TMcGee86
1/14/2007, 10:44 PM
I figured I would give you something to read if you are iced in.
I spent an unhealthy amount of time on the computer because of the weather and I thought this was pretty interesting when it was all said and done.
A while back, a poster on another board I frequent posted an article about how some schools have the least home grown talent of major schools. The main schools on the list were Notre Dame, Michigan, and Oklahoma. I said the theory was flawed because Oklahoma has such a small population that it is forced to go outside its borders for help. This got me thinking of a new way to look at this theory.
I therefore analyzed every state in the union based on their Division I college football programs and devised a formula which ranks every state based on it's college football efficiency. I call it the McGee Efficiency Ratings.
The basic premise is to find out which State, in light of its population, gets the most production out of its football teams. Sort of a "bang for the buck" rating, if you will.
And because many may question the results, I will first explain my formula. I think you will find it hard to argue that the formula is unfair.
I first wanted a starting point to decide what my equilibrium should be, so I took the total population of the US and divided it by the number of D1 schools.
The total population of the US is roughly 290 million, and there are 119 D1 schools in the US. This is approx 2.5 million per school.
However, in the larger states like California, the population can be concentrated in certain cites, so I have rounded that number down to 2 million per school and used that figure as a basis for the equilibrium.
Many states fall nicely into this ratio and I have weighted the score to give a state 0 points if it is in balance, i.e. 2 million people per school.
To accomplish this balance, I have scaled the points for number of schools in state from +5 to -5.
The most D1 schools in any one state is 10. (Texas)
The least D1 schools in any one state is obviously 0. (numerous states)
So, if a state has 10 D1 schools, it gets +5 points.
And, if a state has 0 D1 schools, it gets -5 points.
And since -5 is the lowest you can get on the number of school axis, I have given states with under a 2million population +5 points to get us that equilibrium of 0.
Once the population axis is laid out it looks like this:
+5 points for a population of Zero to 2 million
+4 points for a population of 2 million
+3.5 points for a population of 3 million
+3 points for a population of 4 million
+2.5 points for a population of 5 million
+2 points for a population of 6 million
+1.5 points for a population of 7 million
+1 points for a population of 8 million
+0 points for a population of 10 million
-0.5 points for a population of 11 million
-1 points for a population of 12 million
-3.5 points for a population of 17 million
-4.5 points for a population of 19 million
-6 points for a population of 22 million
-12.5 points for a population of 35 million
And the number of schools* axis looks like this:
+5 points for 10 Schools
+4 points for 09 Schools
+3 points for 08 Schools
+2 points for 07 Schools
+1 points for 06 Schools
+0 points for 05 Schools
-1 points for 04 Schools
-2 points for 03 Schools
-3 points for 02 Schools
-4 points for 01 Schools
-5 points for No Schools
*The only tweak to this formula is that for all states with a population of over two million, I count non-bcs schools as 1/2 a school. Let's be honest here, if you live in Alabama and you are a big time recruit, there are two schools you are choosing from if you stay in your home state, Bama and Auburn. Troy and UAB shouldn't count as equals because they aren't.
So that gives us the basis for the formula. I then added the following bonus points to complete the ratings:
+1 point per championship and 2 points per championship if you have less than one million per school. However, I only went back to 1938 and I only counted AP or BCS national championships.
However, the bigger you get, the more it hurts to not have a championship. Thus:
-1 points if No Championships with over 2 million per school
-2 points if No Championships with over 3 million per school
-3 points if No Championships with over 4 million per school
-4 points if No Championships with over 5 million per school
etc.
+1 point if all the state's schools are in BCS auto-bid conferences.
+1 point to schools that are considered a "perennial powerhouse". I have tried to be as generous as possible with my powerhouse points, but if you think that I unfairly discredited a school, please let me know and I will consider adding it to my list. However, please note that a school cannot be considered a Perennial Powerhouse without multiple championships.
+1 point if you have less than one million people per D1 school.
-1 if you have one million people but no D1 school.
+2 if you have a D1 school in a state with less than 1million people. (The Wyoming Rule.)
And that my friends is the McGee D1 College Football Efficiency Rating Formula. (MCFER for short).
Now, I know this only takes into D1 schools, and this is on purpose, I also didn't take into account any military academy. I dont believe that many recruits go to an Academy solely because of their football program. Plus those schools naturally are going to draw from all over the nation, and have no real tie with their host state so I decided to just ignore them.
