yep... and there's far more college stadiums that in the NFL. There are 133 stadiums in the FBS and almost all have capacities over 60,000. Now add another 400+ for Div 1 and Div 2 colleges in other conferences.
@grandillusion4258 not quite. Most D1 FBS stadiums are not above 60k capacity. In fact 86 are below that threshold. You are correct that there are vastly more stadiums in college though.
@@jandbyoung1 did I even reply to you? I'm honestly confused. The comment I responded to clearly says "have capacities over 60,000." Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered. Are you grandillusion?
These weren’t actually the 10 biggest stadiums in college football (though Penn state, Michigan, and Ohio state are on that list). This is just a conference called the “big 10” … so there are stadiums much bigger than some on this list that weren’t shown here.
Iowa got done dirty in this. One of the coolest pieces of Kinnick Stadium isn't actually the stadium itself but the hospital that is right outside (the huge oval building). It's a children's hospital and i believe in every third quarter, the entire stadium waves to all the children who are watching from the hospital's upper floors. One of the cooler and more unique traditions the B1G has.
College football is a religion in many households around the country (and especially in the southeastern states. Families have been known to feud and become divided over rivalries (Clemson/South Carolina, Ohio State/Michigan, USC/Notre Dame, Alabama/Auburn - to name a few). It is much much bigger than the NFL in terms of the intangibles (passion and loyalty) as well as the financials. As a Penn State alum (Undergrad) and South Carolina alum (Grad degree), I can tell you that I am 100% passionate about the athletic programs at both schools (especially football). I will watch a D2/D3 game on TV just to watch college football - even when I have no vested interest in the outcome. But when it comes to the NFL, I don't care to watch a single game (not even the Super Bowl). My wife accepts that she's a college football widow when the end of August rolls around - until the National Championship game completes) -- and a lot of people in the US share that same mentality.
We have Michigan and Michigan State supporters (and alumni) in my family. There is absolutely no stress. We kid and jibe and lord wins over each other, but always with love. However, if a cousin rocked up in an OSU shirt I'm not sure I could guarantee that things would remain civil.
@@Prine23 it's funny. I don't consider Michigan/Michigan State to be one of those "heated" rivalries the same way I see other in-state rivalries. That one is actually a pretty solid and relatively benign in-State rivalry by all accounts. Maybe Michigan has no more animosity left after expending it with tOSU. Lol
What you have to remember is college football was around before the NFL and that each state is the size of a country so you could have one or two big stadiums in there and there’s a lot of small stadiums for smaller colleges that football is huge American football here!
NFL stadiums are typically 60k-70k in capacity, give or take a little, there are dozens of college stadiums above 80k capacity. My personal team, the Florida Gators, have a capacity of 93k. There are many reasons why college has more seating than the NFL, college is typically cheaper, they also use bench seating instead of dedicated chairs, but the main reason is these colleges have been around for hundred+ years in many cases, building massive fan bases in the surrounding areas, not to mention the tens of thousands of alumni that come through the universities every year.
The BIG Ten is the oldest and richest college conference in the US, and where many of the college football traditions originated. Some of these are outdated, Purdue has enclosed its stadium and upped capacity for example, and a one has entirely new stadium planned. Yes, college football is way bigger than NFL in terms of attendance, pageantry and traditions.
To answer your question is College Football bigger than NFL, usually depends on who you're asking, NFL teams are located in big cities like Chicago, NY, LA, Miami ext. College towns are smaller cities or towns but the reason behind College Football stadiums being so big is to accommodate the huge number of alumni of each College, you would have graduates of the school holding season tickets for generations from grandfather to grandchildren all using the same seats of the stadium going back to the early 1900s, I myself don't watch any NFL games but I would quit my job if I had to miss a game of The Ohio State University.
I am really impressed with the age of some of these stadiums. Some are over 100 years old.Instead of tearing them down, the strength and solidity were so strong that millions of pounds of modern improvements were added keeping their history alive.
The largest (official) capacity NFL stadium is currently AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, which holds 100,000 people without making any changes to the floorplan or adding additional capacity. There are 6 collegiate stadiums which are larger than that, and ALL of the top 10 collegiate stadiums are larger than the NFL's top 10 (with the obvious exception of AT&T stadium).
I've actually attended a game or two at the Univ. of Illinois "Fighting Illini" stadium. Not as a student, but as the friend of some Alumni who worked with my dad at the time. This was back in the early 90s when I was still at University myself. I went to Southern Illinois University from '93 to '96. In fact one those games I attended was one of the greatest college games of all time come to find out later. It was the Illini vs Penn State's Nittany Lions, and what made that game incredible was the back and forth lead changes. There were portions where each team was just trying to run out the clock, but then the other team would score and take the lead. And it came down to the last second. I think Penn State ended up pulling it off in the end, but wow, the atmosphere was electric.
