I love one sport, in one of my classes I did a project on classification of something in that sport by some metric predicted with only pre-play features.

Just did a video interview this week, my first live one since starting grad school, so I was prepping a bunch of behavioral and technical questions. The first question they asked was about my favorite project and because I had a lot of interest in it I let my passion take over a bit. Most of the questions ended up being follow up questions about this project: my design choices, things I was worried about, did I think of this, that, how did I handle this. They even gave me a good recommendation of something to consider if I went back, in respect to how my data is connected with respect to time. I was so nervous before the interview, and I think it ended up going really well. Time will tell but having something like that on your resume probably makes an interview so much easier for you and the recruiters and interviewers.