It comes just one time a year, and it is here now–Bowl season! That special season when you spend countless hours and days watching games involving teams that you have not even spoken of all season long. Just to make it a little bit interesting, why not enter a bowl contest? What, were you expecting to watch the game with zero fantasy interest? Fantasy college football is all the rage these days, and you need to get with it.

One way to go is with the 2009 College Fantasy Football Insider Bowl Challenge. Playing the Bowl Challenge is simple. All you have to do is select one player from each position tier. The team with the most fantasy points. This game has an advantage over traditional Bowl pick’ems which require you to make predictions of games in which you do not have the slightest clue. By focusing on the players, the Bowl Challenge narrows the amount of information you need to go through to make good selections (or at least ones in which you are confident).

The game is free to play and comes with a pretty cool top prize. Fantasy Trophies is offering its famed The Throwback as the top prize, in addition to a $250 Best Buy gift certificate. You could win a hundred other fantasy leagues, but I doubt your league trophy would be that cool as The Throwback. Not bad for zero investment on your part.

Sign-ups should start by tomorrow, if it is not already active now. Good luck to everyone who enters.

News and easy access to the news is what the new look for College Fantasy Football Insider is all about. The most recent change for College Fantasy Football Insider is an upgraded new site look that allows users fast and easy access to a plethora of fantasy college football news and data.

One of the most obvious features in the new site (in the above screenshot) look is easy access to CFFInsider’s Facebook, Twitter, and RSS feeds in the header. I really like this change because it makes a strong statement that CFFInsider wants users to read its information, and wants to make it available in as many places as possible.

In addition to the new site, College Fantasy Football Insider will provide users with weekly projections and rankings that you can customize to your league’s scoring system.

Overall, the content at College Fantasy Football Insider is great and is likely to make you seem like the fantasy college football expert in your league.

With college football fans gearing up for another season, so is CBSSports.com. Last year, CBSSports.com’s fantasy college football made waves when it announced that it would use real player names for its fantasy college football game, which had previously been taboo for the major fantasy site. In doing so, CBSSports.com became the first among the leading fantasy sites to take the bold step, and incurred the wrath of the NCAA at the same time.

In this year’s version, CBSSports.com fantasy college football big improvement is offering live scoring for its game. Live scoring is limited to Top 25, BCS conferences, and Conference USA teams, which means you are out of luck if you are using a gunslinger from the WAC. Once again, the game will be free, and CBSSports.com is even offering a free download of its fantasy college football draft kit.

The fantasy college football market is still very young, and it remains to be seen what site will emerge as the market leader. Athlon Sports made a move in this market by purchasing USports in the off-season. USports is a long-time provider of fantasy college football games, and has been using real player names for years, and what many consider to be the benchmark for fantasy college football. Although the fantasy college football market is young, there are plenty of quality content offerings, such as College Fantasy Football Insider and Fantasy College Blitz.

What are your thoughts on fantasy college football and/or CBSSports.com’s seasonal relaunch?

On a tangential note, check out The Big Lead just released its ranking of the top 5 college football announcers.

Additional Coverage:

• Live on Campus: CBSSports.com Launches 2009 College Fantasy Football