I found this six months after original posting. College football dates back to the 1860's, 60 yeara before the founding of the NFL. This is where American football developed and became popular. The Big Ten Conference was founded in 1896. The conferenc had 10 teams from 1940 until 1980, when Penn State joined. The conference elected to keep its traditional name, even with the expansion to 11, then 14, schools. USC and UCLA are joining the conference in 2025
@@michaelmcgowen8780 But still, even 1991-92 isn't the 1980 of you original post. And '93 is probably more pertinent to this video about football stadiums.
@@bob_._. 1980 was a typo, wich I apologize for (I didn't catch that until you mentioned it). It should have been 1990, when Penn State's application to join the Big Ten was approved by the other member schools.
The seating at NFL games is often smaller that the college stadiums. However, the NFL stadiums have lots of "luxury boxes" that eat up space. They are purchased by folks with BIG $$$ (often companies) and it's made for comfort and include private catering.
Michigans stadium was designed to get add ons in the future when it was made. Haven’t really had any add ons since it was mad except bigger screens, but the additions they built it to sustain would add 40,000-50,000 more seats. Just hoping they end up doing it at some point because that would be insane
NFL vs College: It depends on where you go in the USA as to which is bigger. In the majority of the country, college is way bigger than the NFL as the NFL isn’t local and can be very expensive to attend games there. However, in the Northeast of the country and especially in New England, the NFL is probably bigger. There are much fewer teams in the top tier of college football in New England. Just Boston College, UMass, and UConn. It also doesn’t hurt that New England is just a few years removed from two decades of dominance in the AFC East with the Patriots which really rallied a predominantly hockey/baseball region to football.
Remember what I said in another post. Come to Texas during the middle of Sept thru Oct to avoid the worst of the heat, but you can also catch a Cowboy (NFL) game on Sunday, but also a college game on Saturday night. Depending on the time frame of your visit, you could possibly catch a Texas Ranger game (baseball), hockey (Stars) starts in October, and possibly a high school football game on Friday night. Oh, and the State Fair of Texas runs from the end of Sept to the 2nd to last weekend of October….and all the haunted theme parks run throughout October too
If you're ever in the States during College Football season admission is open to anyone who buys a ticket. Most states have at least 1 D1 FBS team. College Football regular season runs from late August through Thanksgiving weekend. The week after that there are Conference Championship games. The next week after that is the Army-Navy game (it gets a Saturday to itself). December has various bowl games, and then there are some in early January. If you live in Eastern Time (GMT-5) you can see College Football on TV from around noon to around 10 or 11 at night assuming you have basic cable or it's streaming equivalent.
They have private VIP rooms in these stadiums that cost a lot of money, because it includes tickets to the games for 20 people, free food, and free drinks, so people can live like kings at the game in them. One of these private VIP rooms for 20 people, can cost $20,000, to $120,000, for one game, depending on the game, who they are playing, and if it is the national championship game, that is the one that would cost $120,000.
You can now add four more stadiums to the B1G list: The Rose 🌹 Bowl (The soul of college football),UCLA; Los Angeles Coliseum (hosted 2 Olympics, plus in 2028) U of Southern Calif.; Huskie Stadium, U of Washington; and Autzen (“Where great team come to die”.), U of Oregon.
Iowa's old Field House stadium's bathroom was funny.....a funny bathroom? Yep. I was at the Iowa Minnesota game which is the last game of the year. It was ten degrees F outside. At halftime the stadium seats emptied into the bathrooms. The men's urinal was like a cow trough sixty feet long. You'd think that when one man finished he'd step back and another man would step up to fill the spot...nope. Everyone at the urinal was shuffeling their feet sideways the length of the thing in a continuous moving line. All the guys were laughing as they peed shuffeling left.
The reason college stadiums are bigger than NFL is money. It’s more profitable for the NFL to sell luxury boxes. Popularity wise, the NFL is more popular based on TV ratings, but because college towns are so big with such a large student population it’s easier to sell out 80K+ seats.
There's far more college stadiums that in the NFL. There are 133 stadiums in the FBS and almost all have capacities over 60,000. Now add another 400+ for Div 1 and Div 2 colleges in other conferences.
its funny as in America a college teams stadium being under 50k capacity is considered smaller compared to the big boys. The SEC which is a conference has the largest median seating of all the conferences with a handful over 100k capacity.
For me, I wish he took the time to have given the dates of their construction. Modern buildings most of which were designed and built to hold from approximately 60,000 to well over 100 000 people some well over 100 years ago.
