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FBS Independents College Football Stadiums
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2021
- We give a run down of each of the independent FBS college football stadiums. Independent meaning that hey don't belong to any particular conference. Thanks for watching!
West Point is breathtaking. Not just the stadium, but the campus. It’s a beautiful place.
i make sure to make a trip up there every year to see a game along with the army navy game. Beat Navy!
yah just in the last few years I saw the stadium and the surrounding area for the fist time on a big screen HD tv. just beautiful. there was this house, looked like almost a castle above the stadium out in the middle of the trees. you could watch the game from there almost.
It's the best recruitment tool you could ask for if you're the USMA.
It's a hard 4 years of your life -- but look where you get to spend it.
Once FBS is finished you should look into FCS, D-2, and D-3
that will be cool, I bet there are high school stadiums bigger then a lot of D-3 fields, or that will double for both in some locations.
@@tylerhumpfer2493 My old high school stadium that seats 6k already beats a lot of D2 and D3 stadiums.
My college has apartments that look out onto the field, the student gym that looks out onto and field, and has no lights lol
@@great9800 yeah we had 10k (with standing room along the fence) in our stadium a few times in HS. but have we played a school every year that they used the D3 college's stadium.
@@great9800 Not my GVSU Lakers!
Aggie Memorial Stadium is a great place to watch a game. Every seat is close to the action. For those seated on the upper tier of the west side, you have a great view of the Organ Mountains to the east. The exterior grass does go dormant in the winter, but it is watered in the spring and fall and is usually beautiful.
I got a laugh out of the UConn joke
😂
Been to a dozen Army games at West Point. If you get a game somewhere in the middle to end of October, the foilage is like God splashed paint all over the Hudson Valley. Simply breathtaking. Someone else pointed out the traditions associated with Army football; I love seeing the cadets march in and the paratrooper landing with the ball at midfield. Y'all should put a game at West Point on your bucket lists.
Do the FCS. Any conference.
BIG SKY CONFERENCE
WAC!!
Ivy League
Southland
MVC
Up until the early 1990s, nearly half of Division 1-A (now called FBS) was made up of independents. Changes in TV contract rules made being in a conference the best option for most schools. Since then the independent ranks have shrunk dramatically, and then fluctuated. I believe that at one point, the FBS was down to just three independent schools before the most recent round of conference realignment produced a few more castaways.
In 2004, there were only 2. Notre Dame and Navy
@@jonathang1700 there were others, they were between conferences or moving up from Division 1AA. those two were just the ones that refused to join a conference for football. 1991 and 1995 were the big years, that was when the Big 10 expanded and the Big East started football while Conference-USA was founded ending all but those two schools being independent
and even Notre Dame has to play 5 ACC schools/year as a condition of conference membership in other sports.
Former NMSU football player here. I too wish the hills were covered in plants so we didn't have to run up the hill on the practice field side during the summer. It was a fun place to play just wish were able to attract more fans. Go Aggies!
NMSU Facilities need a huge makeover huge improvements if they want to compete.
@@ronbowlingjr6122 dude NMSU needs a lot more than that if they want to win haha trust me.
you wore 69, mister offensive and defensive lineman with 45 total tackles.
nice
It’s so odd Las Cruces of all places has grass on the outside of the stadium, the city is dry as can be
1:13 had NO IDEA West Point was literally ON the water. Just added that to my stadiums I need to visit!
yep and those trees make it even more beautiful
Yep right on the hudson river. A lot of history and an amazing gameday experience.
Army's full nickname is the Black Knights of the Hudson.
the campus is, the stadium isn’t…the whole reason for the campus being there is that it’s a military installation on the river protecting the Hudson River
The video didn't do it justice. It is on the side of a hill overlooking the Hudson. You can see the river in the very first shoe.
Many don't know it but Notre Dame stadium was designed after Michigan Stadium, so it's not a coincidence they look similar. And in my opinion, bowls are the best designs as they're all immersive. Michigan Stadium, ND Stadium, the Rose Bowl, Cal Memorial Stadium; I've been to them all and they're all terrific.
I'm a Notre Dame fan and I love the stadium, especially the renovations they did a few years back. I've been to Ann Arbor for a game also and it was everything you'd expect.
West Point football is something else. With all the cadets in the stands for the entire game, the excitement, and the casual tradition of the game ball being brought to the field via parachute.
For UConn, the stadium for a while was called Rentschler Field before the "Pratt and Whitney Stadium" was added to the name rather recently. It is more commonly called "The Rent" for short.
Cool videos btw!
Love West Point it’s one of my favorite stadiums I’ve been too
FCS BIG SKY CONFERENCE NEXT !!!!!!! awesome stadiums
Minus the Kibble Dome.
