Texas, Florida or the rest? The NFL’s ultimate recruiting bracket
ESPN’s Bill Barnwell turns hometowns into rosters and runs a World Cup-style tournament to settle who really rules football’s talent map.
Bill Barnwell just crowned the king of football recruiting grounds. against one another. The result?
Texas took the title, beating Florida in the final to claim the first-ever domestic gridiron crown. The bracket split the country into eight regions: Texas, Florida, California, the Midwest, the Mid-Atlantic, the Southeast, the Northeast, and the West. Barnwell then populated each roster with every active NFL player whose hometown falls inside the region’s borders.
