Good For a Few Laughs-Ranking Big 12 Hometowns

[Stallion]

Hint: Norman finishes 4th

http://athlonsports.com/college-footbal ... xpert-poll

[RebStang]

Hint: Norman finishes 4th

http://athlonsports.com/college-footbal ... xpert-poll

The only thing that ranking did was remind me of how crappy most of the Big XII towns are. Austin is clearly #1 and Fort Worth is kind of #2 by default since there literally aren't any other decent towns in the Big XII.

[ponyfan37]

Lawrence is a pretty cool town.

[LA_Mustang]

Lawrence is a cool college town.

[Terry Webster]

I am not sure any of the voters have actually set foot in some of those towns. Ames is a great game day location, should have been ranked higher.

[No Quarter]

The flack who wrote this needs to look at a map. DFW is UP from Waco, Sloppy writing the way Gall put it.

[fifty]

I've never been to Stillwater but I would not want to live in the exiled lands of Lubbock or Morgantown.

[Pony Boss]

I've never been to Stillwater but I would not want to live in the exiled lands of Lubbock or Morgantown.

There are round 5 bars (eskimo joe's is the best probably), 2 gas stations and I think one kroger/grocery store. The town center looks like one of those from zombie movies. OSU takes up more than 60% of the land.

[Pony ^]

Stillwater is exactly what you think it is

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

"College town" is typically a euphemism for a dump that happens to have a college. Obviously, there are exceptions like Madison.

Nobody in their right mind would willingly choose to live in most Big 12 cities unless they are a college professor or a farmer.

[Digetydog]

I went to Camp in Stillwater back in the day. Very nice people and I suspect it is a fun place to be once the campus filled up with students. The main downside was it was a PITA to get there.

[ReedFrawg]

I went to Camp in Stillwater back in the day. Very nice people and I suspect it is a fun place to be once the campus filled up with students. The main downside was it was a PITA to get there.

OK State is a fun place on game day. Not sure I would want to live there.

[SoCal_Pony]

I have always maintained that UT is in such a unique position statewide compared to their national peers.

Small college towns are for the most part in unappealing cities (Waco, College Station, Lubbock, Cowtown).

Major cities include San Antonio, which is 2/3rds Hispanic, Houston, which has small high-academic Rice which can't / won't compete in FB + a gloried JC in Coog High, and then dear old SMU.

You take SMU out of the equation and you've got NOBODY.

3 major FB states.

USC has UCLA + Standford which is vastly committed compared to Rice + UC Berkley.
Florida has Florida St & Miami
UT has ??????

Sorry, College Station is not in the same league as any of the cities above.

[alyssa]

I can't laugh about it when their universities beat the [deleted] out of SMU sports teams with their sports teams. Our women's sports are bad. SMU track went to Mt. SAC but I just couldn't make a thread about it. It is so pitiful I've just stopped talking about track. And the women's basketball team has needed a change for a long time. And there's more but AAAAHHHH!!!!!

[ghost]

Gonna have to disagree. Fort Worth is number one. Austin still living on it's reputation from decades ago but the traffic, drought and certain sections having the look of the movie set for "Escape from New York" make it at best #2. The lazy days of Zilker Park and Barton Springs are long gone. The laid-back feel of Fort Worth and easy to get around but a hot area for jobs along with it's proximity to Arlington and Dallas and professional sports make it number 1. SMU would be #1 if in the Big 12 or any other conference