A city school with a disinterested fanbase. Utah fans can mock the smaller college towns of the Big 12, but places like Manhattan, Lubbock, and Ames have one thing going for them: their university is everything.

City schools like Utah and Houston have plenty of other distractions to keep fans out of the stadium when the team isn’t any good. In college towns, the university is the heart of the community, and the fanbase sticks with the team no matter what.