GREATEST SEC College Towns RANKED
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- The SEC has some of the best college towns in all of sports, so we decided to rank them from worst to best. Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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Tuscaloosa is a dump outside of campus.
The whole state is a garbage dump
@@reddpatriot2887just proves you don’t know shit about Alabama!
@@ui_hoagie_1651every state has crappy towns. His opinion on Tuscaloosa is not an opinion about the whole state. I like certain parts of Bama but definitely not all just like I don't like all places in my home state, Louisiana.
@@ui_hoagie_1651nahh he’s got it right
Agreed. Tuscaloosa is absolute garbage. No amount of sorority houses will cover up the trash around the rest of Tuscaloosa.
I’m an LSU fan but we def don’t have any of the quintessential college town feel at all. BUT nobody on this list goes harder. Now as far as cute college town feel I vote Auburn.
Since the city is splitting up, will LSU still be in Baton Rouge, or will it be in (The New) St. George?
I'm an Auburn grad...so I greatly appreciate the vote.
Auburn has grown so much that it's starting to feel like a city more than a college town. It's still magical but not as magical as it was 15 years ago when I was in college. Still beautiful and a great place to raise a family, just grown so much in a negative way.
@@paulhuffstutler8765the city isnt splitting. Areas south of the city are creating a new one.
Back in my college days, Playboy refused to rank Gainesville/ UF in their party school rankings declaring that their rankings were intended for amateurs, said UF was a “professional party school”.
lol nah. UT was always #1 on all major ranking sites
@@greenwave819 - I doubt you were even alive in 1978 when Playboy made this announcement
They said that about LSU
@@conureron3792 Playboy never made any announcement because they never ever had a list of party schools. This same "claim" has been repeated about literally every school in the country. Never happened to any of them.
@@marjorieanderson8626 - I read in the magazine with my own eyes.
Wrong on Texas. Are you serious 101,000 fans, music city of southwest, food off the chart. And picking College station and Norman Okla over Texas is a joke.
He really just hates A&M. It's sad.
Knew Austin would be low on the list the second this started. Austin has too much other stuff going on to give off a “college town” vibe…
Alabama fan but I’ll give it to Tennessee here. Hard to beat that setting, lots of fun stuff to do, beautiful scenery nearby. Looking forward to making my first trip to Neyland this fall-dreading that uphill walk to the stadium though. 😅
I couldn’t agree more! Athens is an amazing town (coming from an outsider). From its size, the people, what’s there, it is the best SEC college town.
Only slightly below Oxford.
Clearly above Oxford.
@TheMCJ2011 Perhaps we should let ESPN decide--oops, they have; ESPN named Oxford as the best college football town, imagine that!
@@rickrhoden1 Too bad this isn’t an ESPN-related video so ESPN’s opinion is irrelevant. Lmao at least you tried though 💀
@TheMCJ2011 😅😂🤣 That's the best you've got? That it's not an ESPN-related video? Weak! The question of the best town is not restricted to a single video, LOL. The opinion of the giant sports network, with the resources and objectivity to fully compare all the towns, far outweighs the opinions of either of us homers!😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😎
I’m from Ga. I go to multiple games a year. And I’ve been to a few games at other SEC campuses. They all have a great vibe. Yes Vandy is last. But Mississippi state is hard core dude. LSU is legit crazy for their team. I would put Vandy last, everyone else number one 😂. Yes it’s a cop out. But I have no clue how to non-biased rate that
College town and college football town are two different things.
Lots of schools can party but the fans don’t know football and don’t show up on game day.
Great video
Damn, the A&M hate is ridiculous. They said at least a couple of nice things about every other town.
Collie Station is a dump. I have some very conservative Southern Baptist friends who left because it was so damn boring. Moved to Austin.
@@BurntOrangeHorn78 hmmm based on your username I'm sure this is totally unbiased opinion.
@@beebssqueebs3843 If you're a conservative Southern Baptist, those "friends" may not be drinking, dancing, or having much fun in general. Not sure how moving Austin would help.
I think college station, Norman, Tuscaloosa and Oxford are the best. I don’t know how Gainesville was considered better than Norman. Absolutely nuts
@@CiviTac I've been to Columbia, South Carolina and have nothing but good things to say about that town too!
