Less than 2% of college football players make it to the NFL. That doesn't mean that college players are bad, it's just how elite the players in the NFL are.
@@Ecrocken I agree that graduating only 2% of the players from the farm teams to the MLB team would be a failure in baseball. But the NFL doesn't need a developmental league because the NCAA is unintentionally doing that for the NFL. Nevertheless, I've wondered why the NFL hasn't created a developmental league, since it would likely make money. Maybe it's because they make such insane amounts of money already.
8 of the 10 largest stadiums in the world are college football stadiums. There are numerous stadiums that hold over 100k fans and they are full on saturdays during the season.
Here in Texas we fans go to the local High school (15yr old to 18yrold) football games on Friday night (Friday Night Lights), College Football on Saturday afternoon or night, then Professional on Sunday
I don't know if anybody's mentioned it, but cheerleading is actually very athletic and they are considered athletes in their own right. If you see some of the things that they manage to do that combine Dance and Gymnastics and tumbling and all kinds of crazy stuff you'd realize they really work hard. And it's really hard work mentally and emotionally as well, trying to cheer for teams if they are not necessarily having a winning season, too, which makes it even more of a thing, keeping the energy up.
The University of Michigan has had 100,000 fans in attendance for every home football game since 1975. That's nearly 50 years of EVERY game having over 100K in the stands. College football is utterly massive
That Nebraska entrance was head coach Tom Osborne's final game at Nebraska. He was a legendary coach, that had one of the all-time great teams in the 90s
There are 1,093,234 high school football players in the United States, and 6.5% of those high school players (or 71,060) will play for the NCAA in college. The drop-off from college to the professional level is more dramatic: ONLY 1.6% OF COLLEGE-LEVEL PLAYERS WILL GET DRAFTED INTO THE NFL.😢
Grafuated from college in 2019, was fortunate to play college football. Back in 2018 I got to play in Neyland Stadium against the University of Tennessee. An experience I'll never forget.
@@mobilegamer8922 Yikes. I’m a Mizzou fan so I thought I’d see. But congrats on that. Even though it was a… close loss😐… that still must’ve been one helluva an experience.
College football pre-dates professional football. First college game was played in 1869, the first professional game was played in 1920. Also, many if not most people don't have any professional teams in their city or state or even live near one so they cheer on their local college team or Alma Mater.
"T" is for Tennessee. Also, known as the Volunteers. The stadium is known as Rocky Top. The band forms a "T" & the boys run through it, as they enter the field. If you see the end zones are painted orange & white in a checkerboard pattern, that is standard Tennessee. Stadium seats over 102,500... Go Big Orange!!!
Michigan’s Stadium called The Big House has had 115,000 people in the stands. Ya’ll got to visit the U.S. and attend a college football game. Its electric!
The stadiums are filled with students, parents, fans and alumni of the university. I graduated in 1992 and still go to at least one football game at my old university per season. It is a 5.5 hour drive each way for us, so we make it a long weekend trip. One of my nieces attends my old school so we get to visit with her as well which is always fun.
The thing to remember is that the US for football and basketball is that they don't have developmental leagues or academies, so this IS the way to get into the pros. There are a little over a million high school players in the US every year, and only about 1percent of them get invited, via scholarships to play for one of these schools. Some try out as walk-ons, but almost all of them only make it to the practice squad and don't get to dress for the games. So these are already elite athletes. Currently there are about 130 division 1 college football teams, and only about 1 percent of them make it to the NFL via the draft.
8:21 this clip is of the entrance of Texas A&M. The team is known as the Aggies as the “A” in A&M stands for “Agriculture” (the “M” stands for Mechanical). This clip is older. The stadium, Kyle Field, underwent renovations a few years back and is now just about full enclosed with the only gaps being near the very top of stands. It (as of 2021) has a capacity of 102,733. Neat fact. The old press box from before it went thru other renovations a couple decades ago used to sway side to side when the fans sang the school’s fight song. The fans would sway side to side as they sang. Now keep in mind this was a multiple story, concrete and glass structure design back and forth in time with the crowd. It was a sight to see and frightened the 💩 out of visiting coaches and unfamiliar news reporters. 😂
The ten biggest stadiums in the US are for college football and I believe that it’s 7 of them that are over 100k. College players hope to get drafted by an NFL team but the vast majority never play football after college.
A lot of NFL stadiums are actually physically bigger than college stadiums. The reason that College football stadiums have high capacities is because of the type of seating. College stadiums use a much higher percentage of bleacher seating as opposed to NFL stadiums. NFL stadiums use a higher percentage of individual seating with arms and such. These seats take up more physical area.
The thing I think that most non-US viewers don't get is that school/Uni pride is EXTREMELY deep in this country. Some rivalries are decades or longer. Especially homecoming events where alumni players/students/family attend. Those are proper special events. My husband played for Clemson back in the day (60s) and has told me many stories about life on the team and school rivalries.
