I’m going to have to go with the Webster’s definition over “College Raptor Blog”. 
Haha - So which is “the one” flagship in GA? Which is the “finest”, “most important”?
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Where do the state’s top public U’s fit in all this - Auburn, Clemson, and Purdue?
And what SUNY is the flagship - they don’t have a SU like U of California has CAL. Well, Syracuse is SU and in NY but it’s not a SUNY…except if you count their school of Environmental Science and Forestry 
Now i’m just being goofy.
But it’s a goofy topic.
Agree, this is a goofy topic…
…But it’s still Cal !!
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Any university that is named after a town or person doesn’t fit well into the state flagship conversation. University of Alabama would be the flagship over Auburn, as would USC over Clemson, as would IU over Purdue. Albeit if they have multiple compuses, each can declare one campus its own flagship just for the University, not the state.
SUNY Buffalo
But Purdue, Clemson and Auburn are higher ranked. I guess the lack of flagship status didn’t hurt them. Or maybe it’s their greater focus on STEM, like Ga Tech.
No question about it: it’s either Cal or Berkeley. 
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Ohhhhh - I forgot G Tech.
Maybe Colorado School of Mines is the Flagship or South Dakota School of Mines
Middle Tennessee represents all of TN and is larger than UTK which represents the East side of the state.
hmmmm
Schools with the name tech (or Mines) in them really don’t scream flagship, they scream “we’re really good at engineering”.
Frankly a lot of people outside the state that they’re in wouldn’t even know if they were public or not.