The full count of Super Bowl MVPs by college, now including Patrick Mahomes’ Texas Tech

Patrick Mahomes won MVP honors in Super Bowl 54. He’s the first Texas Tech man to do it, putting the Red Raiders in league with a bunch of titans of the sport and, um, non-titans of the sport. Here’s the full count of MVPs by college.

That’s just Brady doing most of the work, obviously. The cruel ironic twist for Michigan fans is that while his career’s been loaded with clutch and luck, Michigan’s been the opposite.

And the four with three each.

Did you know Alabama had the first three Super Bowl MVPs ever, with no Super Bowl MVPs in the 50 years since?

Here are the schools that have had two each:

And everybody else:

This is now the group that includes Kent State.

Julian Edelman’s the only Kent State Golden Flash to win MVP, obviously. But have you ever considered how close Kent State – which didn’t win its first bowl game until 2019 — came to having two Super Bowl MVPs? There was a fair case that fellow Kent Stater James Harrison should’ve been MVP in 2009, when he returned an interception 100 yards for a touchdown on the last play of the first half for the Steelers against the Cardinals. Kent State has made a significant impact on a lot of Super Bowls, just between Harrison and Edelman.

Who’s next?

Probably Michigan, somehow.