Nothing beats Wa-Griz
Absolutely nothing special about Sacramento state and UC Davis football stadiums lol
@@AndrewChristian-bg6vr UC davis stadium is actually pretty dope .. newer stadium
@@OnlyHoops15 you’re probably right, I haven’t watched a home uc Davis game in awhile. I just know Sacramento state football stadium looks like Folsom high schools stadium without the blue turf.
Do One on HBCU Schools in the SWAC and MEAC.
Was waiting for this one
Go NMSU
Now to the MAC
I so want NMSU to turn things around. I would be a huge fan. I think their stadium is quite nice. With the conference reshuffling going on, Mountain West should just grab UTEP and NMSU to go to 14 teams.
You should do the MAC next
Notre Dame did base their stadium after Michigan, however Michigan Stadium has a more gradual seating pitch in the lower rows so row 80 in Notre Dame Stadium is much closer to the field than in the big house. (Especially in the end zones)
I have endzone seats at Notre Dame and I agree, having been to both stadiums.
Do you need me to send you better shots of Williams Stadium? Or if you even look at the street view for 1971 University Boulevard Lynchburg Virginia you can see what it looks like now. 🔥
Lavell Edwards stadium now has bridges/walkways that connect the stands
I’m surprised that he missed out on the mountainous views of both East and West(Baptist) sides of Williams Stadium. Also should of include the Freedom tower that lights up during touchdowns along with fireworks. LU would’ve been top 3 in this list for sure.
I enjoyed the UCONN joke. 🤪
Send this to Jac Mac
thank you for doing this, it's really fun to watch, you have a dry sense of humor which I like,but some of your jokes....
Please keep it up , love this content and your many jokes
Thanks! Will do.
When are you going to do the Conference USA stadiums and MAC Stadiums?
Hopefully soon.
I've been asking for CUSA for so long 😕
AAC, CUSA, and MAC are the only FBS Conferences left.
C-USA was going to be this weeks video, but I ran out of time. That's why I went with the independents. So, next week.
@@TheWideWorldofStadiums YES!!!!!!!!!! IM SO EXCITED!!!! I go to MTSU in the CUSA so I can't wait for this video!
Thanks for this video and all your others! Was fully expecting to hear more jokes about my UMass lol, so I'll take the general comments. People bag on it since it's older, but college football just not as big in New England, especially at UMass. While not the most aesthetically pleasing at times, hard pressed to find a more beautiful surrounding area in the fall than Amherst. A trip there for that is worth the visit alone...
Notre Dame Stadium is the Gold Standard of all Football Stadiums!!
Yea, the opponents fans seem to love it when they take over for every big game.
@@brittholloway3935 It doesn't get taken over, but it's a stadium everyone wants to go to!.
Would love to see the MAC conference!
I have no idea why New Mexico State continues at the FBS level in football. They'd be better off on the FCS level. If they're going to stay at the FCS level, you'd think that the Mountain West Conference would invite them just so that the conference gets back to 12 schools for football.
The MWC would probably invite NMSU if they weren’t such a joke in football. But ya, they need to drop down like Idaho did.
$$$ from FBS powerhouses that schedule them for tune up games
As a New Mexico State fan I disagree. We just need a conference to play teams closer to the same level. The last season in the sun belt was 2017 and the team made a bowl game that year and was steadily improving every year in the sun belt. Still don’t understand why the sun belt got rid of NMSU but I think mountain west would be a good option and even for basketball would help our program as well.
@@petergriego Prove to everyone you belong at the FBS level. Since the glory days of mediocrity in 2017 you’re 6-20. And arguably would have been worst if the fall 2020 schedule wasn’t cancelled. Fire Doug Martin (how a coach with a 23-64 record has a job is beyond me) and if a new coach can’t save you all. Join the WAC as a full member. They’re bringing football back starting this fall.
@@petergriego The Sun Belt Conference has been cannibalizing itself slowly. When they lost FAU, MTSU, UNT, and WKU to C-USA, they’ve been struggling to produce anything worthy of being called competitive football. They redeemed themselves with the addition of App. State, but I doubt they’re going to stay in the SBC for much longer. I can see them realigning to C-USA or the AAC soon.
My grandma is from New Mexico so every time we go down there to visit we Winn. Got play a little game on the field (we may or may not hop the fences)
Western Michigan University Bronco stadium is rated one of the best among G5 teams. Boise State and BYU too
Very nice! Nice! Nice. nice. Very nice!
All of these were great
"..wawdduh is wawdduh." - Ozzie accent Its a very rare bird indeed who normally pronounces "wah-turr". Most Americans get lazy and do "wahddurr".
