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FBS and FCS are the two parts of Division I. FBS has the teams often shown on TV. FCS uses a playoff.

Money rules changed in 2025. A new legal deal changed team and scholarship limits for some Division I schools. Each school still chooses how much aid it will pay.

So yes — the top division carries the most money, but "less money at lower levels" is only half the story: a D2 partial plus academic aid, or a generous D3 academic package, can cost a family less than a walk-on spot at an FBS school. Compare net cost, not labels. What a particular school actually spends on football, and what it hands out in athletic scholarship dollars, is public — each school's details on the program pages carry its Title IX filing (see reading the money & admissions numbers).

The NIL question. How much NIL or revenue-share money a school has left in a given year is not public — schools and collectives don't publish budgets or balances, so any tool claiming to show "remaining NIL money" is guessing. What is public: whether a school opted into the House revenue-share model, and the league-wide cap. The real answer comes from the coach, and it is a fair, normal question once a conversation is live: "what does the NIL and scholarship picture look like for offensive linemen in his class?" Ask it directly — programs that want your athlete will answer specifically.

Learn more about NIL: What Is NIL and Registering NIL Deals

• June 15 after sophomore year — coaches may begin private electronic contact: emails, texts, DMs, and recruiting materials.
• September 1 of junior year — phone calls and broader contact open up.
• Junior year onward — official visits (the school pays for the athlete and family to visit campus). Unofficial visits — you pay your own way — are allowed far earlier.
• Division 3 and NAIA — much looser: contact can generally happen at any time.

The recruiting calendar also has contact, evaluation, quiet, and dead periods that change what coaches can do in person month to month. Don't memorize them — if a coach goes silent in a dead period, it isn't personal. Before acting on a specific date, check the current calendar at ncaa.org — these rules genuinely change year to year.

• Register with the NCAA Eligibility Center (eligibilitycenter.org) — required to play or take official visits at D1 and D2 schools. Do it by the start of junior year. Registration issues the NCAA ID that coaches ask for — store it in your athlete's ReelTuna profile and it appears on the scout card and in coach letters automatically.
• Sixteen core courses. D1 eligibility is built on 16 specific high-school core courses (English, math, science, social studies, and more), ten of them finished before senior year. Your school counselor can map your athlete's transcript against the list — do this early, because a missing core course in junior year is fixable and in senior year often is not.
• The GPA sliding scale. D1 uses a sliding scale of core-course GPA against test scores; a 2.3 core GPA is the floor for competition. Higher grades don't just clear the bar — they unlock the academic money that makes D2/D3 offers real.
• D3 doesn't use the Eligibility Center — admission to the school is the bar. NAIA has its own eligibility center at play.naia.org.

• The NCAA sliding scale — the floor to be eligible to compete (see NCAA eligibility above). It is the NCAA's bar, not the school's: plenty of schools expect more than the scale's minimum, none may take less.
• The school's Common Data Set — search "<school name> common data set". Section C of that PDF is the admitted class in numbers: GPA bands, middle-50% test scores, admit rate. Recruited athletes are often admitted below the school-wide profile, but the CDS tells you what the campus classroom actually looks like — the honest way to judge whether a school is an academic reach before anyone falls in love with it. The admit rate and the SAT/ACT middle-50% bands are also on each school's details on the program pages, straight from the federal survey (see reading the money & admissions numbers); the GPA is what only the CDS has.
• The NCAA APR database (web3.ncaa.org/aprsearch) — the Academic Progress Rate, per team, searchable by school. It measures whether a D1 program keeps its players eligible and on track to graduate; a football team consistently near the bottom is telling you how it treats the student half of student-athlete.

For the standard nobody publishes, ask the position coach directly — "what does admissions need from him?" is a normal question on a call, and coaches answer it precisely because they clear recruits with admissions every year. And keep the transcript strong regardless: the same GPA that clears eligibility is what unlocks academic money at D2, D3 and NAIA, where athletic scholarships are smaller or don't exist.

A good target list spreads across levels on purpose: a few reach schools, a solid middle your athlete's film and frame genuinely match, and a few schools that would say yes today. ReelTuna deliberately does not score or rank programs for you — no algorithm knows your kid, your finances, or what campus felt right. The directory gives you the facts (level, conference, location); the film and the conversations do the rest.

