Can you name the BCS Schools that share a metro area with an NFL Team? by mathias1979

Can you name the BCS Schools that share a metro area with an NFL Team?

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School	NFL Team
	Atlanta Falcons
	Washington Redskins
	Minnesota Vikings
	San Francisco 49ers & Oakland Raiders
	Chicago Bears
	New York Giants & Jets
	Cincinnati Bengals
	San Francisco 49ers & Oakland Raiders

School	NFL Team
	Tampa Bay Buccaneers
	Seattle Seahawks
	New England Pariots
	Arizona Cardinals
	Tennessee Titans
	Miami Dolphins
	Pittsburgh Steelers

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BCS Schools Sharing a Metro Area with an NFL Team Quiz

by mathias1979

Created Jun 23, 2011 in Sports
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	purpnurp19:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 04:15 GMT	2 points
	They changed their name back to the Phoenix Cardinals?!?!?!

	mathias1979:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 04:22 GMT	3 points
	oops...fixed that...guess I could use some sleep. any teams I missed? though about expanding this to include all FBS teams...maybe if I have some time.

	davidgoodrich9:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 04:22 GMT	7 points
	vanderbilt is in nashville with the titans.

	Paman93:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 04:23 GMT	3 points
	Falcons is not Falcolns. You should include all teams, that would be great.

	warthog3:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 04:37 GMT	5 points
	Minnesota golden gophers with Minnesota vikings

	ambition:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 05:01 GMT	10 points
	Has TCU joined the Big East yet? I think it's in Fort Worth, but that maybe could be counted as Dallas metro, no source on this so maybe not.

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	olegauchos:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 05:10 GMT	8 points
	Is Berkeley not in the San Fran - Oakland - Fremont MSA?

	johnlk:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 05:10 GMT	3 points
	The California Golden Bears? They are certainly in the same metro as the Raiders, and I believe as the 49ers as well. (Stanford is also basically in the same metro area, but it's in Santa Clara County, and so technically part of the ever so independent San Jose MSA - perhaps it should be a bonus).

	amwoods13:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 05:11 GMT	4 points
	Cal and Stanford share a metro area with the Raiders and 49ers.

	vamsi:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 08:04 GMT	2 points
	Berkeley borders Oakland, and the stadiums are 8 miles apart. Stanford is 22 miles from Monster Park, where the 49ers play. Both are significantly closer than, say Boston to Foxboro (New England) or Tempe to Glendale (Arizona)

	mathias1979:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 12:45 GMT	1 point
	Apologies for some of the omissions...rough source was the attendees of the Big City Marketing Summit as listed on ESPN the other day. I missed a few of the schools which did not attend that summit. Cal and Stanford have been added. TCU is technically not in the Big East until next year. Tulane is not in a BCS conference. I've decided to keep this quiz only for BCS schools...as my original intent was to only include major schools/programs that more or less compete with NFL for market share.

	LinuxLinus:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 12:48 GMT	2 points
	If Cal and Stanford have been added, why didn't they pop up when I just took the quiz?

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	Anne13:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 15:16 GMT	4 points
	It's the Stanford Cardinal, not the Stanford Cardinals.

	mathias1979:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 15:24 GMT	5 points
	LinuxLinus...try again. You may have been taking the quiz when I was in the process of making the update. The MAC is not a BCS conference.

	cjf4:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 16:06 GMT	1 point
	Ann Arbor is part of the Detroit metro, so Michigan should be on here.

	weloveum:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 17:40 GMT	2 points
	Ann Arbor is in the Detroit combined statistical area (CSA), but has its own metropolitan statistical area (MSA).

	lazermike:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 18:07 GMT	3 points
	^ same with Boulder (University of Colorado) and Denver (Broncos). Depends how fine you want to cut it, I guess.

	mathias1979:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 18:52 GMT	-1 points
	I did actually check both Colorado and Michigan, and both are technically outside of the Denver and Detroit MSA respectively. And Colorado isn't in the Pac-10 until next year anyway I believe.

moviegoer74:

Jun 24th, 2011 at 19:08 GMT

3 points

@mathias...if Colorado is outside the Denver metro area then fine, but that they haven't joined the PAC 10 yet is irrelevant since their current conference is the Big 12.

