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Sports Index measures attention and influence for every FBS college football athlete. We index news and social coverage from a published set of sources, attribute every story to the athletes and programs it covers, and turn that corpus into rankings, statistics, AI-written daily stories, and per-athlete intelligence pages — alternative data for the NIL era.

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What Sports Index does

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Who it’s for

  • Collectives & brands — understand which athletes command attention before committing NIL dollars
  • Media & analysts — a ranked, filterable view of the sport’s coverage landscape
  • Programs & athletes — see and claim your page; track your own coverage and reach
  • Fans — follow the athletes, programs, and stories driving college football

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Key concepts

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Athlete & team pages

Every tracked athlete and program has a public page at sportsindex.io/topic/{name} aggregating their coverage, statistics, social reach, and media — generated and updated automatically. Athletes can claim their page for editorial control.

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The Influence Leaderboard

The ranked view of college football attention: follower bases, growth, and coverage volume for 6,000+ Power 4 athletes, at sportsindex.io/leaderboard.

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Indexed coverage & attribution

Every story and post we ingest flows through an attribution engine that links it to the athletes and programs it covers. Browse the full corpus — filterable by player, school, conference, source, and date — in the Newsroom. See How the Index Works for the methodology.

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Explore the platform

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Start at Explore

sportsindex.io/explore — the daily hub: trending athletes, top coverage, AI stories, and the market table.
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Take the quick tour

The Quick Start walks every surface in five minutes.
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Build on the data

The public API exposes topics, stats, leaderboards, and content — no key required for read-only endpoints.