Favorite University Series: Northern California Edition

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Pretty big upset in the works in Illinois with a non-sports school (U of Chicago) leading the Fighting Illini by 1 vote. Meanwhile in FL, the tie is now 3 ways with the Gators joining the Canes and Seminoles with several just one vote behind. I'll keep y'all updated on how those play out.

Now I present the northern half of the California schools. No shortage of state schools that go by many names here but I tried to indicate the name their sports teams go by when there was a conflict.

I actually like a pretty good number of these schools. Just not SF really. 50's basketball, huh. Beating La Salle was unacceptable.

[1] University of Pacific (basketball)
[2] Cal Poly (football)
[3] Stanford - if I had to attend one. Obviously a nice place for statistics. Formerly my least favorite Pac-12, but I have evolved
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[4] UC-Berkeley - highly doubt I'd be able to survive there though
[5] St. Mary's (Beat Zaga!)
[6] Santa Clara
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[7] CSU-Bakersfield
[8] UC-Santa Cruz - D3 sports? They've gotta move up. D1 doesn't have enough Banana Slug mascots
[9] San Jose State
[10] Fresno State
[11] Sacramento State
[12] UC-Davis
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[13] San Francisco

[Mr. Smith]

GO BEARS!

Pretty big upset in the works in Illinois with a non-sports school (U of Chicago) leading the Fighting Illini by 1 vote. Meanwhile in FL, the tie is now 3 ways with the Gators joining the Canes and Seminoles with several just one vote behind. I'll keep y'all updated on how those play out.

Now I present the northern half of the California schools. No shortage of state schools that go by many names here but I tried to indicate the name their sports teams go by when there was a conflict.

I actually like a pretty good number of these schools. Just not SF really. 50's basketball, huh. Beating La Salle was unacceptable.

[1] University of Pacific (basketball)
[2] Cal Poly (football)
[3] Stanford - if I had to attend one. Obviously a nice place for statistics. Formerly my least favorite Pac-12, but I have evolved
--
[4] UC-Berkeley - highly doubt I'd be able to survive there though
[5] St. Mary's (Beat Zaga!)
[6] Santa Clara
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[7] CSU-Bakersfield
[8] UC-Santa Cruz - D3 sports? They've gotta move up. D1 doesn't have enough Banana Slug mascots
[9] San Jose State
[10] Fresno State
[11] Sacramento State
[12] UC-Davis
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[13] San Francisco

Them sounds like fightin' words strange Republican man.

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

I don't like Berkeley and Stanford purely for Pac 12 sports reasons. Santa Cruz might just be a little too "Santa Cruz" for me.

I'm going with Cal Poly SLO because I know a lot of people there and it is an absolutely beautiful place.

[Хahar 🤔]

For what it's worth, San Luis Obispo really isn't Northern California by any definition I've ever encountered.

[Mr. Illini]

Berkeley

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

For what it's worth, San Luis Obispo really isn't Northern California by any definition I've ever encountered.

Very true. Bakersfield was also a stretch. Socal just has a ridiculous amount though so I had to even it out. This is almost anything north of LA.

[TDAS04]

Stanford.

[Dancing with Myself]

Cal just because of how ridiculous Stanford is at admissions and their preppyness.

Good school but WAY too arrogant.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Stanford was my dream university, with Berkeley a close second.