Best college towns are Athens & Oxford. Best tailgating & stadium experience is in Baton Rouge.
I'll give you the stadium but not the tailgating, unless you mean except for the Grove.
@@rickrhoden1 Comparing tailgating around Tiger Stadium to the Grove is like comparing apples and oranges. Both are good but most all your national pundits declare Tiger Stadium as the best place to experience tailgating....I'll leave it at that.
Athens is #1. Its music scene blows the other towns on this list out of the water too (the ones that are actual college towns)
I was about to call you out until reading your edit
My list of best College Towns in the SEC
1. Athens
2. Oxford
3. Knoxville
4. Auburn
5. Fayetteville
6. Tuscaloosa
7. Columbia, SC
8. Baton Rouge
9. College Station
10. Lexington
11. Norman
12. Columbia, MO
13. Gainesville
14. Starkville
15. Austin (Big City)
16. Nashville (Big City)
I hate reading this list. Every town is amazing. Hard to rank. Leave off the last two and I’d love to go to every other campus.
Baton Rouge is top 3 and it’s not 2 or 3
Knoxville over Oxford but yeah they were really high on the own team’s towns so they put Auburn and Tuscaloosa way too high
Not a bad ranking. I just wonder though how many lists are influenced on tailgate culture. Baton Rouge would certainly be higher, but as a college town in general- I struggle calling it that. 🤷♀
Hard to argue this list but I think Baton Rouge is getting way too much love. Nothing is nice on the Mississippi River. Trust me.
Jake, again you rank Oklahoma to low, but I'm not mad at you just because you ranked Austin even lower than Norman!
Knoxville... crappy in a lot of ways. However, the downtown/old city/market square/campus area is insane. all sports are good. Baseball softball, both basketballs Volleyball, soccer, and yah CFB... we've got the best mountains in the SEC... we've got the Vol Navy. how many places can you storm the field, take the goal posts and throw them in the river under the shadows of the Smokeys? preciate yall standing up for us!! tho... Knoxville is better than Auburn/Tuscaloosa/ and easily Athens. Knoxville is actually a decent sized place and the reason for so is because of CFB
I support everything said here 100% GBO
Love Statesboro! Live nearby and went to school there myself - represent!
Love the segment!!! I’m from Boaz, AL and I grew up 45 mins from Jacksonville, AL and let me tell you a town and place all about their school is Jacksonville State University!!!!
Lived in Columbia, SC for two years. Loved it.
GA southern and Athens are awesomel
Statesboro STD capital.
Norman’s in a transition phase bringing in more builds and business. Hopefully we can become one of the better places instead of middle
That’s weird, isn’t Oklahoma St recognized for going hard? Might be mistaken, but a drug rep I used to work with told me they went to school at one of the Oklahoma schools.
Nah as an Okie OU goes way harder @@Athlete_20
Yeah, I'd say Norman is in an awkward position of being college town while also still trying to be an OKC suburb. That said, I'd rather hang out there than Stillwater, even if Stillwater is a more pure college town.
I honestly expected LSU to be #1 lol
I loved the Grove, but I was a little underwhelmed with Oxford - but frankly it had been talked up to me so much it was going to be a tough task to keep up.
I expected more trees in town but it was wall-to-wall asphalt and street paint.
A college town should meet the following criteria (aside from actually having a campus obviously)
1. The population of the town has to be less than 200,000
2. No professional teams
3. Cannot be a state capital
lol. That is the most southern argument ever...."We need to have the best things...so we change the rules to make sure we have the best things." When in reality....pretty much everything in the south is kinda crappy.
@@esava44 You seem awfully upset over an opinion. I promise everything is going to be okay. It's not going to hurt you.
Yeah I was with ya till state capital portion cuz I PROMISE you Baton Rouge while being the capital it does have a small town vibe in how the locals go about their business and interact with visiting fan bases... Off campus that is and not while meandering into the stadium while walking through the TIGER BAIT CHANTS!!!! Which are mostly non threatening but certainly imposing
@@shoob7979 That's a fair point for sure. I knew my last criterion would be controversial. But I like your argument.
