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Mmm, tasty graphs for your Friday: we have them. Husker Illustrated took the average temperature of each national championship team in college football since the 1940s and plotted it out in delightful graphical form.
The graph confirms what you already knew: that college football's center of gravity has followed a general population shift from the North to the South, barring a significant dip in the 1990s. (That dip? Nebraska and Michigan in the 1990s.) The trend has to flatten out, however, since the highest average temperatures in the United States are already in there with Florida teams.
Only the rise of a football powerhouse in Trinidad could really take the graph any higher up, but if that does happen? Daddy needs to move a SB Nation satellite post to Georgetown and pick up another useless graduate degree with a quickness.
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actually, if you change this scale to a musical one, add a g clef, it gives you the first 7 notes of “dixie”.
Eat what the monkey eats, then eat the monkey. -U.S. Navy survival guidance
by psudrozz on Mar 5, 2010 10:59 AM EST reply actions
So I guess
Utah has very little chance of winning a title? Eh, who are we kidding.
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by Jeremy Mauss on Mar 5, 2010 11:50 AM EST reply actions
What this is really about...
Look at the data…this is really about the demise of the Big
ElevenTen. The conference had 5 champions in the 40’s, and trends down to 1 in the most recent decade…by Jonathan Werner on Mar 5, 2010 2:37 PM EST reply actions
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