Notre Dame is the best. Great campus and awesome stadium, especially since the upgrades were done.
Fact: Pratt and Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field current form is actually designed to be expanded in the future if it's ever called for.
Yup, the north end can extend out further if need be. They added temporary seats when Michigan came to visit...yes...Michigan bothered to come to this little stadium.
Looks like they’ll be an FCS team soon so they’ll be no need for that.
@@iamabuki Actually UConn has no choice but to stay in FBS due to a large amount of public funding from the State...which is why they went independent so they can schedule weaker opponents and not get crushed by Houston/UCF all the time.
@@bizmen81 I doubt UConn is getting a weak schedule? We have home and homes against some well known schools. Of course, with UConn's women's Basketball, we can get teams to come to East Hartford. We went independent because we saw the AAC wasn't a good fit. AAC closest team to us was Temple, then it was ECU (East Carolina). The AAC was not a great fit for our basketball teams...
@@arthurpasseri1840 They get to schedule Yale and URI, so thats something.
I live in Ct on the NY line about a good hr. to West Point. Great place to see a game along the Hudson River. Get there early watch the Cadets march into the stadium.
I’m not really a soccer fan, but a good idea for a future video is the Qatar 2022 World Cup stadiums. I believe there are 8 of them, and most are complete as of now, although some may not be, just getting really close. I’ve seen a few of them, Khalifa Stadium, Al Rayaan Stadium, Lusail Stadium, Education City Stadium.
NM State just needs to plant some trees on the hills behind seating.
NMSU hands down!
Could you do the Gallagher Premiership Rugby Stadiums, keep up the class work.
Will do. It should be up this week or the next.
Umass also plays some of their some of their home games at Gillette stadium as well.
It’s called the United States Military Academy. West Point is where it’s at.
Informally, it's been called West Point since forever, as in, CPT Smith went to West Point, or he's a West Pointer.
Do MAC conference stadiums
You made reference to wishing Michie Stadium was built more like the rest of the campus. It was, but the expansions over the last 30 years were of more modern design.
Been patiently waiting for Conference USA…please…
would be awesome if you'd rank all FBS stadiums at some point
As an NMSU alum I can say that we're only independent because nobody wants to have our awful football program in their conference
The comments about Michie Stadium are not accurate. He says that the body of water you see is not the Hudson River but a reservoir. Yes, Lusk Reservoir is just to the left of the stadium, but the Hudson River is clearly seen on the left side of the screen.
Old Fbs independents teams
NMSU (My Rivals) now in C-USA
Army Now in American Athletic Conference
BYU Now in XII (Big 12)
Liberty now in C-USA
Williams Stadium is top shelf!
You can call UConn's stadium the Rent or PAWSARF (Pratt and Whitney Field at Rentschler Field).
Its also a neat stadium for soccer!
It's also like an hour and a half away from UConn 😂
The 6 NCAA FBS Independents are probably going to join different conferences; the Notre Dame Fighting Irish are joining the Atlantic Coast Conference alongside the Cincinnati Bearcats, the Army Black Knights, the BYU Cougars, the UConn Huskies, the UMass Minutemen are joining the American Athletic Conference, the New Mexico State Aggies are joining the Pacific-12 Conference, and the Liberty Flames are joining the Sun Belt Conference
You were literally one week too early for BYU. Big 12 bound.
Notre Dame remains an Independent and will stay that way for a long time.
Suggestion. How about comparing American college football stadiums and their “soccer” counterparts. The juxtaposition could be interesting especially for non American viewers where their version of football is everything.
Some play on the same field. Some soccer teams play on the old football field. Few have a dedicated soccer field.
Also some college football stadiums host soccer for larger games but they don’t host the soccer team as they don’t have the follow. UConn is a perfect example. The football team plays at the Rent which is about 45 minutes from the main campus. The soccer team plays on campus at a far smaller stadium . However the Rent is a frequent stop for both US National sides, in fact it hosted Landon Donovan’s last appearance and the USWNT last weekend. It’s also hosted nycfc at points as well.
Rentschler Field is designed to be expanded. But the way UConn has been playing of late (yes, I'm an alum), they can't even fill it now.
Just wish they had put in more actual seats rather than just bleachers. Even bench seats with backs would have been nice.
Michie Stadium is the most beautiful college stadium in the country. If you can get a chance to visited the United States Military Academy do it. Only fifty miles north of NYC. Go Army beat Navy.
It is certainly a nice location, but it's not the nicest campus or stadium.
There are D2 stadiums out there with more personality than UMass' stadium. Hell, there are high schools in Texas with better stadiums than UMass.
to be frank, considering the fucked up nature of Texas in general, it isnt surprising that HS football is an alternate religion in many areas of the state.
