re: No team north of 35 degrees N has won the national championship since Ohio State

There are places in this country where there isnt a registered black person within 100 miles in any direction.

The vast majority of them are concentrated in a relatively small area in the south, southeast, southern California and New York City. There are only about 5 million blacks who live outside of those areas.

Thats why southern schools dominate, because the best athletes wanna stay home.

It has nothing to do with color and everything to do with culture. Jamaica produces an outrageous number of world class sprinters - it's not because they're black. It's because in Jamaica, sprinting is on the level of SEC football (the entire Island is obsessed with it and every child wants to be a sprinter). In the Deep South, HS football is far more popular than elsewhere and to the point where it's obsessional compared to most places.

Now that TN is catching up in terms of funding HS football/training preps: guess what? We're going through an unprecedented in-state talent boom and we'll likely start catching up to other states. Imagine that. Some states we'll never catch because we're small population wise but some we will.