Darddog's Attack Plan for College Football DFS: Week 12
A top-ranked college football DFS player, Micah Bedard (darddog) is here to walk you through the upcoming DraftKings slate. Micah will break down his favorite DFS picks at each position and will also lay out his strategy for how he is attacking the slate overall.
I locked Ollie Gordon II last week, so that tells you all you need to know about how my week on DraftKings went. My main lineup luckily cashed all single-entry tournaments, so that saved me from having a truly awful week.
Before we get in to this week’s main slate, I wanted to use Gordon’s performance compared to Cody Schrader’s last week as a perfect example of how one might interpret DFS wrong.
If you look back on last week’s results, you could easily say to yourself, “Well I should have faded Ollie Gordon and played Cody Schrader. Duh!” This is a terrible mindset, in my opinion. I honestly couldn’t care less about how slates actually end up panning out.
Schrader caught the most passes he had in a game all season and almost double the receiving yards in one game as he had all season. Gordon had the best matchup of anyone on the slate by far, and game script went against him horribly with UCF getting out to an early lead, and he only ended up with 25 yards rushing.
Both are outlier performances that I am not going to put a whole lot of stake in. This will lead to Schrader being higher owned than he should this week and Gordon lower owned. Concentrate more on your preparation for the slate and why you are playing certain guys. Don’t look at the slate after the fact and say, “I should have just played the guys who scored the highest points.” It’s tough, but it’s something I see people struggle with all the time.
We’ve got two weeks left in the regular season, so let’s get into the Week 12 DK main slate.
College Football DFS: Top DraftKings Picks for Week 12
Quarterback
Core Plays
Jordan McCloud
$8,300
We get James Madison back on another DK main slate. I can feel the excitement coming from y’all after Brown’s performance (we’ll get to him later). Against Georgia State in Week 10, we saw McCloud dominate, putting up 55 DK points and you needing him to have any shot in GPPs. He’s scored 36/55/33 fantasy points in his last three performances, and I don’t see anything that will lower that floor this week. He’s got two core pass catchers to pair with and even an RB out of the backfield that catches passes. He’s also run for a TD in 3 of his last 4 games. If I were playing cash, McCloud would be the first entry into my lineup.
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