And on that note, I know this will **** some people off but I have what is called "The Notre Dame Rule". I considered not including Notre Dame for the same reason as the Military Academies. Because ND is a private school and such a national draw, it could be placed anywhere and pretty much achieve the same results. Very few of ND's players actually come from Indiana (they have a total of four this year). Yet, if you include Notre Dame and give the same rules as everyone else, Indiana becomes a top three state. Indiana should not benefit from this phenomenon, IMHO. However, I felt it was unfair to completely ignore them. Therefore I have given Indiana normal points except for championships points. I have given then only one point for their championships. I felt this put them about where they deserve to be.
So, with no further ado, here are the results:
I'll list these from worst to first to build the suspense. LOL.
In dead last place we have:
#50 NEW JERSEY!!!!
Congratulations New Jersey, despite your ridiculous population of over EIGHT MILLION, you can only manage to scrape together one school. And to make things worse, that school is Rutgers.
And despite the fact that Rutgers has over 8 million people to draw from, its football team sucks donkey balls, minus the one decent year this year.
So you get the following results:
+1 point for Eight Million peeps
-4 points for only having One School
-7 points for No Champ with over 8 million per school.
+1 point for all your schools being in BCS confernces.
This gives us a total of -9. Congrats New Jersey, you SUCK! lol!
Next up, second to last we have:
#49 New York!
Congrats NY, despite being the nation's third largest state, you only have two football teams, Syracuse and Buffalo. And Buffalo doesnt even play in a BCS conference.
That's pathetic.
When it's all said and done you get the following:
-4.5 points for Nineteen Million peeps
-3.5 points for having 1.5 Schools
+1 point for a National Championship (Syracuse, 1959)
NEW YORK TOTAL POINTS..... -7
Third from the bottom, we have
#48, CALIFORNIA.
Yes, many of the SUC fans may get ****ed about this, but the fact is California has THIRTY FIVE MILLION PEOPLE!
And with all those peeps the only real schools you guys have are USC and UCLA.
It's no wonder USC has so many championships.
Califorina has the following schools:
USC Trojans*
UCLA Bruins*
Stanford Cardnial*
Cal Golden Bears *
San Diego St. Aztecs
Fresno State Bulldogs
San Jose State Spartans
* BCS school
And here's the point break down:
-12.5 35 Mill
+1 6 Schools
+4 Championships (USC, 1962, 67, 72, 2004)
+1 Powerhouse (USC)
CALIFORNIA TOTAL POINTS.....-6.5
#47 ILLINOIS - I actually feel slightly sorry for Illinois...slightly. Because South Bend is practically a suburb of Chicago, Ill is no doubt hurt considerably by it's proximity to ND. However, who's fault is it that Ill doesnt have a viable option? And who's fault is it that with 12 million freaking people, the only teams you have a two cellar dwellers and a non BCS school? That's just brutal. So while I understand their prediciment, I cant get past the fact that they just dont have any real teams in Ill. Sorry. Here's the breakdown:
Population:
12,713,634
Schools:
Ill. Fighting Illini*
Northwestern Cats*
Northern Ill Huskies
Point break down:
-1 Twelve Mill
-2.5 2.5 Schools
-3 No champ +4mill
ILLINOIS TOTAL POINTS.....-6.5
#46 MASSACHUSETTS - It's a good thing every chowda head in Boston has their head firmly planted on the Redsox backside, because if they pulled their head out, they would get pretty dam bored if forced to watch their college football production. Six million peeps, one measely school. Yet another reason I hate Mass.
Population:
6,416,505
Schools:
Boston College Eagles*
Point break down:
+2 Six Million
-4 One School
+1 BCS
-5 No Champ +6Mill
MASSACHUSETTS TOTAL POINTS.....-6
#45 WISCONSIN - Wisconsin and Missouri should be ashamed of themselves. Over 5 million peeps a piece and all they can field is a single D1 school. At least mix in some non BCS schools, my gosh. And not a single championship among them. Just awful. If I could give out negative bonus points I would dish it out to these two pansy states:
Population:
5,509,026
Schools:
Wisconsin Badgers*
Point break down:
+2.5 Five Mill
-4 One School
+1 BCS
-4 No Champ +5mill
WISCONSIN TOTAL POINTS.....-4.5
#44 MISSOURI "It'll be a cold day in Hell before I recognize Missouri as a state" -- Abe Simpson
Population:
5,754,618
Schools:
Missou Tigers*
Point break down:
+2.5 Five Mill
-4 One School
+1 BCS
-4 No Champ +5mill
MISSOURI TOTAL POINTS.....-4.5
#43 VIRGINA - Come on Virginia, seven mill and only two schools? I used to think Virginia was pretty decent when it came to college football till I broke down this index. No championship? Nearly four million per school? That's poor.
