I know. Being the second-ranked football team this week would make us all feel a lot more comfortable about our chances of making the inaugural edition of the College Football Playoffs. We are one silly offensive pass interference away from "hosting" a first round playoff matchup. Now that we're all done throwing our remotes, replacing our flat screens, and replenishing our liquor cabinets, it's time to look at the playoff picture. The whole picture. We don't know what exactly the 12-person ...
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Bad Boys, Bad Boys: Looking at Crime by College and Conference in the NFL
http://youtu.be/MFuH6XaKCD8 The Aaron Hernandez horror show got a lot of people talking about crime in the NFL. Again. Here, here, or here, they're talking about a "culture of crime." Even EA Sports has weighed in on the topic, in its own fashion, by removing Hernandez from its Madden NFL 25 and NCAA Football 14 video games. In this week's post, I wanted to look at the colleges and conferences contributing the most to the crime problem. Here's how I went about it: 1.) I mined the singular ...