The U.S. loves some college football. Think of any great U.S. athlete track gym whatever they came through college, and football payed for a huge chunk. It’s a good system
In a country as large as the US it is somewhat hard to attend NFL games with the distance one would have to travel. Where as college games there are lots of them in each and every state, even the smallest states.
High school football draws even more people to games that very, very few are shown on TV. Friday Night Lights is the moniker. Whether some people like football or not, it makes no difference as long as your child or grandchild is involved. Michigan has the biggest stadium with over 107,000 fans.
The biggest difference and probably main reason college football is so massive, is because other sports such as soccer in the UK there are 9 year olds already in pro teams academies and you can be 14 years old and sign a contract all over the world, whereas for American football there are no minor leagues, proacademies, alternatives to the NFL etc.. college football is probably the second best American football league in the world, along with the Canadian football league and that’s it. You almost have to play college football to have a chance of getting to the NFL which sets it apart from every other sport and makes it a much higher level than typical college sports..
8 of the 10 biggest stadiums in the world are college football stadiums. Michigan-107,601 Penn State - 106,572 Ohio State - 102,780 (My Alma mater) Texas A&M - 102,733 LSU - 102,321 (Louisiana Stste) Tennessee - 101,915 *(The "T" the band made in this video) Alabama - 100,821 Texas -100,119
Many US college stadiums dwarf English Premier League stadiums. Most FBS college stadiums have an average of 50k-60k capacity and the bigger schools have stadiums much larger and many well over 100k capacity.
Even though NFL is the top league, the biggest NFL stadium hold something like 82k people, while there are multiple college stadiums that hold over 100k people, with the biggest holding like 115k.
Just found your channel. Two things, and it’s probably been mentioned before, college could be thought of as semi-pro. It’s the level of play before you get to the big leagues (NFL). Second, college football is perhaps more celebrated in terms of passion than the NFL because these teams represent the region that fans are from. So there’s a pride aspect to it. Not to mention, the college rivalries. Rivalry in college ball gets borderline violent. There’s so much passion, tension, and excitement involved with rivalry week it’s hard to fathom when you’re not from the US.
One thing to remember is there are only 12 regular season games in college football. Which means only 6 games at home. It’s so hype because there are so few of them. Compared with Major League Baseball that has 162 games a season….
College footaball in the USA is BIG MONEY $$$$$! Money for tickets, money for college/team merchandise, food and drinks, marching band, Money for Parking, television advertisements, tv networks and sponsors. College football coaches also get paid big $$$$ also!
Hi - I am from Nebraska and grew up watching college football.. My late father played football at Nebraska from 1934 through 1937, and is in the Hall of Fame - My older brother, sister and myself, all graduated from Nebraska. The stadium is the 3rd largest city in our state during a football game.. College football is BIG in the United States - With NIL the teams are drifting more and more like pro teams.. A lot of money is generated through the sport.. Today, our stadium holds roughly 90,000 and there are bigger ones.. We have been sold- out for every home game since 1962, a national record... I enjoy the chemistry you two bring to your videos.. May this find you happy & well..
Great reaction! I would live to see your reaction to the video... "iowa Hawkeyes wave story on ESPN college gameday" It is one of the coolest college football traditions. It's very sad, but also very uplifting. Keep putting out great reactions! ❤
8:52 - It frustrates me that the editor of that video didn't include the horses and wagon that goes across the field before the players.. That's my team. The Oklahoma Sooners. (Their women's softball team just won their 4th straight National Title yesterday, which has never been done before.) It also frustrates me that the editor of that video didn't include the best part of FSU's entrance where the horse rears up and he throws that flaming spear into the ground.. But it appears that you guys cut it out of this reaction for some reason. - 7:32
College football is so huge here because thousands of alumni always comeback to watch their college teams. College football has some of the largest stadiums in the world because of the alumni.
Out of nearly 3,000 colleges in the US, 765 have football programs. They’re organized into at least 5 divisions. The huge stadiums and pageantry are seen in the top division of about 135 teams. Things get a lot smaller from there.
The fields are the same size, their is more seating at college venue, because the stadiums are usually on campus, so a lot of students can walk from campus to the stadium.
Cheerleading in America is actually a very athletic sport lol. Huge competitions around the country. You should check it out sometime. It’s more than jumping up and down with Pom-poms cheering on their team. It’s a mix between dance, gymnastics, and acrobatics. Love the reaction! 💘
A couple ideas from me would be best football tailgates and best college football traditions. Not sure if you have heard of tail gating before but for several hours before games fans all park in the parking lots and pull out grills, coolers, kegs of beer, anything you can imagine so they can cook and eat food and get a little boozed up before you enter the stadium for the game. Pretty awesome tradition and some places do it bigger than others in the NFL and college football.
