Actually, that table only tangentially impacts my point. It ranks the quality of players based on a ratio of FBS scholarships to the available pool of HS players (I assume graduating seniors, although the article just says HS players). My point was more generally that football was more popular in Pennsylvania than in most other states,
per capita. So although I had wanted to leave it at that by "guessing," you made me try to prove it.
I used that table and compared both the FBS signees and all HS football-playing seniors to state populations (based on 2014 estimates in
Wikipedia). The latter rank is in the last column below, and pretty effectively disproves my statement, which I found pretty surprising. That author found Florida beating Texas impressive, but I find Texas' consistency in these ranking pretty impressive. It was also mildly surprising to me that football is arguably more popular in Mississippi than any other state, going by the number of guys actually playing the game.