Which college programs are doing the best jobs of cranking out the pro talents? Here are the rankings by conference of the college teams and how many guys they sent to the next level.
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It’s a whole lot easier to win when you have the best players.
Which college teams recruit, develop, and crank out the most talents to the NFL? Send a ton of players to the league of mercenaries, and the program will recruit itself at times.
In the Five-Year Program Analysis, here are the rankings of the teams by conference when it comes to the having the most players drafted.
One note, unlike all of the other categories that go from 2014 to 2018, this one is from 2015 NFL Draft to the most recent one in 2019.
– CFN Preview 2019: Team Previews, Rankings, Features
ACC
1 Clemson 30
2 Miami 28
3 Florida State 25
T4 Louisville 17
T4 NC State 17
T6 Boston College 14
T6 Virginia Tech 14
8 Pitt 11
9 North Carolina 10
10 Virginia 7
11 Georgia Tech 6
12 Wake Forest 5
T13 Syracuse 3
T13 Duke 3
American Athletic Conference
1 Temple 11
2 Houston 10
T3 UCF 8
T3 Memphis 8
5 USF 7
6 Tulane 6
7 Cincinnati 5
8 Connecticut 4
9 SMU 3
T10 Navy 2
T10 East Carolina 2
12 Tulsa 0
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
Big Ten
1 Ohio State 40
2 Michigan 24
3 Penn State 21
4 Wisconsin 16
5 Iowa 15
6 Michigan State 14
7 Maryland 11
8 Nebraska 9
T9 Indiana 8
T9 Minnesota 8
T9 Northwestern 8
12 Rutgers 7
13 Illinois 5
14 Purdue 4
Conference USA
1 Louisiana Tech 8
2 WKU 7
3 Southern Miss 6
4 Florida Atlantic 4
5 FIU 3
T6 Middle Tennessee 2
T6 UAB 2
T6 UTEP 2
T6 UTSA 2
T10 Marshall 1
T10 Rice 1
T12 Charlotte 0
T12 Old Dominion 0
T12 North Texas 0
Independents
1 Notre Dame 20
2 BYU 4
3 UMass 2
4 New Mexico State 1
T5 Army 0
T5 Liberty 0
MAC
1 Western Michigan 8
2 Toledo 6
3 Central Michigan 5
4 Northern Illinois 4
T5 Ohio 3
T5 Eastern Michigan 3
T7 Akron 2
T7 Buffalo 2
T7 Miami Univ. 2
10 Bowling Green 1
T11 Kent State 0
T11 Ball State 0
NEXT: MW, Pac-12, SEC, Sun Belt
Mountain West
1 Boise State 9
2 San Diego State 7
3 Colorado State 6
T4 Wyoming 5
T4 San Jose State 5
T6 Utah State 4
T6 Fresno State 4
8 Hawaii 3
T9 Air Force 1
T9 New Mexico 1
T9 Nevada 1
12 UNLV 0
Pac-12
1 Washington 24
T2 Stanford 22
T2 UCLA 22
T2 USC 22
5 Utah 19
6 Oregon 13
7 Arizona State 12
8 California 9
T9 Oregon State 8
T9 Washington State 8
11 Colorado 6
12 Arizona 4
SEC
1 Alabama 46
2 Florida 33
3 LSU 27
4 Georgia 24
5 Auburn 22
T6 Ole Miss 20
T6 Texas A&M 20
8 Arkansas 19
9 Mississippi State 18
10 MIssouri 13
11 South Carolina 11
12 Tennessee 9
13 Kentucky 8
14 Vanderbilt 6
Sun Belt
1 Louisiana 4
T2 Appalachian State 2
T2 Georgia Southern 2
T2 Texas State 2
T2 ULM 2
T6 Coastal Carolina 1
T6 Georgia State 1
T6 South Alabama 1
T6 Troy 1
10 Arkansas State 0
– CFN Preview 2019: Team Previews, Rankings, Features
