Privacy & data.
Last updated October 1, 2026.
Using the site
Rankings, charts and simulations work without analytics or advertising. Search, blend and bracket changes stay in your browser. Exports are generated locally. The site has no visitor accounts, payment forms or mailing list.
Optional services and your choices
A first-visit banner explains analytics and advertising and offers Accept, Disable and Customize. For U.S. visits identified by CloudFront, configured optional services can start automatically. Other and unknown regions remain opt-in. Saved choices and the browser's Global Privacy Control signal take precedence. A failed region lookup defaults to opt-in. Open Privacy choices on any main page to change your selection.
Choices are saved in this browser's local storage. Disabling a loaded service reloads the page to stop further collection; it cannot recall information already sent. Clearing storage resets your choices. The local banner is not a Google-certified consent management platform; Google's configured privacy messages also apply.
Analytics
Microsoft Clarity receives browsing and interaction information and can create click/scroll heatmaps and session replays. Search and feedback fields are masked. When analytics is enabled, analytics storage is granted and advertising storage is denied to Clarity. No search or feedback text is intentionally sent as a custom event.
Advertising
Up to two labeled Google AdSense placements appear on each main page when enabled. Requests use non-personalized ads and restricted data processing. Google may process device, IP address and interaction information and use storage for delivery, measurement and fraud prevention. These settings do not mean that no data is collected.
How Google uses partner-site information.
Private feedback
Suggestions and optional contact information are stored privately in AWS S3 for up to 90 days; expired object versions may remain for up to seven additional days. Feedback is not published. An optional AI review process may analyze suggestion text and propose code changes for the owner's review. Contact fields are excluded from that process. Do not include passwords or sensitive personal information. The owner can use contact information to ask follow-up questions. The form has a daily submission limit and duplicate detection.
Hosting and images
AWS processes network requests to serve the site. A region lookup uses CloudFront's country code; the application does not store your IP address with feedback. Provider logos are cached on this site's origin where available. Older or uncached images may load from CollegeFootballData or ESPN's CDN. Names and logos identify teams and do not imply endorsement.
Football data
CollegeFootballData supplies ranking and player statistics. ESPN schedule metadata is optional and does not enter either statistical model. Rankings use completed games; forecasts are estimates. Historical backfills are retrospective reconstructions, not past publications.