No Conference Has More Fans Than The Big Ten

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		Home Tech Finance Markets Politics Strategy Entertainment Advertising Retail Sports Life Wednesday, November 21, 2012 No Conference Has More Fans Than The Big Ten A year ago, Nate Silver of NYTimes.com took a look at "The Geography of College Football Fans" using a little research to estimate the number of fans of the 120 college football teams in Division I (at the time). Below, we used Silver's data to determine how many fans there are for each of the six major BCS conferences taking into account recent realignment. With the Big Ten adding Rutgers (937,874 fans) and Maryland (474,059), their schools now have nearly 19 million fans across the country, more than 2.2 million more than the next closest conference, the SEC. In fact, the Big Ten now has nearly as many fans as the Big 12 (who recently lost Texas A&M's 2.0M fans), the PAC-12, and Big East combined (19.4M)... Read » Also On Sports Page Today: Kobe Bryant's Response To A College Player Scoring 138 Points Is Priceless Rasheed Wallace Yelled 'Ball Don't Lie!' At A Rookie While He Was On The Free Throw Line Advertisement SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: Moving To Big Ten Means Big Money For Maryland And Rutgers SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: Notre Dame Is A Near-Unanimous #1, But Who's #2? SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: Baseball's Best Players Get Screwed In MVP Race All The Time Share this: Facebook Twitter Digg Reddit StumbleUpon LinkedIn The email address for your subscription is: dwyld.kwu.jobhuntportal11@blogger.com Change Your Email Address | Unsubscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe to the Sports Page RSS Feed Business Insider. 257 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010 Terms of Service | Privacy Policy

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