Here in the US we have k-12 grade, then college generally for 4 years. So there's a lot of money in recruiting highschool football (and basketball) players. Players are eligible to enter the nfl (pro) draft after their 3rd year but very few have the talent.
7:15 this is my alma mater, University of South Carolina Gamecocks 🤙🏻🐓 our intro is 2001 Soace Odyssey then Sandstorm before kick off. go watch it by its self
Big stadiums holding lots of people is a money maker for Colleges. College towns are pretty good about supporting their teams, and of course there are students and alumni. Alumni often donate large amounts of money to help support it all. It's all great fun for the community.
Keep in mind there are like 6 home games a year. This helps attracting the crowd and all the pomp and pageantry. Also you only play your rivalry once per year. So these games mean a lot since you won’t face your conference opponent for another year, and in their stadium.
There is a video showing the largest college football stadium in the country. The colleges fill up a lot because it’s usually much easier to get to a college game since there is so many more then professional stadiums.
Sport in the United States was largely started by university students and centered around those educational institutions rather than sport-specific clubs. These universities attract a far larger amount of people than municipal-based clubs, including the student body and all the alumni of that school. It is a tremendous and effective way to attract undergraduates to attend a given school. Some of these universities are enormous, with thousands of students.
I live 10 mins. from Clemson University. The very first one in the reaction. You can not imagine how hard it is to get through Clemson on Saturday’s during football season. Me, I’m a South Carolina fan. We’re Clemson’s state rivals. Both Universities are in South Carolina. Most of these guys start playing in grade school, like the fourth grade, most of them have one thing in mind and that’s going pro after college and as you can see it’s hard keeping healthy, no injuries, or at least injuries that aren’t serious.
I know a lot of alumni will fly back to their university for football games where they are season ticket holders. The crowds are filled with students, alumni, and fans who support that school.
I live in Texas. Fridays are high school football, Saturdays are college and Sundays after church are pro. If Littlefield is playing Brownfield in football last one out of town turns the lights off. They caravan to high school out of town games here. Not just parents. Fans, the band, cheerleaders and the kids all go.
The biggest reason why college athletics is so big is because of the alumni. In addition to that, most college towns are in smaller rural areas that revolve around the university. As an example, in Ann Arbor, where Michigan is at, the largest employer in the area is the university. The university that I went to, total population, at the time, was 100,000 but every school year, the university added another 40,000 people into the community.
American cheerleaders ARE athletes. Most are dancers and gymnasts from a very young age. Many of them earn scholarships to cheer in college. And if you have never seen a competitive cheer routine, look it up. You will be amazed at what these young ladies (and men) are capable of. BTW, the SEC has some of the most attractive young ladies cheering for these teams! Go Dawgs!
7 of the largest stadiums in the world are US College Football stadiums. 100k plus. The support is as deep as the FA bu with stadiums bigger than Wembley. And there are dozens and dozens of them all around the country.. As a scouser, I can tell you the atmosphere and deep love for your team rivals my love for the Reds.
The Cheerleaders also have their own competitions that actually require insane athleticism. As a former football player up through low level college, we used to tease cheerleaders back in the day until we saw them flipping and flying through the air.
The main reason is that most American sports start in college or university. College everything has generally been around longer than the pros, sans baseball. in addition, whilst the stadium isn't filled with students a lot of the stadium has a significant tie to that university
It goes PRO league FIRST which is the NFL, then it goes down from there, college, High School 9TH-12TH grade (IF YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH IN HIGH SCHOOL LIKE SOME YOU CAN GO STRAIGHT TO THE NFL), Middle School 6th-8th grade and even younger Grade School 1st-5th grade...1st grade usually starts at 6 years old and people graduate high school usually 17-18 years old.
The videos shown are some of the top Division 1 collegiate programs, Clemson, Florida State, Michigan, Tennessee, Texas A&M to name a few. Not all atmospheres, crowds and stadiums are like this, as there are super small D2 and D3 schools with much smaller crowds. Historically, the “Power 5” conference programs garner crowds anywhere from 40,000 all the way up to 100,000+ fans per game. The traditions, pageantry and passion within college football is unmatched and has to do with deep roots within the Universities. High level college football and pro football are 2 completely different levels, but many pro players have come from the high level colleges
"Why the world finds American sports strange" video by Tifo Sports explains how big college football is. College/Universities also have basketball, ice hockey and baseball. Not all do but a great many have some combination of the 4 major sports. It's also the hub for US Olympic athletes.
