This Map Shows Which States Care The Most About College Football
The fall means a lot of things to a lot of people, but one thing stands above all, depending on which part of the country you call home: football season. You probably all have an NFL team, but as we all know, the real rivalry is in college ball. As any football fanatic will tell you, his team is the BEST and his fan base is the BEST and no one cares about college football more than he does.
Thanks to this map from The New York Times, you can now actually prove that you do care the most about college football and your team really is the best–well, if you go to Alabama, that is.
Alabama tops the chart as the state that cares the most about college football, giving ‘Bama fans just one more thing to annoy the rest of the world about. Unsurprisingly, the SEC also tops the charts with the South absolutely dominating the college football fandom. Pockets of the Midwest, presumably where people have nothing else to do but stare at fields of corn, came in just behind the South, with states like Nebraska, Oklahoma, Iowa, and Arkansas rooting for college football teams on the weekends. The New York Times also broke down the states’ college football support in this infographic here:
[via New York Times]
Half of New England, California and Illinois, hating an All-American passtime like College football.
Shocking. Maybe curling is more their speed, like in the Peoples Republic of Canada.
11 years ago at 1:24 pmPeople in New England are massive football fans. Its just for the NFL, not college.
11 years ago at 2:26 pmShut up
11 years ago at 9:12 amIf this was real Texas would be all red.
11 years ago at 1:33 pmThis is college, not high school.
11 years ago at 7:07 pmThat’s why Texas universities are always so good at football right?
11 years ago at 3:09 pmThe Dallas Cowboys are insanely more popular than any Texas university. And Texas has a lot more area to cover than just where there are colleges.
11 years ago at 5:26 pmThank you for writing this. I needed it.
11 years ago at 1:50 pmStay strong.
what the fuck are you talking about
11 years ago at 10:19 pmThe same states nobody cares about
11 years ago at 2:45 pmA lot of the really liberal states dont care about football according to this map. Liberals hate college football, therefore liberals hate America
11 years ago at 3:19 pmGood thing nobody in Alabama can read to brag about this
11 years ago at 4:25 pmSeems logical enough that the places where there’s no professional sports teams are where college football is the most popular.
11 years ago at 4:35 pmI thought Texas would be higher, but this map is fucking idiotic
11 years ago at 8:36 pmAs that would say, SHOW US YOUR KNOCKERS
11 years ago at 9:04 pm