With college football crowning their champion earlier in the week, fans of the professional amateurs will have a huge void to fill in their lives now. It’s been over a month since Saturday action was a regular occurrence in their lives, but there’s now a finality of the season seeing the Michigan Wolverines earn the title.
But that doesn’t mean fans have to curtail their rooting interests until September. No, alumni are still represented when the NFL takes the field, as they will for the next five weeks with the playoff tournament leading to the Super Bowl. Fans of college teams track their players into the pro ranks, so it’s a fun exercise to see which schools are most represented.
For the wild-card matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers, a whopping 28 schools have at least two representatives on a roster.
Including players who have been placed on IR throughout the year, the two clubs have 140 participants. 86 different schools are represented by those players, some of which attended junior colleges and others who transferred.
Admittedly, this list is going to contain a few errors and omissions. Pro Football Reference is the best resource for this list, but even they have some misses.
For instance, they didn’t list Butler CC among Michael Gallup’s schools, but he was there for two years before transferring to Colorado State. Butler’s own website didn’t even list Dallas CB Eric Scott.
Schools and alums, please forgive any errors.