During this project I collected data on sport preference from Texas residents. The survey and project shows how Texas residents feel about the popularity of college sports. The survey includes the following college sports: Football, Basketball and Soccer. The goal of the survey was to see what the Texas population perceived to be the bigger sport. The survey I conducted was not bias and was a random survey given to random people that I surveyed at the University of Texas at Austin, Southern Methodist University and the University of North Texas. There were no restrictions on the ages or gender of people I asked. I visited college campuses because I believed it would give me the best opportunity to generate random results. Since I only planned …show more content…
I watched many people play many different sports and wondered what people thought the ultimate sport was. I’ve watched many people go crazy for their favorite college sports teams and it’s hard to tell which one is more popular because around the time the end of each sports’ season, the is a championship that everyone in the country watches and pays attention to. For instance, around December of each year, the NCAA has a tournament for college Football teams called the “College Football Playoffs” that millions of people watch and get excited for. I wanted to focus on Texas residents because it is a common saying that everything is bigger in Texas and I wanted to see if that was true about the sports too. I asked 30 people 3 questions from my …show more content…
According to CNN Media, The College Football National Championship averaged 27.4 million viewers in 2017 from across the the country which was more than The College Basketball National Championship which averaged 23 million viewers and The College Soccer National Championship that only averaged 15 million viewers. Football is more viewed and appreciated by Americans and most definitely by Texans. References
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