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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 SCFP rankings, conference schedules, results from the prior week, and/or News & Notes of interest from around College Football. The tracker can change daily using any of the above criteria, usually SCFP Rankings (with results from the previous week) Sunday thru Tuesday; News & Notes on Wednesday; & Up-coming Schedules, on Thursday thru Saturday!
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 while the show is being aired or to "tune in" to an archived show at a later time.
We typically do not have more then five Posts up at a time as we rotate Blogs from Posts to Pages on the 6th article. The rotated Blogs remain up as Posts, for referral purposes, during that specific year.
If you click on the current Blog Icon, located on the far left of our Menu Bar, you will see we have two (2) blogs up under the Recent Posts heading for the 2025 season and one (1) blog up as a Page, that will not change until we reach our 6th post.
In other words, On SCFP initial critiques appear as posts and after five (5) posts, rotate to a page! The Posts intent is to provide insights to recent topics while the Page entries are used for reference!
Finally, it should be noted that we recognize our sponsors as lead-ins in all communiques!
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 in both subdivisions. This page has data going back to 2009 and provides information about NCAA: D1, DII, DIII; and other associations including the following: NAIA, NCCAA, USCAA, & NJCAA.
That said, SCFP tracks 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,
We now present the teams individual schedules and results. We do this by highlighting the following statistical data:
A) Penalties,
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 team & 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 and some scheduled games yet to be played. 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 or scheduled games not yet played on said date.
If you search by both (Team & Date) it will call up a specific team on that date!
The page has another function that is much appreciated by those who use are site, called "View Match-up"! This link takes the user to a different page, "SCFP Head-to-Head / Game Simulator"! A page that we will discuss / explain later in this review!
Bowl Game Page: We track the following info re: each Bowl game played in 2025:
1) Year (2 possible years are listed)
This also includes the current format of the 12-Team (@ least for now) College Football Playoff, 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 mimicked contest, a pure statistical showdown! The Head-to-Head provides Totals & Averages in eight (8) Categories:
1) Total yards,
As an example; 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 what ND's defense allows, 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 Leprerchauns' 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 or link provided below, you will see ND wins the statistical assessment Eight (8) to Zero (0).
https://sullyscollegefootballpage.com/Football_Stats/Matchup.cfm
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 vs one another 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!
Rankings on SCFP: Power Four (P4), Group of Five (G5), & Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) are evaluated in 3 categories.
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 ((DI), the NCAA would say Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) & Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) are all in the Division One classifications.
The use of FBS, would include all of the P4 & G5, as both are 85 scholarship programs (soon to be required to offer 105 Scholarships) & the FCS, which is made up of 63 scholarships programs. That said, both the FBS & FCS are DI members as defined by the NCAA, while the terms P4 & G5 are constructs of the College Football Playoff.
So, the P4 & G5 are exactly the same thing in NCAA structure, in other words, when an NCAA official says FBS, he or she is speaking to/of, both the P4 & G5! Where the confusion begins is not only are P4 & G5 both DI programs, so is the FCS considered to be Division One Programs by the NCAA!
Yet, the Associated Press Poll (AP) & DI Coaches Poll (UP) saw fit to recognize the distinctions between the FBS & FCS in scholarships offered (85 to 105 in the FBS & 63 in the FCS) 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 available to Ohio State, Georgia, Texas, and on ... that if made sense to rank schools like Toledo, Georgia State, Texas State, and on, in a separate G5 Category! As a result, on Sully's College Football Page, we break rankings into three (3) pods; 1) Power Four: Top 25, 2) Group of 5: Top 20, & 3) FCS: Top 15!
On Sully's College Football Page, we rank 60 DI teams each week in three (3) categories!
Recruiting: Sully's College Football Page (SCFP) recruiting data is based on three sites: A) ESPN, B) 247 Sports, & C) Rivals.
To determine our rankings, we calculate a 4-year average in each rating system and do so specifically in each site, ESPN's 4-year average is established, independent from, 247 Sports & Rivals.
We then take the 4-year average from each site, add them together, divide that total by three (number of sites) to get a 3-site, 4-year composite score.
Some of the year's results are quite surprising.
For instance, in the 2023 composite cycle, Vanderbilt's four-year composite score was identical to Washington's, (43.4), the Huskies played for the national championship that year.
Another interesting example, in the 2023 cycle (2020, 21, 22, & 23) was Nebraska. The Huskers had not been to a bowl game since 2016 (where the Corn Huskers lost the Music City Bowl, to Tennessee, 38-24), NE was a top 25 recruiting program in the 2023 cycle; yet could not win 6 games?
Sully's Scroll Tracker: Seen below are SCFP sponsors and our way of recognizing and thanking them for their support! Their commitment to Sully’s College Football Page radio show is the primary reason SCFP is able to donate over $1000.00 to local charities, non-profits, & schools. These agencies included the following:
1. Hagar House
Please remember your community business & neighbors, who contribute to these very needed organizations, when you are shopping for goods & services in our area!
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