U of Alabama at Birmingham has surprisingly few alumni who played in the National Football League (14) among the 122 colleges that play division I/FBS football, which have an average of 147.
Among the 3,122 colleges in general, the average is 7.8 and 67th percentile is 0.
Among the 3,122 colleges in general, the average is 7.8 and 67th percentile is 0.
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Using listings on college alumni who reached the NFL from http://www.pro-football-reference.com/colleges/ and other websites like Wikipedia, we matched each player's colleges-attended with a specific institution as designated in the federal IPEDS database. Some interpretation and error correction were needed because sometimes colleges merge, close down, change names, and share identical names across different states.
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Whether a college plays NCAA division I/FBS football was determined from the NCAA website in Feb 2014.
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