@@dstreet17 cool beans and most state capitals I'm guessing are amongst the most populated areas in their respective states which then plays a role in how those cities/towns overall feel in the type of connection being had between the college, it's students and the local residents. The smaller the feel of an area of like minded folks the closer knit and guarded those communities likely are which is why I gave my feeling on Baton Rouge while being a capital doesn't feel like such and even people within the state of Louisiana incorrectly assume New Orleans must serve as the capital being the main city providing the tax $$ as well
Evanston IL, because after walking through the cardboard lemonade stand they call a stadium for Northwestern, you can find one of several abandoned houses to crash in for the night and would you run out of drugs and alcohol , at least you are close enough to Lake Michigan to walk yourself in there in despair. Good times.
😂
I guess its "The South" if you are in Wisconsin
I'm a UGA homer so Athens is definitely #1 for me, but I did love visiting Knoxville and Auburn, even though I hate their sports teams. Just great cities all-around. Although Tennessee fans had too much fun barking at me (literally) with my UGA jersey on 😂
What are we supposed to do when we see a Dawg? Should we moo or meow like the dorks in LSU or Starkvilke? It's a compliment TBH. We have literally been UGA's bitch in football for a minute(tbf let's not forget that before this recent run Tennessee had a nice 30+ years of slapping Georgia around) but I don't have any hate towards them at all. Fans are extremely respectful and very fun to hang with. You win with class. Not too many criminals pretending to be football players. Have given me many great laughs watching UGA destroy Florida and Bama. Georgia is an A+ college and Tennessee fans fully respect them.
Florida and Bama can sit on a bag of dicks.
And believe it or not but Auburn fans are just the worst. Got in a mini street brawl with about 20 of them in Knoxville probably 10 years ago. It started with just me and my buddy but a bunch of Vol fans that were complete strangers to me, jumped in and basically saved our ass. Only lasted a couple minutes. I remember someone yelling POLICE! and instantly every person stopped grabbed anything we dropped, gave one last "This isn't over" glance and walked our separate ways. Cops ran up and found no fight and nobody willing to talk. They were completely confused and didn't understand what was going on. They spoke to me but thought I was just walking past it and I said that 4 guys had ran towards the river wearing Auburn stuff. Cops said they were having problems all day with Auburn fans and that was that. Never got a chance to thank the Vol fans that saved my ass. If you are one and reading this, thank you. I was drunk and was gonna be beaten badly. But yeah, Auburn fans are dicks. And so was I that day. The fight was my fault as well. But 20 guys jumping 2 is pussy shit.
Fully agree with Austin. We live by the campus and you can easily forget that there is a college here. I went to A&M and you couldn’t take a pee anywhere without being reminded of A&M. Austin just doesn’t have that same feel of support that the smaller cities have.
I had the complete opposite experience as an undergraduate.. granted I was in a fraternity and UT was my life
@@TexasSiegeit’s not a knock against Texas. Austin just doesn’t revolve around the school and is a much larger city. I went to A&M, and College Station is 100 percent in on the Aggies. Days before home games campers are already set up around Kyle, the whole area has a buzz around it. It’s the same when I went to road games; Oxford, Tuscaloosa, Baton Rouge just has a feeling in the air. The closest I’ve ever gotten that from a Texas game is the Red River Shootout (we all know that’s the real name). My wife went to Texas, and anecdotal as it is, she was blown away by the difference when I took her to an A&M game at Kyle. I love living in Austin, but it’s just not a college city.
You are obviously biased 😂 not gonna let you sneak that in there
@@roguemaster8099you can call it biased, but when one city sticks out like a sore thumb, you can’t try to pretend it’s the same as the others. Austin is awesome, but when it comes to the Longhorns, the city isn’t all in like the other SEC cities. If you ever travel to other SEC colleges on game weekend, you’ll understand the difference. Austin is just too big to be all in. Most people here don’t care about the longhorns. Check the demographics, Austin has had more transplants over the last 10 years than pretty much any other city. There are Georgia bars on game day, Alabama bars, Michigan bars, Aggie bars ect where alumni meet up to watch games. You’re not going to find a Florida game day bar in Oxford…. The city is too big to be comparable, sorry if that hurts longhorn fans feelings.
@@user-tz2zz5ij1s I totally agree. Chilli fest is the shit
Interesting topic. The criteria seems to be vague and wishy washy at best but I love the discussion. Having said all this you nailed my hometown of Baton Rouge……I mean St. George.😂😂😂 Geaux Tigas!!!
ofc the guy saying “i kiss my dad” is the one hating on A&M lmaoo
Gig Em 👍🏼
Driving in Texas, you know you’re getting close to College Station (Texas A&M) when you see sheep backed up to the fence.
