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The SEC Stadium Foursquare Challenge

Ed.: Promoted. Gainesville returned to Florida.

All you social networking folks out there should be savvy to Foursquare by now. It's the site that lets you check in at geographic locations and then sends out those Twitter notifications that clog everyone else's feeds. Anyhow, part of the service is recording which locations are garnering the most "check-ins" from service members.

So, as football season is now fast approaching, Roll Bama Roll decided to dig through the site and dig up all the stadiums in the SEC. And the results looked something like this (the actual numbers and links to the individual pages are after the jump)...

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The Gators are simply running away with this thing! But we still have weeks to go till the season starts and lord knows how insane these numbers will get once folks at the games start jumping into the act. We'll be keeping tabs over at RBR.

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Alabama
Bryant-Denny Stadium, Tuscaloosa, AL
Total people: 95
Total check-ins: 332

Arkansas
Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium, Fayetteville, AR
Total people: 25
Total check-ins: 46

Auburn
Jordan-Hare Stadium, Auburn, AL
Total people: 69
Total check ins: 198

Florida
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Gainesville, FL
Total people: 150
Total check ins: 1154

Georgia
Stanford Stadium, Athens, GA
Total people: 127
Total check ins: 163

Kentucky
Commonwealth Stadium, Lexington, KY
Total people: 1
Total check ins: 2

LSU
Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, LA
Total people: 96
Total check-ins: 185

Mississippi State
Davis Wade Stadium, Starkville, MS
Total people: 12
Total check-ins: 17

Ole Miss
Vaught-Hemmingway Stadium, Oxford, MS
Total people: 10
Total check-ins: 12

South Carolina
Williams-Brice Stadium, Colombia, SC
Total people: 80
Total check ins: 410

Tennessee
Neyland Stadium, Knoxville, TN
Total people: 81
Total check ins: 102

Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt Stadium, Nashville, TN
Total people: 27
Total check ins: 47

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you put for Florida in Gainesville AL.?

FAIL! -1. Gainesville is in Florida

"JASON HEYWARD STRIKES AGAIN"

by southman on Aug 4, 2025 7:48 PM EDT reply actions  

sigh

on the internet, everyone’s an editor.

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by kleph on Aug 5, 2025 12:49 PM EDT up reply actions  

don't you mean critic?

"JASON HEYWARD STRIKES AGAIN"

by southman on Aug 5, 2025 5:02 PM EDT up reply actions  

you've obviously

never mixed up “it’s” and “its” in a blog post.

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by kleph on Aug 5, 2025 11:53 PM EDT up reply actions  

Kentucky
Commonwealth Stadium, Lexington, KY
Total people: 1
Total check ins: 2

(snicker)

by vineyarddawg on Aug 4, 2025 8:15 PM EDT reply actions  

Well....one things for sure

If anything is missing from Commonwealth Stadium today, we pretty much know who the culprit is.

by skigator93 on Aug 4, 2025 11:20 PM EDT up reply actions  

in fairness, there are two entries on Foursquare for Commonwealth Stadium...

but the other one had fewer entries.

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by kleph on Aug 5, 2025 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

"All you social networking folks out there should be savvy to Foursquare by now."

I’m going to be perfectly honest with you, kleph: this is the only reason I’ve heard of Foursquare.

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Aug 5, 2025 11:34 AM EDT reply actions  

man, if it weren't for me...

you wouldn’t even be on twitter. so i think it’s save to assume “social networking folks” refers to group outside of the mayor’s universe.

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by kleph on Aug 5, 2025 12:51 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yeah, and Twitter has worked out so well for me, hasn't it?

Thanks for reminding me, kleph . . . now I know to blame you for my recurring Twitter catastrophes!

(Follow me on Twitter!)

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Aug 5, 2025 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

get a new defensive coordinator

that fixes everything.

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by kleph on Aug 5, 2025 11:51 PM EDT up reply actions  

This isn't really fair

I mean, have you ever seen a map of cell tower coverage in Kentucky?

