The green circle is basically one big city. The light blue dot is BYU. Green dot UVU, red dot Utah, purple is Weber State, and dark blue at the top is USU. USU is a true college town.
Edit: there are lots of outdoorsy people in Utah who don’t care either way about any of the universities. Between the fabulous 5 national parks, the wasatch mountain range, Salt flats, lake Powell, skiing and other stuff there are plenty of people here for the outdoors.
Accurate observation. And really you just left out Stillwater if we’re going by the strictest of definitions.
If you loosen it up a bit you can get others, but the definition of college town becomes much more debatable at that point.
@BYUcougarfan
You are correct about Lubbock, I think. It’s just that it is much much bigger. Waco and Tuscon probably have a similar thing going on. So it’s hard to call them merely college towns by the strictest of definitions.
FYI, You are also 100% correct in that Ames, IA is essentially all ISU fans…however it is likely THE only city or town of ANY size on planet earth were the majority of sports fans would identify as such.
Just an interesting tidbit of info to consider. It’s a very weird existence, but also kind of explains how fanatical we are when you look at it from that perspective.
It’s that “per capita engagement” thing me and @zrf have touched on a few times. ISU has very few casual, bandwagon, or Tshirt fans. Nobody is a Cyclone just for the fun of it. Clearly
That would admittedly be a very poor choice investment of your time and energies to say the least
