>Living in Georgia I like this. We've been under
>represented.
That very subject was discussed here two or three years ago, and I even prepared a map plotting number of college football teams vs population. It is still available at the web site at:
You will probably have to copy and paste the entire address to your web browser's address bar in order to get the map to display. It is quite obsolete for some states by now, since as you mentioned so many new teams have been, or will be added soon in some states such as Georgia and Florida. Of 24 known future US varsity teams (assuming West Florida is certain) five will be in Georgia and four in Florida.
Arizona remains the most underrepresented state (besides Alaska which has no college team), with only three college football teams and a population of 6.5 million. California and Nevada are probably next, though California is a special case with its roughly 70 junior college teams. New Jersey, New York, and Washington are also proportionally underserved.
The Dakotas have the most teams per unit population. North Dakota has about 1/10th the population of Arizona (682,000) but three times as many college football teams (9), or something like 27 times as many teams per unit population as does the Grand Canyon state, again not taking into account the seven junior college teams in Arizona.
Is it possible we'll see some of the many colleges in California which dropped football in the past give it another chance soon?
>>Living in Georgia I like this. We've been under
>>represented.
>
>That very subject was discussed here two or three
>years ago, and I even prepared a map plotting number
>of college football teams vs population. It is still
>available at the web site at:
>
>
>href="http://nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/teamdens
>itymap.gif">http://nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/te
>amdensitymap.gif
>
>You will probably have to copy and paste the entire
>address to your web browser's address bar in order to
>get the map to display. It is quite obsolete for some
>states by now, since as you mentioned so many new
>teams have been, or will be added soon in some states
>such as Georgia and Florida. Of 24 known future US
>varsity teams (assuming West Florida is certain) five
>will be in Georgia and four in Florida.
>
>Arizona remains the most underrepresented state
>(besides Alaska which has no college team), with only
>three college football teams and a population of 6.5
>million. California and Nevada are probably next,
>though California is a special case with its roughly
>70 junior college teams. New Jersey, New York, and
>Washington are also proportionally underserved.
>
>The Dakotas have the most teams per unit population.
>North Dakota has about 1/10th the population of
>Arizona (682,000) but three times as many college
>football teams (9), or something like 27 times as many
>teams per unit population as does the Grand Canyon
>state, again not taking into account the seven junior
>college teams in Arizona.
>
>Is it possible we'll see some of the many colleges in
>California which dropped football in the past give it
>another chance soon?
California schools like Northridge State, Santa Clara, Fullerton State, Cal-Riverside, Cal.-San Diego(wants to upgrade to D-1 and add football), Cal.-State-Bakersfield and Cal-Irvine are some schools that I saw that have student movements or mentioned adding football.
Grand Canyon U. wants to upgrade to D-1 and add football. They could get an invite to the WAC soon. Also add Arizona Western from the Junior College rank to go 4 year. They already have a football program, and Yuma is a big town.
Snow College is going to four year and mentioning on joining the NAIA. That school is in Utah.
I would put North Idaho, Lewis and Clark-Idaho, NW Nazerene, Evergreen State and Oregon Tech on the watch list to add football.The northwest are getting schools adding football, so why not since you could get a much better NW football conference in the NAIA, 2 and 3 levels.
In Nevada? Could Nevada State and Shiera Nevada both could add football out of the JC area?
For D-1 schools, I have a list of possible watch who could add football soon or in the future.
George Mason
Drexel
Longwood
North Florida
Belmont
Cleveland State
East Tennessee State
Florida Gulf Coast
High Point
Lipscomb in the same article with Belmont.
Texas A&M-CC
Utah Valley
VCU
Winthrop
Wis.-Milwaukee
Fullerton State
Santa Clara
Northridge State
Evansville
Wichita State
Maryland-BC
Boston U.
Nebraska-Omaha
Oral Roberts
Radford
College of Charleston
Vermont
Xavier, Ohio
Seattle U.
Marqutte
IUPUI
Southern Illinois-Edwardsville
UALR
Maryland-ES
Coppin State
Creighton
Bakersfield State
Long beach state
Cal.-Irvine
Cal. Riverside