So many great towns. So much tradition. I think you got it right. Athens is such a cool vibe combining great football tradition, music, parties ... all of it centered on the campus. That's where the others drop. Small college towns are the best.
I experienced the Spurrier years in Gainesville and it was rockin’ from University Avenue to block parties around campus. I agree that after Urban left, the fan base has become less enthusiastic and the student base consists of mostly nerds now. It’s all about academics and Lacrosse now.
There's absolutely nothing special about BR without LSU being there. We by far have the wildest fans and no one is fixing to party harder than them and no one can touch the cooking especially with tailgating. Aside from college vibes it's not a great town, and I live literally 10 mins from LSU campus. Never been to any of the other SEC campuses but I've been to most of their states. Georgia, Florida, and Tennessee are top of my list as far as appreciating the state itself.
lol I was on that bleacher report shoot. Some of us had to go in with a smaller kit to just get it done
Starkville was surprising, was an actual pleasant and unique experience
Auburn is and will ALWAYS be #1 in Family, Hometown and Hospitality!
Criminally underrated Columbia,Mo
I'm a Washington Huskies fan I've gone to plenty of games at the greatest setting in college football I'm really excited to experience a real SEC game and see what all this hype is about. I've been to stadiums all over the West Coast like Autzen Martin and Husky stadium the Colosseum. The Rose Bowl.On TV Tennessee looks like one of the most unbelievable experiences so I'm going to try to make it out to Knoxville as I now live outside of Nashville. I don't see how it can get much better than that.
It can't. It's the best. Just be in decent shape. Don't go if you are obese. Lots of walking, some uphill. It's in the mountains.
But it's number 1 and nothing is really that close.
If every fan had the means and opportunity, the entire attendance would pull up in a boat on the river. Vol Navy is phenomenal and so underrated. The weather is usually perfect. The prices for parking and jerseys etc... are decent. The students are great. You will walk past 100s of mini parties happening in people's homes. Just walk up and introduce yourself and you'll be invited to hang out with them. Vol Walk is a mass swell of people that is kinda overwhelming. Instead of squeezing in that mess, find an elevated place to stand and look down into the Walk and it's much better.
There's no way to go and not have a amazing time.
Was there with a buddy one year and we had decided to go early and walk around the whole campus so we could see everything. I'd never actually taken time to explore it that way before. About 90 minutes before kickoff we had ended up on the side of the stadium where the river is. It was pretty hot that day so we stopped drinking and wanted to get some water in us before the game. We were leaning against a tree under shade when a normal white work van with a Budweiser logo on the side pulled up and parked about 30 feet from us. Absolutely nobody paid any attention to it. It was a beer truck dropping off beer to a vendor. But it wasn't actually. It immediately hit me that, it's changed now but before they didn't sell beer in the game, beer isn't sold out here anywhere or inside. So why did a beer van just pull up with all the windows blacked out? Well it just sit there idling for about 15 minutes. I thought I was Sherlock Holmes at first then lost interest when nothing happened. Then I was about to go find a bathroom all of a sudden the back doors of this van magically fly open. Now I remember smoke blowing out and the smell of "success" pouring out of the van and Ric Flair's entrance music playing around me. That's all bullshit. But the doors did fly open and out walks, as he ducked down so much he looked like he was gonna fall out face first, Peyton Fucking Manning! He had on a perfectly ironed pair of pants and his go to orange Tennessee polo shirt on with dark sunglasses. He looked like he was about to be sworn in as POTUS. He knows exactly who he is and what will happen if he just appears from out of the air on Game day right in the middle of 15,000 fans that are ready to watch the Vols play. It still impresses me that he actually did it the way he did. There were people everywhere and they all know exactly who Peyton Manning is. They all love him like they love their mother. He knew he would be surrounded and hounded by everyone for a Pic or autograph. Yet he was alone. He wasn't driving but they didn't get out. I am pretty sure I noticed him before anyone else. Nobody paid two seconds of attention to that van. I think that's why they sit there for a while. He wanted it to be like he just appeared there from thin air. I noticed who he was instantly and was laughing at him for doing it this way. It shows he cares about the fans and knows what they mean to him and the university. So after a few seconds I grabbed my buddy by the neck and just turned his head around and said "Peyton Manning just performed some David Copperfield shit and appeared before my eyes. Do you see him too?" Lol. He was like "Dude why are you squeeze........ HOLY FUCK THAT'S PEYTON FUCKING MANNING." He yelled the last part so loud the entire crowd of X number of thousands that we were surrounded by just stopped and turned towards us. Then chaos fucking reined. For a second I was sure Manning was going to jump back in the van and speed away like he robbed a bank. He would have had at least 4 or 5 people who would have jumped in with him though. Lmfao. Anyway, he gets completely circled by at least two thousand fans and they all were screaming his name trying to get his attention. It was fucking wild. I have never been the person who tries to get something from famous people so I just stood there. I took a few pics to prove my story then I got away from the chaos. To his credit he smiled and never said no to anyone. It was mostly kids that were all around him but it was still crazy seeing it happen in front of my eyes. My buddy still claims that he froze thousands of people completely still for a second just by yelling Peyton manning as loud as he could. I know that was long.