The tickets are a lot less expensive. You can actually take your family to a game. The games make a lot of money for the school especially since they don't pay the players. The head coaches make big money too. NFL games are expensive to and the prices at the concession stands are outrageous. College football is the only way to go. Watch the NFL on TV or at a local sports bar.
live games are one and done. the stadiums are huge and way crowded. Here in Austin Texas' stadium is very tall and its frightening to walk down the steps lol one wrong step and its a long way down
People outside of the US, simply do not understand the college football scene. Tailgating, the traditions, it is a whole vibe and a national phenomenon. Also, this vid was focused on the stadiums themselves.....not necessarily the following or team vibe. My brother (to remain nameless) lives in Tennessee country with Alabama football in his blood! Growing up....everything in our house was AL football! Those teams are HUGE rivals!! We take it way to extreme serious in the US!
I really can't wait until you get to visit America! I hope you do lots of videos while you're here! Please try to go during football season and get to a college game. It's so much fun and such a class "American experience". I'm here in Florida and we'd welcome you to our state with open arms! GO SEMINOLES!
It’s probably been said but a lot of college stadiums are bigger and better than the NFL stadium in the area so many NFL teams have an agreement with the university to use their stadium too. In fact in my small city I’m from in South Georgia, my high school is the winningest team in the country and we had a nice stadium so the university in the city used our high school facilities for their games so they didn’t even have their own stadium. That’s in Valdosta, Georgia btw
In the US, the professional football league is limited to the NFL. The equivalent in Britain would be having the only football teams being the Premier League. Instead, with the football pyramid, every city and town in the UK has its own football team. In the US, we have professional football college football and high school football. That is our pyramid. I think there are videos showing the largest high school football stadiums in the US. Some of them, particularly in Texas, are quite large.
You need to react to the other college football conference stadiums. This same channel has some of the other conference stadiums such as the SEC, Big 12, ACC, and PAC-12
Couple American things. 1: In some places, college sports are bigger than pro sports since there’s only about 30 pro teams in the big 3 sports, give it take a couple. (NFL has 32) 2. This is one conference, I’d say this is about an average size conference though school wise. There’s bigger, there’s smaller.
As an American, I enjoy college football more than the NFL, although I do enjoy the NFL too. College football just feels more exciting. Every college team is trying to win the national championship, and to do so requires an undefeated season or maybe just one loss. So each and every game of a typical 12 to 13 game season is absolutely crucial to each team. Everything is on the line every week. That's why college games are so pumped up and exciting. They are young men from 18 to 23 years old, for the most part. Yes, I believe college football in the U.S.A. is bigger than the NFL. Only roughly 1 out of 1,000 college players make it to the NFL, so the quality of football in the NFL is much better than college. A perfect record is not required to make the playoffs. Sometimes even teams that went 9 and 7 in the regular season make the playoffs. For this reason, I don't find the NFL as exciting as college. Also, there are 32 NFL teams, while there are 130 Division One, (highest level), college teams, plus a bunch of other college teams in Division Two and Division Three. So, yes, I would say college football is bigger than NFL football
The UK and the rest of the world pretend that futball is a big deal, nobody gives a f*** about soccer all over the world, if they did they would have these stadiums all over Europe😂
The NFL makes way more money than college football, but the college games get more people at the games because they have bigger stadiums. I think only Nascar races have more people at their events than college football. Think about this, one college football game can have 115,000 people at it, when the entire city of Peoria Illinois only has a population of 110,000 people, and it is a pretty big city, the 2nd biggest in Illinois, after Chicago.
High school football isnt far off from college football. My high school spent $70 million for their football stadium. High School football is huge in Texas,we have the two most expensive stadiums in the US.
On your question of College Football being bigger than the NFL. I would say they are equally big. For College Gameday is Saturday to pump everyone up for the NFL games on Sundays. At least that is what I do, lol. My problem is I have 5 state college teams and I root for all of them except I am a Notre Dame Fan. For of the movie Rudy.
College Stadiums isn't bigger than NFL, they just have larger capacities because they use mostly bleacher seats thought the stadium and very few amenities. Where is in the NFL it's almost like luxury, very few bleachers it's mostly individual seats, and more amenities such as bars or hangout areas, Jacksonville even has a pool in one end of their end zone.
The flip side to that is that there are only 32 NFL teams, so unless you live in one of those NFL cities, you have to drive a lot further to get to them. And the NFL is pricing themselves out of the layman’s range. And when it comes to atmosphere, it’s not close. College atmosphere runs circles around the NFL. Sure, the NFL has more amenities, probably more comfortable seats, etc. But it’s not as accessible as college.