That said, I just went to visit my brother in Boulder and we drove to Coors Field in 35 minutes. I believe the Hamptons are part of the NYC metro area and they're about 2 hours away from NYC.

	BiloxiSean:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 20:32 GMT	1 point
	Forgot Temple is not in the Big East no more.

	amccollum31:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 20:40 GMT	1 point
	Being from Denver I have to respond to this thread. Boulder/Denver vs. the Hamptons/NYC is apples and oranges. The hamptons are part of a continuous urban development with no rural areas whatsoever. Boulder is 30 miles northwest of Denver a midst significant rural land.

	chriskotx:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 20:40 GMT	3 points
	I decided to start on the west coast and it took me a few seconds to realize that USC and UCLA weren't accepted because they do not share a metro with an NFL team.

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	mikeewen_19:	Jun 25th, 2011 at 01:28 GMT	4 points
	@ philiph: the Badgers play in Madison, more than 100 miles away from Green Bay

	KansasJayhawk:	Jun 25th, 2011 at 05:22 GMT	1 point
	Yeah, there can be some ambiguity over what is and isn't in a metro area, but generally speaking, if all the cities aren't together and there's some unsettled land separating the city from the metro area, I don't think it's part of it. This is why schools like Colorado (Boulder isn't directly in the Denver area) and Kansas (Lawrence is separated from the main KC suburbs by miles of farmland) are correctly let out.

	KansasJayhawk:	Jun 25th, 2011 at 05:23 GMT	-1 points
	Also, the instructions do say BCS schools, but you might want to clarify it's only schools with a football program so nobody gets confused with schools like Georgetown and Villanova. Good quiz.

	moviegoer74:	Jun 25th, 2011 at 14:42 GMT	2 points
	@KansasJayhawk...but why would anyone be asking about what college basketball programs share a metro area with an NFL team? I made the drive from Denver to Boulder and back a bunch of times, and it didn't seem that rural to me. But even so, what's more relevant, the continuity of development between two places or the physical distance? Personally, I would define it by TV market. If Boulder has the same network affiliates as Denver then CU shares the metro area with the Broncos. If Boulder has its own affiliates then it doesn't. To me that's what sharing is really about. If they're in the same market then which team does the local sports anchor lead his segment on the 6pm news with?

	MusclesGlasses:	Jun 25th, 2011 at 14:57 GMT	1 point
	@KansasJayhawk...BCS stands for bowl championship series...georgetown and villanova are FCS football schools, they do have football programs but are not part of the BCS, so they would have no reason to be in this quiz.

	adamnvillani:	Jun 25th, 2011 at 19:03 GMT	1 point
	You folks do know that the US Census defines Metro Areas, right? You may not agree with their definition, but there's an objective measurement; you don't have to get subjective about it. Ann Arbor, Boulder, and Stanford all have the same status --- they're outside the MSA of any NFL teams, but within the same Combined Statistical Area as one.

	ajthunder17:	Jun 28th, 2011 at 15:23 GMT	2 points
	Rutgers is an hour from NYC

	Ryanmg2:	Jun 28th, 2011 at 19:37 GMT	0 points
	I wouldn't really consider Foxborough to be part of Metro Boston. Other than that, good quiz

	Erxxxleben:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 14:12 GMT	0 points
	louisville?

	bluetell:	Jun 30th, 2011 at 02:06 GMT	0 points
	@philiph ann arbor is clearly separate from the detroit metro. it's about 40 miles from detroit to ann arbor

	ClintT13:	Jun 30th, 2011 at 20:56 GMT	1 point
	Leave it to someone named 'KansasJayhwak' to not realize BCS refers only to football. These are the same fans that bragged about their berth in a 'BSC' bowl a few years ago -- not letting any Mizzou or K-State fans convince them they had the letters in the wrong order.

	philiph:	Sep 4th, 2011 at 02:35 GMT	1 point
	Sorry my bad with Wisconsin, but I'm still pretty confident Michigan should be up there.

	okonheim:	Nov 18th, 2011 at 23:56 GMT	1 point
	Georgetown's not a BCS school?