Which conference has the most draft picks in the last 10 years?

May 8, 2014; New York, NY, USA; Odell Beckham Jr. (LSU) looks up from the stage after being selected as the number twelve overall pick in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft to the New York Giants at Radio City Music Hall. Mandatory Credit: Adam Hunger-USA TODAY Sports

Conference pride stretches further than winning in college. Here is how the Power Five conferences stack up based on most players taken in the NFL Draft this past decade.

While team pride for NFL talent is one thing, conference pride is something completely different. Fans love to use the NFL to brag about how tough their conferences are, which becomes more of a cultural thing. They want to show football is tougher in their region.

Anyway, determining the conferences best represented in the NFL Draft gets much harder.

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Conference realignment and the number of teams to a conference have thrown a wrench in the process. Which conferences truly have the best NFL talent?

Here at Saturday Blitz, we took the Power Five conferences and credited players drafted to the last conference they played in, using information on Pro-Football Reference in the schools section.

We used totals, and we also averaged based on the total number divided by the average number of teams a conference had at the time. For instance, the Pac-12 had 10 teams through the first seven years and 12 the past three. That averages to 10.6.

We divided their total number of draft picks, with each player credited to the conference he played in the final year before he was drafted, by 10.6 and came up with a number. That number separates each conference.

Because of conference realignment, the AAC, Mountain West, Conference USA, Sun Belt, and MAC are shells of themselves for the most part dating back to 2005. The amount of change at the smaller levels makes it impossible to show a true representation of the conference based on NFL Talent.

So we stuck with the Power Five. So here is how those five conferences stack up against each other based on number of players in the NFL Draft.

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