re: NFL Players by College Conference

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Sure...NFL is a guaranteed haven of geniuses. Plus, did ya forget that the SEC has 12 teams, the Big 10 has 11, the PAC 10 only has...oh well, now you get it...sure adds about 100 extra players per conference to put in the draft compared to the PAC 10...don't ya think Timmy?

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Yes, I did account for the fact that different conferences have different numbers of colleges. If I were to rank them by total number of players, rather than average per college, the list for the start of the 2008 NCAA football season would look like this:

Rank...Conference....NFL Players
1......SEC........373
2......ACC........333
3......Big Ten....317
4......Pac-10.....273
5......Big 12.....246
6......Big East...146

Or, only counting players who played in the NFL in the 2007 season, the list would look like this:

Rank...Conference...NFL Players
1......SEC..........300
2......ACC..........276
3......Big Ten......269
4......Pac-10.......209
5......Big 12.......202
6......Big East.....101

You can say what you want about the NFL, but they're the best at what they do. By the way, these are not NFL draftee numbers. These are NFL player numbers, which accounts for the fact that some NFL draftees don't make it in the NFL, and some non-NFL draftees do.