From the CDS, University Park would appear to be a reach with the OP’s stats but not a “no go.”
@I-pity-the-fool I like how you have held a summer job every year! Good luck! 
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Do you want a more business-y IT program, or a more purely technical one? Are you interested in cybersecurity in particular? (This is often bundled with IT.)
Students who like RIT, especially neurodiverse students, often apply to Drexel too; is there a reason it’s not on your list? Too close to home? (You have St. Joe’s, though, which seems like a terrific option w/ their ASPIRE program with its own residence hall.) West Chester has a good support program too.
Tampa seems like an outlier to me; any particular reason it interests you?
BYU is even more of an outlier; that seems like asking for a metric ton of culture shock, far from home. The good news is that they are probably pretty good at telling which applicants are ignoring fit for the sake of price tag, and not accepting them. I suspect those five essays would be a waste of time.
You can’t take any one person’s estimate of your odds too seriously. Nobody truly knows what will happen. My worry re: RIT is that it may not be affordable if you do get in.
SUNY schools would be in budget; I think these are worth a closer look. New Paltz is near Marist, and has an Autism support program. (Has a CS major and various business majors but not IT specifically.) Alfred State and SUNY Poly could be worth a look, and Albany if you’d like larger. SUNY Buffalo State has a “Continual Support Program” and a CIS major.
Marshall University in WV has a comprehensive autism support program, a CIT major, an affordable price tag, and passionate football fandom.
Farther from home, Marquette is another Catholic U with a robust support program (“On Your Marq”) and solid programs… no football tho.
You’ll have good options! You may not get into every school on your list (or be able to afford every acceptance), but that’s fine - a few rejections shows that your overall list was calibrated correctly, and in the end you can only go to one.
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PSU UP is only a no go if OP has not taken and is not taking Precalculus. Even in that case, if OP wanted PSU UP, they could take one semester of College Algebra in the Spring and report it on their STARS (SRAR).
If OP has taken or is taking Precalc (or equivalent), PSU UP would be a reach, reachable if they check “summer” on their application.
SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Buffalo State, and Alfred State are all fantastic ideas!
OP wants D1 football. Many names mentioned above aren’t but I put a bunch of safe and affordable schools in an earlier post.
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D1 football “would be nice,” were the words used.
And OP expressed interest in a number of schools that don’t have that.
So I’m taking it that academic/social fit and scaffolding vis-a-vis ASD are the highest priorities, and if football can be in the mix too, all the better, but OP’s own list shows that we don’t need to filter aggressively for that.
Marshall would check all of the boxes, though (academic programs, ASD support, affordability, and tons of football spirit), and it’s a slam-dunk admissions-wise, so it might be a nice safety to add.