College is not actually bigger than the NFL. But college has been around longer than the NFL by 50 years. But that happens with sports. Most recent pickleball started in college and now has a pro league
NFL is 1000% bigger than CFB here. The stadiums are just larger because they don't prioritize luxury amenities and fan experience the way does. They just make sure as many people as possible can go to games. Many of the stadiums in CFB are even older than the NFL and schools can't afford to build new modern half billion dollar stadiums, so they just kept adding capacity to what was already there. But the unique atmospheres and traditions make CFB a better in person viewing experience than the NFL in my opinion.
That’s one that it depends who you ask. If you live in or near one of the big cities that has an NFL team, especially in the northeast, they’ll usually have a lot more interest in the NFL. But in the south and Midwest, college is far more popular, especially in states with no NFL teams, like South Carolina, Alabama, Iowa, and Nebraska.
A lot of of the biggest college football stadiums have a larger capacity than NFL stadiums partially because the seats in college football are smaller and not as nice.
Yes college football is bigger than the NFL. There are 32 NFL teams yet there are over 120 FBS (thats the top level of college football) plus FCS, Division II, Division III, NAIA Schools (the smallest of the 4 year colleges). The US is so big you have to drive hours or even days to go to your favorite NFL game, but your biggest college teams in each state are much easier to get too. During Football season, Saturday is for college football, Sunday, Monday Night, and Thursday night are for the NFL
The biggest HIGH SCHOOL stadium is in Wailuku, Hawaii, it seats 23,00. Canton Mckinley High School, in Canton, Ohio seats 22,400. Now, how seriously do you think we take our football. You guys are amateurs ( just kidding).
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"That's not even NFL."
It's too big to be NFL. That's not even a joke, college football stadiums are bigger than pro stadiums in America.
yep... and there's far more college stadiums that in the NFL. There are 133 stadiums in the FBS and almost all have capacities over 60,000. Now add another 400+ for Div 1 and Div 2 colleges in other conferences.
@@grandillusion4258Most of those stadiums are well under 60k when you factor in 133 teams. Look it up.
@grandillusion4258 not quite. Most D1 FBS stadiums are not above 60k capacity. In fact 86 are below that threshold. You are correct that there are vastly more stadiums in college though.
@@joshrogers7068 that is exactly what I said. Most of the stadiums are under 60k. Read above again
@@jandbyoung1 did I even reply to you? I'm honestly confused. The comment I responded to clearly says "have capacities over 60,000." Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered. Are you grandillusion?
These weren’t actually the 10 biggest stadiums in college football (though Penn state, Michigan, and Ohio state are on that list). This is just a conference called the “big 10” … so there are stadiums much bigger than some on this list that weren’t shown here.
@@vinnievinnie-sj5kr ??? did you mean to reply to my comment?
@vinnievinnie-sj5kr I've seen marbles sharper than you
Michigan is the 3rd biggest in the world. The other 2 are soccer stadiums.
I think he thought it meant biggest 10 stadiums lol. The Big Ten is the name of a conference.
I went to Wisconsin. On game day, you can hear the roar of a touchdown from over a mile away
I worked at Walgreens end of state st once!
Iowa got done dirty in this. One of the coolest pieces of Kinnick Stadium isn't actually the stadium itself but the hospital that is right outside (the huge oval building). It's a children's hospital and i believe in every third quarter, the entire stadium waves to all the children who are watching from the hospital's upper floors. One of the cooler and more unique traditions the B1G has.
The “Wave” is done at the end of the 1st quarter.
Yeah. It doesn't show the new north end zone, either.
College football is a religion in many households around the country (and especially in the southeastern states. Families have been known to feud and become divided over rivalries (Clemson/South Carolina, Ohio State/Michigan, USC/Notre Dame, Alabama/Auburn - to name a few). It is much much bigger than the NFL in terms of the intangibles (passion and loyalty) as well as the financials. As a Penn State alum (Undergrad) and South Carolina alum (Grad degree), I can tell you that I am 100% passionate about the athletic programs at both schools (especially football). I will watch a D2/D3 game on TV just to watch college football - even when I have no vested interest in the outcome. But when it comes to the NFL, I don't care to watch a single game (not even the Super Bowl). My wife accepts that she's a college football widow when the end of August rolls around - until the National Championship game completes) -- and a lot of people in the US share that same mentality.
We have Michigan and Michigan State supporters (and alumni) in my family. There is absolutely no stress. We kid and jibe and lord wins over each other, but always with love. However, if a cousin rocked up in an OSU shirt I'm not sure I could guarantee that things would remain civil.
@@Prine23 it's funny. I don't consider Michigan/Michigan State to be one of those "heated" rivalries the same way I see other in-state rivalries. That one is actually a pretty solid and relatively benign in-State rivalry by all accounts. Maybe Michigan has no more animosity left after expending it with tOSU. Lol
What you have to remember is college football was around before the NFL and that each state is the size of a country so you could have one or two big stadiums in there and there’s a lot of small stadiums for smaller colleges that football is huge American football here!
