CFA

College Football Alum

The loudest voices in college football never played a down.

Ex-coaches → TV shows Politicians → hearings Personalities → podcasts Former players → CFA

Verified former D1 players, reviewing their programs, posting their takes, and voting on the sport's future — in public, on the record.

I played D1 football

Get verified. Grade your program, post your takes, cast your votes.

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$12 one-time · Stripe ID check · ~72-hr review

I'm here for the takes

Everything players publish is public. No account, no paywall.

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Free to read · always

The game’s changing fast — and the people who played it have plenty to say.

What you actually do here

Get verified once. Then make noise three ways.

Play 01

Create your Alumni Review

The full story of your years in the building — coaching, facilities, academics, and how they treated you when your eligibility ran out. Programs get scored by the only people who actually know.

What a review looks like

verified

Toledo

Player 7841

MAC

The strength staff turned a 175-pound walk-on into someone who could hold up on scout team, and I’ll defend them forever. But when my eligibility ran out, so did the phone calls. Nobody tells you how fast the building forgets you…

Composite 6.8

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Play 02

Take the Pulse.

Quick, verified-only polls on the issues being decided without you — NIL, the portal, realignment, where the sport goes next. Two minutes, agree-or-disagree, skip anything you don’t have a take on.

One Pulse statement

“The transfer portal has been good for players like the one I was.”

Strongly disagree Strongly agree

Statement 4 of 11 · verified players only

Play 03

Your name. Your call.

Everything you post is anonymous by default — enough context to prove you lived it, never enough to out you. Want your real name on the record instead? One toggle in your settings. Every review you’ve written flips with it, and you can flip it back any time.

The toggle in your settings

Player 7841

Toledo · MAC

D. Marshall

QB · Toledo · ’17

The public sees what you choose. Verification always knows you’re real.

The Gameplan

Reviews are the opening drive.

CFA is built in phases that unlock on real counts of verified players — no fake numbers, no “coming soon” that never comes. Here’s the drive chart.

Live now

The mic is on

Alumni Reviews

Grade your program on what actually mattered.

The Pulse

Verified-only polls on NIL, the portal, the future.

School by school

Scores unlock

As reviews stack up on a program, its numbers go public — 1 review activates the page, 5 unlock its rating, 10 the breakdowns, 20 the full surface. No school gets scored on one hot take.

At 500 verified

The big surveys

Coach Ratings

Development, trust, life after football.

State of the Game

The yearly benchmark of player opinion.

Score leaderboards

Programs ranked by their own alumni.

Why we started with reviews →

Why it’s not all unlocked already

Because one review isn’t a score.

A single review of one school isn’t enough data to fairly score it. Two aren’t either. So nothing here is inflated to look busier than it is — every threshold on this site is a real count of verified humans. When you sign up, the numbers move because you moved them.

Played D1? Get verified — it’s how every number here stays real.

Get Verified

$12 one-time · Stripe ID check · ~72-hr review

1 School page activates Your voice is visible from review one.
5 Aggregate rating unlocks The program has a number.
10 Per-dimension breakdowns Coaching vs. facilities vs. the exit.
20 Full surface Everything public, everything sortable.

Leaderboards

Conferences · Verified players

  1. 1 Southeastern Conference 10

Schools · Verified players

  1. 1 Texas 10

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Former D1 Player?

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Join the verified players reviewing their programs and voting on the sport’s future.

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$12 one-time · Stripe ID check · ~72-hr review