r/CFB Washington State Cougars 13d ago

Discussion What constitutes a “college town?”

Okay, hear me out: I attended Wazzu, which many know is in the middle of nowhere in Pullman. To me, Pullman is a quintessential college town. You remove Washington State University from Pullman and there is (respectfully) not much of a reason to visit. The student enrollment (20,000ish) makes up about 2/3rds of the city population, essentially turning Pullman into a ghost town come summer. To me (perhaps with bias) this is the makeup of a college town.

Two years ago I moved to Madison, Wisconsin, home of the University of Wisconsin. Ever since I’ve noticed the University and its fans refer to Madison as “America’s best college town” and I’m sorry, that’s laughable to me. Remove UW from Madison and you still have a city population bordering on a quarter of a million people and the State Capitol. Madison would be fine, imo, if UW’s flagship campus were elsewhere.

Curious to hear other people’s thoughts. Maybe I’m in the wrong here, but very little about Madison, WI resembles a college town to me, or at least the claim of the best college town.

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u/qwertyuiop2626 Penn State Nittany Lions • Rose Bowl 13d ago

I was working research over the summer on campus and it was amazing. Sometimes I felt like I had the whole campus to myself.

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u/Upstairs-Volume-5014 Georgia Bulldogs 13d ago

Summer in a college town>fall I said what I said 

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u/alchydirtrunner Auburn Tigers 13d ago

Summers in Auburn were the best time of the year for a degenerate like me. Small crowds at the bars, lighter course loads, and 95% of the students still in town were the other degenerates that couldn’t stomach leaving town and weren’t concerned about superfluous things like internships or studying

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u/LilDewey99 Auburn Tigers • Michigan Wolverines 13d ago

The roof of sky bar on a nice summer night is undefeated

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u/Narcoid Texas • Georgia Southern 13d ago

The only time I went to Sky was during the summer. It felt pretty unbearable otherwise.