re: Most boring SEC towns?

There are certainly some drab buildings at TAMU but there are some really nice parts of campus as well, it's ridiculously large so you can focus on the nice or the meh. You can walk for 2 or 3 hours on campus and still only see half of it, and that is at a pretty decent pace without looking around too much. Now it is almost like many colleges that happen to be on the same campus more than ever. The Academic Building area is the most like a traditional SEC look. The Engineering Building is ridiculous, $268 million alone and in the discussion for the most amazing academic building in the country. The Systems Building entrance at Eastgate is the formal look. The area from Kyle to the Bush Library is filled with one big stadium or field after another. CS just doesn't have big trees and some of the buildings are crap.

The town itself is objectively nice. About 250k in the metro and everything revolves around the school. Very safe, you can find a few rough areas in Bryan if you try but not much. Lots of cool places to eat and get a drink. It's also close to the 8 million metro in Houston, the 3 million metro in Austin and not too far from the 8 million metro in DFW or 2 million in San Antonio. Not many SEC schools are even close to that.

The right answer btw is Starkville. It's a little town in the middle of nowhere. Just nothing really interesting other than some nice people.