Yahoo College Fantasy Football: How the Team Offense position will work and strategy tips
The new Yahoo College Fantasy Football game offers a "Team Offense" position that adds another layer of strategy to your weekly lineup decisions, which includes 10 total starting positions. With Indiana and Notre Dame ending the regular season as the two highest scoring teams in 2025, the system is designed to emphasize overall offensive dominance, with mistake-prone teams suffering the consequences of their poor execution.
Here is how the position will work and some strategies to consider when choosing your Team Offense this draft season.
How the Team Offense will work
The Team Offense position is designed to reward efficient, high-scoring units that minimize mistakes while continuing to play at a high level for 60 minutes each week, including second-stringers and freshmen who are salting games away in the fourth quarter. Every touchdown, field goal and victory earns fantasy points, while turnovers are extremely costly in comparison.
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With the Team Offense position never taking a play off or getting substituted out of a game, the truly dominant teams within their conferences stand out when it comes to evaluating the position.
What would have been the impact last season?
Six teams would have eclipsed the 200-point mark in the 2025 regular season (12 games):
Indiana: 239.7
Texas Tech: 211.08
Notre Dame: 210.59
Utah: 206.44
Vanderbilt: 205.82
Ohio State: 200.17
National champion Indiana was the clear positional leader, while Texas Tech ran roughshod over the Big 12 to finish in second place. For perspective, 16 Power Four running backs eclipsed the 200-point mark last year. Indiana would have averaged 20 fantasy points per game under Yahoo's scoring system last year, which was 5.42 PPG higher than the 12th-ranked school, Miami (174.6 PPG), and 7.58 PPG more than the 24th-place team, Texas (148.74 PPG).
Five other teams that just missed the 200-point mark in the 2025 regular season:
Oregon: 197.60
Ole Miss: 196.96
Tennessee: 193.11
Texas A&M: 181.32
USC: 177.30
Keep the schedule in mind
Consistency is key, as many Power Four programs feast on lower-caliber non-conference opponents early in the season, but fade when they enter the teeth of conference play against equal or superior talent. For perspective, 53 Power Four teams recorded one of their two highest Team Offense position weekly point totals within their first three games last season, which is when power conference teams invite lower-tiered FBS and FCS programs to take a "Paycheck Game" and get unceremoniously crushed by their Power Four host.
With points being pretty easy to find early in the season, you can realistically stream a Team Offense from the waiver wire for the first four weeks or so. However, once conference play hits and the sugar high wears off, streaming from the wire becomes more difficult on a week-to-week basis. With the Team Offense position's performance against conference opponents likely to decide playoff races, in-conference performance is what separates the elite options from the merely good ones. So if you already have a dominant offense like Ohio State, Indiana, Notre Dame or Texas Tech heading into conference play, then hold onto them at all costs, as you'll have a notable advantage over whoever your opponent starts against you.
Over the last eight games of the 2025 season, Utah was the highest scoring offense at 18.5 fantasy PPG, while Notre Dame (17.5 PPG), Indiana (17.3 PPG) and Ohio State (17.2 PPG) were all a full two points higher than the fifth place offense, Texas Tech, at 15.2 PPG. In fact, just nine teams averaged 14+ PPG over that eight-game span, with Arizona at 14.0 PPG being the most surprising name on the list.
Perhaps the most revelatory aspect of how fantasy offenses performed over the final eight games is the vast difference between the elite attacks versus the average. The 30th-ranked fantasy offense, Iowa State, averaged just 9.6 PPG over that span, which is almost half of what No. 1 Utah scored. The difference between Alabama's 20th-ranked offense and Utah's was also a pretty sizable 6.75 PPG.
Use a valuable draft pick or stream?
Yahoo's Team Offense position rewards elite, mistake-free play and punishes mediocrity. Draft strategy-wise, it makes sense to reach and secure a top-flight, intra-conference juggernaut that plays a relatively easy schedule and has a clear path to 10 wins while averaging 35+ points per game in the process. However, if you're a risk taker and plan to stream during the early season until a sleeper team like Vanderbilt (205.8 fantasy points last season) emerges, then best address other positions early and wait until the later rounds to select your Team Offense.
