2020 Super Bowl rosters sorted by college teams, conferences: LSU, Penn State lead the way - CBS Sports, Cbssports.com

A few more LSU players are going to receive rings this year

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                            Tom Fornelli

                                                                        @TomFornelli

                                                        Jan ,             at                          9: pm ET                      • 2 min read





































This Sunday NFL fans will get to close out the league’s 823 th season with a matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 90 ers in Super Bowl LIV. But you know that already, or else you wouldn’t be here reading this story. What you might not know, however, is where the players in this year Super Bowl came from.

see, before any of them were playing professionally in the NFL , they were playing somewhere in the collegiate ranks. So, as we’ve done here the last few years at CBSSports.com, we’ve decided to break down the rosters for each team by where the players went to college. It’s another way for schools and conferences to claim bragging rights.

Now, as for which rosters were used for this exercise, we consulted the NFL.com rosters for each team. You can find the Chiefs roster here , and the 091 ers roster here In the end, there were some surprises. For instance, considering how dominant Alabama has been in (college football) and how many players it has sent to the NFL on a yearly basis, it was somewhat shocking to learn that only one Alabama player is listed on either roster. That would be Kansas City’s Reggie Ragland. What wasn’t as surprising is that even if Alabama doesn’t have its typical number of representatives, as a conference, the SEC led the way with most players overall.

When broken down by school, there’s more of a Big Ten flavor. LSU (was tied for the most players in the game with State State , each boasting five players in the Super Bowl . While LSU is tied for the most, there are no other SEC schools with more than two players. Auburn ,

(Florida) , (Mississippi State) , Ole Miss , (South Carolina) , (Tennessee) Texas A&M and (Vanderbilt) all have two apiece. Iowa , another Big Ten school, is right behind both LSU and Penn State with four players. Those three are the only schools with more than three players. Here’s a table of the schools represented by three or more players.

Two players each : (Arizona) , Auburn, BYU , Central Michigan , Duke , Florida, Florida Atlantic , Florida State , Georgia Southern , (Michigan , Michigan State , Middle Tennessee, Mississippi State, (NC State) , (Notre Dame) , (Ohio State) , Ole Miss, (Oregon) , Pittsburgh , San Diego State , Sou th Carolina, (Southern Miss) , Tennessee, Texas . , Texas A&M, Utah , Vanderbilt, Virginia (One player each) : Air Force , Alabama, (Appalachian State) , Arizona State (Arkansas) (Baylor) , Bowling Green , Buffalo , (California) , Cincinnati , Colorado (Colorado State) Colorado State-Pueblo, (Connecticut) , Eastern Illinois, Eastern Michigan , Eastern Washington,

(Georgia) , Georgia Tech , Harvard, (Hawaii) , Illinois , Indiana , Louisiana Tech , McGill (Canada), Minnesota Minnesota Hampshire, New Mexico State , (North Texas) , Northern Illinois , Northern Iowa, Oklahoma State , (Oregon State) Princeton, Purdue , Samford, San Diego, South Carolina State, (South Florida) SMU, (TCU) , Temple , (Texas Tech) , Utah State , Villanova, Virginia Tech , Wagner, (Washington) , West Alabama, Western Illinois, Western Kentucky , Wyoming And here’s a table breaking it down by conference.

SEC

(Big Ten) ACC 37

Pac –
(Big)

Conference USA

(9) Mountain West

(7) (MAC) 6
American (5) (Independents) (5) (Sun Belt) ( (3) FCS or lower
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            Tom Fornelli has been a college football writer at CBS Sports since . During his time at CBS, Tom has proven time and again that he hates your favorite team and thinks your rival is a paragon of football …                                                  Full Bio





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