Infograph: Which States Produce The Best College Football Players?
Because college football fans don’t already have enough to fight over, ESPN decides to throw gas on this ever-burning inferno of arguments. Next topic: which states produce the best talent?
From ESPN:
Question: Where do the best college football players come from?
Follow-up: Where did the best college football players come from a few decades ago?
Last question: Has there been a sizable change?
To find the answers, ESPN’s RecruitingNation scanned the rosters of the nation’s top programs in 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010, looking at the home states of the players who comprised these teams.
From there, ESPN and InfographicWorld.com divided the results into two maps: One showing players from 1940 to 1970, and the other from 1980 to 2010.
Below are the findings (further explained in this Insider-only chart). Chief among them: Texas rules. Pennsylvania and Ohio, too? Maybe back in the day. But now it’s California and Florida that join the Lone Star State atop the recruiting chart.
[via ESPN]
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12 years ago at 4:12 pmI don’t think anybody is surprised by this chart.
12 years ago at 4:14 pmI haven’t looked it up, but if we’re talking most D-1 football players per capita, I’m betting on Louisiana.
12 years ago at 4:15 pmOklahoma, despite its shittiness, is probably is up there too.
12 years ago at 4:18 pmseariously? Florida has got I be number 1
12 years ago at 2:20 am^Do you understand the meaning of “per capita?” Fucking moron.
12 years ago at 10:51 amIf only south Florida was its own state
12 years ago at 2:01 pmI’m from Oklahoma, and we’ve got our fair bit, but nobody’s got shit on Texas.
12 years ago at 3:55 pmDorn is probably right. Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia are gonna most likely be your big three.
12 years ago at 12:08 amTexas forever
12 years ago at 4:15 pmHere’s to God, football, and good friends living large in Texas
12 years ago at 4:25 pm^ This guy gets it
12 years ago at 5:33 pmHere’s to liberals funky coffee shops and smart cars in San Francisco:)
12 years ago at 6:58 pmI was surprised to see that Indiana was in the middle… Make this basketball and we would be as red as that incurable gonorrhea strain.
12 years ago at 4:37 pmIn 49 states, it’s just basketball…
12 years ago at 8:03 pmPeople still watch basketball?
12 years ago at 8:13 pmOhio coming in strong.
12 years ago at 8:12 pmI’d really like to know which states produce the best scientists, engineers, doctors, etc. You know, the people who carry the weight of human survival and progress on their backs. I’m guessing in that kind of a map Texas would not be so deeply red.
12 years ago at 8:34 pm^ who gives a shit? I don’t get drunk and watch some nerd do chemistry on Saturday afternoons.
12 years ago at 8:54 pm^^ I’d really like to know which state has the best economy…. Oh wait still Texas.
12 years ago at 10:41 pmYou seem a little mad. I’m guessing your state didn’t do so well?
12 years ago at 11:52 pm^^^Probably lives in Detroit
12 years ago at 4:20 pm^ why did you reply to me?
12 years ago at 5:55 pm^^ Yeah bro, what the fuck are you doing replying to him? Tommy will fuck you up.
12 years ago at 6:05 pmTexas is as red as it gets, partner. So shut the fuck up and get the fuck back in line, while Texas does the work, the football, and the guns.
12 years ago at 12:11 am^^ thanks for the backup, want to be friends?
12 years ago at 9:10 amTexas being Red in football and politics. FAF.
12 years ago at 8:53 pm^ ZING!
12 years ago at 12:12 amThis makes sense the south being more to the right and north being more to the left.
12 years ago at 9:27 amThis map is just proof that it is ridiculous that Texas and Mack Brown ever win less than 9 games.
12 years ago at 10:15 amGeorgia is top 5 of course.
12 years ago at 10:42 am