Go to Knoxville. It will never be anything but amazing.
Austin is the state capitol. Austin would remain the same if UT left.
Starkville is way more of college town than Tuscaloosa is and I live right inbetween the two
On a different note. I ran into Lache Seastrunk at the Nissan Dealership in Richardson Texas. He was the RB target in 2010 along with Dyer and Lattimore.
Yeah Tennessee almost got him. He was a stud in high school
Live in, NOT VISIT, Austin for 6 months and tell me the University isn't a deep part of the culture there
Being a massive city and not having a big 4 professional sport team helps UT's brand. As a result, they have a very large and over saturated t-shirt fandom culture.
Tuscaloosa is an awful college town. They’re getting the football bump due to their fans having something to cheer for but that’s it.
Don’t shit on our basketball program. We’ve been good for a few years now.
Tiger? Got to be a Barner getting his "vent orgasm".
I understand what you're saying about Nashville not being a rabbid vandy town, but I also don't think Nashville becomes what it has if Vanderbilt isn't there.
I agree with Austin being so low. I’m from Baton Rouge but lived there for 2 years. Tailgating and just the college football atmosphere sucked. But granted like I said it was compared to Baton Rouge 😅
You’re biased asf
Tailgating in Austin would likely be dead last in the SEC. Parking in downtown Austin is joke- much less trying to tailgate.
Tailgating experience has completely changed of late thanks to Chris del Conte; is a great experience
Never been to Athens, but a lot of Athens glazers in the comment section… maybe for a reason
T town is a dump. Austin was unimpressive. LSU def 1. Ole Miss and Auburn after that.
The size of the city definitely hurts the college football experience. I’m from Memphis but lived in Nashville and Murfreesboro. Nashville around the Vanderbilt area felt like any other day on Saturdays in comparison to Murfreesboro even with MTSU being a smaller school in a smaller conference you knew it was game day.
Y’all gotta experience Norman man it’s awesome
No it's not
As a LSU alum I have to say Oxford at 1. Athens 2. And LSU 3.
UGA UGA UGA
This the most SEC type video I've ever seen,
you haven't visited a 3rd of the places.
Been around Auburn all 36 years of my life and am an Auburn alum. As much as I love Auburn, it doesnt have the same feel as it did 10 years ago, its grown so much. Oxford still has it's magic and the most beautiful women in the south. Oxford 1, Auburn 2.
I like Starkville, but I like country. Also, Fayetteville smokes College Station.
However, having seen games everywhere but Austin, Norman, and Columbia, MO, everywhere is good.
I wish this was better researched and more informational. Feels like it was just thrown together in the moment.
I haven't been to _____, but I know it sucks because I read it on the internet and I know someone who knows someone else who was a neighbor with this guy who didn't like it.
Can't wait for the Big 12 list!
Auburn, but my daughter goes there and the only other SEC towns Ive been in are College Station and Fayetteville.
