That was fun to watch
i’d encourage you to take a look at D-III: The home for NCAA Division III football - D3football
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I follow Southern Athletic Association since I know some kids who’ve played for Centre but I don’t go to games.
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I can see that. My only quibble is that Salt Lakers are Rocky Mountain Westerners at heart. They’re pretty much at home in the PAC-12 cities. In places like Ames, Lubbock, Waco, Manhattan, KS, and Lawrence, not so much. Houston and Fort Worth, a bit more.
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Anything East of Sierra Nevada Mountains feels completely different than West of it. Same with Anything Between Sierra Nevada Mountains and I-25 is it’s own thing. I-25 to Houston is another thing and so forth. Obviously, Longitude also segments those Latitude regions. Seattle and Portland feel different compared to LA and of course the Bay Area is a whole different ball of Wax.
I guess I just see it differently because I’ve spent my life on both sides of it. I’ve been in Kansas and Texas a lot and those cities don’t feel like the Great Basin to me. My beloved California is like a separate country, divided into sub-units. The greater LA County area is one California. The southern Central Valley is another. So is the rest of the Central Valley. The lovely Central Coast is largely undiscovered country. The Bay Area is not part of the United States or California. (I jest.). Eureka and environs might as well be in Oregon. The Northern Sierra is different from the Southern Sierra. And so forth. I do love the state. (My work has had me going to all these places and more.)
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I was agreeing above. I think East Colorado all the way to like the Houston/ East Texas Area is its own thing. Also west of Sierras is its own thing as you described.
Like in Kentucky there is probably 5 if not 7 different cultures because of where it is state bordering so many other states.
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Paducah is on a different planet than Ashland. Lol
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It really is. Paducah is basically Missouri while Ashland is West Virginia. Florence has a very Ohio vibe and Bowling Green is more in tune with Nashville. Lexington and Louisville are similar but not at all.
Immigration has a huge reason behind this. If you have a state dominated by one immigrant people (or religion) you may not see differences. I would say a state dominated by LDS has similarities except the urban vs rural folk.
EDIT: Paducah has more Irish Catholics and Latinos Catholics compared to the Baptist and Irish Catholic mix in Ashland. Also, more Italians in West Kentucky much like St. Louis as well as black folk. In Eastern Kentucky there were not many enslaved so it’s very Caucasian.
And Covington is…well…Covington. 
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Boy, what a ride it has been for Portland State fans. You go from losing 81-7 to Oregon in the opener to beating a team 91-0. I looked at the boxscore of that game. It was 91-0 after three quarter. Yikes! That NAIA team had -23 yards of total offense. So I guess Oregon would put a Georgia Tech-Cumberland-like whopping on North American.
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I had a client who was based in Nashville and had a plaque on his wall declaring that he had been designated a “Duke of Paducah.” I think it’s some sort of fraternal organization. I never asked.
The only Duke of Paducah I know was the name of an old DJ at a station I worked at long ago. Like so long ago that DJ was involved with like Hank Sr. and not my era. Now, Kentucky Colonels are def a thing.
I loved me some Dan Issel.
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In other news, Oregon is doing what I thought it would do: shut up the Colorado hype.
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Clemson lost today, so they should drop to 12th…
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Oregon is putting on a major league butt kicking on colorado. that is ugly.
RR
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The Bluff-a-los are getting exposed
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? Clem dropped out of polls a week or 2 ago. Was hoping they beat #4 FSU to drop them, but they may get a 2md chance i. The ACC CCG.
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Buffalos and Cougars both going down pretty hard I don’t wanna call either a rival.
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