2010 preseason trivia questions.

Well, we played two Public state-name schools with California, two with Washington, and two with Oregon in their name. So

we played three Pairs in the sequence that made it to the top 50. The whole WEST COAST!

another California named school made the cut, but USC is private, so I count it out.

There were also other public state-name pairs that made it:

two schools With Florida in their names
two with Virginia


that's 10/10 teams.


And two schools whose names contained San Diego, but as with USC, one was Private, and neither is named for a state. They don't count.

Other possible D1 Public state-name duplicates had only one of their public Di team teams in the top 50. The states were

Arizona
Georgia
Maryland
Michigan
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Texas

that's 11/22 possible teams. And it means the East coast is pretty well represented, too.

Colorado College is out. it's private
I'm discounting name-pairs like Virginia and West Virginia, those aren't the same state.
Other public State-name schools in the top 50 don't have D1 state-name pairs to double up with. an example would be Penn state, which can't pair with the University of Pennsylvania and meet the Public pair criteria.

so, counting Possible D1 duplicate names with state names in the top 50, that's a density of 21/32, or .656


How's that?

Spoiler:

wait... we also played 3 teams that have a double "L" in their name...
NO, WAIT, lots of those states have Coast Lines...

You have too much free time on your hands!

Maybe it's the V-W range.

It was 2:15 AM. What were YOU doing then

Sleeping like a normal person!

OK, the season has started, so enough of this:

Vanderbilt, Villanova, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, Washington, Washington State, West Virginia, Wisconsin. That's 9 schools in a range in the alphabet of 20, for 0.45 top 50s per school.