NFL stadiums are typically 60k-70k in capacity, give or take a little, there are dozens of college stadiums above 80k capacity. My personal team, the Florida Gators, have a capacity of 93k. There are many reasons why college has more seating than the NFL, college is typically cheaper, they also use bench seating instead of dedicated chairs, but the main reason is these colleges have been around for hundred+ years in many cases, building massive fan bases in the surrounding areas, not to mention the tens of thousands of alumni that come through the universities every year.
I would love to see your reaction to Texas high school football stadiums, some are mind blowing
I used to live in Ohio Stadium. Before the renovations in the late 1990s, the Honors Dormitory was under the stands.
The BIG Ten is the oldest and richest college conference in the US, and where many of the college football traditions originated. Some of these are outdated, Purdue has enclosed its stadium and upped capacity for example, and a one has entirely new stadium planned. Yes, college football is way bigger than NFL in terms of attendance, pageantry and traditions.
College football is everything
Yes, yes it is.
Penn State football is HUGE. Traffic is absolutely insane on a game day or weekend.
Im always intrested on seeing how people from europe react to our stadiums. Sec stadiums are huge too
Show we ain’t no broke niggas
The title of this video article was the stadiums of the Big 10- not the SEC. I agree that the SEC has larger stadiums than the Big 10.
@@PaulMcCoy-n2t ok, why comment
To answer your question is College Football bigger than NFL, usually depends on who you're asking, NFL teams are located in big cities like Chicago, NY, LA, Miami ext. College towns are smaller cities or towns but the reason behind College Football stadiums being so big is to accommodate the huge number of alumni of each College, you would have graduates of the school holding season tickets for generations from grandfather to grandchildren all using the same seats of the stadium going back to the early 1900s, I myself don't watch any NFL games but I would quit my job if I had to miss a game of The Ohio State University.
True Buckeye fan!
@happydays162 You already know brother, and there's nothing we hate on this earth more than the despised Michigan Whinereens.
I went to Penn State. The stadium is amazing. Looks better during a "white out" when the whole stadium wears white shirts
I am really impressed with the age of some of these stadiums. Some are over 100 years old.Instead of tearing them down, the strength and solidity were so strong that millions of pounds of modern improvements were added keeping their history alive.
The largest (official) capacity NFL stadium is currently AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, which holds 100,000 people without making any changes to the floorplan or adding additional capacity.
There are 6 collegiate stadiums which are larger than that, and ALL of the top 10 collegiate stadiums are larger than the NFL's top 10 (with the obvious exception of AT&T stadium).
Actually it's 80k on the daily, expandable to 100k with the end zone fills. So technically MetLife is the biggest consistently.
I’ve lived in Omaha where the Cornhusker stadium is and on game days you can’t get anywhere near it! But it’s so cool
Memorial Stadium is in Lincoln, Nebraska, not Omaha.
I've actually attended a game or two at the Univ. of Illinois "Fighting Illini" stadium. Not as a student, but as the friend of some Alumni who worked with my dad at the time. This was back in the early 90s when I was still at University myself. I went to Southern Illinois University from '93 to '96. In fact one those games I attended was one of the greatest college games of all time come to find out later. It was the Illini vs Penn State's Nittany Lions, and what made that game incredible was the back and forth lead changes. There were portions where each team was just trying to run out the clock, but then the other team would score and take the lead. And it came down to the last second. I think Penn State ended up pulling it off in the end, but wow, the atmosphere was electric.
I found this six months after original posting. College football dates back to the 1860's, 60 yeara before the founding of the NFL. This is where American football developed and became popular. The Big Ten Conference was founded in 1896. The conferenc had 10 teams from 1940 until 1980, when Penn State joined. The conference elected to keep its traditional name, even with the expansion to 11, then 14, schools. USC and UCLA are joining the conference in 2025
Penn State joined the Big Ten in 1993.
@@musicdaydreams2506 The football team began Big Ten play in 1993, but all other sports began Big Ten play in the 1991-92 school year.
@@michaelmcgowen8780 But still, even 1991-92 isn't the 1980 of you original post. And '93 is probably more pertinent to this video about football stadiums.
@@bob_._. 1980 was a typo, wich I apologize for (I didn't catch that until you mentioned it). It should have been 1990, when Penn State's application to join the Big Ten was approved by the other member schools.
The seating at NFL games is often smaller that the college stadiums. However, the NFL stadiums have lots of "luxury boxes" that eat up space. They are purchased by folks with BIG $$$ (often companies) and it's made for comfort and include private catering.
