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VIDEO: Connecticut news anchors incredulous over Papa Johns purist choosing Auburn over Yale—and New Haven pizza

Pizza Girl Carolina Williams among American televisions’s top trending topics Thursday and Friday, discussed not just by national personalities like noted Auburn sympathizer Ryan Seacrest, but on local morning shows from New York to Los Angeles (and at Papa Johns HQ).

Most celebrated the creativity of choosing Papa Johns as the topic for her Yale application essay, and respected her decision to attend Auburn over Yale, which celebrated the essay enough to offer her a spot in their 2017 freshman class.

Reports from in and around New England, however, were less enthusiastic.