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Draft Choices for teams 2015-2019 drafts

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florida was a bit higher on the list when you consider their on the field performance.

no one though comes close to ucla. 22 players drafted and a .500 overall and pac 12 record.
 

Limp Lizard

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Pretty good correlation to NFL talent and recruiting ratings. Except, of course for Texas. Interesting that there is less correlation between NFL talent and winning. Until the last few years Texas had lots of draft choices, but not wins. Lots of teams in this article with more draft choices than TCU but less wins.
 

berryfrog95

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Big 12
1 Oklahoma 26
2 West Virginia 17
3 TCU 14
4 Texas 13
T5 Baylor 10
T5 Oklahoma State 10
7 Kansas State 8
8 Texas Tech 7
9 Kansas 4
10 Iowa State 2
 

Limp Lizard

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Yes there are some, but probably not as many as you think. We're 58-33 since we joined the Big 12.
Let's compare apples to apples. The data follow college football teams 2014-2018, where we are 47-19 (71.2). Conference win percent 66.7%. (30 wins) .467 draft choices per win, 2.14 wins per draft choice.
For the same years, conference wins-draft choices-draft choices per win-wins per draft choice:
Penn St.27-21-.778-1.29
Iowa 27-15- .556-1.80
LSU 25-27-1.08-0.93
Florida 25-33-1.32-0.76
aggy-20-20-1.00-1.00
UCLA 20-22-1.1-0.91
Michigan 29-24-.828-1.21
Washington 30-24-.80-1.25
I got tired here but there are many more. Looks like, from recruiting rankings, TCU recruits way below many teams but still develops an amazing amount of NFL players who should have no chance based in HS, and with less NFL talent than many teams, wins a lot more games (if aggy was a 2 wins/draft, they would have won 20 more games, if TCU had as many NFL draft choices as aggy, they would have won 12-13 more games) Yes, I know there is not a direct correlation, but it obvious how much better TCU does with talent than many of the "name" schools.
 

Wexahu

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Let's compare apples to apples. The data follow college football teams 2014-2018, where we are 47-19 (71.2). Conference win percent 66.7%. (30 wins) .467 draft choices per win, 2.14 wins per draft choice.
For the same years, conference wins-draft choices-draft choices per win-wins per draft choice:
Penn St.27-21-.778-1.29
Iowa 27-15- .556-1.80
LSU 25-27-1.08-0.93
Florida 25-33-1.32-0.76
aggy-20-20-1.00-1.00
UCLA 20-22-1.1-0.91
Michigan 29-24-.828-1.21
Washington 30-24-.80-1.25
I got tired here but there are many more. Looks like, from recruiting rankings, TCU recruits way below many teams but still develops an amazing amount of NFL players who should have no chance based in HS, and with less NFL talent than many teams, wins a lot more games (if aggy was a 2 wins/draft, they would have won 20 more games, if TCU had as many NFL draft choices as aggy, they would have won 12-13 more games) Yes, I know there is not a direct correlation, but it obvious how much better TCU does with talent than many of the "name" schools.

OK, but I don't know why only "conference wins" are included. The whole point of this exercise is kind of to compare conference-by-conference, wouldn't excluding non-conference games kind of defeat that purpose? I would say that SEC West teams are kind of disadvantaged if conference wins is the major metric.

In any event, I think the main reason other conferences might have more draft picks is because they probably have more NFL-prototype players along the O and D-lines than maybe the Big 12 does. Doesn't mean they are better necessarily, but the NFL drafts a lot simply on measurables and the SEC and Big 10 generally play a more NFL-like style than the Big 12. It's slowly changing though IMO.
 
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