Population:
7,459,827
Schools:
Virginia Cavs*
Va Tech Hokies*
Point break down:
+1.5 Seven Mill
-3 Two Schools
+1 BCS
-2 No champ +3mill
VIRGINA TOTAL POINTS.....-2.5
#42 CONNECTICUT
Population:
3,503,604
Schools:
Uconn Huskies*
Point break down:
+3.5 Three Mill
-4 One School
+1 BCS
-2 No champ 3mill
CONNECTICUT TOTAL POINTS.....-1.5
#41 MAINE
Population:
1,317,253
Schools:
None
Point break down:
+5 One Mill
-5 Zero Schools
-1 if 1mill & no school
MAINE TOTAL POINTS.....-1
#40 NEW HAMPSHIRE
Population:
1,299,500
Schools:
None
Point break down:
+5 One Mill
-5 Zero Schools
-1 if 1mill & no school
NEW HAMPSHIRE TOTAL POINTS.....-1
#39 RHODE ISLAND
Population:
1,080,632
Schools:
None
Point break down:
+5 One Mill
-5 Zero Schools
-1 if 1mill & no school
RHODE ISLAND TOTAL POINTS.....-1
#38 PENNSYLVANIA - Despite claims to the contrary, Penn ranks way down in effiency. Despite the fact that you have a powerhouse in Penn State, that is pretty much it. Sure you have Pitt, but they havent done squat since the 70's and after that all you got is Temple. That's 3 schools and a population of 12 freaking million. That's ugly. Here's the breakdown:
Population:
12,406,292
Schools:
Penn State Nittny Lions
Pitt Panthers
Temple Owls
Point break down:
-1 Twelve Mill
-2.5 2.5 Schools
+3 championships
+1 Powerhouse
PENNSYLVANIA TOTAL POINTS.....-0.5
#37 Arizona
Oooo sorry bout that AZ, looks like your state sucks as bad as Penn. The reason? Well you have over 5 million peeps and just two schools. Worse yet, they both suck. Zero championships total. Uggh. Not good. Here's the break down:
Population:
5,743,834
Schools:
Arizona Wildcats
Arizona State Sundevils
Point break down:
+2.5 Five Mill
-3 Two School
+1 BCS
-1 No Champ +2mill
ARIZONA TOTAL POINTS.....-0.5
Okay, that is the last of the negative pointers. The rest of the group has either zero points, or positive points.
#36 DELAWARE - Delaware has the problem that most of these zeros have, a pop over a million but no D1 school. No real shocker here, but still, you could scrape together a team if you wanted to bad enough. Therefore every state without a team automatically gets ranked behind any state with a team having the same efficency rating.
Population - 830,364
Schools - None
Point Break Down:
+5 under mill
-5 no schools
DELAWARE TOTAL POINTS.....+0
#35 SOUTH DAKOTA
Population - 770,883
Schools - None
Point Break Down:
+5 under mill
-5 no schools
SOUTH DAKOTA TOTAL POINTS.....+0
#34 NORTH DAKOTA
Population - 634,366
Schools - None
Point Break Down:
+5 under mill
-5 no schools
NORTH DAKOTA TOTAL POINTS.....+0
#33 VERMONT
Population - 621,394
Schools - None
Point Break Down:
+5 under mill
-5 no schools
VERMONT TOTAL POINTS.....+0
#32 NEVADA
Population - 2,334,771
Schools -
Nevada Wolf Pack
UNLV Runnin Rebs
Point Break Down:
+4 Two mill
-4 One School ( .5's)
NEVADA TOTAL POINTS.....+0
#31 ALASKA - I felt Alaska deserved a little credit considering their locale and all so I put them near the top of the zeros.
