EDIT: If you happen upon this page, please redirect to http://mhermher.blogspot.com/2013/09/college-football-map-iv.html to see the newer version.
Here is a second version of the College Football map, after taking some input from reddit/r/sports
Cosmetic changes: got rid of gradients, replaced with solid color plus logo. Unfortunately, I couldn't find transparent vector images for some of the team logos, and had to use university logos. Usually it is for the smaller schools. Either way, the cosmetic changes make for a much much better looking map, I admit.
Area changes: A lot of people disagreed with my inclusion of the Dakotas within Minnesota, so I switched that to Nebraska. Again, I chose not to include any FCS teams, so the schools in the Dakotas and Montana did not qualify for the map. I also stretched Oklahoma a bit farther south. Expanded GA Tech, Colorado State, and Michigan. I changed up Indiana and NC a lot. I am still not 100% sure about a lot of the map.
I know most people in MT are Boise State fans... over WY. I grew up in MT and went to college in ID, for what it's worth.
ReplyDeleteI live in Montana and It's Montana Grizzlies on the left of the Continental Divide, and Montana State Bobcats on the right of the Divide.
ReplyDeleteSome thoughts re: Michigan. I still think the U-M/MSU balance is off. Also, you have included the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with Wisconsin, which is just plain wrong. In my experience the Central and Western parts of the UP tend to lean U-M, while the eastern end of the peninsula has more of an MSU bias... Definitely not Wisconsin, though.
ReplyDeleteThe northern panhandle of West Virginia is not Pitt territory. It's majority WVU fans and secondly Ohio St. fans.
ReplyDeleteI live here and most are Ohio State and Pitt fans. Some WVU.
DeleteI'd say the Auburn influence has an island in the Huntsville area due to all the engineers that work there...otherwise, the state looks pretty right.
ReplyDeleteWisconsin fans in the U.P? thats new
ReplyDeleteThe Georgia distribution is pretty accurate. However, there is definitely a greater concentration of Georgia Tech fans in the Atlanta area than any other area of the state
ReplyDeleteHow do we get permission to reproduce this for personal use? I want it for family, not for marketing.
ReplyDeleteYou probably need to divide Iowa up a little more than just a lil island for the Cyclones. More likely split 60/40 in favor of Iowa to Iowa State.
ReplyDeleteNot fan of either but would agree
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ReplyDeleteUhhhh, Colorado State should be at least half of Colorado dude. There are just as many CSU alumni in Colorado as CU.
ReplyDeleteSad you took out App State. I'm from NC and don't think Wake has a larger football following that App,
ReplyDeleteThis is the older version. App State got added, not removed.
DeleteWhy did you shrink Texas A&M? You had it right the first time. Their alumni base is as big as UT's.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I would stretch Baylor from A&M to TCU.
This is great, btw! Would be nice if you could work with CLC to produce this on shirts/posters.
This is the older version. A&M grew (so did Baylor) in the newer one.
DeleteI want to buy this!
ReplyDeleteYou need to do this in adobe photoshop and export it as a .swf file, so we could zoom all the way in and it not pixelate.
ReplyDeleteAs a Virginia Tech student, I love the fact that we control most of the state. However, I do think there are slightly more UVA fans and alumni in the Tidewater area and Northern Virginia (colloquially called NOVA). For North Carolina, you did a pretty swell job considering the plethora of great schools. A slight tweak I would say is to add more NC State influence into western NC. I have a lot of family there and there is a solid sized Wolfpack fans. I really love this, keep up the good work with this.
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