Where To Go To College If You Want To Make It To The Super Bowl

Filed in archive NFL on January 22, 2008

Want to play in the Super Bowl? Of course you do. Even though it's too late for most of us, some kid watching the game next Sunday will eventually play in one of these games. But to do that, they have to go to college first. Here's a look at the rosters of the New England Patriots and the New York Giants, and which universities are best represented by the AFC and NFC champs.

- Akron: 2
- Alabama
- Arizona: 3
- Arizona State
- Auburn: 2
- Baylor
- Boston College: 3
- Brown
- California
- Cal State Bakersfield
- Central Florida: 2
- Cincinnati
- Cornell
- East Carolina
- Florida: 2
- Fresno State: 3
- Georgia: 3
- Georgia Tech: 3
- Harding
- Howard
- Idaho State
- Illinois: 2
- Iowa State
- Kentucky
- Louisiana-Lafayette
- Louisville
- LSU: 5
- Marshall: 4
- Maryland
- Memphis: 3
- Miami (FL): 6
- Michigan: 3
- Michigan State
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Mississippi State
- Navy
- Nebraska: 2
- Northwestern
- North Carolina: 2
- North Dakota State
- North Texas
- Northwest Missouri State
- Notre Dame: 3
- Ohio State
- Oklahoma State
- Oregon
- Oregon State
- Ottawa
- Pennsylvania
- Penn State: 3
- Purdue: 2
- Rice
- Rutgers
- Sacramento State
- South Carolina
- South Florida
- Southern Illinois
- Southern Miss
- Syracuse
- Tennessee: 4
- Texas: 2
- Texas A&M: 2
- Texas Southern
- Texas Tech: 2
- Toledo
- Troy: 2
- UCLA
- USC: 5
- Villanova
- Virginia Tech
- Wake Forest
- Western Illinois: 2
- Western Kentucky
- Western Oregon

The results shouldn't be surprising, with Miami having the most in the game, with six, followed by LSU and USC with five each. Also, schools with directions (North(ern), South(ern), West(ern), East(ern)) are represented extremely well, except for East, which has only one school - East Carolina - to claim. However, most surprising may be that the school with the third most players in the Super Bowl is Marshall, who along with Tennessee, is represented by four players.

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