Population - 655,435
Schools - None
Point Break Down:
+5 under mill
-5 no schools
ALASKA TOTAL POINTS.....+0
#30 MONTANA - Now granted, Montana has a population of dang near a million, and yet no football team, so you might be asking why I have them above the others, well, their D1AA is a freaking powerhouse, so at least they play football the right way, even if they dont play at the highest level.
Population - 926,865
schools - None
Point Break Down:
+5 under mill
-5 no schools
MONTANA TOTAL POINTS.....+0
#29 KENTUCKY - Sorry SEC lovers, but Kentucky does very little considering their population. And if you think this one made you mad, wait till you see whose next on the list. hehe
Population - 4,145,922
Schools -
Kentucky Wildcats
Louisville Cardnials
Point Break Down:
+3 Four Mill
-3 Two Schools
+1 BCS
-1 No Champ +2mill
KENTUCKY TOTAL POINTS.....+0
#28 GEORGIA that's right UGA fans, your state sucks fat hawg when it comes to production. All those people and the only schools you have are UGA and GTech. Pathetic. Here's the breakdown:
Population - 8,829,383
Schools -
UGA Bulldogs
G Tech YellowJackets
Point Break Down:
+1 Eight Mill
-3 Two Schools
+1 BCS
+1 Championship
GEORGIA TOTAL POINTS....+0
Next up the half-pointers. These teams get slightly higher production than normal out of their schools.
#27 MARYLAND - Despite a heafty population, Maryland only fields one D1 football school. And with Five Million plus peeps, they only have one championship and have not been much of a factor since 1953. Not good, IMHO. Here's the breakdown:
Population - 5,558,058
Schools - Maryland Terps
Point Break Down:
+2.5 Five Million
-4 One School
+1 BCS
+1 Championship
MARYLAND TOTAL POINTS.....+0.5
#26 ARKANSAS - Not a bad state really, considering their population, however only one big time school so they arent going to score really high, and without any championships, Arkansas, while respectable, is left out of the top 25. Here's the break down:
Population - 2,752,629
Schools -
Akansas Razorbacks
Akansas State Indians
Point Break Down:
+4 Two Million
-3.5 1.5 Schools
ARKANSAS TOTAL POINTS....+0.5
And now...drumroll please....THE TOP TWENTY FIVE!!!!!!!!!!!
I spent an unhealthy amount of time on the computer because of the weather and I thought this was pretty interesting when it was all said and done.
A while back, a poster on another board I frequent posted an article about how some schools have the least home grown talent of major schools. The main schools on the list were Notre Dame, Michigan, and Oklahoma. I said the theory was flawed because Oklahoma has such a small population that it is forced to go outside its borders for help. This got me thinking of a new way to look at this theory.
I therefore analyzed every state in the union based on their Division I college football programs and devised a formula which ranks every state based on it's college football efficiency. I call it the McGee Efficiency Ratings.
The basic premise is to find out which State, in light of its population, gets the most production out of its football teams. Sort of a "bang for the buck" rating, if you will.
And because many may question the results, I will first explain my formula. I think you will find it hard to argue that the formula is unfair.
I first wanted a starting point to decide what my equilibrium should be, so I took the total population of the US and divided it by the number of D1 schools.
The total population of the US is roughly 290 million, and there are 119 D1 schools in the US. This is approx 2.5 million per school.
However, in the larger states like California, the population can be concentrated in certain cites, so I have rounded that number down to 2 million per school and used that figure as a basis for the equilibrium.
Many states fall nicely into this ratio and I have weighted the score to give a state 0 points if it is in balance, i.e. 2 million people per school.
To accomplish this balance, I have scaled the points for number of schools in state from +5 to -5.
The most D1 schools in any one state is 10. (Texas)
The least D1 schools in any one state is obviously 0. (numerous states)
So, if a state has 10 D1 schools, it gets +5 points.
And, if a state has 0 D1 schools, it gets -5 points.
And since -5 is the lowest you can get on the number of school axis, I have given states with under a 2million population +5 points to get us that equilibrium of 0.
