Ohio’s very apparent love for college football
Welcome to Big Ten County, and here people love college football. The New York Times recently posted a map detailing the density of which people care for college football. (You might remember the map they made if college football fandom created state borders: here.) This map gathered information from Facebook concerning who liked a college football team on their profile. It didn’t matter which college team, just that they liked it. The map shows that the key areas of college football love are in the Southeast and the Midwest. “Our original intuition — that college football means something entirely different in the South than the Northeast — holds up,” the article read, but continued to say, “But Big Ten country makes an impressive showing as well — at least the areas that have a Big Ten college with a strong football tradition. Nebraska, Iowa and Ohio also make the top 10 states for fan concentration.”
Areas like New England and farther west are lacking in the fandom, as far as college football goes according to the map, whereas there are areas all over Ohio that have the darkest color on the map key indicting that 30 percent of the people in that area have liked a college football team on their Facebook.
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