MapGameDay.com has a new section called the Travel Map. The section contains conference and team road game data collected for regular season games from the 1998 through the 2007 NCAA Football schedule. As you might guess, any conference with a team in Hawaii would probably lead the rankings in miles traveled and the WAC does not disappoint. What amazed me though was that Georgia has traveled a total of 358 miles for non-conference road games (only traveling out of conference to Georgia Tech and Clemson) since 1998 but Hawaii has traveled 72,918 total miles (coupled with the fact that they still have to travel 4,037.56 miles to play LaTech in conference). The Travel Map is very interesting to see how little large schools travel out of conference (Arizona State is no exception). The conference rankings are below:
Conference Travel Miles
WAC 327,521
Conference USA 278,991
MWC 188,308
Sun Belt 154,512
PAC 10 150,990
MAC 127,212
Big East 127,076
Big Ten 107,881
ACC 101,545
Big 12 73,183
SEC 42,141
10 responses so far ↓
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KoS
// Dec 20, 2007 at 11:38 am
It seems about right for UGA, even before 98. IIRR, the vast majority of non-conference games are at home.
And generally, the non-conference games have been against smaller schools/conferences. Home-coming games always have to be wins.
Don’t want to lose at home.
Recently, it seems the non-conference schedule is being beefed up. Like adding Oklahoma St. and ASU to the schedule the next couple of seasons. Can’t play those cupcake games anymore and be considered a top-rated team/program. Have to play tough games/teams from start of the season to the end.
Heck the Tech game should be considered a semi-home game. With the fan base there in Atlanta and the short drive from Athens to Atlanta.
Clemson is almost as close as Tech, in the opposite direction. But the fan base isn’t there.
Neat site thou….thanks James.
KoS
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AubieW
// Dec 20, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Interestingly, the SEC seems to have the least genetic … errr … spatial diversity of any conference.
Reminds me of a cool article I read in ArcUser awhile back - “Spatial Madness” (http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/1006/spatial-madness1of2.html). I wonder how the 2007 big dance played out in their models.
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Benton Belcher
// Dec 20, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Go Bucks!
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Larry Geiger
// Dec 21, 2007 at 6:45 am
Who needs to travel?
There are teams outside the SEC?
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J Wallis
// Dec 21, 2007 at 7:04 am
SEC can’t travel much because most of the fans don’t have cars.
j/k I’m from an SEC school.
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RonV
// Dec 21, 2007 at 5:22 pm
What happened to your links to the other blogs?
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James Fee
// Dec 21, 2007 at 5:53 pm
RonV, I put them all on Planet Geospatial so it seemed redundant. If you want to bookmark the old site though…
http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/links/
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Sean
// Jul 14, 2008 at 8:01 am
Im from Nebraska and would speculate that the big 12 has so few miles because of their central locations.
im amazed how many miles the MAC and MWC have
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KoS
// Aug 1, 2008 at 10:17 am
Since I don’t use twitter and still wanted to comment.
Who’s #1, who’s #1……
Sadly, it will be a curse starting off #1.
Lets get the season started already. At least the pros start this weekend.
I’ll have to watch the Manning-less Colts Sunday. If Peyton doesn’t comeback soon or in good health, our season is doomed I tell ya, DOOOOOOOMMMMEEEEDDDD!!!
KoS
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James Fee
// Aug 1, 2008 at 11:07 am
I guess we’ll find out in September when you visit Tempe KoS!
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