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The Geography of College Football by Nate Silver. Would you like to challenge his methodology?

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http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/20...ege-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/?_r=0

Umm, FSU?

Methodology is clearly borked.
 
Umm, FSU?

Methodology is clearly borked.

It ranks us 11th and UGA 22nd and says we have 1.7M fans to UGA's 1.1M. Are you saying you believe that??

GT has a larger national following than LSU, Tennessee, Nebraska, Oklahoma, USCwest, UCLA...

The methodology is a per capita estimate of how many people are going to tune in and follow your games based on television market and athletic revenue. It is not a measure of the loyalty of a fan base. Reading things helps understand them. The ask was to find a national following, not to find the number of fans prescribed to each school. However, if you want that, here is a quick social aggregate that tallies social mentions. Not scientific, but will give you trends.

http://fanindex.usatoday.com/

Current rankings in the USA Today Fan Index:

17. Georgia Tech
19. Miami
29. Virginia Tech
63. North Carolina
68. Duke


In both methods, geography and fan base size, it is more advantageous for the ACC to have a good VT football program over a UNC or Duke program.
 
Foster won't be getting the job the guy is a trainwreck off the field he is a redneck alcoholic.

Rich Rod supposedly wants the job I would think VT could get a proven head coach and not have to settle for the unknown and hire someone like Kirby Smart with no head coaching experience. The only Saban disciple that has had success is Jimbo. Maybe the McElwain guy at Florida will prove to be a good coach?

With their facilities VT would be a good situation for someone to step into I would rather go there than South Carolina for example.....
 
I don't really see a big national following for VT. UNC and Duke have bigger national following (due to basketball) than VT. I just don't see people wearing VT gear when I travel west of the Mississippi. It's nothing like FSU, Miami, or even GT for that matter.

You are dead wrong. VPI was probably the #1 program in the DC and Baltimore area. It might be Penn State in Baltimore but VPI would be very close. VPI stickers and clothing are everywhere up here. Now admittedly it's in everyone's closets right now but a lot of kids go to VPI from this area and considering PSU, MD, and UVA of late, VPI has been the team of choice for quite a while.
 
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