You have to understand college football is big because there are so many large universities and colleges in the US. NFL is much bigger in terms of audience. NFL will get 5 to 10 times the viewership. But the NFL is only in 32 cities and 22 states. Where college football has 5 tiers with about 850 teams. The top division we call division 1 or FBS is the only one people pay attention to on a large scale. It has 134 teams and is in almost every state. So, it's much more of a local thing in many states than the NFL.
In many ways college football is like a developmental league for kids too young for the NFL. The top teams that win their conferences or make the playoffs etc typically have several 1st round NFL draft picks that just 6 months later are starting in the NFL for example. Joe Burrow at QB at LSU won the natty, went #1 overall to the Bengals, and 6 months later was their starting QB. So in a way you are also watching elite and future NFL stars at 18, 19, 20 years old before they can declare for the NFL draft. The atmosphere at a college game is significantly better than an NFL game. The whole vibe is completely different as you are on a college campus with several large sections of the stadium being "student sections" plus a section for a full size marching band that all schools have not just Ohio State every single school has one and does halftime shows. Students paint their chests, make funny signs and are loud and crazy etc. You must be an active student to get in to that section, and they often camp out front of the gates for big games for days in advance as it is first come first serve so they want to get first row and often get on TV they always show the student sections.
You tube offers college games. Even cut down versions to watch. I suggest you watch one or more to get a real feel of the atmosphere, halftime and the big time tailgating that goes on before and during the game.
College/university sports is below NFL, NBA, MLB. There is the NFL draft each year where students from the schools are selected for the pro leagues. The NFL get their athletes from colleges and universities.
Most sports in the USA started to be competitive in college WAY BEFORE there was a pro version of the sport. That's why College stadiums are bigger and the audience is multigenerational. Many have never been to the college. The are far more college teams than there are pro, so people can go to see the local teams (and it is generally cheaper, too). This is for most sports, the most obvious is basketball and football. Baseball was pro before college, that's why you don't see alot of college baseball. Not sure about hockey. Americans will disagree with pro teams with friends, but generally the rivalry is pretty friendly, but with college teams... My disclaimer: I am from Michigan, and by default I have to hate Ohio State University...except for their band. MSU is okay unless they are better than U of M or playing them.
Less than 2% of college football players make it to the NFL. That doesn't mean that college players are bad, it's just how elite the players in the NFL are.
College football in effect functions as a minor/developmental league for the NFL.
And college football has a larger attendance and more loyal fan base
@@JPMadden I wouldn't go that far. If 2% of your players are making it as a feeder program, I would say you're failing at that!
@@Ecrocken I agree that graduating only 2% of the players from the farm teams to the MLB team would be a failure in baseball. But the NFL doesn't need a developmental league because the NCAA is unintentionally doing that for the NFL. Nevertheless, I've wondered why the NFL hasn't created a developmental league, since it would likely make money. Maybe it's because they make such insane amounts of money already.
Then after you make it to the NFL the average career is only about 3yrs
8 of the 10 largest stadiums in the world are college football stadiums. There are numerous stadiums that hold over 100k fans and they are full on saturdays during the season.
Here in Texas we fans go to the local High school (15yr old to 18yrold) football games on Friday night (Friday Night Lights), College Football on Saturday afternoon or night, then Professional on Sunday
I don't understand why people in the UK don't support or appreciate their high school and college athletes.
Ikr lol our high school spirit is crazy at football games
...adding our high school sporting events is just as crazy though MUCH smaller audiences. Same energy, though.
i think "club football"/pro soccer takes that place for them since there are hundreds of clubs over there.
I think everything is club sports over there kind of like aau but not as mercenary.
@ryanje8147 because every country isn’t the USA. Other countries around the world play club sports.
Me laughing my ass off out of my chair picturing the Oklahoma sooner fans losing their shit being mistaken for Oakland. 🤣
Sooner nation would like a word with them.
I don't know if anybody's mentioned it, but cheerleading is actually very athletic and they are considered athletes in their own right. If you see some of the things that they manage to do that combine Dance and Gymnastics and tumbling and all kinds of crazy stuff you'd realize they really work hard. And it's really hard work mentally and emotionally as well, trying to cheer for teams if they are not necessarily having a winning season, too, which makes it even more of a thing, keeping the energy up.
Yea it's no joke my girlfriend in highschool was a cheerleader and ran track I would stay after school and train with her I could barely keep up
Yeah, she's a total cheerleader.
The University of Michigan has had 100,000 fans in attendance for every home football game since 1975. That's nearly 50 years of EVERY game having over 100K in the stands. College football is utterly massive
That Nebraska entrance was head coach Tom Osborne's final game at Nebraska. He was a legendary coach, that had one of the all-time great teams in the 90s
There are 1,093,234 high school football players in the United States, and 6.5% of those high school players (or 71,060) will play for the NCAA in college. The drop-off from college to the professional level is more dramatic: ONLY 1.6% OF COLLEGE-LEVEL PLAYERS WILL GET DRAFTED INTO THE NFL.😢
Grafuated from college in 2019, was fortunate to play college football. Back in 2018 I got to play in Neyland Stadium against the University of Tennessee. An experience I'll never forget.
