Sports

Revealing Maps Of Recent College Football National Champions Are Blowing Fans Away

#College Football
by Last Updated
Georgia fans at the national championship.

Getty Image


The ‘way too early’ 2023 preseason college football rankings are out and the Big 10 is well represented. But if history is an indicator, that won’t matter and those teams will lose to a college football team from the south.

More specifically, there’s a tiny belt stretching from South Carolina in the East to Louisiana in the West that brushes past Tallahassee, Florida. The entire state of Mississippi is on the map but they’re just happy to be included thanks to LSU.

This map shows 16 of the last 17 College Football National Champions. The only natty missing from the map is Ohio State’s 2011 National Championship. This is almost 2 decades worth of data and reveals how little hope there is for teams out West:

This map of recent College Football National Champions kicked off some more in the comments that are blowing people’s minds. So college football fans started making their own maps and adding them to the comments.

Expanding to include every College Football National Championship since 1985 (USC’s was vacated) is interesting. This map has an ‘arrow’ and definitely nothing else that your mind might be seeing…

And it isn’t just the Division 1 National Championship that is incredibly localized. This tiny strip of land accounts for 10 of the last 12 FCS National Championships:

Meanwhile, Ole Miss and Mississippi State are just happy to be seen on the map:

The Mississippi haters are out for a stroll though…

If your favorite college football team isn’t in the Dixie Oval then chances are they aren’t winning it. 94% of the champs in the past 17 years are from the Dixie Oval:

For anyone wondering, the list (recent to oldest) goes:

Georgia
Georgia
Alabama
LSU
Clemson
Alabama
Clemson
Alabama
*Ohio State
Florida State
Alabama
Alabama
Auburn
Alabama
Florida
LSU
Florida

This is, hands down, the funniest response to the college football national champions maps:

If anyone thinks Deion Sanders’ Colorado Buffaloes are actually going to compete on the national stage I’d like to remind them that the weed in Colorado is too strong. It doesn’t need to be that strong. They could make it 50% less potent and it’d still be to strong.

Now, I’m not saying correlation = causation. But the NCAA outlawed College Football players from rolling up their jersey to show their abs in 2015, banning ‘belly jerseys’. Since then, nobody outside of the South has won. Conspiracy? I think not.

READ NEXT: You Have To See The Insane New Facility Alabama Is Planning Solely For NIL Purposes