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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/redwave2505 on 2025-04-26 23:08:45+00:00.

First, here’s each conference who had a player selected this year. Both the SEC and the Big Ten surpassed the previous record of 65 players from a single conference selected in a single draft (set by the SEC in 2021 and 2022). Interestingly, every single player selected this year was from Division I (either FBS or FCS).

Next, here’s what it would look like if every school was still in the conference they were in for football at the start of the most recent realignment period (defined by Wikipedia as starting in 2021). The actual results from the current alignment are also listed, as well as the effect of realignment (# of picks gained or lost).

Finally, here’s what it would look like if every player stayed at the first school they attended. Even if the school was not in their 2024 conference while a player was there, I still used the 2024 conference (the idea is that the player would have stayed at that school through 2024 and the conference change). I also made an executive decision to exclude jucos. Once again, the actual results from the player’s most recent school are also listed, as well as the effect of the transfer portal (# of picks gained or lost). The Big Ten actually beats out the SEC for most players drafted under this metric.