John Fitzgerald Sullivan (born January 6, 1985) is a former

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

placekicker who played college football at the

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and attended

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. He transferred to the University of New Mexico in the spring of 2004 from

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, where he did not play any games. He earned the starting placekicker job for the

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his senior year in 2007 and was a consensus All-American. Sullivan led all of Division I in field goals made in 2007. He led Division I with a 2.42 field goals per game average, the highest total since 1984. He also made a school record 18 straight field goals.

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