#146/341- USC Upstate Spartans

Okay time to drop some knowledge bombs. So there are what I'll call, directional college names. Western Michigan, Northern Illinois, names that tell you roughly what part of that state the colleges are located in. But what do you when your state already has one? I mean the name, "Southern North Carolina" is just strange. Hence, South Carolina got creative and used the word "Upstate" instead of Northern. Hence, USC Upstate or, the University of South Carolina Upstate.

But what about East/West? Well North Carolina already took East Carolina and Western Carolina, so South Carolina used Coastal Carolina for their Easterly school.