A Fulmer Cup Follow Up

I wanted to write a follow up to my Fulmer Cup post. The all time standings for the Fulmer Cup can be found here. Last time, I looked at how the conferences broke down. We found that the SEC isn't any worse than the Big XII and the Big Ten, while the ACC, Pac-12, and Big East were better at limiting their crimes rates.

Looking at the schools individually, we see that SEC has 7 of the top 20 schools. That's not even including Missouri who enters the conference this Fall. The Big Ten has 4 schools in the Top 20 while the ACC and Pac 12 each had 2 schools. For all of the problems that the Big XII has, they're losing their only Top 20 school in Missouri. However, they're inheriting West Virginia and TCU who are in the top 20.

I think another sign of problems is if a school is on the Fulmer Cup board every single year. The four schools to score every single year were Florida, South Carolina, Iowa State, and Kansas State. That's including 2012, so a school like Nebraska can appear on this list later. The habitual aspect of this suggests that Florida and South Carolina, in particular, have some major issues. Iowa State has had one bad year, but hasn't scored very high for the most part. Kansas State is the same way.

Also, if you add up the totals, the SEC is far in away the worst conference for crime. They have a 210 point advantage over the Big Ten and Big XII. While the gap between the Big Ten/Big XII and the other three major conferences is large, it is not nearly as large as that. What this tells me is that the SEC have had some years that have been very bad for crime, which we can see from the conference's 3 Fulmer Cups.

Clearly though, it's worrying that there might be a connection between big football and crime. For me, crime is unacceptable behavior no matter who the player(s) are and you've got to wonder whether a lax culture is the cause of this. It will be interesting to see how/if things change in the future.