Where’d you play? It’d be one of ETSU, UTEP, Florida, Bama, Charlotte, UK or Mizzou.🤔
@@matthewcall3961 ETSU! We were their homecoming game haha
@@mobilegamer8922 Yikes. I’m a Mizzou fan so I thought I’d see. But congrats on that. Even though it was a… close loss😐… that still must’ve been one helluva an experience.
@@matthewcall3961 I couldn't hear myself think haha
College football pre-dates professional football. First college game was played in 1869, the first professional game was played in 1920. Also, many if not most people don't have any professional teams in their city or state or even live near one so they cheer on their local college team or Alma Mater.
"T" is for Tennessee. Also, known as the Volunteers. The stadium is known as Rocky Top. The band forms a "T" & the boys run through it, as they enter the field. If you see the end zones are painted orange & white in a checkerboard pattern, that is standard Tennessee. Stadium seats over 102,500... Go Big Orange!!!
GBO!
For years, my favorite feature of the Volunteers home field has been the orange/white checkerboard end zones.☝👍
Michigan’s Stadium called The Big House has had 115,000 people in the stands. Ya’ll got to visit the U.S. and attend a college football game. Its electric!
3rd largest stadium in the world.
In regards to the Nebraska one that's every single home game. But they had an old legendary coach with them leading that tunnel walk
The stadiums are filled with students, parents, fans and alumni of the university. I graduated in 1992 and still go to at least one football game at my old university per season. It is a 5.5 hour drive each way for us, so we make it a long weekend trip. One of my nieces attends my old school so we get to visit with her as well which is always fun.
The Texas A&M stadium capacity is 102,733. Also that was Oklahoma, not Ohio nor Oakland.
The thing to remember is that the US for football and basketball is that they don't have developmental leagues or academies, so this IS the way to get into the pros. There are a little over a million high school players in the US every year, and only about 1percent of them get invited, via scholarships to play for one of these schools. Some try out as walk-ons, but almost all of them only make it to the practice squad and don't get to dress for the games. So these are already elite athletes. Currently there are about 130 division 1 college football teams, and only about 1 percent of them make it to the NFL via the draft.
Football is Football here. Our high-school games get crazy too
8:21 this clip is of the entrance of Texas A&M. The team is known as the Aggies as the “A” in A&M stands for “Agriculture” (the “M” stands for Mechanical). This clip is older. The stadium, Kyle Field, underwent renovations a few years back and is now just about full enclosed with the only gaps being near the very top of stands. It (as of 2021) has a capacity of 102,733.
Neat fact. The old press box from before it went thru other renovations a couple decades ago used to sway side to side when the fans sang the school’s fight song. The fans would sway side to side as they sang. Now keep in mind this was a multiple story, concrete and glass structure design back and forth in time with the crowd. It was a sight to see and frightened the 💩 out of visiting coaches and unfamiliar news reporters. 😂
Sweet Home Alabama here ❤ Roll Tide 🎉 College Football is like our 5th Season of 4 seasons. We smell it in the Air.
The ten biggest stadiums in the US are for college football and I believe that it’s 7 of them that are over 100k. College players hope to get drafted by an NFL team but the vast majority never play football after college.
the top 3 are in the big ten .
A lot of NFL stadiums are actually physically bigger than college stadiums. The reason that College football stadiums have high capacities is because of the type of seating. College stadiums use a much higher percentage of bleacher seating as opposed to NFL stadiums. NFL stadiums use a higher percentage of individual seating with arms and such. These seats take up more physical area.
The thing I think that most non-US viewers don't get is that school/Uni pride is EXTREMELY deep in this country. Some rivalries are decades or longer. Especially homecoming events where alumni players/students/family attend. Those are proper special events. My husband played for Clemson back in the day (60s) and has told me many stories about life on the team and school rivalries.
Yea especially highschool football we had a rival that was like 5 miles away lol broke my arm going for a fumble good times 😂
Bro some rivalries are a century long lol I know oklahoma and oklahoma state had been playing since 1910 without interruption
The U.S. loves some college football. Think of any great U.S. athlete track gym whatever they came through college, and football payed for a huge chunk. It’s a good system
In a country as large as the US it is somewhat hard to attend NFL games with the distance one would have to travel. Where as college games there are lots of them in each and every state, even the smallest states.
It’s amazing. React to some of the smaller schools from the Big 12 or ACC
High school football draws even more people to games that very, very few are shown on TV. Friday Night Lights is the moniker.
Whether some people like football or not, it makes no difference as long as your child or grandchild is involved.