Michigans stadium was designed to get add ons in the future when it was made. Haven’t really had any add ons since it was mad except bigger screens, but the additions they built it to sustain would add 40,000-50,000 more seats. Just hoping they end up doing it at some point because that would be insane
NFL vs College: It depends on where you go in the USA as to which is bigger. In the majority of the country, college is way bigger than the NFL as the NFL isn’t local and can be very expensive to attend games there. However, in the Northeast of the country and especially in New England, the NFL is probably bigger. There are much fewer teams in the top tier of college football in New England. Just Boston College, UMass, and UConn. It also doesn’t hurt that New England is just a few years removed from two decades of dominance in the AFC East with the Patriots which really rallied a predominantly hockey/baseball region to football.
Remember what I said in another post. Come to Texas during the middle of Sept thru Oct to avoid the worst of the heat, but you can also catch a Cowboy (NFL) game on Sunday, but also a college game on Saturday night. Depending on the time frame of your visit, you could possibly catch a Texas Ranger game (baseball), hockey (Stars) starts in October, and possibly a high school football game on Friday night.
Oh, and the State Fair of Texas runs from the end of Sept to the 2nd to last weekend of October….and all the haunted theme parks run throughout October too
If you're ever in the States during College Football season admission is open to anyone who buys a ticket. Most states have at least 1 D1 FBS team.
College Football regular season runs from late August through Thanksgiving weekend. The week after that there are Conference Championship games. The next week after that is the Army-Navy game (it gets a Saturday to itself). December has various bowl games, and then there are some in early January.
If you live in Eastern Time (GMT-5) you can see College Football on TV from around noon to around 10 or 11 at night assuming you have basic cable or it's streaming equivalent.
They have private VIP rooms in these stadiums that cost a lot of money, because it includes tickets to the games for 20 people, free food, and free drinks, so people can live like kings at the game in them. One of these private VIP rooms for 20 people, can cost $20,000, to $120,000, for one game, depending on the game, who they are playing, and if it is the national championship game, that is the one that would cost $120,000.
You should see some of the high school stadiums too lol
You can now add four more stadiums to the B1G list: The Rose 🌹 Bowl (The soul of college football),UCLA; Los Angeles Coliseum (hosted 2 Olympics, plus in 2028) U of Southern Calif.; Huskie Stadium, U of Washington; and Autzen (“Where great team come to die”.), U of Oregon.
Iowa's old Field House stadium's bathroom was funny.....a funny bathroom? Yep. I was at the Iowa Minnesota game which is the last game of the year. It was ten degrees F outside. At halftime the stadium seats emptied into the bathrooms. The men's urinal was like a cow trough sixty feet long. You'd think that when one man finished he'd step back and another man would step up to fill the spot...nope. Everyone at the urinal was shuffeling their feet sideways the length of the thing in a continuous moving line. All the guys were laughing as they peed shuffeling left.
They didn't mention that Nebraska has had 389 consecutive sold out games since November 9, 1962 . Longest running record
The reason college stadiums are bigger than NFL is money. It’s more profitable for the NFL to sell luxury boxes. Popularity wise, the NFL is more popular based on TV ratings, but because college towns are so big with such a large student population it’s easier to sell out 80K+ seats.
There's far more college stadiums that in the NFL. There are 133 stadiums in the FBS and almost all have capacities over 60,000. Now add another 400+ for Div 1 and Div 2 colleges in other conferences.
its funny as in America a college teams stadium being under 50k capacity is considered smaller compared to the big boys. The SEC which is a conference has the largest median seating of all the conferences with a handful over 100k capacity.
For me, I wish he took the time to have given the dates of their construction. Modern buildings most of which were designed and built to hold from approximately 60,000 to well over 100 000 people some well over 100 years ago.
actually michigan, penn state and ohio state have the 3rd 4th and 5th largest stadiums in the world in that order
That one N Korea is pretty wild tho
The tickets are a lot less expensive. You can actually take your family to a game. The games make a lot of money for the school especially since they don't pay the players. The head coaches make big money too. NFL games are expensive to and the prices at the concession stands are outrageous. College football is the only way to go. Watch the NFL on TV or at a local sports bar.
live games are one and done. the stadiums are huge and way crowded. Here in Austin Texas' stadium is very tall and its frightening to walk down the steps lol one wrong step and its a long way down
The Big House is something else man, it’s a fucking spectacle, and I’m a die hard Spartan
People outside of the US, simply do not understand the college football scene. Tailgating, the traditions, it is a whole vibe and a national phenomenon. Also, this vid was focused on the stadiums themselves.....not necessarily the following or team vibe. My brother (to remain nameless) lives in Tennessee country with Alabama football in his blood! Growing up....everything in our house was AL football! Those teams are HUGE rivals!! We take it way to extreme serious in the US!
