re: In your honest opinion, how does LSU's campus compare to other SEC campuses?

I like Auburn and Georgia's campuses best.

Alabama's is very solid too. Maybe a little nicer than LSU.

Either LSU or Ole Miss is 4th for me, and I've been to a lot of campuses. Florida is too spread out. Tennessee is spread out and hilly AF.

South Carolina is the only campus I haven't been to.

I can only name the ones I've been to, and I haven't seen every part of each campus, so this is not a perfect list.

Tier 1
Georgia - I'm very confident putting this number one. Absolutely gorgeous.

Tier 2
Vanderbilt - very pretty, small campus.

Tier 2
LSU
Tennessee
Auburn
Florida
Alabama

Tier 3
Texas A&M

I like GT's.

Starkville is an absolute shithole

The subject is campus beauty, not the surrounding town. MSU's campus looks quite nice. I wasn't impressed with Knoxville. UGa ia very pretty. Have really only been around the athletic facilities of UF, and they are in the bottom third of the SEC.

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Their Student Union looks like a carbon copy of LSU's.

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Yeah, that and the Old Law Center are the only blights on our campus, and I think every fan hates both of those buildings. They should have made it keep up with the rustic aesthetic that every other damn building on campus has had, and they stand out like sore thumbs. It's clear who designed them was straight from the 70s and wanted to be bold in some way. Fortunately, they're doing a complete overhaul on the Old Law Center to make it more in line with the rest of campus, but I've heard no plans in doing that as far as Union is concerned.

The thing is that the LSU campus was built by the Kingfish in the 1930s to make room for his state capitol, so none of the campus is actually that old. The parts of other campuses from the 1800s are pretty gorgeous, and LSU doesn't have any of that. BUT I think the newer parts of LSU blow other campuses out of the water. Have you seen the newer buildings of Ole Piss?

Yeh it moved to BR before he took over, but it didn't get its current campus until 1925s. It used to be in old buildings where the capitol building is now. The pentagon barracks used to be dorms for LSU.

Georgia is my favorite

I've been to all of em cept Arkansas, most several times. Live Oaks and Italian Renaissance look put it right up there if not the top. Lack of repair, Middleton, and that abortion of a new Business building are big negatives.

Bama and auburn always strike me as very cookie cutter. Trees in Bama seem to be mostly ugly arse pines.

ETA: Bamas quad is very nice.

I like UGA

And I've always felt very comfortable walking around Gainseville campus, it has a very homey feel about it if that makes any sense.

I've been to Starkvegas, Athens, and Gainesville. As far as beauty of campus, I think LSU's Oaks and magnolias edge all of them. As far as student life and surrounding, UGA and UF are ahead of us. MSU is in a dry county, so nuff said.