About CFB Savant

College football stats, savant-style. Percentiles, leaderboards, and matchup tools for every FBS season since 2014.

CFB Savant is college football analytics in the spirit of Baseball Savant: every FBS quarterback, rusher, receiver, and team, ranked and visualized by percentile across the stats that matter. Raw totals tell you who piled up the most yards. Percentiles tell you how rare that production was, compared with everyone else who actually qualified at the same position in the same season.

The site is built around a simple idea borrowed from Baseball Savant. A leaderboard is only the starting point. What makes a stats site useful is the layer around it: a glossary that defines every metric in plain language, percentile ranks that put each number in context, player and team cards that show the full profile at a glance, and tools that let you compare players head to head or break down a matchup unit by unit. CFB Savant applies that same pattern to college football.

What you can do here

Browse five leaderboards — quarterbacks, rushing, receiving, team offense, and team defense — for every season from 2014 through the current season. Sort any column, filter by conference, or search for a player or team.
Open a player or team card to see a percentile radar and season-stat breakdowns. Each bar shows the raw value and the percentile rank against that season’s full qualifying pool.
Compare players head to head, including across seasons. Each player is measured against his own season’s pool, so a 2026 quarterback and a 2019 quarterback can be compared fairly on percentile, not on raw totals from different eras.
Break down a matchup on the Matchups tab. Pick any game and compare the two teams unit by unit on offense and defense, with percentile battles for each unit.
Follow what is trending. The Trending tab shows who gained the most production since the last data refresh, with movement in the season rankings.
Ask how good your team really is. Pick any FBS team in the team spotlight to see its offense and defense in percentiles, with ranks against every other FBS team.
Share a card. Any player or team card can be exported as a 1080 × 1350 shareable image, the same format posted daily on Instagram at @cfbsavant.

Why percentiles

College football seasons are not directly comparable on raw numbers alone. Schedules differ, pace differs, and the number of games differs. A quarterback who throws for 3,500 yards in a 12-game season is not the same as one who throws for 3,500 yards in a 14-game season, and a running back who averages 6.0 yards per carry against one schedule is not the same as one who does it against another.

Percentiles do not solve all of that, and CFB Savant does not pretend they do. What percentiles do is answer a narrower, useful question: within this season, against this qualifying pool, how unusual was this number? A 99th-percentile passer rating means only about 1% of qualified quarterbacks in that season were better. A 50th percentile means middle of the pack. A 10th percentile means most qualifiers were better. That context turns a table of numbers into a readable story.

Every percentile on the site is computed the same way, against the full qualifying pool for that season, even when a conference filter is active. Filtering to the SEC does not re-rank players against only SEC players. It shows SEC players with their national percentiles intact, so you can see how a conference stacks up nationally.

Read the definitions. Every metric has a glossary entry on the Methodology page — what it measures, how it is calculated, how to read its percentile, and an example. If a number confuses you, start there.

Who it is for

CFB Savant is for fans who want more than a box score, for fantasy and betting-adjacent curiosity, for debate ammunition, and for anyone who enjoys the “how good was that, really?” question. You do not need a statistics background to use it. If you can read a bar that goes from 0 to 100, you can read CFB Savant.

It is also for people who like to check their eyes against the numbers. If a quarterback looks unstoppable on Saturday, his card should confirm it. If it does not, that disagreement is interesting too — maybe he is piling up yards in garbage time, maybe his efficiency is average despite the volume, or maybe the eye test was right and the percentile is telling a different part of the story.

Data and independence

Statistics are sourced from CollegeFootballData and refreshed weekly during the season. The site covers the College Football Playoff era, 2014 to the present, regular season only, with no bowl games. In-progress seasons reflect only the games included in the current data snapshot. Full details — qualification rules, percentile formula, update cadence, and limitations — are on the Methodology page.

CFB Savant is an independent project built by college football fans, for college football fans. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the NCAA, any conference, school, team, player, or broadcaster. Team colors are used for presentation only.

What it is not

CFB Savant is not a recruiting service, not a betting service, and not an official source. It does not rank high school prospects, project NFL draft stock, or predict game outcomes. The matchup tool compares what teams have already done, not what they will do. Treat every number as descriptive — a record of production so far — not as a forecast.

Questions, corrections, or ideas? The fastest way to reach us is on Instagram. See the Contact page.