My how the tables have turned! For the first year in what seems like forever, CU Boulder is not on Playboy's Top 10 Party Schools list. This is a catastrophe on par with global warming or shrimp-mayonnaise Doritos.

My how the tables have turned! For the first year in what seems like forever, CU Boulder is not on Playboy's Top 10 Party Schools list. This is a catastrophe on par with global warming or shrimp-mayonnaise Doritos.

What have you been doing, Boulder? Studying or something?

The news is especially weird, considering that CU Boulder has an 88% acceptance rate. That means that while the student population is certainly among the smartest in the country, acceptance processes don't necessarily weed out the C-student trust funders who are looking to blow daddy's fortune with a Hill party that would make a Playboy party look like day care. 

It's not like CU Boulder is book-wormy enough to get kicked off the list … but they're certainly weed-y, so it could be that everyone's just too high on that legal weed to congregate in groups of people larger than 6.5. Or, it could be that CU officials have been so good at deterring Boulder's annual 420 rally, that Playboy decided it was time to look elsewhere for fun.

Or, it could just be that CU Boulder's reign on Playboy's Top 10 for the last billion years has made placing on it obsolete. We'll just go with that running hypothesis.

But don't worry, Colorado partiers … another square state school made the list, keeping Colorado on Playboy's party radar: Colorado State University.

For the first time ever, Colorado's "other" college made the list, which is a sure sign that the tides of Colorado's party landscape have shifted.

That's right boys and girls. Forestry departments, semi-rural settings, and rams make for a better party environment than Boulder. It's just something we all have to get used to, like herpes or sponsored ads on Instagram. The reasons for CSU's placement at #8 out of 10 aren't clear, but we have a feeling it has something to do with Ft. Collins' recent emergence as a "cool city that doesn't suck."

So, we'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate you, CSU, on this very high and honorable honor. And to you, CU Boulder … get your shit together.

One day, CU Denver … one day #dreambig.