win close games." "Good teams win when they aren't playing well." "Good teams capitalize on mistakes." Well, it goes without saying that the programs in our top 10 are "good teams." So here... Read More
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (01/24/18)
Here's a little "inside baseball"--er, inside basketball?--for you. We're struggling to come with a "lead"--journalist speak for intro--to this week's Top 10. What? You don't read these paragraphs we slave over every week? Good. Here are the Rotoballer college hoops rankings as of January 24, 2018 (won-loss records in parentheses). NCAA College Basketball (CBB)... Read More
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (01/17/18)
We doubt Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. cared much about college basketball--not that that tarnishes his legacy with us in any way. But as the nation observed his life and legacy this week, we saw a number of games that provided evidence of the sport's appeal for the rest of us--and that led to some... Read More
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (01/10/18)
Most people like to say, "We told you so," when others make an error in judgement. But we're not most people. Why? Because we put our thoughts out there every week, and most of the time we're wrong. Or some of the time anyway. Where will we err this week? Here are the Rotoballer college... Read More
Fantasy College Football CFB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (1/9/18)
A conventional top 10--after last night's epic Championship Game--would be the essence of anti-climactic. We all know which team reigns supreme, and they wear crimson and white. But which players on the top teams will be factors in NFL fantasy leagues in 2018 and beyond? Here are the names to watch from the teams we... Read More
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (01/04/18)
Normally, we would welcome the change a New Year brings--and we were particularly looking forward to ringing in 2018. Let's just say 2017 could have ended better for a few of us here at Rotoballer College Sports HQ. And so, we found ourselves thinking, "It's time for some things to end and others to begin."... Read More
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (12/27/17)
First, it was exams. Then, it was the winter break. Now, we're sure the Trump administration will do something to disrupt the college basketball schedule--and thus our schedule. Actually, that was just a lame attempt to up our Google search traffic. Our rankings aren't lame, however. At least we hope not. Here are the Rotoballer... Read More
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (12/20/17)
There's an old saying, "A day late and a dollar short." Consider us both. Yes, we usually do our rankings on Tuesdays but, as another saying goes, "Life got in the way." So here we are. Thinking: It's never too late to share our thoughts on the current college basketball landscape. Or: "Better late than never."... Read More
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (12/12/17)
As a fan, we love upsets. Who doesn't want to see David beat Goliath? Or the glass slipper fit Cinderella? Sports writers, that's who. Upsets mean more work for us. Last-minute comebacks lead to 11th-hour rewrites. Your friendly neighborhood sports reporter is the only one leaving the building unhappy following an "instant-classic" win. We know:... Read More
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (12/5/17)
We can hear Mick's words in our heads as we write this, "When the days get shorter and the nights get long..." No, the Stones' tune "She's So Cold" isn't about December--not exactly--but the line does carry a certain weight now that, well, the days are getting shorter and the nights longer, not only for... Read More
Fantasy College Football CFB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (12/3/17)
They say timing is everything. It's also the key to comedy. So, while some of you may find it funny that we're bothering to do a top 10 two hours before the only rankings that matter--those of the BCS Selection Committee--are released, we don't care. Because we have our own thoughts as to the top teams--and... Read More
Fantasy College Basketball CBB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (11/29/17)
Thanksgiving does more than simply raise our body weight and cholesterol levels. Holiday weekend tournaments also shape much of the rankings for the rest of the season--separating the contenders from the pretenders throughout college basketball. So, where do we stand after the first slate of big games this season? Here are Rotoballer's college hoops rankings,... Read More
Fantasy College Football CFB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (11/27/17)
We believe it was Churchill who once said, "Anything can happen in the Iron Bowl." Okay, it wasn't Churchill. He probably never heard of the Iron Bowl. Still, the old axiom is certainly true, and it is one that we here at Rotoballer College Football HQ nevertheless forgot. Again. With that in mind, here's our... Read More
Fantasy College Football CFB Rankings: NCAA Top 10 (11/20/17)
Cupcakes and cream puffs. No, we're not planning our dessert for Thanksgiving Day, we're calling into question the rules--or lack thereof--that allow top teams in the FBS to schedule FCS teams, and other softies, toward the end of the season. Sure, by doing so, these big teams don't hurt their postseason prospects any, but they... Read More
