Sorry, buddy. You’re wrong.
Tell you what - I’ll refute another part of your post.
It does not. It says “UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO” at the top, and then towards the bottom it says “Given at Denver on the Umpteenth of Octember.”
It’s one university with multiple campuses. Sorry to burst your bubble.
No, they’re not, but if you choose to believe that, go ahead. They’re different schools with different admissions standards, different degree programs, and intercollegiate sports teams that play in different conferences. The best basketball player at CU-Denver can’t get “called up” to Boulder in midseason, and the best physicist at CU-CS can’t just show up in Boulder and get taught by their Nobel Prize winners. They have to apply and get accepted just like any other student would.
But enough of this…
Michigan, alum
You’re both right. I used to be a higher ed policy researcher, and one of the things that complicated our life was that there is no single, universal standard of when it’s one school with multiple campuses vs. a multi-school system. Different states/systems do it different ways, so looking at other states for analogies is useless.
In this case, you have a single board of regents governing all four schools, as well as a single president, and that’s two common marker. They have one single faculty senate, so that’s another. And they describe/market themselves as one school. On the other hand, the academic standards are not identical, that’s what mattered for us, so our policy shop treated them as three schools.
Students from the other campuses can register for classes at Boulder, though the registration system is not unified. Rules on that kind of stuff are often handled at the school, not university, level. Would expect that some faculty teach in multiple locations. Sports teams are separate.
Point is, it’s all in how you define the terms.
University of Alabama (alum in addition to being a lifelong fan along with my entire family)
Whoever is playing Auburn.
Oregon - Grew up in Oregon became a fan at a young age
Iowa State - alum
Anyone playing Nebraska - live in SW Iowa and work in Omaha. I can’t stand their fans.
THE Ohio State University (annoys my brothers)
Grand View University (Alum and 2013 NAIA National Champs. Go Vikings!)
Iowa State (proximity)
Maryland, alum. Live in this state my whole life. Currently live 10 minutes from College Park. And they’ve always been terrible, so it’s easy to get tickets and to maintain low expectations.
Rats: It doesn’t just annoy your brother. 
Missouri. Alum
Florida State. Life-long fan
Anyone playing Kansas, Nebraska, or Florida.
I’m a fan and alum, too. Became a fan in the early '80s, when they weren’t so terrible–basketball and football were frequently ranked in the top 20 with Lefty and Bobby Ross coaching (and lacrosse team is usually always pretty good).
Then Bias died in '86 and the sh*t hit the fan.
I always root for Cal (my parents were big fans) *and *Stanford (Rhiannon8404’s family are big fans). That’s not as hard as it may seem, since I have not much more than a passing interest in college sports…and luckily the chances of both schools having good seasons in the same year in the same sport (or any sport, really) are pretty slim…
I’ll give you that one. It may be time for another poll on mascots. Aubie and “Eagle of the Week” are two mascots from Auburn that seem to do well in those SI and ESPN preference polls.
Maybe a separate thread to come up with candidates for a poll?