Im literally sitting down the street from N.O regional airport aka Louis Armstrong which is 20 minutes outside of the city of New Orleans and I'm it's most definitely a separate place from the college town and state capital city Baton Rouge where my LSU Tigers reside!!!! Completely different places just saying
Vanderbilt is my #2. As a gator fan, Gainesville is #1 (Don't Back Down), but I live outside of Nashville and I can walk up to the game 5 minutes before kickoff after parking across the street and get tickets below face value. One year they would let you in the game if you had a Bunny Bread wrapper. One year a scalper had a shoebox full of tickets that he was selling for $10 for ten tickets (wouldn't sell less than 10). I bought 10 and gave 9 to a bunch of kids standing near the front gate, there were more kids, so I went back and bought 10 more so they could all get in. The stands are usually less than 1/2 full for the Florida game, so sit anywhere you like. I hate this new SEC schedule now
I’m from Louisville and am going to Alabama and for at least half the people I know going there, the scholarships are the main reason. Bama gives an insane amount of money. They give so much Bama ended up being cheaper than Kentucky for me. Good for me I guess.
1) Ole Miss
2) LSU
3)Auburn
4) Arkansas
5) Georgia
6) Tennessee (they lose points for being a city.)
7) Everybody else
I’ll admit I haven’t been to the campuses of A&M, Texas, OU, or South Carolina though and some I haven’t been to in a long time.
everything coming up roses for the dawgs
Norman is getting slet on
Number one is 💯% Knoxville
I’m obviously biased but Lexington is a hell of a college town..
I’ve gone to every single sec stadium for football and basketball games. Lexington is boring. One of the weakest tailgating scenes in the sec. Lexington isn’t even in the top 12 out of the 16 universities.
“I have never been to Austin” “Is Austin even Austin without Texas”
Agree with some of them guys but the best way to judge is not the team at its peak. It’s when the team is at its worst. That is where you see the real passion and fan base.
Tuscaloosa is good but its not top 4, at least on the 2 occasions I went
Having been to 14 of 16 towns/GameDay (never even driven thru Austin and UK), as fat as towns I'd concur Athen, AU and Ole Miss make you feel your in a college town with Bama 4th.
But as far as GameDay experience, all but Nashville has given me goosebumps. I will say, even if their team is losing, Death Valley esp @ night is pretty dope.
Roll Tide.
Can’t beat Lexington in the fall during football and Kenneland . Amazing
Not SEC, but Happy Valley is as good a smalltown college football atmosphere as anywhere outside the south
Knoxville everyday. Imagine that town without UT
Athens, GA is the best college town in the country, and not just because it has more bars per capita downtown than any city in America (that's a true stat) or because of the insane rock and roll history. If you looked up "college town" in the dictionary, Athens, GA would be the definition. I also have a bias towards actual college towns as opposed to state capitals or big cities with colleges in them. Madison, WI and Austin, TX are not "college towns." They are state capitals that would exist with or without their colleges. Atlanta and Nashville are not "college towns," they, too, are state capitals, but they are also the biggest cities in their state. Here's my list of best COLLEGE TOWNS for the SEC:
Best College Towns in the SEC
1. Athens, GA
2. Oxford, MS
3. Auburn, AL
4. Fayetteville, AR
5. Columbia, MO
6. Lexington, KY
7. College Station, TX
8. Tuscaloosa, AL
9. Starkville, MS
10. Knoxville, TN
11. Norman, OK
12. Gainesville, FL
State Capital Cities with SEC Colleges in Them
13. Nashville, TN
14. Austin, TX
15. Baton Rouge, LA
16. Columbia, SC
Athens is great. The problem is the politicians are destroying the town. That is why Watkinsville & Oconee County are growing so much from all the people and businesses moving out of Athens/Clarke County.
Norman is one of the best college towns in America. Without OU Norman doesn’t exist. I liked it better than Tuscaloosa and went to OU instead of Bama for that reason
@CiviTac You're absolutely right. The campus is beautiful, Norman a complete college town vibe with its tree lined canopied streets, small town Main Street and Campus Corner just a short walk off campus with unique bars and restaurants. I'm sure people from SEC will be pleasantly surprised when they visit as I'm sure we will be when we visit some great SEC college towns.
@@josephhansard7469 it fits right in with college towns in the SEC.
The off-season time waste of talking points has hit the peak of the bell curve. 😂 what a waste of time…
Tuscaloosa gets a bad wrap, it’s actually pretty nice outside of campus and they continue to add great river walks.
