College football map

[tony]

Usually these are ridiculous clickbait, but Tatanka posted this on twitter:

College Football Fan Map | Tableau Public

You can drill down to county-level. I don't want to give away too much, but it looks to me like NDSU is more popular in ND than Alabama is in Alabama.

And you can see how regional college football is - no team is making much penetration outside their immediate region.

[MankatoBison]

Usually these are ridiculous clickbait, but Tatanka posted this on twitter:

College Football Fan Map | Tableau Public

You can drill down to county-level. I don't want to give away too much, but it looks to me like NDSU is more popular in ND than Alabama is in Alabama.

And you can see how regional college football is - no team is making much penetration outside their immediate region.

Its wild how much Television affects this. I was raised in Alexandria- doulglas county the last gopher county before Bison country, and the NDSU fandom in the community in Alexandria is very sparse. 23% according to the map. Games were never on tv there whatsoever. Of course there are Bison fans but it does not move the needle among kids etc because they were never on tv etc. As a child, I would usually be the only kid at school rockin an NDSU sweatshirt.

6 years ago I moved 20 miles north, just barely into ottertail county, where Fargo TV is the "local" tv channel. I remember driving past the local elementary school soon after moving (around 2017) and the kids were lined up outside waiting for the school bus, and I shit you not, HALF of the boys were wearing NDSU gear. It looked like a bison pep rally. TV exposure makes all the difference. The graph says that NDSU is 56% of the market share in OTC, and hell, it may be even more based on my experience over the last 6 years here.

The difference is 20 miles, and cable package, thats it. Wild how much it affects your fandom

[mtoutfitter]

Usually these are ridiculous clickbait, but Tatanka posted this on twitter:

College Football Fan Map | Tableau Public

You can drill down to county-level. I don't want to give away too much, but it looks to me like NDSU is more popular in ND than Alabama is in Alabama.

And you can see how regional college football is - no team is making much penetration outside their immediate region.

Yes, it is a joke. Shows Prairie County Mt, where I live as having one fan for Alabama with no Cat or Griz fans. Everyone here besides me, are pretty much Griz or Cat fans.

[tony]

Yes, it is a joke. Shows Prairie County Mt, where I live as having one fan for Alabama with no Cat or Griz fans. Everyone here besides me, are pretty much Griz or Cat fans.

Well, you gotta get more people on Twitter in your county!

Any sampling like this is going to suffer from "small sample size" errors. Cripes, Slope County in ND doesn't have any data. You'd think the Amidon cop would have plenty of time to be on Twitter.

[mtoutfitter]

Well, you gotta get more people on Twitter in your county!

Any sampling like this is going to suffer from "small sample size" errors. Cripes, Slope County in ND doesn't have any data. You'd think the Amidon cop would have plenty of time to be on Twitter.

Most people here still interact the old face to face way, rather than social media.

[El_Chapo]

what's the #2 team in Hennepin County? Minneapolis.

you guessed it. NDSU!

[Professor Chaos]

what's the #2 team in Hennepin County? Minneapolis.

you guessed it. NDSU!

Actually I guessed Wisconsin....

Can anyone guess the only MVFC team (including Murray St) who doesn't have a plurality in at least one county???

[tony]

Actually I guessed Wisconsin....

Can anyone guess the only MVFC team (including Murray St) who doesn't have a plurality in at least one county???

I'd guess Missouri State (edit: And I'm wrong.)

One thing I noticed was that the only UND county outside of Grand Forks is actually a tie between NDSU and UND (Polk in MN) - NDSU shows up fairly well in WI too.

[THEsocalledfan]

I-29 corridor in SD is cool.....almost as many NDSU as USD folks.....

[Hammerhead]

Actually I guessed Wisconsin....

Can anyone guess the only MVFC team (including Murray St) who doesn't have a plurality in at least one county???

My guess was correct. and I was surprised how many MVFC teams have the most followers in multiple counties.