Once the population axis is laid out it looks like this:
+5 points for a population of Zero to 2 million
+4 points for a population of 2 million
+3.5 points for a population of 3 million
+3 points for a population of 4 million
+2.5 points for a population of 5 million
+2 points for a population of 6 million
+1.5 points for a population of 7 million
+1 points for a population of 8 million
+0 points for a population of 10 million
-0.5 points for a population of 11 million
-1 points for a population of 12 million
-3.5 points for a population of 17 million
-4.5 points for a population of 19 million
-6 points for a population of 22 million
-12.5 points for a population of 35 million
And the number of schools* axis looks like this:
+5 points for 10 Schools
+4 points for 09 Schools
+3 points for 08 Schools
+2 points for 07 Schools
+1 points for 06 Schools
+0 points for 05 Schools
-1 points for 04 Schools
-2 points for 03 Schools
-3 points for 02 Schools
-4 points for 01 Schools
-5 points for No Schools
*The only tweak to this formula is that for all states with a population of over two million, I count non-bcs schools as 1/2 a school. Let's be honest here, if you live in Alabama and you are a big time recruit, there are two schools you are choosing from if you stay in your home state, Bama and Auburn. Troy and UAB shouldn't count as equals because they aren't.
So that gives us the basis for the formula. I then added the following bonus points to complete the ratings:
+1 point per championship and 2 points per championship if you have less than one million per school. However, I only went back to 1938 and I only counted AP or BCS national championships.
However, the bigger you get, the more it hurts to not have a championship. Thus:
-1 points if No Championships with over 2 million per school
-2 points if No Championships with over 3 million per school
-3 points if No Championships with over 4 million per school
-4 points if No Championships with over 5 million per school
etc.
+1 point if all the state's schools are in BCS auto-bid conferences.
+1 point to schools that are considered a "perennial powerhouse". I have tried to be as generous as possible with my powerhouse points, but if you think that I unfairly discredited a school, please let me know and I will consider adding it to my list. However, please note that a school cannot be considered a Perennial Powerhouse without multiple championships.
+1 point if you have less than one million people per D1 school.
-1 if you have one million people but no D1 school.
+2 if you have a D1 school in a state with less than 1million people. (The Wyoming Rule.)
And that my friends is the McGee D1 College Football Efficiency Rating Formula. (MCFER for short).
Now, I know this only takes into D1 schools, and this is on purpose, I also didn't take into account any military academy. I dont believe that many recruits go to an Academy solely because of their football program. Plus those schools naturally are going to draw from all over the nation, and have no real tie with their host state so I decided to just ignore them.
And on that note, I know this will **** some people off but I have what is called "The Notre Dame Rule". I considered not including Notre Dame for the same reason as the Military Academies. Because ND is a private school and such a national draw, it could be placed anywhere and pretty much achieve the same results. Very few of ND's players actually come from Indiana (they have a total of four this year). Yet, if you include Notre Dame and give the same rules as everyone else, Indiana becomes a top three state. Indiana should not benefit from this phenomenon, IMHO. However, I felt it was unfair to completely ignore them. Therefore I have given Indiana normal points except for championships points. I have given then only one point for their championships. I felt this put them about where they deserve to be.
So, with no further ado, here are the results:
I'll list these from worst to first to build the suspense. LOL.
In dead last place we have:
#50 NEW JERSEY!!!!
Congratulations New Jersey, despite your ridiculous population of over EIGHT MILLION, you can only manage to scrape together one school. And to make things worse, that school is Rutgers.
And despite the fact that Rutgers has over 8 million people to draw from, its football team sucks donkey balls, minus the one decent year this year.
So you get the following results:
+1 point for Eight Million peeps
-4 points for only having One School
-7 points for No Champ with over 8 million per school.
+1 point for all your schools being in BCS confernces.
This gives us a total of -9. Congrats New Jersey, you SUCK! lol!
Next up, second to last we have:
#49 New York!
Congrats NY, despite being the nation's third largest state, you only have two football teams, Syracuse and Buffalo. And Buffalo doesnt even play in a BCS conference.
That's pathetic.
When it's all said and done you get the following:
-4.5 points for Nineteen Million peeps
-3.5 points for having 1.5 Schools
+1 point for a National Championship (Syracuse, 1959)
NEW YORK TOTAL POINTS..... -7
Third from the bottom, we have
#48, CALIFORNIA.
Yes, many of the SUC fans may get ****ed about this, but the fact is California has THIRTY FIVE MILLION PEOPLE!
And with all those peeps the only real schools you guys have are USC and UCLA.
It's no wonder USC has so many championships.
