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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 Championship Subdivision (FCS) In 2025, there will be 266 teams playing or transitioning to Division I Football (FBS 136 & 130 in 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 College Football Page (SCFP).
Take a tour of what SCFP is all about!
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 display for most of the off-season. During the season, we run our weekly rankings; Power Four (P4), Group of Five (G5), & FCS (63 Scholarship Programs). We also integrate the News Tracker with P4 conference schedules, results from the prior week, and/or News & Notes of interest from around College Football.
As you scan the top of the page, you will see a notice to Listen Live on Saturday's , 9-11 am, this access will allow you to listen live or to archived Sully's College Football Page (SCFP) weekly radio show.
Just below the Tracker, you will find our Menu Bar, we currently have nine (9) itens listed, everything from our Blog Page through Recruiting. We will provide a guide below, summerizing what we provide on each page and how to best use the data.
Up next is Sully's Contest, a weekly Ten (10) Game Challenge that our site users can play throughout the season. More info on the challenge will be provided when we present insight as to how the contest works!.
You will next see our 2024 College Football Season Poster with two (2) banners; Welcome Back & View This Week's Games, if you choose to clkick on either banner, you will be taken to our "Game List Page" Please check below for info on the "Game List (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 of 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 SCFP Scroll Tracker, that remains up for the entire year, recognizing & thanking SCFP sponsors for their support!
Blogs: Post & Page: For the past 16 years SCFP has written over 640 articles on college football and currently have three up for the coming season. In the past few years, we have averaged 1 plus communique, per week, for the calendar year and 2 plus, per week, during the college football season (20 to 22 weeks). Posts rotate to Pages after the 6th post and remain up on for reference purposes during that specific year. If you click at the current Blog Icon, located on the far left of our Menu bar, you will see we have two (2) Blogs up under the Post Heading for the 2025 season and one (1) Blog up under the Page heading. In other words, On SCFP initial critiques appear as posts and after five (5) posts, rotate to a page! The posts cover current issues while the Pages are for reference!
Conference Page: Going into the 2025 Season, SCFP reports out on 9 Conference in the FBS, 13 in the FCS, and a handful of Independents. 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. We track only FBS & FCS full schedules and use a color coding system to identify a given opponent! SCFP uses colored dots in our scheduling, (RED) signifies a conference match-up, (YELLOW) a Power 4 opponent, (GREEN) Group of 5 team, (LIGHT BLUE) a Football Championship Subdivision or a 63 Scholarship Program, & (BLACK) for every division that is not an NCAA DI (FBS & FCS) member. We use colors to help you, with a glance, determine the strength of the Non-Conference (NC) schedule & identify / distinguish these tilts from conference games. The conference page also provided a small amount of information about each conference member and a View Conference Standings link at the top of each conference page! Please Note: On SCFP we list the Home Team First when providing schedules!
Team Page: This page contains a University's: *location, *Spirit Name, *Mascot's Name, *Stadium's: ^Name, & ^Capacity, *National Rank (Capacity & actual attendance), & *Field Surface. SCFP's University Snapshot. is the statistical heartbeat for all of the 266 teams we track on our site! On this page, we present the following data, (2009 thru 2024), 1) the year, 2) year's win / Loss record, 3) Coach for that specific year, 4) his overall record, winning percentage @ that school, and his national norm rank ; 5) The Universities overall record & winning percentage; 6) University's win rank & winning percentage rank, 7) Returning Letterman (Total number, & Offensive, Defensive, & Special Team players w/ experience), 8) Returning Offense & Defense starters, with the QB identified with (*), if back; 9) Attendance Numbers, increase / decrease from previous year, & national rank! We now present the teams individual schedules and results. We do this by hilighting the following statistical data: A) Penalties, B) Rushing Yards, C) Passing Yards, D) Total Yards, E) Turnovers, F) 3rd Down Attempts, G) 3rd Down Conversions.and of course, (H) the actual score of the game! The Team Page also provides a link to return back to that Team's Conference Page!
Game List (Search) Page: A comprehensive way to access teams & game day results! If you search by team, you can access every game that a team (FBS & FCS) 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 the site user to a different page "SCFP Head to Head / Game Simulator"! A page that we will discuss later in this review!
Bowl Game Page: 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) Results, 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 creates 'a look see' at two (2) teams you would like to compare in a mathematical mimiced game, a meeting determined solely by the Numbers, a pure statistical 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, what Bucky's O will accomplish vs the Irish' Defense ... 330.5 total yards. Finally it 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! Remember, on the Game Page Review, we mentioned that it had a feature (View Matchup). that we would discuss/explain later, well ... you just read it! You can use the Game Simulator to compare all 266 teams (2 @ a time) 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 linguistics 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! Given that, Aassociated Press (AP) & DI Coaches saw fit to recognize the distinctions between the FBS & FCS in scholarships offered and then correctly determined it made sense to rank them in different categories. They have done so for years! In a similar way, when SCFP looked at dollars & resources availible to Ohio State, Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Notre Dame, 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 Football Page, we break rankings into three (3) pods; 1) P4 or P$, (the use of the $ sign is somewhat 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 year's results are quite susprising. For instance, in 2023, Vanderbilt's four year composit score was identical to Washington's, (43.4), who played for the national championship that year. Another example in that cycle (2020,21,22,&23) was Nebraska, the Huskers had not been to a bowl game since 2016 (losing the Music City Bowl, to Tennessee, 38-24), in 2016; yet they are a top 25 recruiring program; and finally in 2023, Notre Dame, under Marcus Freeman, continued to improve their team rank, the Irish are now the 7th best recruiting program in the country, yet are constantly being defined as overrated? Perhaps it would make more sense to think of the Irish as underachievers!
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. The player closest to the Ten Game total wins ... (for clarity, whether you are over or under the actual score is irrelevent ... Nearest the total wins). We have weekly winners and track players throuhout the entire season to estblish an overall winner for the year!
Sully's Scroll Tracker: Seen below: our way of recognizing and thanking our sponsors! Their support is the primary reason SCFP is able to donate over $1000.00 to Local Charities and Non-Profits. Please remember your neighbors when you are shopping for goods & services!
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