Well, you answer your own comment in this point, UMass and college football in general in New England isn't like Texas lol, simply not as big. Why have a giant stadium when you can barely get 10,000 into your own? Team's performance surely doesn't help either, but still, just not as much interest. Now college hockey, that's a different story...
@@ZakhadWOW
"Fucked up nature", huh...?
Texas High school football is crazy... Full time coaches that don't teach just coach... Yet Texas and Texas AM can't put better teams together.
@@TheRealRBarry east coast has bad high school and college football... Dont get it.
West Point is the best-looking one, IMHO, and U-Conn take it to the bank! 🏦 😁
1979 - the last year anyone had to sit in the upper tier of New Mexico State's stadium.
Loved the video
Cheers!
When you get to the D3 stadiums make sure to do the UMAC conference. I played football for Greenville University and boy does the conference have some diverse little stadiums.
The CCIW football conference has some nicer D3 stadiums, including Francis Field which hosted the Olympics way back in the day.
Liberty university has a fantastic future! If the fans will show up they’ve got the coach in the team to really go far! They could expand that stadium to 40,000! Come on Baptist get to a football game have a beer you won’t go to hell I promise😂
please do the tiniest football 'stadiums' in 'Merica 🗽
Aggie Memorial is a great stadium
Except for the fact that Mayfield-Las Cruces is the marquee event every year.
Hell, it’s still better than UNM though.
Renschler Field/Pratt and Witney Stadium was the only stadium intended for an NFL team, but that plan fell through when the Patriots decided to remain in Foxborough. and i got a laugh out of the “UConn take it to the bank” so at least one was laughing
McGuirk Stadium is the smallest stadium in all of Division 1 FBS, and likely the only on-campus stadium not in the same city/town as the school…it’s a mile down the road from the bulk of the campus in Hadley rather than Amherst.
@@BuffaloPros your facts are off: it was taken for use for the Patriots stadium but at the last minute Massachusetts caved and put money into rebuilding US1. the land was stuck unable to be used for anything else, the state had no choice but to build the stadium but on a smaller scale.
and you are being pedantic about Eadt Hartford/Hartford: it’s still Hartford to everyone else in the state and region🙄
3:55 I think you've found the Amerigo Atlantis from Pro Evolution Soccer 5
The body of water, next to West Point's Michie Stadium: Lusk Reservoir.
Plebe quiz: how many gallons of water are in Lusk Reservoir?
Are you gonna do the bowl stadiums, for example the citrus bowl, out back bowl or the fiesta bowl
That's a good idea. I probably will. Thanks for the suggestion.
Well done. Again.
Still no CUSA?? I'm getting sad
It was going to be this weeks video, but I ran out of time. That's why I went with the independents. So, next week.
Request: BIG10 Basketball Arenas
Williams Stadium is gorgeous
Touchdown Jesus 😂
How about high school, football stadiums Texas has some huge ones, also College baseball stadiums , we just ended collage World Series in the states.
He actually said “simularities” at about the 3:18 mark!!!
Can you do the cusa stadiums next
You should do top American football “high school” stadium in the US.
BYU gets away with the backdrop. The stadium sucks and is even worse once you get inside. If we use features located away from the stadium, that makes the evaluation a bit nutty. Could you imagine rating ND's stadium because of South Bend?
UConn is a beautiful stadium
I prefer the idea that these are independent IBS teams. BTW, Las Cruces, home of NMSU, is horrible. Trust me.
I for one trust you, having lived there and attended NMSU for a while. Neat history, but not a pretty town at all.
Welcome to Big12 BYU
10,000 zimbabwean dollars is like 12 dollars
Mate do it for Eredevise stadiums please thanks in advance
Did he already do CUSA conference?
Do the current NASCAR tracks!
Do the MAC
You should do the MAC conference
Is Norte Dame staying in the ACC for football?
Nope. Just a one season thing.
Do FCS Big Sky conference stadiums !
Notre Dame is in the ACC now
That was a one time Covid thing. ND has had a football relationship with the ACC for several years where they play a rotating schedule of 5 games per season. Although all of ND's non-football sports (except hockey) are in the ACC, football will once again be independent going forward.
10,000 Zimbabwean dollars is 27.63 USD.
Wow! It's made a major recovery since the last time I checked.
Yayyyyyy
good UConn joke!!! do the American next please!!!
You should do the stadiums of the Ivy League.
Conference USA next?
Should do American race tracks next
UConn take that to the bank is hilarious
Can you do the wac next?
2:33 cate field at salt lake community college
Do the NESCAC.
Watching this now its kinda funny because BYU isn't independent anymore lol.