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Pac-10 and the NFL Pro Bowl

The SEC dominates college football, but the ACC and Pac-10 rock the NFL Pro Bowl.

Wheeeee!

As my esteemed colleague Heather Dinich pointed out in the ACC blog, the ACC led all conferences for the third consecutive year with 19 players selected to play in the Pro Bowl, which will be held on Jan. 30 at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The SEC was second with 13 selections and the Pac-10 was third with 12. The Big Ten and the Big 12 had nine each.

But, of course, seeing that the Pac-10 at present has just 10 teams versus 12 for the ACC, SEC and Big 12, the numbers need to be adjusted for players per team. By that measure, the ACC is still No. 1 with 1.58 Pro Bowl players per ACC team, while the Pac-10 is second with 1.2 per team.

Here's the list of Pac-10 players in the Pro Bowl.

Marcedes Lewis, TE, Jacksonville (UCLA)

Steven Jackson, RB, St. Louis (Oregon State)

DeSean Jackson, WR, Philadelphia (California)

Tony Gonzalez, TE, Atlanta (California)

Ryan Kalil, C, Carolina (USC)

Maurice Jones-Drew, RB, Jaguars (UCLA)*

Haloti Ngata, DT, Baltimore (Oregon)

Terrell Suggs, DE, Baltimore (Arizona State)

Nnamdi Asomugha, CB, Oakland (California)

Troy Polamalu, S, Pittsburgh (USC)

Clay Matthews, LB, Green Bay (USC)

Lance Briggs, LB, Chicago (Arizona)

*Out of game due to injury

You also may have noticed that a Jets-Packers Super Bowl would mean both starting quarterbacks -- Mark Sanchez for the Jets (USC) and Aaron Rodgers for the Packers (California) -- hail from the Pac-10.