re: Rank the best looking SEC campuses that you have been on

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In Kansas? I'm not doubting you, just surprised.

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Yeah the campus in Lawrence is extremely hilly. The Main Street area is pretty flat though. Lawerence is extremely underrated.

Alabama has the nicest SEC campus I have visited (including Vandy and OM).

In Texas, SMU and Rice have much nicer campuses than UT and A&M.

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Arkansas A&M LSU Ole Miss Florida Tennessee Kentucky Mizzou Vanderbilt Miss State* (last time I was there was '86/'87) things might have changed in 40 years

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I say this as an Aggie: there is no way in hell the A&M campus is in top top half, let alone #2.

Although the central core has some nice neoclassical architecture, and work is being done to build nicer looking new buildings, there is just way too many brutalist structures.

The curse of experiencing rapid growth in the 70s.

Moron

Absolutely I love it!
Beautiful town and campus and a great size!

Vanderbilt

Oklahoma
Alabama
Ole Miss

Mississippi State
Arkansas

Tennessee
LSU

All within the last 10 years.

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I know right. One of the flattest states in the nation and they build their campus on one of the few hilly places they have.

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I have run on about half of the the D1 football campuses in the United States and the two steepest hills ON campus I have been to are at KU and Washington State. It is uncanny how much those two campuses are alike in terms of being strung along the top of a ridge. KU is way nicer than WSU though.

Georgia's hills (starting at Lumpkin and and Baxter) and going north or west or south... are not as steep as KU or WSU's hills... but they are longer. At UGA you gotta be fit to be in a frat or a sorority with Baxter being your path to campus.

While I’ve only been to a few here are mine.

Bama- beautiful around Denny’s chimes. Cool that they put player’s handprints. Also walking up to the stadium with the national championships is nice.

LSU-went there and had a tour. The cultural atmosphere was impressive (civil rights and slave museum)


Mississippi State- I liked Little Dooie’s


A&M- it is nice and spread out. That is both good and bad.

Texas-how can so many hills be on 40 acres? I do love going to the LBJ museum when I take students to the UIL state academics meet.

I have been to all except Florida. This won’t be a popular choice here but the Missouri campus is really nice with the grounds and the architecture. Also really like Alabama and Ole Miss.

I've been to LSU, Ole Miss, Miss State, Auburn, Alabama, and Texas. I did a quick pass by Tennessee but I don't remember much so I'll not rank them.

LSU and Ole Miss I'd put as a tie for the top of that list. I'm a NOLA native, so the St. Charles Ave. feel of parts of the LSU campus resonate with me. The day I was at Ole Miss, it was very overcast and I froze my butt off so I think that affected how I saw the campus. If i went back I may have a different opinion of it, but now LSU and Ole Miss tie for my tops.

Auburn and Mississippi State are next, with Auburn slightly ahead. I liked the campuses. I liked the towns. Auburn was just a tad nicer then Starkville, but I liked both.

Maybe I was having a bad day, but I did not like Alabama or Tuscaloosa. It just didn't have the charm of the others. Possibly I didn't visit the right parts campus or the town.

Texas is a campus swallowed by a downtown area. New York City pulls that off in several locations. Austin just doesn't. The nicer parts of UT can't overcome the fact that you are in the middle of town.