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CFB Week 7 FanDuel ownership: Saturday slate

What the field actually played on the CFB Week 7 FanDuel Saturday slate, next to what we projected before lock. Our misses are shown in full.

October 17, 2026 · Updated October 17, 2026 · After The Timeout

7 games · classic

The slate at a glance

Sport
CFB
Week
Week 7
Site
FanDuel
Format
Classic
Games
7
Teams
BC, CIN, IND, KSU, KU, LSU, MSST, OSU, PITT, SMU, TEX, UF, UVA, WVU
First lock
Sat Oct 17, 12:00 PM ET
Player pool
110 players
Projections
Captured Sat Oct 17, 11:07 AM ET, before lock

Top 12 by real ownership

The chalk: who the field played most

Field ownership is the share of lineups that used each player, from 1 large-field tournament contest, 3,832 entries. Gap is the field minus our projection: green means the field played him more than we expected.

Ours vs the field, 1 large-field tournament contest, 3,832 entries
PlayerPosOursFieldGap
Michael Hawkins Jr.WVUQB31.5%54.7%+23.2
Dilin JonesLSURB23.6%46.6%+23.0
Jeremiah SmithOSUWR30.5%43.2%+12.7
Dylan EdwardsKURB40.6%34.3%−6.3
Bo JacksonOSURB11.6%27.0%+15.4
Gi'Bran PayneCINRB9.1%24.8%+15.7
Cam CookWVURB29.6%23.7%−5.9
Avery JohnsonKSUQB4.9%23.0%+18.1
Cam PickettKUWR11.3%22.7%+11.4
Sam LeavittLSUQB25.2%22.1%−3.1
Nick MarshINDWR16.9%18.1%+1.2
Javarius GreenBCWR0.8%14.8%+14.0

10 players where we were furthest off

Our biggest misses

We publish these on purpose. The players the field played far more than we expected, and the ones it passed on.

The field played him more than we projected
PlayerPosOursFieldGap
Michael Hawkins Jr.WVUQB31.5%54.7%+23.2
Dilin JonesLSURB23.6%46.6%+23.0
Avery JohnsonKSUQB4.9%23.0%+18.1
Gi'Bran PayneCINRB9.1%24.8%+15.7
Bo JacksonOSURB11.6%27.0%+15.4
The field played him less than we projected
PlayerPosOursFieldGap
Kameron CourtneyUVAWR14.0%0.0%−14.0
Anthony Evans IIIMSSTWR17.6%4.4%−13.2
Jackson HarrisLSUWR20.0%9.4%−10.6
Garrett OakleyKSUWR9.7%0.0%−9.7
Mason McKenzieBCQB14.1%5.1%−9.0

1 contest · not enough to grade

Why there is no grade

We grade a contest type once it has at least 2 contests behind it. This slate has results from one large-field tournament contest (3,832 entries), so the tables above show that contest, and we do not put a grade on it.

The 2 contests behind these numbers
ContestGroupEntriesFeeMax entries
$800 Sat CFB Spring Game (Only $0.25 to Enter)large-field tournament3,832$0.25-
$15K Sat CFB Wishbone ($3K to 1st)small-field or limited-entry tournament1,984$9-
How our fantasy point projections held up

Across 110 players, our point projections missed by 5.5 fantasy points on average (5.2 on players who scored), with a correlation of 0.62 against what they actually scored.

Biggest point misses
PlayerOursActualGap
Cole TabbCIN11.736.9+25.2
Michael Hawkins Jr.WVU29.350.3+21.0
JC French IVCIN21.038.8+17.8
Joe JacksonKSU6.223.7+17.5
DJ EppsWVU10.626.6+16.0
By position
PosPlayersAvg missBias
QB149.1−2.0
RB335.1−0.3
WR635.0−0.9

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