Chart assignment

Charts to read and discuss

Read each chart, then answer its questions. Every chart shows its source and date; open it for a table of the numbers and the data to download.

  1. Which college football rivalries have been played the most?
  2. How fast has the world come online?

Chart 1 of 2 · College football

Which college football rivalries have been played the most?

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The Minnesota–Wisconsin rivalry has been played 133 times, through the season that ended in January 2026, the most of any two teams now in the FBS in CollegeFootballData.com's records; Army–Navy follows at 125. Bowl games count. The source's early records miss some games, so its counts can run a few below the schools' own: it has Kentucky–Tennessee from 1906, though they first played in 1893.

Questions to discuss

  1. In one sentence of your own, what does this chart show?
  2. Find the biggest change or difference in the chart. What might explain it?
  3. Who collected these numbers, and how recent are they? What else would you want to know before drawing a conclusion?

Source: CollegeFootballData.com, college football games (CollegeFootballData.com terms of use (factual data, credited to CollegeFootballData.com)) · Data as of Jan 20, 2026

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Chart 2 of 2 · World

How fast has the world come online?

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73.6% of the world's people used the internet in 2025, up from 15.6% in 2005, the first year the World Bank gives a world figure. It counts people who used the internet at least once in the previous three months. The world figures are estimates by the International Telecommunication Union.

How to read this chart

Each point is the share of the world's people who used the internet at least once in the previous three months, as estimated by the International Telecommunication Union. The axis starts at zero, so the height shows the true share. The steeper the line, the faster people were coming online.

Questions to discuss

  1. About what share of the world was online in the first year on the chart, and in the latest year?
  2. Did the share grow faster in some years than others? What could have sped it up?
  3. Using the internet once in three months counts here. What does this number leave out about how people get online?

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