Michigan has the biggest stadium with over 107,000 fans.
The biggest difference and probably main reason college football is so massive, is because other sports such as soccer in the UK there are 9 year olds already in pro teams academies and you can be 14 years old and sign a contract all over the world, whereas for American football there are no minor leagues, proacademies, alternatives to the NFL etc..
college football is probably the second best American football league in the world, along with the Canadian football league and that’s it.
You almost have to play college football to have a chance of getting to the NFL which sets it apart from every other sport and makes it a much higher level than typical college sports..
The Baylor freshman and seniors run onto the field before every home game. It’s electric! 💚
It's "OKLAHOMA"! But that's alright. We forgive ya!! 🤣🤣🤣
That was Oklahoma not Oakland and the other school was Texas A&m
Nah it’s Oakland homie, it’s the Oakland gun crimes. Controversial name for a football team? Yes. Inaccurate? No.
8 of the 10 biggest stadiums in the world are college football stadiums.
Michigan-107,601
Penn State - 106,572
Ohio State - 102,780 (My Alma mater)
Texas A&M - 102,733
LSU - 102,321 (Louisiana Stste)
Tennessee - 101,915 *(The "T" the band made in this video)
Alabama - 100,821
Texas -100,119
...and that's just the seating capacity!
Many US college stadiums dwarf English Premier League stadiums. Most FBS college stadiums have an average of 50k-60k capacity and the bigger schools have stadiums much larger and many well over 100k capacity.
Even though NFL is the top league, the biggest NFL stadium hold something like 82k people, while there are multiple college stadiums that hold over 100k people, with the biggest holding like 115k.
Just found your channel. Two things, and it’s probably been mentioned before, college could be thought of as semi-pro. It’s the level of play before you get to the big leagues (NFL). Second, college football is perhaps more celebrated in terms of passion than the NFL because these teams represent the region that fans are from. So there’s a pride aspect to it. Not to mention, the college rivalries. Rivalry in college ball gets borderline violent. There’s so much passion, tension, and excitement involved with rivalry week it’s hard to fathom when you’re not from the US.
The Maroon Texas team is Texas A&M, the team you guys thought was Ohio was actually Oklahoma
There’s usually a college football season pump up video out out each year, idk if the 2024 one is out but the 2023 one is worth a look
8:15 it is a bigger stadium than any in the UK, biggest in the UK is Wembly Stadium at 90,000, while Kyle Field for Texas A&M has 102,000
One thing to remember is there are only 12 regular season games in college football. Which means only 6 games at home. It’s so hype because there are so few of them. Compared with Major League Baseball that has 162 games a season….
College footaball in the USA is BIG MONEY $$$$$! Money for tickets, money for college/team merchandise, food and drinks, marching band, Money for Parking, television advertisements, tv networks and sponsors. College football coaches also get paid big $$$$ also!
It's called "school spirit".
Keep up the good videos, hope your channel blows up
Hi - I am from Nebraska and grew up watching college football.. My late father played football at Nebraska from 1934 through 1937, and is in the Hall of Fame - My older brother, sister and myself, all graduated from Nebraska. The stadium is the 3rd largest city in our state during a football game.. College football is BIG in the United States - With NIL the teams are drifting more and more like pro teams.. A lot of money is generated through the sport.. Today, our stadium holds roughly 90,000 and there are bigger ones.. We have been sold- out for every home game since 1962, a national record... I enjoy the chemistry you two bring to your videos.. May this find you happy & well..
Great reaction!
I would live to see your reaction to the video...
"iowa Hawkeyes wave story on ESPN college gameday"
It is one of the coolest college football traditions.
It's very sad, but also very uplifting.
Keep putting out great reactions! ❤
College football is the next step to the NFL.
The NFL is the next step from College.
8:52 - It frustrates me that the editor of that video didn't include the horses and wagon that goes across the field before the players.. That's my team. The Oklahoma Sooners. (Their women's softball team just won their 4th straight National Title yesterday, which has never been done before.)
It also frustrates me that the editor of that video didn't include the best part of FSU's entrance where the horse rears up and he throws that flaming spear into the ground.. But it appears that you guys cut it out of this reaction for some reason. - 7:32
During Football Season Collwge plays on Saturdays on the major TV networks & Pro Football plays on Sundays!!
High School is fridays!
University of OREGON DUCKS has arguably the best "entrance" and Songs: Shout" and "Coming Home".
The thing is to go to an NFL or college.
Football game.
It has to be in the fall or Winter when it's football season.
College football is so huge here because thousands of alumni always comeback to watch their college teams. College football has some of the largest stadiums in the world because of the alumni.
Out of nearly 3,000 colleges in the US, 765 have football programs. They’re organized into at least 5 divisions. The huge stadiums and pageantry are seen in the top division of about 135 teams. Things get a lot smaller from there.
