@Jeremy Fields in my 12 years experience of student housing, the top 3 they care about the most (in order):1) Proximity to something fun: The closer to bars, football/basketball stadiums the better.

The only other time in 30 years we evacuated, my son and I evacuated to the Ohio State vs Oklahoma college football game in Columbus Ohio (lol). 

In fact you came up with a lot of fantasies in your mind very quickly.

Columbus also has lots of sports teams located in the central downtown they just finished up a new professional soccer stadium downtown for the crew and we also have the Bluejackets, which is a professional hockey team, the clippers, which is a minor league baseball team, and the OSU buckeyes, which is a college football team, but to a lot of people here, it's bigger than the NFL. 

I have just begun researching Knoxville and some of the others you mentioned, thanks   We have the best college football team, The Ohio State University Buckeyes.Here are some more reasons I moved to Columbus, Ohio. https://www.thecrazytourist.com/25-best-things-columbus-ohio/

Hopefully college football will be back at full capacity as we make a lot of money on Clemson home games.

You would get rental traffic for the arena, the fairgrounds, and NC state football stadium.  

That means rents are being unpaid or are late/very late.It seems the next stimulus package is stalled in the Senate & will likely be a political football up until election day.  

They have the football and are looking for an Aaron Rodgers to move it downfield. 

I started doing AirBnb for college football weekends and was able to pay my whole mortgage for the year with 10 nights rented and avoided paying taxes by keeping my rental under 14 nights/year.