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How do you know that?
I can Imagine that UF and FSU may not because they’re located in the upper part of a very long state…meaning that it’s more difficult for South Florida students to vacate for a weekend. But UGA and a few others mentioned don’t have the geographical challenge. That said, if UF or FSU have a high % coming from northern FL, it could also have the issue.
About 12 years ago, when Alabama’s OOS numbers were much lower, it did have the problem of too many instate kids going home one or two weekends per month and it did affect the feel on non football weekends. Of course since it’s OOS numbers have been high for awhile now, that issue doesn’t exist.
Emptying on weekends doesn’t really mean 75% or even 50% leave. It just means that enough students are gone on any given (non home game) weekend that it affects the feel and affects campus operations. Schools often have very limited residential dining hours on weekends if too many students are gone. Some may only have one dining hall open and limit hours/food selection.
A school located where a high percent of students can get home within 1-3 hours on a weekend can and likely will have this issue. Visiting hometown boyfriend/girlfriend, Family event/birthday, etc, becomes easy and almost expected when travel time is relatively short. Heck, some may even keep their hometown jobs and work there weekends when they can get home in a good time.
When you add the students who do go home on any given weekend to the ones who leave campus for off campus but in the area weekend jobs, it can affect feel.