Califorina has the following schools:
USC Trojans*
UCLA Bruins*
Stanford Cardnial*
Cal Golden Bears *
San Diego St. Aztecs
Fresno State Bulldogs
San Jose State Spartans
* BCS school
And here's the point break down:
-12.5 35 Mill
+1 6 Schools
+4 Championships (USC, 1962, 67, 72, 2004)
+1 Powerhouse (USC)
CALIFORNIA TOTAL POINTS.....-6.5
#47 ILLINOIS - I actually feel slightly sorry for Illinois...slightly. Because South Bend is practically a suburb of Chicago, Ill is no doubt hurt considerably by it's proximity to ND. However, who's fault is it that Ill doesnt have a viable option? And who's fault is it that with 12 million freaking people, the only teams you have a two cellar dwellers and a non BCS school? That's just brutal. So while I understand their prediciment, I cant get past the fact that they just dont have any real teams in Ill. Sorry. Here's the breakdown:
Population:
12,713,634
Schools:
Ill. Fighting Illini*
Northwestern Cats*
Northern Ill Huskies
Point break down:
-1 Twelve Mill
-2.5 2.5 Schools
-3 No champ +4mill
ILLINOIS TOTAL POINTS.....-6.5
#46 MASSACHUSETTS - It's a good thing every chowda head in Boston has their head firmly planted on the Redsox backside, because if they pulled their head out, they would get pretty dam bored if forced to watch their college football production. Six million peeps, one measely school. Yet another reason I hate Mass.
Population:
6,416,505
Schools:
Boston College Eagles*
Point break down:
+2 Six Million
-4 One School
+1 BCS
-5 No Champ +6Mill
MASSACHUSETTS TOTAL POINTS.....-6
#45 WISCONSIN - Wisconsin and Missouri should be ashamed of themselves. Over 5 million peeps a piece and all they can field is a single D1 school. At least mix in some non BCS schools, my gosh. And not a single championship among them. Just awful. If I could give out negative bonus points I would dish it out to these two pansy states:
Population:
5,509,026
Schools:
Wisconsin Badgers*
Point break down:
+2.5 Five Mill
-4 One School
+1 BCS
-4 No Champ +5mill
WISCONSIN TOTAL POINTS.....-4.5
#44 MISSOURI "It'll be a cold day in Hell before I recognize Missouri as a state" -- Abe Simpson
Population:
5,754,618
Schools:
Missou Tigers*
Point break down:
+2.5 Five Mill
-4 One School
+1 BCS
-4 No Champ +5mill
MISSOURI TOTAL POINTS.....-4.5
#43 VIRGINA - Come on Virginia, seven mill and only two schools? I used to think Virginia was pretty decent when it came to college football till I broke down this index. No championship? Nearly four million per school? That's poor.
Population:
7,459,827
Schools:
Virginia Cavs*
Va Tech Hokies*
Point break down:
+1.5 Seven Mill
-3 Two Schools
+1 BCS
-2 No champ +3mill
VIRGINA TOTAL POINTS.....-2.5
#42 CONNECTICUT
Population:
3,503,604
Schools:
Uconn Huskies*
Point break down:
+3.5 Three Mill
-4 One School
+1 BCS
-2 No champ 3mill
CONNECTICUT TOTAL POINTS.....-1.5
#41 MAINE
Population:
1,317,253
Schools:
None
Point break down:
+5 One Mill
-5 Zero Schools
-1 if 1mill & no school
MAINE TOTAL POINTS.....-1
#40 NEW HAMPSHIRE
Population:
1,299,500
Schools:
None
Point break down:
+5 One Mill
-5 Zero Schools
-1 if 1mill & no school
NEW HAMPSHIRE TOTAL POINTS.....-1
#39 RHODE ISLAND
Population:
1,080,632
Schools:
None
Point break down:
+5 One Mill
-5 Zero Schools
-1 if 1mill & no school
RHODE ISLAND TOTAL POINTS.....-1
#38 PENNSYLVANIA - Despite claims to the contrary, Penn ranks way down in effiency. Despite the fact that you have a powerhouse in Penn State, that is pretty much it. Sure you have Pitt, but they havent done squat since the 70's and after that all you got is Temple. That's 3 schools and a population of 12 freaking million. That's ugly. Here's the breakdown:
Population:
12,406,292
Schools:
Penn State Nittny Lions
Pitt Panthers
Temple Owls
Point break down:
-1 Twelve Mill
-2.5 2.5 Schools
+3 championships
+1 Powerhouse
PENNSYLVANIA TOTAL POINTS.....-0.5
#37 Arizona
Oooo sorry bout that AZ, looks like your state sucks as bad as Penn. The reason? Well you have over 5 million peeps and just two schools. Worse yet, they both suck. Zero championships total. Uggh. Not good. Here's the break down:
Population:
5,743,834
Schools:
Arizona Wildcats
Arizona State Sundevils
Point break down:
+2.5 Five Mill
-3 Two School
+1 BCS
-1 No Champ +2mill
ARIZONA TOTAL POINTS.....-0.5
Okay, that is the last of the negative pointers. The rest of the group has either zero points, or positive points.
