Homegrown – An interactive map of every 2025 FBS college football player
brockbedard
18 points
11 comments
April 22, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)
brockbedard
(vanilla JS + Vite + MapLibre, data source = CFBD, audited 15K records to find ~250 misplaced ones
Caged
Looks great! I did something similar to this back in 2014. It surprisingly still runs: https://labratrevenge.com/cfb-recruiting/
phreeza
It seems like college towns have a lot of players even if they are small, what's the reason for that?
troad
Very neat! I tried to drag left to get to Asia / Oceania, and got stuck on the International Date Line. Would be neater if it wrapped around, and didn't put Samoa and Australia on the opposite ends of the Earth. :)
Beestie
This is really cool. I took a couple guesses as to which team had the most states represented (Colorado, Notre Dame, USC, K State) but it was too close to call. So easy to use. Bravo.