Dude even high school football is pretty big here. My high school built a $70 million stadium two years before I graduated and it’s huge.
I really can't wait until you get to visit America! I hope you do lots of videos while you're here! Please try to go during football season and get to a college game. It's so much fun and such a class "American experience". I'm here in Florida and we'd welcome you to our state with open arms! GO SEMINOLES!
On most Saturdays during college football season. These stadiums are full to capacity.
Check out the biggest high school football stadiums.
You should check out Texas high school football stadiums. Specifically Allen HS, Midland ISB and Melissa HS.
It’s probably been said but a lot of college stadiums are bigger and better than the NFL stadium in the area so many NFL teams have an agreement with the university to use their stadium too. In fact in my small city I’m from in South Georgia, my high school is the winningest team in the country and we had a nice stadium so the university in the city used our high school facilities for their games so they didn’t even have their own stadium. That’s in Valdosta, Georgia btw
In the US, the professional football league is limited to the NFL. The equivalent in Britain would be having the only football teams being the Premier League. Instead, with the football pyramid, every city and town in the UK has its own football team. In the US, we have professional football college football and high school football. That is our pyramid. I think there are videos showing the largest high school football stadiums in the US. Some of them, particularly in Texas, are quite large.
Gotta love his pronunciation of Fighting Illini - LOL!! - C
Checkout the SEC stadiums
Here are the largest college stadiums. These seat over 100K :
1 Michigan Michigan Stadium (Ann Arbor, Mich.) 107,601
2 Penn State Beaver Stadium (University Park, Pa.) 106,572
3 Ohio State Ohio Stadium (Columbus, Ohio) 102,780
4 Texas A&M Kyle Field (College Station, Texas) 102,733
5 LSU Tiger Stadium (Baton Rouge, La.) 102,321
6 Tennessee Neyland Stadium (Knoxville, Tenn.) 101,915
7 Alabama Bryant-Denny Stadium (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 101,821
8 Texas Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium (Austin, Texas) 100,119
College Football is bigger than the NFL..
You should see the high school stadiums in Texas.
Michigan Stadium is holds more people than Ann Arbor, MI (where it is located) at 107,000 and one of the biggest in the World.
You need to react to the other college football conference stadiums. This same channel has some of the other conference stadiums such as the SEC, Big 12, ACC, and PAC-12
These are stadiums in one college football conference known as the Big 10. Other conferences have larger stadiums, which is crazy.
Bigger than than the Big House--being Tartis like?
If you saw the size of some high school stadiums in Texas it would shock you. Allen Eagles stadium is bigger than the University I attended.
8 of the 10 largest stadiums in the world by capacity are American College football stadiums. Only India and North Korea have larger stadiums
The Hawkeye. Have a children's hospital besidethe stadium and one of the haters. They do a huge wave. To all the children. And children cave back
Couple American things.
1: In some places, college sports are bigger than pro sports since there’s only about 30 pro teams in the big 3 sports, give it take a couple. (NFL has 32)
2. This is one conference, I’d say this is about an average size conference though school wise. There’s bigger, there’s smaller.
Is college football bigger than the NFL? Arguably-yeah. Is it better? Absolutely.
Fun Fact. There is capacity for 6,597,554 fans among the 133 Division 1 College Football Stadiums. Stadium average capacity is 49,605
The Civil War joke… too soon dude, too soon!!!
Now show the on game day, tailgating, teams running into the field, marching bands etc…
As an American, I enjoy college football more than the NFL, although I do enjoy the NFL too. College football just feels more exciting. Every college team is trying to win the national championship, and to do so requires an undefeated season or maybe just one loss. So each and every game of a typical 12 to 13 game season is absolutely crucial to each team. Everything is on the line every week.
That's why college games are so pumped up and exciting. They are young men from 18 to 23 years old, for the most part. Yes, I believe college football in the U.S.A. is bigger than the NFL.
Only roughly 1 out of 1,000 college players make it to the NFL, so the quality of football in the NFL is much better than college. A perfect record is not required to make the playoffs. Sometimes even teams that went 9 and 7 in the regular season make the playoffs. For this reason, I don't find the NFL as exciting as college. Also, there are 32 NFL teams, while there are 130 Division One, (highest level), college teams, plus a bunch of other college teams in Division Two and Division Three. So, yes, I would say college football is bigger than NFL football
Illini is pronounced ill-EYE-NYE.
The UK and the rest of the world pretend that futball is a big deal, nobody gives a f*** about soccer all over the world, if they did they would have these stadiums all over Europe😂
8:55 yes, yes it is.
