Whitest College Teams - 2021

[Claimjumper]

Out of the 129 teams previewed so far, there are roughly 771 white starters or about 5.98per squad, which works to about 27.2% of total starters, about a ¾ % increase from 2020. As always, we’ll see a bit of movement as official depth charts come out for week 1.

The whitest team is Wisconsin starting 15-16 whites followed close behind by three other Big 10 schools Iowa, Nebraska, and Northwestern (oddly enough they also have close to the three darkest teams in Ohio State, Penn State, and Maryland too).

The count for majority white teams is 11.

The two big themes that we seemed to see this year was a minor uptick across many teams (around the 6 -> 7 range) along with the further coalescing around that key caste positions remaining: OL, TE, and QB. We are also seeing the continued rise of the “super dark” teams with 0-2 white starters which reached an all time high of 17 teams this year!

White athletes per conference looks like this:

Big 10 8.1
MAC 7.8
Big 12 6.8
MWC 6.4
Independent 6.3
Pac 12 5.9
CUSA 5.3
ACC 5.2
AAC 5.1
Sun Belt 4.8
SEC 3.9

“Majority White” (11+) – 11 Teams

Wisconsin (15-16)
Iowa (14)
Nebraska (13)
Northwestern (12)
Cal (12)
BYU (12)
Air Force (11)
Kansas State (11)
Michigan State (11)
Navy (11)
Miami (OH) (11)

“Double Digits” (10) – 3 teams

Iowa State
Northern Illinois
Wyoming

“On the Doorstep” (9) – 13 teams

Arkansas
Army
Bowling Green
Clemson
Louisiana Tech
New Mexico
Notre Dame
Ohio
Purdue
Rice
SMU
Utah State
Western Michigan

“Birmingham” (8) – 8 teams

Ball State
Baylor
Colorado
Illinois
Minnesota
Ole Miss
Texas State
Washington

“Baltimore” (7) – 18 teams

Appalachian State
Boise State
Buffalo
Cincinnati
Coastal Carolina
Colorado State
Duke
Eastern Michigan
Florida Atlantic
Kansas
Michigan
Oklahoma State
San Diego State
Texas Tech
Toledo
UCLA
Wake Forest
Western Kentucky

“Ferguson” (6) – 13 teams

Akron
Arizona
Arizona State
Charlotte
Kent State
Nevada
Oregon State
Pittsburgh
San Jose State
South Alabama
Texas
Vanderbilt
Virginia Tech

“Camden” (5) – 23 teams

Arkansas State
Boston College
Central Michigan
Connecticut
Indiana
Liberty
Louisiana-Monroe
Marshall
Middle Tennessee
Missouri
NC State
New Mexico State
North Carolina
North Texas
Old Dominion
Rutgers
Stanford
Syracuse
Troy
Tulane
UAB
Utah
West Virginia

“Jackson” (4) – 11 teams

Georgia Tech
Houston
LSU
Oregon
South Florida
Southern Miss
TCU
Temple
USC
UTEP
Virginia

“Detroit” (3) – 12 teams

Auburn
East Carolina
Georgia
Kentucky
Memphis
Mississippi State
Ohio State
Oklahoma
Texas A&M
Tennessee
Tulsa
UCF

“South Side Chicago” (2) – 10 Teams

Florida International
Florida State
Fresno State
Georgia Southern
Georgia State
Louisville
Massachusetts
Miami
Penn State
South Carolina
UNLV

“East St Louis” (1) – 6 Teams

Alabama
Florida
Hawaii
Louisiana-Lafayette
Maryland
UTSA

“Wakanda” (0) – 0 Teams

Here are the prior year summaries:

2020

Majority White Teams – 10
Whitest Team: Air Force (16)

2019

Majority White Teams – 8
Whitest Team: Air Force, Miami OH, Northwestern (15)

2018

Majority White Teams – 14
Whitest Team: Iowa (15)

2017

Majority White Teams – 10
Whitest Team: Iowa (16)

2016

Majority White Teams – 14
Whitest Team: Wyoming, Central Michigan (15)

2013 – 2015: No Summaries completed

All pre-2012 summaries were put together one of the great original posters ,Colonel Reb

2012

Majority White Teams – 24
Whitest Team: Air Force, Army Wisconsin (15)

2011

Majority White Teams – 30
Whitest Team: Wyoming (16)

2010

Majority White Teams – 36
Whitest Team: BYU (17)

2009

Majority White Teams – 33
Whitest Team: BYU (16)

2008

Majority White Teams – 26
Whitest Team: Air Force (18)

2007

Majority White Teams – 26
Whitest Team: Air Force (22 – Last all white team)

2006

Majority White Teams – 36
Whitest Team: Air Force, BYU (19)

2005

Majority White Teams – 35
Whitest Team: BYU (19)

 

[Phall]

Awesome job! Impressive amount of data parsing. I appreciate you putting in the work here.

 

[white lightning]

I live out west and have always enjoyed watching the Pac 12 alot. I must say that the Big Ten is where I will try my best to spend most of my time watching. Thank you for
all the hard work putting together this list. I also want to thank everyone here who spends alot of time putting together the composition rosters of both college and the NFL.
You guys are all amazing! If we ever have a huge meet up in Vegas, I would like to buy alot of members here a beer!

 

[BeyondFedUp]

Fantastic work Claimjumper! Thank you very much as this makes it much easier to know who to pull for. Wisconsin has their work cut out for them but I'm rooting for them.

 

[Leonardfan]

Thanks for this write-up as always @Claimjumper !

 

[Don Wassall]

Great work by all those who did the write-ups. Nice to see a very tiny uptick for once in the number of overachievers starting.

 

[icsept]

No “Wakanda” teams, interesting. I guess the “diversity” training kicks in reverse and these Head Cucks feel a twinge of guilt if they go all-black.