We've spent the last two articles talking about how in-state recruiting in Virginia has been different ever since the 2006 recruiting class. Today we'll compare Virginia with two similar states: South Carolina and Pennsylvania.
We chose those two states because they both have two Power Five conference football teams in their borders, just like the state of Virginia. South Carolina has a similar number of Division I recruits as Virginia, so as we did with the Commonwealth, we took a look at how Clemson and South Carolina did among the state's top 15 recruits. Pennsylvania is slightly bigger in terms of prospects, so we took that state's top 20 prospects and connected them with Penn State and Pitt.