Since the USAFL began way back in 1997, the College Draft Night has always been the marquee event. Everyone that ever fantasized about being a General Manager dreamed about making decisions for his team on Draft Night. The USAFL grants that wish once every three weeks.

The draft starts promptly at 8pm ET and is moderated by the Draft Moderator. GMs logon to the TeamManagement interface and click on the DraftConsole to enter the Draft area. The Draft Console has a chatroom and a custom viewable listing of players already drafted.

During the first round, GMs have one minute to announce their selection. The Draft Moderator has the authority to pass on a team that takes longer than the time allotted.

During the second, third, and fourth rounds, GMs have only 30 seconds to announce their selection. The Draft Moderator has the authority to pass on a team that takes longer than the time allotted.

If a GM gets disconnected from the Draft Console and misses their selection, the Draft Moderator may allow the GM to make a selection at the conclusion of the round missed. Once the Draft Moderator begins the next round, all passed selections will not be made up.

If a GM knows that he can't make a draft, he can ask other GMs to draft for him. The Draft Moderator will NOT draft players for absent GMs.

The Draft Order is determined by using the NFL's formula for determining draft selection order. Teams are ordered based on Won/Loss records. Tiebreakers are determined not by head to head, but by strength of schedule, just like the NFL. Here is the official tiebreak ruling for draft order selections:
 

TIE-BREAKERS FOR DRAFT ORDER
If two or more clubs are tied in the selection order, the strength-of-schedule tie breaker is applied, subject to the following exceptions for playoff clubs.
1. The Super Bowl winner is last and the Super Bowl loser is next-to-last.
2. Any non-Super Bowl playoff club involved in a tie shall have priority within its grouping below that of nonplayoff clubs and in the order that the playoff clubs exited from the playoffs. Thus, within a tied segment a playoff club that loses in the wild-card game will have priority over a playoff club that loses in the divisional playoff game, which in turn will have priority over a club that loses in the conference championship game. If two tied clubs exited the playoffs in the same round, the tie is broken by strength of schedule.

If any ties cannot be broken by strength of schedule, the divisional or conference tie breakers, whichever are applicable, are applied. Any ties that still exist are broken by a coin flip.