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by cocknfire on Aug 5, 2025 11:59 AM EDT reply actions  

Well since you've brought it up

I have wondered aimlessly around the South Carolina State Fairgrounds with zero bars for hours at a time trying fruitlessly to meet up with folks!!

by skigator93 on Aug 6, 2025 12:09 AM EDT up reply actions  

meth deals are tricky no matter what the coverage conditions.

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by kleph on Aug 6, 2025 12:14 AM EDT up reply actions  

I never had a problem

That’s why you don’t go with Metro PCS.

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by cocknfire on Aug 6, 2025 2:05 AM EDT up reply actions  

It's been a few years since I've been there

I think I had Cingular last time I was there but there was no coverage for any carrier at the time….I guess they fixed the problem.

by skigator93 on Aug 7, 2025 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions  

Ah Foursquare

Otherwise known as the, “Please rob me because here’s proof I’m not home” social network.

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by Year2 on Aug 5, 2025 1:44 PM EDT reply actions  

Social networking (Facebook especially) was pretty popular at UF when I was there from 2003-07. I can’t say I’m surprised that Florida leads this because tech-related trendiness was pretty big there too as I remember. Plus, I think about 50% of the check ins at Florida Field came from my brother.

What I’m more proud of than any of this is that for more than five years now, students have regularly kept up actual games of four square in Turlington Plaza (one of the main crossroads on campus next to a big classroom building) during lunchtime hours. No matter when you walk through it now, you always see the chalk outlines on the ground.

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by Year2 on Aug 5, 2025 3:53 PM EDT up reply actions  

When I was at UF.....

There was no facebook, no twitter , no e-mail and barely an internet. I think it was called something else at the time, but the only people who understood it were the nerds in the blue vests working at the CSE library. And believe me, there was nothing remotely social or trendy about those guys. Of course, they are probably all millionaires now, but that’s beside the point.

Oh yeah, Turlington was also GPA back then (I think it stood for “General Purpose Building A”).

Damn I’m old.

by skigator93 on Aug 6, 2025 12:15 AM EDT up reply actions  

And when I was at South Carolina

We all thought Napster was cool. That was back when Napster was — well, not legal, but nobody really cared about it.

Sigh.

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by cocknfire on Aug 6, 2025 2:06 AM EDT up reply actions  

new totals (as of 09/02/10)

Alabama
Bryant-Denny Stadium, Tuscaloosa, AL
Total people: 139 (46%)
Total check-ins: 492 (48%)

Arkansas
Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium, Fayetteville, AR
Total people: 33 (32%)
Total check-ins: 73 (59%)

Auburn
Jordan-Hare Stadium, Auburn, AL
Total people: 79 (15%)
Total check ins: 238 (20%)

Florida
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Gainesville, FL
Total people: 192 (28%)
Total check ins: 1,688 (46%)

Georgia
Stanford Stadium, Athens, GA
Total people: 169 (33%)
Total check ins: 291 (79%)

Kentucky
Commonwealth Stadium, Lexington, KY
Total people: 17 (1,600%)
Total check ins: 31 (1,450%)

LSU
Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, LA
Total people: 112 (17%)
Total check-ins: 263 (42%)

Mississippi State
Davis Wade Stadium, Starkville, MS
Total people: 16 (33%)
Total check-ins: 41 (141%)

Ole Miss
Vaught-Hemmingway Stadium, Oxford, MS
Total people: 18 (80%)
Total check-ins: 27 (125%)

South Carolina
Williams-Brice Stadium, Colombia, SC
Total people: 102 (28%)
Total check ins: 531 (30%)

Tennessee
Neyland Stadium, Knoxville, TN
Total people: 104 (28%)
Total check ins: 1047 (+44%)

Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt Stadium, Nashville, TN
Total people: 39 (44%)
Total check ins: 63 (34%)

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by kleph on Sep 2, 2025 11:17 AM EDT reply actions  

and south carolina gives us our first test of this for the season

after last night’s season opener, the numbers stand at:

South Carolina
Williams-Brice Stadium, Colombia, SC
Total people: 293 (up 187% from earlier in the week and 266% from the off season)
Total check ins: 795 (50% and 94% respectively)

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by kleph on Sep 3, 2025 11:01 AM EDT up reply actions  

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