The fields are the same size, their is more seating at college venue, because the stadiums are usually on campus, so a lot of students can walk from campus to the stadium.
There's also a part 2 of best college football entrances. In addition, there's a video of best college football entrances/environments.
Cheerleading in America is actually a very athletic sport lol. Huge competitions around the country. You should check it out sometime. It’s more than jumping up and down with Pom-poms cheering on their team. It’s a mix between dance, gymnastics, and acrobatics. Love the reaction! 💘
high school is packed as well not that crazy but still allot of people
A couple ideas from me would be best football tailgates and best college football traditions. Not sure if you have heard of tail gating before but for several hours before games fans all park in the parking lots and pull out grills, coolers, kegs of beer, anything you can imagine so they can cook and eat food and get a little boozed up before you enter the stadium for the game. Pretty awesome tradition and some places do it bigger than others in the NFL and college football.
Both basketball & football get their players from colleges.
You have to audition for band and cheerleader squads in school. Most students have experience from high school.
Yes! Auditions are big!
Here in the US we have k-12 grade, then college generally for 4 years. So there's a lot of money in recruiting highschool football (and basketball) players. Players are eligible to enter the nfl (pro) draft after their 3rd year but very few have the talent.
4:20 you guys should react to the Best College Football traditions, it'll show u some cool stuff that you seem to be referring to
7:15 this is my alma mater, University of South Carolina Gamecocks 🤙🏻🐓 our intro is 2001 Soace Odyssey then Sandstorm before kick off. go watch it by its self
Americans are extremely proud of our flag. It goes everywhere with us. We honor it on a daily basis.
Big stadiums holding lots of people is a money maker for Colleges. College towns are pretty good about supporting their teams, and of course there are students and alumni. Alumni often donate large amounts of money to help support it all. It's all great fun for the community.
Keep in mind there are like 6 home games a year. This helps attracting the crowd and all the pomp and pageantry. Also you only play your rivalry once per year. So these games mean a lot since you won’t face your conference opponent for another year, and in their stadium.
There is a video showing the largest college football stadium in the country. The colleges fill up a lot because it’s usually much easier to get to a college game since there is so many more then professional stadiums.
There are several videos showing the size and occupation numbers of the stadiums.
Sport in the United States was largely started by university students and centered around those educational institutions rather than sport-specific clubs. These universities attract a far larger amount of people than municipal-based clubs, including the student body and all the alumni of that school. It is a tremendous and effective way to attract undergraduates to attend a given school. Some of these universities are enormous, with thousands of students.
6:50. Those are nationwide commentators of a major network. The team is Oklahoma.
I live 10 mins. from Clemson University. The very first one in the reaction. You can not imagine how hard it is to get through Clemson on Saturday’s during football season. Me, I’m a South Carolina fan. We’re Clemson’s state rivals. Both Universities are in South Carolina. Most of these guys start playing in grade school, like the fourth grade, most of them have one thing in mind and that’s going pro after college and as you can see it’s hard keeping healthy, no injuries, or at least injuries that aren’t serious.
After college they all hope they get drafted to the NFL
watch the best highschool stadiums in the usa . you will be amazed .
In some states, High school football have dang near stadiums!!!
Some of these are schools of 40 thousand students +/- State Universities and some 5 thousand +/- students private Universities such as Duke
I know a lot of alumni will fly back to their university for football games where they are season ticket holders. The crowds are filled with students, alumni, and fans who support that school.
This just how we do. Dem boys been playing dey whole lives. Respect
I live in Texas. Fridays are high school football, Saturdays are college and Sundays after church are pro.
If Littlefield is playing Brownfield in football last one out of town turns the lights off. They caravan to high school out of town games here. Not just parents. Fans, the band, cheerleaders and the kids all go.
The biggest reason why college athletics is so big is because of the alumni. In addition to that, most college towns are in smaller rural areas that revolve around the university. As an example, in Ann Arbor, where Michigan is at, the largest employer in the area is the university. The university that I went to, total population, at the time, was 100,000 but every school year, the university added another 40,000 people into the community.
Just another Saturday afternoon across America on 100's of college campuses between August and December.
American cheerleaders ARE athletes. Most are dancers and gymnasts from a very young age. Many of them earn scholarships to cheer in college. And if you have never seen a competitive cheer routine, look it up. You will be amazed at what these young ladies (and men) are capable of. BTW, the SEC has some of the most attractive young ladies cheering for these teams! Go Dawgs!
Love the Dawgs. When I worked on UGA campus, my office looked over the practice field. That's been many years ago.
The retired 3-championships winning Nebraska coach was walking out next to the current (at that time) coach.
