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Welcome To Sully's College Football Page!
I have been working on Sully's CFP for the past 16 years and have logged well over 10,000 hours, for an average of about 2.hours per day. Needless to say, I have a passion for college football and have tried to present a comprehensive product that encompasses both the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) & Football Champion Subdivision (FCS) In 2025, there will be136 teams playing or transitioning to the FBS and 130 playing or transtioning to the FCS. Please keep in mind, I am a staff of one and welcome any and all suggestions as to how to improve Sully's CFP.
Home page: At the top of our Home page (current page), you will first see our news tracker, we our currently running our sponsors, which we run for most of the off-season. During the season, we run our weekly adjusted rankings (P4, G5, & FCS), conference schedules, results from the prior week, and/or News & Notes of interest. Next, you will find Sully's Contest, a weekly Ten (10) Game Challenge that our site users can play throughout the season. More info on the challenge willbe provided when we present insight as to how the contest works!.You will next see two (2) banners; Welcome Back & View This Week's Games, on our 2024 College Fooball Season Poster. if you choose to clkick on either banner, you will be taken to our "Game Search Page" Please check below for info on the "Game Search Page". Continuing on the Home Page, you will now see Four (4) Banners: 1) Sully's Blog, 2) Team Listing, 3) Conferences, & 4) Head to Head (AKA, Game Simulator); if you click on any oif these banners, you will be taken to that specific Page and as stated previously, check below for more info on what insights that page provides! Finally, at the bottom of each page, we have another scroll, that remains up for the entire year, recognizing & thanking SCFP sponsors for their support!
Blogs: Post & Page: in the past 16 years I have posted 637 times and currently have one up for the coming season. We average1 plus per week for the calendar year or 2 plus, per week, during the college football season (20 to 22 weeks). Posts rotate to Pages after the 5th post and remain up on for reference purposes during that specific year as a page. If you click at the current Blog Icon located on our Menu bar, you will see we have 2 posts up for the 2025 season and I always put one up as a Page to have @ least one blog as a Page..
Conference Page: Going into the 2025 Season, SCFP reports out on 9 Conference in the FBS and 13 in the FCS. This page has data going back to 2009 and has information about NCAA: D1, DII, DIII; and other Associations including the following: NAIA, NCCAA, USCAA, NJCAA & Unknown ... Teams that I could not identify their affiliation? Teams that play in that specific conference and their schedules. We track only FBS & FCS full schedules and use a color coding system to identify a given opponent! SCFP uses colored dots, (RED) a conference tilt, (YELLOW) Power 4 opponent, (GREEN) Group of 5 team, (LIGHT BLUE) a Football Championship Subdivision / 63 scholarship Program, & (BLACK) for every division that is not an NCAA DI (FBS & FCS) member. We use colors to help, with a glance, determine the strength of the Non-conference & identify conference games. On the conference page we also provided a small amount of info about each conference member!
Team Page: This page contains a University location, Spirit Name, Mascot's Name, Stadium's: Name, Capacity, National Rank, & Field Surface. UP next, the page what we call on SCFP, our University Snapshot. We present the following data, beginning with the 2009 season thru the 2024 season, 1) the year, 2) that year's win / Loss record, 3) Coach for that specific year, 4) his overall record, winning percentage @ that school, and with that considered, where he ranks nationally as compared to his coaching peers; 5) The University overall record & winning percentage; 6) University win rank & winning percentage rank, 7) Returning Letterman (Total #,Off, & Def), 8) Returning O & D starters, with the QB identified, if back; 9) Attendance #, an increase / decrease from previous year, & national rank! We now present the teams individual schedules and results. We do this with the following data: A) Penalties, B) Rushing Yards, C) Passing Yards, D) Total Yards, E) Turnovers, F) 3rd Down Attempts, & G) 3rd Down Conversions. The page also tracks totals in all the above categories and has an access icon to view conference standings!
Game Search Page: A comprehensive way to access teams & game day results! If you search by team, you can access every game that a team has played since their arrival on the site. For most of the FBS & FCS that translates to every game that they have played since 2009! If you search by date, it will show you every game that was played that day across teams. If you search by both (Team & Date) it will call up a specific team on that date! The page has another function that is appreciated by those who use are site called "View Match-up" which takes to "SCFP Head to Head / Game Simulator"! A page that we will discuss later in this review!
Bowl Games: We track the following info re: each Bowl game played: 1) Year, 2) Date, 3) Time, 4) Location, 5) Venue, 6) Home Team, 7) Away Team, 8) Result, 9) Bowl Pay Out, 10) Network, 11) The Sponsor & Bowl Name! This also includes the current format of the 12 game college football play-of, as of 2025! Clearly more to follow on the CFP ...
