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I feel like this is a question better suited for college towns and mid sized cites as you only included cities that are top 20 metro areas which tend to be much more pro heavy. With the exception of maybe Atlanta I don't think any of these are real good choices. None of them are really known for being college sports fortresses.
I feel like this is a question better suited for college towns and mid sized cites as you only included cities that are top 20 metro areas which tend to be much more pro heavy. With the exception of maybe Atlanta I don't think any of these are real good choices. None of them are really known for being college sports fortresses.
Dallas makes a pretty good alternative to Atlanta even though it's a more of a pro sports town. A great unique rivalry held every year, one of the oldest collegiate bowls every year. Big area for big 12 fans and probably woul have been the permanent home for Big 12 championship games if not for realignment. I think Dallas was in the running to get the college football hall of came but lost out on Atlanta. It's always been a major college football area.
LA? Nooo Dallas beats LA for second place here. I would vote for Atlanta overall though.
LA has no NFL team so all the focus is on USC & UCLA. Also, the Rose Bowl is a pretty big deal and that is played in the LA suburb of Pasadena. You'd be suprised about how much people love football in LA. You know the city that has the 3rd most NFL players and the highschool with the most NFL players in the country in Long Beach Poly. It get's pretty real out here and most states in the West including: Oregon, Boise State, Washington, Arizona & Utah etc recruit out of Southern California. Like everything else LA is involved in sports wise, we get dismissed because people hold a bias against the LA area in everything.
For the cities listed, I'd say Atlanta's number 1, than Dallas/LA are pretty close to interchangeable. USC, and UCLA are HUGE draws, and Dallas is the capital of Big12 country, hosting the Red River shootout each year. Cities like Tuscaloosa, Austin, Columbus, Ann Arbor, Gainseville etc, are also among the elite. And I'm not saying Miami is the best CB Football town, but Miami would be a better choice than at least 2 or 3 of the towns on the poll. Just based on the historical success of the Hurricanes, and the red-hot NFL draft bed known as the South Florida Metropolitan Area.
South Florida may be filled with fair-weather fans, but South Florida Metro Area produces football talent at a higher rate than any other metro area pound-for-pound. South Florida is 2nd to none, when producing the actual football talent. The same way talented players from LA and The Bay Area seep into other Pac-12 schools in states like AZ, OR, WA, etc, and the same way Texas talent seeps into other Big-12 schools like Oklahoma, Kansas, etc, Florida talent supplies the whole I-95 corridor, like the cocaine that floods the port of Miami and supplies the East-Coast. Heck, South Florida supplies Heisman-worthy talent to other talent-heavy hot-beds like Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, California, and Ohio.
LA? Nooo Dallas beats LA for second place here. I would vote for Atlanta overall though.
Dallas has small time college teams in the area (TCU, SMU, North Texas), the Red River Rivalry, and the Cotton Bowl. In recent years, good opening week OOC games. Definitely pushed LA for second place, no doubt.
But USC is the most successful college football team of all time, and UCLA is no slouch. Add in the "Grand Daddy of them all" in the Rose Bowl, and imo, it get's the nod for 2nd.
Dallas has small time college teams in the area (TCU, SMU, North Texas), the Red River Rivalry, and the Cotton Bowl. In recent years, good opening week OOC games. Definitely pushed LA for second place, no doubt.
But USC is the most successful college football team of all time, and UCLA is no slouch. Add in the "Grand Daddy of them all" in the Rose Bowl, and imo, it get's the nod for 2nd.
Yeah I understand the Rose Bowl but outside of that and USC being a blue blood program( I don't agree they are the most successful program of all time), it's not really a college football mecca with huge support like you would find in Dallas even without the big name programs. With all do respect, UCLA is not a powerhouse and their fans are meh at best when it comes to college football atmosphere. I see Dallas as second though good argument was made for LA.
Dallas is a contender. Home of the Cotton Bowl. Plus you have the Texas/OU game there.
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