I love seeing all the Brits and Australians online being shocked by this. We must take it for granted bc it’s normal to us.
Brits have 100s of pro soccer teams around the country that’s why they don’t support any college sports, and they usually have more fans in that sport
For reference, old traffic would be the 22nd largest college football stadium and Wembley would be the 11th largest college football stadium!
College games usually have tailgating and other festivities that precede the games. Fans can make a day or two of it.
7 of the largest stadiums in the world are US College Football stadiums. 100k plus. The support is as deep as the FA bu with stadiums bigger than Wembley. And there are dozens and dozens of them all around the country.. As a scouser, I can tell you the atmosphere and deep love for your team rivals my love for the Reds.
The Cheerleaders also have their own competitions that actually require insane athleticism. As a former football player up through low level college, we used to tease cheerleaders back in the day until we saw them flipping and flying through the air.
You may or may not know but these games are televised on Saturdays.
The main reason is that most American sports start in college or university. College everything has generally been around longer than the pros, sans baseball. in addition, whilst the stadium isn't filled with students a lot of the stadium has a significant tie to that university
It goes PRO league FIRST which is the NFL, then it goes down from there, college, High School 9TH-12TH grade (IF YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH IN HIGH SCHOOL LIKE SOME YOU CAN GO STRAIGHT TO THE NFL), Middle School 6th-8th grade and even younger Grade School 1st-5th grade...1st grade usually starts at 6 years old and people graduate high school usually 17-18 years old.
The videos shown are some of the top Division 1 collegiate programs, Clemson, Florida State, Michigan, Tennessee, Texas A&M to name a few. Not all atmospheres, crowds and stadiums are like this, as there are super small D2 and D3 schools with much smaller crowds. Historically, the “Power 5” conference programs garner crowds anywhere from 40,000 all the way up to 100,000+ fans per game. The traditions, pageantry and passion within college football is unmatched and has to do with deep roots within the Universities. High level college football and pro football are 2 completely different levels, but many pro players have come from the high level colleges
"Why the world finds American sports strange" video by Tifo Sports explains how big college football is. College/Universities also have basketball, ice hockey and baseball. Not all do but a great many have some combination of the 4 major sports. It's also the hub for US Olympic athletes.
You have to understand college football is big because there are so many large universities and colleges in the US. NFL is much bigger in terms of audience. NFL will get 5 to 10 times the viewership. But the NFL is only in 32 cities and 22 states. Where college football has 5 tiers with about 850 teams. The top division we call division 1 or FBS is the only one people pay attention to on a large scale. It has 134 teams and is in almost every state. So, it's much more of a local thing in many states than the NFL.
We get pretty wild about our college football, it's a way of life for many, especially in the south Eastern part of US
The Mascot for the University of Miami is called Sebastian the Ibis.
The fact that video didn’t have Penn state football is a fail 💯
In many ways college football is like a developmental league for kids too young for the NFL. The top teams that win their conferences or make the playoffs etc typically have several 1st round NFL draft picks that just 6 months later are starting in the NFL for example. Joe Burrow at QB at LSU won the natty, went #1 overall to the Bengals, and 6 months later was their starting QB. So in a way you are also watching elite and future NFL stars at 18, 19, 20 years old before they can declare for the NFL draft.
The atmosphere at a college game is significantly better than an NFL game. The whole vibe is completely different as you are on a college campus with several large sections of the stadium being "student sections" plus a section for a full size marching band that all schools have not just Ohio State every single school has one and does halftime shows. Students paint their chests, make funny signs and are loud and crazy etc. You must be an active student to get in to that section, and they often camp out front of the gates for big games for days in advance as it is first come first serve so they want to get first row and often get on TV they always show the student sections.
You tube offers college games. Even cut down versions to watch. I suggest you watch one or more to get a real feel of the atmosphere, halftime and the big time tailgating that goes on before and during the game.
College/university sports is below NFL, NBA, MLB. There is the NFL draft each year where students from the schools are selected for the pro leagues. The NFL get their athletes from colleges and universities.
College Football is like Club football in UK.
You gotta check out the University of Colorados entrance… they run in with an actual live Buffalo!
Most sports in the USA started to be competitive in college WAY BEFORE there was a pro version of the sport. That's why College stadiums are bigger and the audience is multigenerational. Many have never been to the college. The are far more college teams than there are pro, so people can go to see the local teams (and it is generally cheaper, too).
This is for most sports, the most obvious is basketball and football. Baseball was pro before college, that's why you don't see alot of college baseball. Not sure about hockey. Americans will disagree with pro teams with friends, but generally the rivalry is pretty friendly, but with college teams...
My disclaimer: I am from Michigan, and by default I have to hate Ohio State University...except for their band. MSU is okay unless they are better than U of M or playing them.
As a former college cheerleader, we are athletes