Growing up in Auburn, AL, let me know of the thrill of rolling a tree !
Y’all can’t rank these places such as (Gainesville) if you haven’t been on an actual game day.. like wtf
As an LSU grad, will the crime rate in Baton Rouge be factored in????
Lexington should be minimum top 10. Both CBB & CFB being either championship contenders or at minimum competitive in the SEC makes it a sports bonanza 2/3 of the year, with Keeneland race track also to party.
Go to College Station, check out campus, go to midnight yell, go to a game. Maybe y'all have already done some of those things. I went there so I know I'm biased (and maybe a little brainwashed), but College Station is a great college town and a great atmosphere. Outside the military academies, A&M produces officers by far than any other senior military college. A&M produced more officers in WWII than any other school, including the combined totals from West Point and Annapolis. The military history of A&M is a rich one, and it's all enshrined on campus. Go check out the hall of honor in the MSC, where you'll see displays of the 8 Aggies who received the Medal of Honor. Go check out the bonfire memorial. It all goes so much deeper than the yell boys that Blain likes to bash (even though they probably deserve it sometimes). The town around A&M wouldn't exist without the university there. Go grab a beer at the Dixie Chicken.
Do those things, then re-rank the list. I'm not mad, I just want to open some eyes!
flaming Blain is just blatantly anti A&M in everything lol, man might as well be a ut fan
#1 is Auburn
Baton Rouge is number 1 but only if you’re an LSU fan. I get that there are some wild fan bases out there but no one holds up to how wild the LSU fan base is. The atmosphere is wild, the tailgates are the best in the nation, and they have a Tiger on campus for god sakes. And on top of all that the LSU fans travel better than any other fan base. They will go into Oxford and take up half the town.
LSU fans surely can travel. My first experience with them was in 1989, on my way to Kyle I spotted a chartered bus parked next to the Memorial Student Center, people were laid out on the lawn like they'd been pre-gaming on that bus the whole damn way. It made an impression on me.
The atmosphere is awesome, but I suppose I have to account for the entire town experience. I struggle with Baton Rouge as a college town the moment you're off campus.
Knoxville is one Athen is two.. South Carolina,tis lusa
100% agree. Athens, GA. Go Dawgs!
Having LSU not top 3 is simply insane bro what is you doing lol
Tuscaloosa at 4 is a mistake, I’d have Oxford and Tuscaloosa battling for #1, auburn is real nice, but it’s not Tuscaloosa, they breathe football in Tuscaloosa, Auburn Is legit too, but it’s different
Bro Athens is good but not even close to Auburn or a Mississippi state and Auburn is number 1
Kinda hard to rate places you've never stepped foot in, eh? Places like Tuscaloosa and Baton Rouge are dumps 3 steps away from campus. The campus in Columbia (SC) is not much different than Austin- it's just a smaller big city with a university slapped in the middle of it amongst a lot of government buildings. The hate on College Station makes no sense.
This really boils down to whether the universities dominate nearly every aspect of their town:
Gainesville, Athens, Oxford, Starkville, Columbia Mo, College Station, Fayetteville, Auburn, Tuscaloosa - I'd comfortably say yes
Lexington, Columbia SC, Norman, Knoxville - Kinda sort-of or not really
Austin, Nashville, Baton Rouge - I'd definitely say no
Y’all can tell they’ve never set foot in Como
T-town (AKA the City of Champions) is awesome.
Como at 13 is insane y’all ain’t been half the places then
Really Guys Stay away from Off Campus towns Tuscaloosa, Starkville, Knoxville, Gainsville, Baton Rouge, Auburn, Crime is Real bad
Athens #1 but I’m a little bias 😂
As a UGA alum…who has been to most of these places I would say the Oxford, Auburn and Athens are the top 3 and it’s been that way for years.
I agree.
Also agree.
Ive been to just over half of these cities so i can't rank them all and everybody loves their own school (obviously). Baton Rouge may not rank top for all of your criteria but they go HAM for their tailgating. Only place I've seen where 300K+ ppl show up to talegate but only 100K go to the game while the rest stay outside the stadium to keep partying during the game. ESP during the late 2000s/early2010s... Total madness (in a good way). Everyone in the state seems to be a tigers fan
I grew up near Athens…and I moved away…that’s all I’m saying
Auburn is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!l❤❤