The players days away from meeting in Super Bowl LII came to the Patriots and Eagles’ rosters from all corners of college football. There are representatives from perennial powerhouses (Florida State and Ohio State), small-conference darlings (Boise State and Memphis) and an assortment of lesser-known squads (Old Dominion, West Texas A&M).
Instead of just listing where each Super Bowl participant went to college, we decided to try to rank which school’s alumni will have the biggest impact on the outcome of the game itself. To do this, we’ve assigned a point value corresponding to the relative worth of each player who appeared in the team’s respective conference championship games last weekend.