CLOSE SportsPulse: Miss college football action already? Well, Trysta Krick and Paul Myerberg tell us what to look forward to next season. USA TODAY
But this wasn't always the case. As detailed in a study compiled by researchers at Grand Canyon University, the top college football programs in terms of producing NFL talent is a who's-who list of national blue bloods — but no team from the SEC ranks in the top eight. The Grand Canyon study shows the gradual migration of NFL talent from the perennial powers of the Midwest and West Coast to the Southeast. While Alabama produced the second-most players of any program during the 1940s and Ole Miss had the fourth-most in the 1960s, no other school from the Southeast would rank in the top five until Florida State during the 1990s.
How many actually retired?
Expect any Different?
Fk the Irish
That was 20+years ago! Since 2010; Alabama, NCState, Georgia, and LSU have been sending WAY MORE college players to the NFL than Harpiville!
usatodaysports Yet can’t win championships...
But times change
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