Fantasy football fanatics, rejoice!
Fantasy football has been a fall staple since launching in the late 1990s, but it can be traced all the way back to 1962. Greg Winkenbach, considered the "father of fantasy football," created the Greater Oakland Pigskin Procrastinators league while serving as the part-time owner of the Oakland Raiders, and it became wildly popular before the start of the 21st century.
Fans across the country center their entire lives around fantasy football when the leaves start to change, and now they have another platform to satisfy their fantasy football craving.
Yahoo Sports is re-launching a college football fantasy platform before next season
While the NFL has traditionally dominated the fantasy sports landscape, Yahoo Sports is launching a revamped college football fantasy platform, something it pioneered in 2018.
Fantasy Football is going back to school. 📣
— Yahoo Fantasy Sports (@YahooFantasy) July 9, 2026
College Fantasy Football is now on @Yahoo. Get started now: https://t.co/cUiR5lSVzr pic.twitter.com/zzHBm6zwe8
Yahoo Sports announced it is launching a college football fantasy platform ahead of the 2026-2027 season, something it tried in 2018. The original platform launched in 2018, but the company shut it down in 2021 following the COVID-19 pandemic. Yahoo Sports stated that it is launching a new college football fantasy game to "mirror the excitement of the modern era" and will feature all the major Power Four Conferences. Fans can "draft" players from the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC, and Notre Dame, with expanded roster slots.
Teams can have up to 18 players, three more than the traditional 15 in normal fantasy football games, with the added ability to start an "Offense" with team-level aggregate scoring. Yahoo Sports is doing its best to tap into college football's massive fanbase and expanded NIL opportunities for athletes, and it will be interesting to see how popular the platform becomes. Drafts begin on August 3, and scoring for games begins during week one on September 3.
Iowa is one of the schools fans can draft players from, and it will help increase the program's awareness outside the state. The program has no trouble sending players to the NFL, but most fans outside of Iowa don't recognize the future household names. This gives them the opportunity to learn more about the players and the program, something that can only help. Players like DJ Vonnahme, Tony Diaz, Kamari Moulton, and others will become more familiar names, which is a great thing for them and the program in general.
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