re: Major town's fanbases in your state

I would say Metro ATL at the moment goes:
1. UGA
2. Auburn
3. Bama
4. Tech

To be such a great school in a large city with some recent success in multiple sports Tech really amazes me with their small fan base.

Im a smudge

My guesses for Metro Atlanta, IMO (after UGA):

Cobb: Auburn, GT, UA

Fayette: GT, Auburn

Coweta: Auburn (AU is probably closest to UGA in Newnan), GT

Atlanta/Fulton: GT, AU/UA (modest AU edge - UA rise in Buckhead is noticeable and growing), UF, SCAR

Anyone with estimates on Cherokee, Forsyth, Gwinnett?

I'm starting to see more script "As" in Nola than LSU flags..it's an epidemic.

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South Carolina:

Columbia - obviously South Carolina
Upstate South Carolina (Greenville, Spartanburg) -mainly Clemson with a smudge of Georgia fans
Charleston - predominately South Carolina fans with a few small pockets of Georgia, Alabama, Ole Miss, LSU, North Carolina and Virginia (not including some smaller schools like The Citadel, Wake Forest, Wofford, Furman, Davidson).

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Columbia, obviously SCAR, agreed. But there are nice sized groups of UGA, Auburn, UT and Bama fans here as well. I was surprised at the number of local A&M fans that have shown-up over the course of the past two seasons for some of our games. I'll bet we've had over 100 come through our Cockaboose in that time frame.

I think you've got to break the Upstate out differently. Yeah, Greenville is mostly taterheads, but there are 10s of 1000s of Gamecock fans up there that spill over into Spartanburg and Gaffney. Then you've got Rock Hill which is dominated by Gamecock fans.

Charleston you have to classify as Lowcountry and the Lowcountry is owned by the Gamecocks from Little River to Fripp Island and everything in-between.

Then you've got Florence, Darlington, Dillon ... all owned by the Gamecocks.

Edgefield is mostly Clemson because of the agriculture, Aiken and North Augusta are mostly Gamecocks.

O-Burg is taterhead and I've never understood why.

Actually, Ole Miss does not have a lot of fans anywhere, beyond its own alumni and their families. It did decades ago, but it lost it, as the program declined.

A recent survey, in fact, found that there are fewer Ole Miss fans in Mississippi than either MSU fans or even USM fans.

Furthermore, much of "redneck" Mississippi are Alabama fans or (on the coast and in the southwest corner of the state) LSU fans.

The fact that Ole Miss has been a mediocre program for so long combined with its image within Mississippi as being a snobbish place inhabited by the elite has prevented the development of much of a non-alumni fan base in the state.