Super Bowl XLVI: Boston College Most Represented On Super Bowl Rosters
by Brian Favat on Jan 24, 2012 8:01 AM EST
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With six former players on either the New York Giants or New England Patriots roster, Boston College is the most represented college football program in this year's Super Bowl. Either Mathias Kiwanuka, Chris Snee, Will Blackmon and Mark Herzlich of the Giants or Ron Brace and Dan Koppen of the Patriots will come away with a Super Bowl ring, marking the fourth straight season a former Boston College Eagle will finish the year with a title.
Well, that was anti-climactic.
Rutgers has the second most players represented in this year's Super Bowl (5), followed by Florida, Fresno State, LSU, Miami, Michigan and Virginia with four. Arkansas, Michigan State, Mississippi, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Tennessee and Troy all have three players on either the Giants or Patriots roster.
While BC is the most represented program in this year's Super Bowl, it's the SEC that is most represented as a conference. The SEC has a total of 23 players on a Super Bowl roster, with Florida (4), Arkansas (3), Mississippi (3) and Tennessee (3) leading the way.
The Big Ten comes in second with 22 players. Michigan (4), Michigan State (3), Penn State (3) and Purdue (3) are the most represented Big Ten programs.
The ACC came in third behind the SEC and Big Ten with 19 players. BC (6), Miami (4), Virginia (4) and North Carolina (2) are the teams from the conference with multiple players on a Super Bowl roster.
The Big East and Pac-12 each have 15 players in Super Bowl XLVI, while the Big 12 has just five.
A look at the Super Bowl roster breakdown by school and conference after the jump.
By college (schools represented by more than one player):
6 -- Boston College
5 -- Rutgers
4 -- Florida, Fresno State, LSU, Miami, Michigan, Virginia
3 -- Arkansas, Michigan State, Mississippi, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Tennessee, Troy
2 -- Akron, Alabama, Arizona State, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oregon, South Florida, TCU, UCLA
By conference:
23 -- SEC
22 -- Big Ten
19 -- ACC
15 -- Big East, Pac-12
5 -- Big 12, Conference USA, MAC, WAC
4 -- Sun Belt
3 -- Mountain West
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… because there are plenty of timely photos of offensive linemen, special teams players and guys on the IR from this past weekend?
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by Brian Favat on Jan 24, 2012 10:19 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Added, though didn’t think this would be acceptable since he does play for the Giants.
Editor, BC Interruption
by Brian Favat on Jan 24, 2012 11:50 AM EST up reply actions
Haha I was just giving you a hard time… playing for the Giants doesn’t mean he wasn’t one of the best Eagles ever.
Tommy Coughlin
..is the big reason why! He likes BC players and knows how to coach em up!
Minor stuff:
Jets Coach Rex Ryan been mouthing off for last 4 seasons and has a QB more interested in 19 year old supermodels and like Parcells said being a celebrity QB and old TC…. just keeps a low Parcells mold, Belicheck profile and gets to his second Super Bowl and Bill his 5th!
Same with his twin mouth brother here in Dallas.
Ryan family = 0 Super Bowl Wins as Head Coach’s since Buddy Ryan was a DC under Ditka.
The roman numerals are incorrect
XLVI for 46 right?
Super Bowl XLVII: Boston College Most Represented On Super Bowl Rosters
Mark Sanchez and the Jets Would be at XLVI-xen there but....
VIXeN = Kate Upton.
Zapped all his strength going with the deep vertical and horizontal passing game.
Sideline and Office connection...
Good post, but one angle you’re missing is the sideline/front office one. There’s obviously Coughlin as an ex-BC head coach, and then there’s Sean Ryan, who was a former WR coach at BC back in the early 2000s. There a couple of former players from BC working in the Pats scouting department (Brian Flores for one), and then our own Jen Conley (‘05?), former BC football manager, works in the Giants organization. I’m sure there are more if you had access to both organization’s employee roster.
It’ll be a BC party in Indy for sure.
Can’t help but love that. I can’t wait to see some of my old BC faves take on my favorite NFL team (the Patriots). It’s going to give me chills.
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And only one team going to the Super Bowl...
gave Herzlich a chance! (the other one being in BC’s back yard). So glad for him, he’ll be there!!
Eh Kinda Cool
There’s only two real contributors on the rosters, Kiwanuka and Snee. Blackmon and Brace don’t see real time, Herzlich was a great story but hasn’t seen much time either (I know two starts earlier in the year) and Koppen has been out since week 1… I just don’t see after the year the program had that it would make a difference to any recruit that there are 3 non factors, two decent players, and a guy on IR on the rosters. They need a change of culture there (No, I’m not say an Ohio State type of change). Football at BC is only relevant for lineman and the occasional linebacker unfortunately. Nice to see they made the teams though
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