RE: Largest metro areas without FBS, FCS, and DI colleges
We have to break down the very large tv markets to very large cities. NYC could be broken down to five parts.
Rutgers west
Fordham central
Stony Brook east
Monmouth south
I am not sure what football school on the north side would be.
Los Angeles is another story. It is so spread out from northward, to eastward and southward.
Bakersfield do not have a football school. They do have a CC that plays football in a 20,000 seat city stadium that hosts the Bakersfield CC, the high schools and pro-soccer team. UC-Bakersfield could used that stadium if they adds football.
UC-Santa Barbara also is large enough and outside of the LA area to have FBS football as well.
Long Beach State would not effect the two P5 schools since they are not close to them.
Azusa is pretty large population/ They are in the central valley. They could be able to bridge to the eastern schools.
San Bernardino is further away from the two p5 schools along with UC-Riverside. They both could add and start football as well.
UC-Irvine is southern part the LA area.
San Francisco could be broken up as well.
East bay area have UC-Berkeley and Saint Mary's. On the southside could be separated from the northern part. Cal. State-Eastbay could cover that part. San Jose State covers the south central bay area.
Chico, Sonoma, Barstow, Escondido, Encinitas, Palm Springs, Poway, Redlands, San Marcos,Santa Clara, Santa Ana, Stockton, Modesto and some others are not covered really.
Huntsville in alabama only have Alabama A&M in the suburbs. Decatur, Gadsden, also do not have D1 schools.
The three major cities in Alaska do not have a D1 program.
Some western Arizona cities do not have a D1 program. Yuma, Lake Havasu City/Parker and Kingman/Bullhead City/Mohave/Laughlin NV are fast growing cities area. When I used to live in a campsite in Bullhead City, the town was barely 2000 people. Now, it is over 40,000.
Arkansas do have some large populated areas that do not have a D1 program. Texarkana, Russellville, Hot Springs, Batesville, Jacksonville, Fort Smith, Searcy, Benton, West Memphis, are large growing cities.
Large Colorado cities are Aurora, castle Rock, Centennial, Durango, Grand Junction, Lakewood, Longmont, Loveland, Parker, Pueblo and Thornton. Only three of them have D2 schools. Grand Junction, Pueblo and Durango.
Conn. have Bridgeport, Danbury, Fairfield, Greenwich, Hartford, Manchester, New Britain, New haven, Norwalk, Stamford, and some others.
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