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Why are university Oregon and Oregon State so close?

Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:43 pm
Posted by jlovel7
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2014
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Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:43 pm
I was just looking at a map and saw that Corvallis and Eugene are only 45 miles apart. Thats got to be the two closest major state schools around each other right? I know duke and UNC are closer but at least one is a small private school so very different. I always thought Oregon was more urban and hip and OSU was more rural and conservative. I had always imagined them on opposite sides of the state. Can anyone think of any other examples where two major state universities are clustered so close?
This post was edited on 9/12/19 at 8:43 pm
Posted by Commandeaux
Zachary
Member since Jul 2009
7317 posts
Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:44 pm to
LSU and UL are 55 miles apart.
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
119633 posts
Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:45 pm to
Duke, unc, and nc state
Posted by bradwieser
Cornell Fan
Member since May 2008
10555 posts
Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:45 pm to
LSU and Louisiana are only 50 miles apart
Posted by northshorebamaman
Cochise County AZ
Member since Jul 2009
35532 posts
Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:46 pm to
Most people in OR live in the Willamette Valley.

Posted by Brosef Stalin
Member since Dec 2011
39311 posts
Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:46 pm to
UCLA and USC are both in the same town
Posted by RummelTiger
Texas
Member since Aug 2004
90004 posts
Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:47 pm to
UT and Texas State are only 34 miles away from each other.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
142667 posts
Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:47 pm to
Why is Eastern Michigan six miles from Ann Arbor?
Posted by crazy4lsu
Member since May 2005
36350 posts
Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:48 pm to
That area of the country is so beautiful. I love driving west from Corvallis to Newport and all those towns on the Oregon coast.

Also Lansing (MSU) and Ann Arbor(UM) are only 65 miles away. Georgia Tech and UGA are around 75ish miles too.

It's not that uncommon.
Posted by KosmoCramer
Member since Dec 2007
76560 posts
Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:49 pm to
Ohio University and Ohio State are 63 miles apart
This post was edited on 9/12/19 at 8:56 pm
Posted by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
48769 posts
Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:50 pm to
I miss seeing LSU gear. I really do.

And the people around here have no idea how bad LSU would beat the shite out of both of their colleges, even if they played them on the same day back to back.
This post was edited on 9/12/19 at 8:57 pm
Posted by IAmNERD
Member since May 2017
19340 posts
Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:52 pm to
Athens to Atlanta is only like 70 miles.
Posted by Lester Earl
Member since Nov 2003
279105 posts
Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:55 pm to
Louisville to UK is close
Posted by lake2280
Public intellectual
Member since Nov 2012
4293 posts
Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:57 pm to
KSU and Kansas is less than thirty miles. Lawrence was by far the better party town and better looking girls. Campus was way better all around as well.
Posted by DeafJam73
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2010
18549 posts
Posted on 9/12/19 at 9:02 pm to
Duke and UNC are 8 miles apart.
Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
One State Solution
Member since May 2012
55931 posts
Posted on 9/12/19 at 9:03 pm to
quote:

Why are university Oregon and Oregon State so close?

because that's where the people live
Posted by Amadeo
Member since Jan 2004
4829 posts
Posted on 9/12/19 at 9:06 pm to
Harvard is just a morning jog from MIT. Two accredited universities with 135 Nobel Prizes between them.
Posted by East Coast Band
Member since Nov 2010
62948 posts
Posted on 9/12/19 at 9:18 pm to
I've always wondered why some big state universities are near the borders of the state.

Auburn is in extreme East Alabama
Mississippi State is in extreme East Mississippi
Ole Miss is in North Mississippi
Clemson is in the extreme SW corner of SC
FSU is in the panhandle of Florida (although I know that's where the people lived in Florida back when the school got started.
Posted by Golfer
Member since Nov 2005
75052 posts
Posted on 9/12/19 at 9:19 pm to
Is more common than you think.

UNC and NCSt
OKSt and OU
UT and A&M (relative given TX size)
Utah and Utah State
MSU and Michigan
UGA and GaTech
Posted by genro
Member since Nov 2011
61788 posts
Posted on 9/12/19 at 9:20 pm to
Zoom out and put it on satellite view. You'll notice that is the only small cleared area in a state that is entirely forest
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