2026 NFL Regular Season Kicks Off: Fantasy Football Insights and ACC's Bright Spot
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The 2026 NFL regular season gets underway in just over three weeks with the kickoff game on Wednesday, Sept. 9. With Week 1 of the NFL preseason now in the books, the time has come for Fantasy football owners to lock in on draft preparations. Veterans like Josh Allen, Bijan Robinson, Jahmyr Gibbs and Ja'Marr Chase all headline the 2026 Fantasy football rankings, and will likely be among the top players on most Fantasy football draft boards. The key to Fantasy success remains finding sleepers and rookies who outperform their Fantasy football ADP, and avoiding drafting players that end up being Fantasy football 2026 busts.
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This season will at least start off feeling remarkably similar to last. Most of the hope for the ACC rests squarely on the backs of Miami. But the likes of Louisville, SMU, Clemson, Pitt, and Virginia have proven they can jump up and really make a run out of it.
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Bleacher ReportOct. 17: Florida State at Miami Oct. 24: Virginia Tech at Clemson It's safe to say both SMU and Louisville are eager to collect an early ACC victory that may prove critical in season-end tiebreakers. Really, that's the feeling around most of these contests, no matter if Miami dominates the league or not.
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01 CBS Sports Prepared by Fantasy experts R.J. White and Josh Nagel, the Fantasy draft bible is a must-have for any serious Fantasy football player. White is SportsLine's No. 1 NFL expert since 2017 who got his start in the Fantasy industry, with his work appearing at AOL Fanhouse, Fantasy Café and other sites prior to joining CBS Sports, where he is the current managing editor of Fantasy and betting content. Nagel is the longtime assistant managing editor at SportsLine and a Fantasy Football veteran. This team brings extensive Fantasy experience and can give you a huge edge in your league.
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02 Yahoo Sports CBS Sports recently conducted a survey of college football GMs, staffers, agents, and others to get an idea of what each power-conference school is spending on its football team this season and found the average roster cost to be well over $20 million.
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03 Bleacher Report In the fight for relevancy in college football, the ACC has settled into a competitive space within the power-conference hierarchy.
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04 SB Nation This is shaping up to be an incredibly important season in both the Big 12 and the ACC. College football has become a conference arms race and despite nominally being Power Four conferences, they are most emphatically not among the Big Two conferences. Both leagues have done enough to not become the next Pac-12 so far, but it’s going to take more than cherrypicking schools from around the country to join in order to stay relevant.
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