New York Times College Football Fan Map

[rcade]

The New York Times has used Facebook like data and zip codes to create a college football fan map that shows which areas like which teams.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/03/upshot/ncaa-football-map.html#5,37.330,-89.655

If you zoom in close enough, you can hover over an area to see the percentages of fan support.

The paper reports, "All told, 84 programs can reasonably claim to be the most popular college football team somewhere in the United States."

The off-white spot in Denton shows how close UNT came to being one of them.

More details on the project:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/03/upshot/ncaa-football-fan-map.html?ref=sports

[rcade]

I just noticed that this is from October. For some reason it's back on the NYT sports front page at its website.

Edited December 4, 2014 by rcade

[Coffee and TV]

Yeah I remember seeing this a couple of months ago and it made me sad how far the bandwagon reaches for some schools

[Withers940]

Anyone else find it weird that Maine is full of Florida Gator fans?

[greenminer]

SMU can't even crack 10% anywhere in Dallas.

[greenminer]

West Texas

1) UTEP Miners
2) UT Longhorns
3) Oregon Ducks

....?

[greenminer]

Speaking of the Ducks, their footprint on this map is at least triple USC's. Eyeopening.

[oldguystudent]

Speaking of the Ducks, their footprint on this map is at least triple USC's. Eyeopening.

That really, really surprised me. I grew up in Northern California, and the Ducks weren't even in my consciousness. It was all Cal and Stanford, and to a lesser extent, UC Davis (then in D2). I guess long-term success coupled with aggressive Nike marketing does wonders.

[That_Guy_Arlo]

The little off-color spot in Denton is better than I expected. Good to see we make at least a little bit of a difference within the UT kingdom.

[rcade]

I'm surprised there isn't a single place around Tampa where USF Is in the top three.

[VideoEagle]

Houston suprizes me. I had heard they were solid Aggie fans, but the Aggies are no better than a very distant second. And in about half the Houston zip codes, UH is second.

[meaniegreenie]

Anyone else find it weird that Maine is full of Florida Gator fans?

I noticed that too and figured there must be a lot of retired folks in Maine that spend time in Florida or some lingering Tebow fetish.

[SilverEagle]

I couldn't find Rice in the top three anywhere in the Houston area. And SMU only showed up (8%) in the 75214 zip code.

Edited December 5, 2014 by SilverEagle