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1996 Team Geography

Explore all 89 roster entries by source-listed hometown, position, and explicitly stated state.

Compare 1996 hometown labels with the 2026 roster →

THE 1996 TEAM · WHERE THEY CAME FROM

89 names. 60 listed hometowns.
One road back to New Orleans.

Explore the roster by the hometown string Florida’s modern 1996 roster gives for each player. The state cartogram counts only explicit state labels: 22 players have a state in that field; 67 do not. We do not infer a state from a school or city name.

89 roster listings

SOURCE-LABELED STATE CARTOGRAM

The roster’s stated geography

Not to scale

Tiles show states explicitly printed in the hometown field. Blank states have no source-labeled hometown entries in this dataset; this is not a full recruiting footprint or birthplace map.

WA—OR—CA—ID—NV—AZ—MT—WY—UT—NM—ND—SD—CO—KS1OK—MN—NE—MO—AR—TX2WI—IA—IL—LA2MI—IN—KY—TN2MS3OH1WV—AL—GA4FL1NY—PA1VA2NC2SC—VT—NJ—MD1DE—MA—CT—NH—ME—RI—AK—HI—DC—
State not recorded 67
Choose a labeled state or hometown cluster to reveal its roster entries.

ROSTER DETAIL

Choose a player

Select a name to see its 1996 roster number, position, class, hometown, school, evidence status, and any documented game link. The name remains a normal profile link if scripting is unavailable.

CLUSTERED BY THE SOURCE’S WORDS

Hometowns as recorded

Matching spellings are grouped together; different spellings are not merged without evidence.

ACCESSIBLE PLAYER INDEX

All 89 roster listings

Roster listing does not prove game participation.

Source: Florida’s modern 1996 roster ↗ · Read the roster field audit →

THE GATOR GRAPH · CANONICAL, SOURCE-BACKED EDGES

Local constellation

Starting from 1996 · Team geography

Hometown clusters

Expand Hometown clusters · 58 more
grouped by exact source-listed hometownFt. Myers · 1996 roster →

Evidence: 1997 Florida football media guide retrospective; Florida at Tennessee box score and player participation (1996-09-21); Jevon Kearse is Miami “Mr. Two Bits”; 1996 Football Roster

Seasons

Every connection above comes from a typed graph relationship with its source record shown beside the destination.