UFag & Oregon favorite teams of HS football players(UM 3rd)

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Florida, Oregon favorite teams of high school football players

By Peter Berkes  @runthedive on Jul 16 2013, 10:00a 5

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You'll be surprised to find out that high school football players like big name teams. However, you may be surprised at which teams they like the most.

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One of the classic bar room questions among college football fans is, "If you could play for any school in the country, where would you go?" Student Sports asked that exact question to 2,000 current high school football players, and their answers were a little surprising.
The top choice of high school football players was Florida, a full 2 percent ahead of second-place Oregon. Both of those schools make sense, as they're among the sport's big name, glamor teams. Alabama was tied for third, which is a bit surprising considering how much success it has had over the past several years.
What was really surprising, though, is that schools like Cal, Stanford and UCLA ranked ahead of both Texas and Oklahoma, two of the sport's grandest blue bloods. Heck, the Longhorns and Sooners were tied with Vanderbilt on the list.
The SEC and Pac-12 dominate the list, with a good number of Big 12 thrown into the mix as well. Miami and Florida State both scored highly from the ACC, but Virginia Tech was the only other ACC team to make the list. Ohio State was the only Big Ten team to register more than 1 percent of the player vote.
Here's the list's top 10 or so, via Student Sports:

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[TD]Rank[/TD]
[TD]School[/TD]
[TD]%[/TD]
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[TD="bgcolor: #E4E9ED"]1[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #E4E9ED"]Florida[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #E4E9ED"]11[/TD]
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[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]Oregon[/TD]
[TD]9[/TD]
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[TD="bgcolor: #E4E9ED"]T3[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #E4E9ED"]Alabama[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #E4E9ED"]7[/TD]
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[TD]T3[/TD]
[TD]Miami[/TD]
[TD]7[/TD]
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[TD="bgcolor: #E4E9ED"]T3[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #E4E9ED"]USC[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #E4E9ED"]7[/TD]
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[TD]T3[/TD]
[TD]Georgia[/TD]
[TD]7[/TD]
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[TD="bgcolor: #E4E9ED"]T3[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #E4E9ED"]LSU[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #E4E9ED"]7[/TD]
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[TD]T8[/TD]
[TD]Florida State[/TD]
[TD]4[/TD]
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[TD="bgcolor: #E4E9ED"]T8[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #E4E9ED"]California[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #E4E9ED"]4[/TD]
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[TD]T8[/TD]
[TD]Stanford[/TD]
[TD]4[/TD]
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[TD="bgcolor: #E4E9ED"][/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #E4E9ED"][/TD]
[/TR]
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[88]

Tied for third after decade in the dumps.

If this team starts winning, with this recruiting staff... Watch out college football.

 

[crossover22[]_[]]

We are tied for 3rd after coker/shannon? Damnit mane. Wait till golden gets us winning again. This staff will kill it on the trail.

 

[valid]

amazing that after a decade of suckage that we are tied with bammer in terms of popularity. Thanks to pros like Lewis and Reed I think.

 

[3G Cane]

Could of done without that pic.

 

[4Canes]

That is huge for Miami, as mentioned, being mediocre for so long Miami is still a favorite.
This is really gonna **** off all the Miami's "irrelevant" crowd.

 

[canedotcom]

Wow! Echo what you guys wrote. Very exciting to be up that high after Shan-Ker eras. Some brand. Need to win NOW to keep it going.

 

[Plzwork4]

Add to that...we aren't in the greatest single entity in all of sports...the holy grail of every sporting event...the SEC. /sarcasm text on

 

[NoahZach]

The more interesting thought is that UF is up there because the kids now voting were just starting to watch college football during Tebow/Meyer era, when UF was the media darling and won it all twice in three years. UF will come back down to earth now and Bama will rise as the younger kids watching during he current Bama run filter into that voting block.

Comparing UF's position and the likely basis for it to us being 3rd with no real success to show for it lets you know that a climb for us is very possible and a drop for UF is likely. Of course, our NFL guys are aging and we'll lose some of the marketing they bring to our program. We need to restock the ranks up there. I think Oregon has the Nike money, uniforms, facilities and high-paced offense to sell interest in kids out west.

 

[cf3000]

Ahead of FSU.

 

[ECC609]

Could of done without that pic.

+1

 

[USNAVYCANE]

Ahead of FSU.

always

 

[TheSwagger1]

The fact that we've ate dog**** for the last decade and remain that high is almost unbelievable and a tribute to how special the U really is.

 

[datdude81]

I don't think the brand will ever die...we can tank for years..but THE U has tooo much rich history
It is South Florida's team, we invented that thing called "SWAGGER"