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Walk-On Daily is a free daily college football trivia site: a new puzzle in every game each day, the same for everybody, about two minutes each.

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  • No accounts, no ads, no tracking. We count plays and scores as totals only.
  • Every fact matches two sources, or it's left out. The details per game are below.

Every fact about a real game, player, coach or vote has to match in two sources. Anything that doesn't match is left out, never estimated. Team names appear as plain text only. Pre-Snap is the one game that isn't history; it explains its own rules below.

Rivalry Score

Final scores come from CollegeFootballData.com and have to match ESPN (Wikipedia team pages before 2001) and the rivalry's Wikipedia series table. Each team's record entering the game is rebuilt from that season's verified results. A game only says it went to overtime when two sources agree.

Blind Ballot

Stat lines cover each season through conference championship week, the games voters saw before ballots were due. Bowls and the playoff are left out. From 2004 on, each stat comes from CollegeFootballData.com box scores and has to match ESPN's game logs exactly. Before 2004, each stat has to be printed the same by two different publishers, such as a school's record book and a wire-service or newspaper report from that season. Some older players show a shorter card (passing only for quarterbacks, no return yards for backs and receivers) because nothing more could be verified. Vote finishes and points come from Wikipedia's voting tables and have to match a published news report. Rates like yards per carry are computed from those counts.

Who Started Over Him

A game's starter is the quarterback who threw the most passes in it, bowls and the playoff included. A season's starter threw the most in at least 8 games and two thirds of them; split seasons are left out. Every game comes from CollegeFootballData.com box scores and has to match ESPN's, pass for pass. Draft picks have to match Wikipedia's draft tables. A class year needs two different publishers, such as the school's roster for that season and a news report, that agree.

Pre-Snap

Pre-Snap is a strategy game, not history. The defenses are generic textbook looks, never a real team, and every result comes from a rulebook written from free coaching material: Smart Football, Grantland, Matt Bowen's NFL 101, Inside The Pylon, Throw Deep and USA Football.

Coaching Carousel

Each season's record comes from CollegeFootballData.com and has to match the coach's Wikipedia record table. Records leave out wins the NCAA vacated, backed by news reports. Conference titles are also checked against the NCAA's list. Only top-division seasons count (FBS, or the top division before the 1978 split), through 2025.

Backup Plan

The starter is found the same way. His backup is the passer with the most attempts after him, alone in second place; seasons where a different position sits there, or two passers tie, are left out. Two sources have to list the backup as a quarterback that season. Records are as played, bowls and the playoff included, and every final score has to match in both feeds. A later season counts only when CollegeFootballData.com's roster and ESPN's season record put him on the same team, and "leading passer" means both feeds have him alone at the top in attempts. Class years follow the same two-publisher rule.

Firing Season

Each season's record comes from CollegeFootballData.com, rebuilt from that year's games, and has to match the coach's Wikipedia record table, including any later head job; a record the two disagree on leaves the coach out. Records are as played, before any later NCAA vacating. The season just ended shows the regular season only. Fired means the school ended his job: two different publishers, such as the school's own release and the Associated Press, report it as the school's decision (fired, dismissed, or told he will not return). Back means two publishers report that the school kept him, with or without a new contract. Each source is kept with an archived copy and linked on the reveal. Resignations, retirements, "mutual" partings and dismissals tied to conduct are left out. Records after the call run through 2025.

Made by one college football fan. Questions, or a fact you think is wrong: hello@walkondaily.com.

Data: CollegeFootballData.com, ESPN, the NCAA, school record books and newspaper archives (each source is logged), historical betting-line feeds, nflverse under CC BY 4.0, and Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0. Pre-Snap's sources are listed above. Open-source licenses.