> Who's Your Favorite College Football Team? > Who's winning on the scoreboard is only part of the story. Which teams are > winning the hearts and minds of America? > · Save ↓ More > By > · DARREN EVERSON > · CONNECT > College football, above all else, is a tribal sport. Who's winning on the > scoreboard is only part of the story. As the season begins this weekend, we > decided to study which teams are winning the hearts and minds of America. > View Graphics > > Facebook > Here is a map that shows which top-25 college-football team is the most > popular in each county nationwide. The map was created by Facebook, FB +0.58% > which tabulated how many Facebook users in each county have "liked" a top-25 > team's Facebook page. The map ignores any team not in the preseason > Associated Press poll. (Counties that had too few fans are shaded light gray.) > The big winners? The biggest schools. Texas is the most popular top-25 team > in 543 American counties, the most of any team, followed by Florida (423) and > Ohio State (376). > To be sure, some of those are in areas where Texas likely would trail a > home-state team that didn't make the top 25, such as Missouri or Colorado. > But the Longhorns also dominate the Lone Star State: Texas A&M and TCU > control only one county each there. (LSU also has two Texas counties.) > Related > · A Bloodless Look at the BCS > Likewise, Florida is dominant in its home state over Florida State, Oklahoma > routs Oklahoma State and South Carolina cedes little to Clemson. In the West, > Oregon is rampant. And three top-25 teams have no counties at all: UCLA, > Northwestern and Oregon State, Oregon's archrival. > —Darren Everson > Write to Darren Everson at [email protected] > > > Oliver Barry, CRS, GRI > Bob Parks Realty, LLC > REO Department > 1517 Hunt Club Blvd > Gallatin TN 37066 > Phone: 615-826-4040 > Mobile: 615-972-4239 > [email protected] > > > > > > > ======= > Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. > (Email Guard: 9.0.0.2308, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.21490) > http://www.pctools.com > =======
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