Where Do Top NCAA Football Recruits Call Home? by The DataFace

Each year, college football coaches work tirelessly to recruit top high school prospects for their programs. It’s the most unsung part of their jobs; even as they try to maximize the potential of their current roster each Saturday, coaches are quietly making calls and paying visits to shepherd the next wave of recruits to their schools.

So where do college coaches go to find talent? Do the top programs all recruit on a national scale, drawing great players from all fifty states? Or do some great programs just monopolize the talent in their own backyards? We poured over fifteen years worth of recruiting data from Rivals.com to find out.

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