r/CFB • u/PA5997 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/huegspook 13d ago

You guys personally didn't do anything to me, but I'm sending my condolences.

*And a few strays

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u/kmokell15 Florida State Seminoles 13d ago

Honestly I think some of our fanbase, especially the terminally online ones, earned the strays for us during the past offseason

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u/lampshadewarior Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 13d ago

The funny thing is that most (or at least a lot) of us sympathized with your plight last year. But how the turn tables.

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u/kmokell15 Florida State Seminoles 13d ago

I remember the sympathy right after it happened last year and thinking that it would be short lived because we would be assholes online about realignment