• 0σ means the middle of that room — built like the players already there. On the radar it's the dashed ring.
• ±1σ is ordinary. In a bell-curve world about two players in three sit within 1σ of the middle, so anything in that band reads as "fits right in."
• ±2σ is unusual, ±3σ is rare. Beyond 2σ is roughly the most extreme 1-in-20; beyond 3σ, 1-in-several-hundred. A +2.9σ height doesn't mean "too big" — it means he'd tower over that particular room.
• Direction is information, not a grade. Way above a room's center says the roster is built smaller than him — often a sign to also look a level up, where the rooms match his frame. Below center says the opposite. Neither is a verdict; coaches take outliers in both directions every year.

Two kinds of "how unusual" phrasing appear next to the sigmas, and they are deliberately different. "Taller than 18 of the 20" is an exact count against the school's fetched roster — no statistics, just the list. "≈96th percentile nationally" is a bell-curve estimate against published national norms for that level, used where no roster list exists (wingspan always, since rosters don't publish it; whole rooms when a fetched roster is too thin to trust). The ≈ is honest: it assumes sizes follow a bell curve, so we round to whole percentiles and never claim past the 99th — a sample of twenty can't tell the top 0.1% from the top 1%.

The combined figure (say "1.9σ") folds height, weight and wingspan into one weighted distance from the room's center, with wingspan counted at half weight for interior linemen (the weights are shown on the panel). It is a distance, not a rank — there is no such thing as a percentile for it — and a small combined number simply means "shaped like the players already there." Which schools go on the list, and which tier each one gets, stays the family's call: the sigmas are measurements, the call is yours.

• Football money comes from the school's Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act report — the Title IX filing every co-educational school that takes federal student aid and fields teams must make each year. It breaks spending, revenue, game-day operating costs, participants and coach counts out sport by sport, so those lines are football's alone. It reports athletic scholarship dollars, recruiting spend and coach salaries only as men's-teams and women's-teams totals — the panel labels those "all men's teams" because that is exactly what they are. Revenue often equals spending to the dollar; many schools allocate it that way, and the panel says so when it sees it. The reporting year runs July to June, so "2024–25" is the season that ended that spring.
• Admissions comes from IPEDS, the federal survey every college answers, by way of the College Scorecard. The SAT and ACT figures are the middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test — a quarter scored below the band, a quarter above. Schools report SAT sections separately; the total band the panel leads with adds the section bands together and is marked ≈ for that reason. "SAT/ACT in admission" is the school's own answer to whether scores are required, recommended, considered but not required, or neither — schools that don't look at scores report no bands at all.
• GPA is the gap. No federal dataset carries an admitted class's grades. The one public place it is printed is the school's own Common Data Set (section C11–C12), which the panel links a search for. His own GPA and scores sit beside the school's bands so the comparison is in front of you; the placement — below, inside, above — is arithmetic against the campus-wide profile, and recruited athletes are often admitted below it. It describes the classroom he would sit in, not his odds.

Each school is matched to its federal record by name, state and town, and the panel names the record it matched so a mix-up would be visible. Where no record matches confidently the block stays empty rather than show a neighbouring school's budget. Fetched once per school and shared; Refresh re-reads both filings.

FBS / FCS

The two halves of NCAA Division I football. FBS is the bowl-game tier; FCS crowns its champion in a playoff. Both are "D1."

Scholarship equivalency

A pool of scholarship money a program may split into partial scholarships across many players — the norm at FCS, D2, and NAIA. "Full ride for everyone" is mostly an FBS phenomenon.

Walk-on / preferred walk-on

A roster player without athletic money. "Preferred" means a guaranteed roster spot. Under the new roster caps these spots are scarcer than they used to be.

Redshirt

A season on the team without game competition that preserves a year of eligibility.

Official vs. unofficial visit

Official: the school pays for the trip (junior year onward). Unofficial: you pay, allowed much earlier and unlimited.

Verbal commitment

A public promise, binding on nobody. Commitments become real when financial aid or roster agreements are signed — the old National Letter of Intent was retired in 2024.

NCAA ID

The number the Eligibility Center issues at registration; coaches use it to look up your athlete's academic status. Lives on the athlete profile here.

Contact / evaluation / quiet / dead periods

The recruiting calendar's four modes, controlling whether coaches may meet you in person, watch your athlete, host you on campus, or none of the above.