By Robert Reid
For small and mid-sized university towns nationwide, football is the great transformer. Most days you can cross the brick streets without looking. That all changes on fall Saturdays, when streets get clogged with traffic, manic pedestrians smoke cigars or wave flags and nervous anticipation follows the mass, all heading in the same direction: to the stadium. Markets and open-air meals and much ballyhoo accompany home games – a good time to pull off the road and see how these towns tick. Some college football towns are well known, such as Texas Longhorns’ home in Austin, Texas, or Notre Dame’s in South Bend, Ind. But here are five great college towns many cross-country drivers overlook.
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