College Football Fan Map by County via r/CFB

Submitted by Tate on

A redditor put together this fan map by county - thought it was interesting: LINK for full version

Blue Durham

May 6th, 2016 at 1:49 PM ^

With a sample size = number of counties, probably 1,000 to 1,500 rural counties did not have a single voter. But they did not leave any counties blank, so what they must have done was assign the same team as its closest neighboring county that did have at least 1 voter. Hence why there seems to be large swaths of USC fans in Western Texas, and Stanford fans in the Dakotas. Both probably represent 1 single vote within a sea of counties that had no votes. Dumb map is dumb.

L'Carpetron Do…

May 6th, 2016 at 12:08 PM ^

I'm from Nassau County and I didn't realize it was so crazy for TCU or that Suffolk County was Oklahoma St country.  It seems hilarious that Queens goes for Cincinnati . I'm guessing this methodology is a bit flawed...

But really ND would probably be most popular in these areas.  M would give them a run for their $ though, followed by Syracuse and Penn State.

ramenboy

May 6th, 2016 at 12:58 PM ^

Westchester County, NY - Nebraska fans?  uhhh whut?  Just judging by car stickers, I'd say Penn State / Michigan / Ohio State

akim

May 6th, 2016 at 1:16 PM ^

This is just supposed to be for fun - the guy who made it just set up a poll on reddit.  Some of the counties had less than 5 votes, so don't take it too seroiusly

csmhowitzer

May 6th, 2016 at 1:51 PM ^

Accurate or not, this map would provide a fun game for darts.

  1. pick you team
  2. hit your counties

Except M has one of the smallest counties just North of Manhattan. I think that's Manhattan.

TruBluMich

May 6th, 2016 at 2:49 PM ^

Seems like a ton of time spent on something that doesn't even come close to representing anything.  If it is suppose to reflect reddit users, then it's great, but to share it here is probbly not needed.  Heres one that Facebook did that appears a litle more accurate.

Late Bluemer

May 6th, 2016 at 3:02 PM ^

Having grown up on Long Island, I find it REALLY hard to believe that Oregon State is the most popular team - at least in Suffolk County which is very similar to Oakland County in Michigan.  From my recollection, Notre Dame was by far the most popular team when I was growing up due to all of the Irish Catholics in the area (myself included).  Penn State was also very popular due to JoePa being from Brooklyn and Syracuse had their followers as well being an in-state team.