I went back and looked just for the fun of it.

Michigan's QB scored 10 points vs Rutgers in last year's 78-0 win. 100 yards passing and 1 TD 0 INTs. A start like this most likely would have resulted in a loss that week.

Oklahoma State's QB score 14.8 points against Kansas. 220 yards passing and 1 TD with -12 rushing and a sack.

I wanted for comparison to show JT Barrett vs Oklahoma. Basically the opposite of the games listed as the ones you're targeting. Against Oklahoma Barrett scored 35 fantasy points. That's about the range an avg QB scores in this league. Less and you're disappointed. 40 or more and you can say your QB had a good game. My best performance last year was 61 points with Washington's QB vs Oregon where they just went off. Turned out to be the only week I won in what was a really awful year for me.

So it's not really that easy. In the limited player pool, sometimes the thinking is if I have Rudolph playing Kansas, and he throws 1 TD, the RBs score 2 and if there's a non offensive TD from either a kick or punter return or a pick or fumble, is Rudolph riding the pine at that point. Looks as though that may have been the case for both QBs in your example.

This post was edited on 6/4/17 at 6:24 pm