#36 DELAWARE - Delaware has the problem that most of these zeros have, a pop over a million but no D1 school. No real shocker here, but still, you could scrape together a team if you wanted to bad enough. Therefore every state without a team automatically gets ranked behind any state with a team having the same efficency rating.
Population - 830,364
Schools - None
Point Break Down:
+5 under mill
-5 no schools
DELAWARE TOTAL POINTS.....+0
#35 SOUTH DAKOTA
Population - 770,883
Schools - None
Point Break Down:
+5 under mill
-5 no schools
SOUTH DAKOTA TOTAL POINTS.....+0
#34 NORTH DAKOTA
Population - 634,366
Schools - None
Point Break Down:
+5 under mill
-5 no schools
NORTH DAKOTA TOTAL POINTS.....+0
#33 VERMONT
Population - 621,394
Schools - None
Point Break Down:
+5 under mill
-5 no schools
VERMONT TOTAL POINTS.....+0
#32 NEVADA
Population - 2,334,771
Schools -
Nevada Wolf Pack
UNLV Runnin Rebs
Point Break Down:
+4 Two mill
-4 One School ( .5's)
NEVADA TOTAL POINTS.....+0
#31 ALASKA - I felt Alaska deserved a little credit considering their locale and all so I put them near the top of the zeros.
Population - 655,435
Schools - None
Point Break Down:
+5 under mill
-5 no schools
ALASKA TOTAL POINTS.....+0
#30 MONTANA - Now granted, Montana has a population of dang near a million, and yet no football team, so you might be asking why I have them above the others, well, their D1AA is a freaking powerhouse, so at least they play football the right way, even if they dont play at the highest level.
Population - 926,865
schools - None
Point Break Down:
+5 under mill
-5 no schools
MONTANA TOTAL POINTS.....+0
#29 KENTUCKY - Sorry SEC lovers, but Kentucky does very little considering their population. And if you think this one made you mad, wait till you see whose next on the list. hehe
Population - 4,145,922
Schools -
Kentucky Wildcats
Louisville Cardnials
Point Break Down:
+3 Four Mill
-3 Two Schools
+1 BCS
-1 No Champ +2mill
KENTUCKY TOTAL POINTS.....+0
#28 GEORGIA that's right UGA fans, your state sucks fat hawg when it comes to production. All those people and the only schools you have are UGA and GTech. Pathetic. Here's the breakdown:
Population - 8,829,383
Schools -
UGA Bulldogs
G Tech YellowJackets
Point Break Down:
+1 Eight Mill
-3 Two Schools
+1 BCS
+1 Championship
GEORGIA TOTAL POINTS....+0
Next up the half-pointers. These teams get slightly higher production than normal out of their schools.
#27 MARYLAND - Despite a heafty population, Maryland only fields one D1 football school. And with Five Million plus peeps, they only have one championship and have not been much of a factor since 1953. Not good, IMHO. Here's the breakdown:
Population - 5,558,058
Schools - Maryland Terps
Point Break Down:
+2.5 Five Million
-4 One School
+1 BCS
+1 Championship
MARYLAND TOTAL POINTS.....+0.5
#26 ARKANSAS - Not a bad state really, considering their population, however only one big time school so they arent going to score really high, and without any championships, Arkansas, while respectable, is left out of the top 25. Here's the break down:
Population - 2,752,629
Schools -
Akansas Razorbacks
Akansas State Indians
Point Break Down:
+4 Two Million
-3.5 1.5 Schools
ARKANSAS TOTAL POINTS....+0.5
And now...drumroll please....THE TOP TWENTY FIVE!!!!!!!!!!!