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Stadium: Quality of the stadium, size of the stadium, crowd, and vibe of game day atmosphere.
1. LSU - Death Valley
2. Bama - Bryant-Denny
3. Tennessee - Neyland
4. Florida - The Swamp
5. Auburn - Jordan-Hare
6. Texas A&M - Kyle Field
7. Georgia - Samford
8. Mizzou - Faurot Field
9. Ole Miss - Vaught-Hemingway
10. S Carolina - Williams Brice
11. Kentucky - Commonwealth
12. Arkansas - Razorback/War Memorial
13. Vanderbilt - Vanderbilt
14. Miss St - Davis-Wade

In-state talent: The quality of high school recruits that are predisposed to come play for the football program.
1. LSU
2. Georgia
3. Florida
4. Texas A&M
5. Tennessee
6. Alabama
7. Ole Miss
8. Mizzou
9. Auburn
10. Arkansas
11. S Carolina
12. Kentucky
13. Vanderbilt
14. Miss St

State underranked here, both compared to Ole Miss and some other SEC schools. OM does not dominate State for in-state talent, and Mississippi's in-state talent is better than a few other SEC states.

State's stadium is pretty good and our in-game atmosphere is very good now. The stadium may seat fewer than others, but can be louder due to the cowbells and our crowd. Our crowd gets into the game (yelling/ringing for average plays vs just clapping at some schools). The tailgating at State is pretty good, too. We had many complements from the ESPN Gameday crew.

I would like to add that I imagine the coaches and players care very little about the tailgating. The most they see of it is walking the team through to the stadium.

And the coaches love the towns so much that most of them choose to live out of town. Coaches also don't care how many bars a town has. May help them recruit, but they don't go to them. So 'nightlife' is way overrated in determining how good a job is for a coach.

The posters here love to talk about their bars but also ignore that their college towns have a lot more murders, robberies, bad traffic, etc.

LSU #9 most dangerous campus

This post was edited on 8/16/15 at 6:43 pm