Check out Neyland Stadium in Knoxville Tennessee
The NFL makes way more money than college football, but the college games get more people at the games because they have bigger stadiums. I think only Nascar races have more people at their events than college football.
Think about this, one college football game can have 115,000 people at it, when the entire city of Peoria Illinois only has a population of 110,000 people, and it is a pretty big city, the 2nd biggest in Illinois, after Chicago.
The first horseshoe was the buckeyes
NCAA (collage) American Football is on par in popularity as the German Bundeslega.
Need to check out SEC stadiums
It went from a horse shoe to a toilet seat
Michigan has the biggest college football stadium. (107,601) That's why it is called 'The Big House'. We sell out EVERY game! GO BLUE!💙💛
Go Blue!!!
Little known fact, Queen Elizabeth attended a football game at the University of Maryland.
High school football isnt far off from college football.
My high school spent $70 million for their football stadium.
High School football is huge in Texas,we have the two most expensive stadiums in the US.
On your question of College Football being bigger than the NFL. I would say they are equally big. For College Gameday is Saturday to pump everyone up for the NFL games on Sundays. At least that is what I do, lol. My problem is I have 5 state college teams and I root for all of them except I am a Notre Dame Fan. For of the movie Rudy.
This is a conference called “big ten” like Alabama is in SEC conference
It's not that the NFL is bigger than college football. It's more of a reflection of how popular football is in the US.
We Are PENN STATE!
College football is bigger and better than the NFL.
The University of Minnesota has been playing football since the 1880s
Not the 10 biggest you saw a college football conference. All these schools play each other in competition it’s called the big 10
College Stadiums isn't bigger than NFL, they just have larger capacities because they use mostly bleacher seats thought the stadium and very few amenities. Where is in the NFL it's almost like luxury, very few bleachers it's mostly individual seats, and more amenities such as bars or hangout areas, Jacksonville even has a pool in one end of their end zone.
The flip side to that is that there are only 32 NFL teams, so unless you live in one of those NFL cities, you have to drive a lot further to get to them. And the NFL is pricing themselves out of the layman’s range. And when it comes to atmosphere, it’s not close. College atmosphere runs circles around the NFL. Sure, the NFL has more amenities, probably more comfortable seats, etc. But it’s not as accessible as college.
Illini is pronounced Ill-Eye-Nye
Ryan Stadium (Northwestern) is being taken down and rebuilt with a better view of Lake Michigan
College is not actually bigger than the NFL. But college has been around longer than the NFL by 50 years. But that happens with sports. Most recent pickleball started in college and now has a pro league
NFL is 1000% bigger than CFB here. The stadiums are just larger because they don't prioritize luxury amenities and fan experience the way does. They just make sure as many people as possible can go to games. Many of the stadiums in CFB are even older than the NFL and schools can't afford to build new modern half billion dollar stadiums, so they just kept adding capacity to what was already there. But the unique atmospheres and traditions make CFB a better in person viewing experience than the NFL in my opinion.
That’s one that it depends who you ask. If you live in or near one of the big cities that has an NFL team, especially in the northeast, they’ll usually have a lot more interest in the NFL. But in the south and Midwest, college is far more popular, especially in states with no NFL teams, like South Carolina, Alabama, Iowa, and Nebraska.
I attended Ohio State and I love our stadium!
University of Illinois is my alma mater! But the guy pronounced the Fighting Illini terribly 😂 It is pronounced ILL-EYE-NEYE 😂
you don't go to college football game for hotdogs... you have to get there early for some proper tailgate party...take a look at those.
A lot of of the biggest college football stadiums have a larger capacity than NFL stadiums partially because the seats in college football are smaller and not as nice.
Check out high school football stadiums in Texas
Yes college football is bigger than the NFL. There are 32 NFL teams yet there are over 120 FBS (thats the top level of college football) plus FCS, Division II, Division III, NAIA Schools (the smallest of the 4 year colleges). The US is so big you have to drive hours or even days to go to your favorite NFL game, but your biggest college teams in each state are much easier to get too. During Football season, Saturday is for college football, Sunday, Monday Night, and Thursday night are for the NFL
Bro said ill-a-nee
College Football is the biggest sport in America. The Big Ten is home to some of the oldest Football programs starting long before Pro and the NFL.
High school stadiums are just as big at least in Texas and other states
The biggest HIGH SCHOOL stadium is in Wailuku, Hawaii, it seats 23,00. Canton Mckinley High School, in Canton, Ohio seats 22,400. Now, how seriously do you think we take our football. You guys are amateurs ( just kidding).
Nebraska has sold out that stadium for 62 years straight.
The Big 10 is just one of the conference- so these are just a fraction of the biggest stadiums - check out some of the other conferences