ATLTiger7

I've never rooted against a former LSU player before, but we're reaching uncharted territory if all this is true.

Probably

Top-tier:
Bama
Ole Miss

Next Best:
Auburn
UGA

Solid:
South Carolina
Arkansas
LSU
Tennessee
Miss St
Oklahoma

Meh:
Mizzou
Texas
Florida
Vandy
Texas A&M
Kentucky

It honestly felt like the BCS era was probably the best in terms of national parity and different teams from across the country being in the mix.

1998- Tennessee

1999- Florida State

2000- Oklahoma

2001- Miami

2002- Ohio St

2003- LSU

2004- USC

2005- Texas

2006- Florida

2007- LSU

2008- Florida

2009- Bama

2010- Auburn

Then Saban really took over and it got less interesting.

In that span from 1998-2010, 11 different teams won titles in 13 different seasons from across 6 different conferences. I'm biased as an LSU fan, but I'm convinced that was the "golden era" and when CFB really took off and reached its pinnacle.

Would only tell my immediate family.

If anyone else asked why I retired early or bought new property, I'm just saying I inherited some family money and leaving it at that.

I've been to all except A&M and Oklahoma. Been to Little Rock for Arkansas, but technically need to do Fayetteville as well.

Favorite: Athens

Least: Starkville by a mile

Most underrated town: Columbia, MO.

Most underrated stadium atmosphere: South Carolina

We probably had 25-30k fans in Austin for the 2019 game, but only got about 8-10k in the stadium. They did a pretty good job keeping us out of the actual game considering how many were in town for it, so hopefully that's the case here too.

While the Grove can be a little overrated (although still fun), Oxford is not.

Probably top-2 best SEC towns along with Athens. The Square is a great time and agree that it's much more fun on non-game day weekends when everything isn't so packed and the covers aren't insane. Boure and City Grocery are two of my favorite spots and the Library is an SEC bar staple (along with Sky Bar, Fred's, etc.).

It is really small though and not close to anything so I think I'd personally get bored of it after a couple of years, but it's a great college town overall.

I mean, she's not wrong. We have one of the most entertaining lineup of coaches in the country. We've become must-see TV at this point :lol:

I think our fans were a lot worse in the 90s when we were in the dark ages and lightened up once we started to win championships again.

I've seen a couple of bad apples, but I also think we invite way more visiting fans into tailgates than any other school.

I've gone to games in Tiger Stadium with Bama, Ole Miss and Auburn fans over the years. They got heckled some, but it was all just fun banter like "Tiger Bait" and I've gotten much worse on several SEC campuses. My Auburn family/friends actually got free drinks all night after they lost in 2017 from random strangers at bars.

I grew up out of state and toured 15 schools (many of them in the SEC) and chose LSU.

LSU had one of the nicest campuses of any I visited and some of the areas around campus (LSU lakes and Highland Rd south of campus) were as nice if not nicer than any other areas of the towns I visited.

North BR is awful and some pockets around campus are too (past north gate and back of Tigerland/Gardere), but overall South BR/St. George is pretty nice and I enjoyed living there minus the traffic. I've lived in TN, FL, GA and LA now and the culture/people in LA blow the other three states out of the water.