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The Stanford football team found itself ranked No. 1 in a poll last week.

The Coldwell Banker College Home Price Comparison Index, which compares the housing markets of the 119 football bowl subdivision towns, ranks Palo Alto as the most expensive football town in the U.S.

A 2,220-square-foot, four-bedroom, 2 1/2 -bathroom home that has a family room and two-car garage would cost an average of $1,677,000 there, the index found.

On the other side of the field, the index ranks Muncie, Ind., the home to Ball State University, as the most affordable football school housing market with that same-size home costing just $150,000.

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Columbus, Ohio, which is home to Bowl Championship Series leader Ohio State, is the 51st most affordable housing market, with the same-size home costing $230,272.

Only three of the top 25 BCS teams -- Boston College, USC and University of Hawaii -- play in towns in the top 10 most expensive housing markets ranked by the index. Boston College is in Chestnut Hill, Mass., where that same-size house would cost $1,381,250; USC in Los Angeles, $1,306,333; and University of Hawaii in Honolulu, $843,750.

No teams from the top 25 are in the top 10 most affordable towns, according to the index.

-- Joshua Sandoval

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