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Purdue and the Super Bowl

An earlier graphic on CBS Sports today shed a lot of light on schools that send the most players to the Super Bowl. With 50 years worth of data now it is easy to pick out the top schools. Miami, USC, Michigan, Notre Dame, etc. have all sent a ton. A total of 393 different colleges have had at least one player appear in a Super Bowl. And look who is 30th out of those 393:

Top 20 colleges with the most player appearances in the Super Bowl

Miami 117
USC 116
UCLA 108
Penn State 104
Michigan 104
Notre Dame 101
Tennessee 96
Nebraska 91
Colorado 90
Georgia 87
Ohio State 87
LSU 81
Florida State 80
Alabama 79
California 77
Florida 75
Oklahoma 75
Stanford 73
Arizona State 72
Michigan State 72

Remaining 373 colleges with player appearances in the Super Bowl

Texas A&M 71
North Carolina 68
Texas 67
Clemson 65
BYU 62
Oregon 61
Illinois 60
Pittsburgh 60
Boston College 59
Purdue 59

That's right, Purdue, they of the completely moribund football program.