Head to Head / Game Simulator: The Simulator provides 'a look see' at the two (2) teams you would like to compare in a simulated statistical (By the Numbers) showdown. The Head to Head provides Totals & Averages in eight (8) Categories 1) Total yards, 2) Passing Offense & Defense, 3) Rushing O & D, 4) Scoring O & D, 5) Turnovers O & D, 6) Third Down Conversions O & D, 7) Red Zone ... All Scores O & D, 8) Red Zone ... TDs' Only O & D! As an example to show how this works; let's play a simulated game between Wisconsin & Notre Dame. In the 1st category assessed, Total Yards the Simulator takes ND's offense and adds it to UW's defense and gets a total (the Irish averaged 399 yards per game (YPG) while the Badgers gave up 343 YPG. Next the simulator adds these numbers together and gets a total of 742 yards, and finally it divides by 2 and gets a mean of 371 yards. The Simulator predicts that ND will have 371 yards of total offense vs UW defense. It then reverses the process, it now takes UW offense YPG in 2024, 351 YPG and adds it to ND's defense, 310 YPG arrives at a total, 664 Total Yards and then divides by two (2) to establish, by the numbers, what Bucky's O will accomplish vs the ND's Defense ... 330.5 total yards. Finally it now compares the totals; ND's 371 to UW's 331 and awards ND the point in this category It repeats the formula in the remaining seven (7) Categories. If you go to the SCFP, Head to Head / Game Simulator on our Menu Bar, you will see ND wins the statistical assessment Eight (8) to Zero (0). Please note, the higher number is always awarded the point, with the lone exception occurring in the Turnover Category, here the lower number wins! At the bottom of the Matchup Results, we provide Historical Data of every game these teams have played since 2009! Finally, If you remember on the Game Page Review, we mentioned that it had a a feature (View Matchup). that we would discuss/explain later, well ... here it is! You can use the Game Simulator with all 266 teams, that currently make up the FBS & FCS.
SCFP: Power Four (4), Group of Five (5), & Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Rankings: 1st, a few clarifications are in order: 1) the use of Power Four (P4) & Group of Five (G5) language is not part of the linguistic used in NCAA rhetoric. To define Division One (I), the NCAA would say Football Bowl Sudivision (FBS) & Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) . The use of FBS, would include all of the P4 & G5 (85 scholarship programs ... soon to be 105 Scholarchips programs) & the FCS, which is made up of 63 scholarships programs. So the P4 & G5 are exactly the same thing in NCAA dialog, in other words, when an NCAA official says FBS ... he or she is speaking to/of, both the P4 & G5! Giving the AP & Coaches saw fit to recognize the distinctions between the FBS & FCS in scholarships offered and then rated them in different categories. As a result, on SCFP when we looked at dollars availible to Ohio State, UGA, Texas, Bama, ND, and on ... that if made sense to rank schools like Toledo, Georgia State, Texas State, Troy, Ball State, and on in a different Category, as well! So on Sully's College Foiotball Page, we break rankings into three (3) pods; 1) P4 or P$, (Sonewhat cyntial ... emphasis on Somewhat) top 25, G5 Top 20, & FCS Top15! On SCFP we rank 60 DI teams weeklly.
Recruiting: Sully's College Football Page (SCFP) recruiting data is based on three sites: ESPN, 247 Sports, & Rivals. We calculate a 4 year average in each site (Independent of one another) we then take the 4 year average of each site, add them together, and then we divide that total by three (3) to get a composit score. Some of the years results are quite susprising ... in 2023, Vanderbilt's four year composit score was identical to Washington's, (43.4), who played for the national championship that year; 2) in 2023 Nebraska, had not been to a bowl game, since losing the Music City Bowl to Tennessee, 38-24, in 2016; is a top 25 recruiring program; and finally in 2023, 3) Notre Dame, under Marcus Freeman, continue to improve their team rank, the Irish are now the 7th best recruiting program in the country.
Sully's Contest, Our Weekly 10 Game Challenge: Each week we determine the 10 best games being played on that Saturday and our site users, after establishing an account, pick their perspective winners for that week. To break potential ties, all playes must establish a point total for each game and the player closest (nearest to the total wins ... for clarity rather you are over or under the actual is irrelevent) to the actual points sccored is delclared the winner for that week. We have weekly winners and track players throuhout the entire season to estblish an overall winner for that perticular year!
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