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I'm a Vanderbilt fan. Vandy is the only private school in the conference and it's the smallest by number of undergraduate students enrolled. It was founded shortly after the United States civil War. The Vanderbilt family of New York wanted to help rebuild the south after the War and decided to build a university in Nashville with their own funds. The school's sports nickname is The Commodores after Cornelius Vanderbilt who was an American business magnate who made a fortune in railroads and shipping. His nickname was The Commodore. The other schools in the SEC are all at least three times larger in student population than Vanderbilt and are supported by state, not private funding.Vandy gets no state funding. Vandy is a founding member of the SEC which is probably why they let us stick around. For the first three decades of the conference Vanderbilt was competitive in football but they have not been consistent for a long time. They have a few seasons where they have made it to bowl games in recent years, but it's not often. We are better known for our men's and women's basketball teams and for our baseball team which has won several national championships. Admission to Vanderbilt generally requires a higher GPA then most so recruiting athletes draws from a smaller pool of people than most of the schools in the conference.. Vanderbilt is a also known for its post-grad law and medical schools and the huge Vanderbilt Medical center and children's hospital here in Nashville. We Vandy fans are a tough lot We're used to losing more than we win when it comes to football! As much as I love our Tennessee Titans NFL team which is based in Nashville, bringing the Titans to town hurt the attendance at Vandy football games. It used to be that people who were football fans in general would come to watch Vanderbilt play in the SEC because the opposing teams usually have many future NFL stars. . But since the Titans came it's just die-hard Vandy fans and of course those who live in Nashville but support the opposing team's, who attend games. Then there's those like me who are just older and it's harder for me to get to the games so they're on television now there's pretty much coverage of every major conferences teams every week. The football stadium is being renovated and updates are expected to be completed by the 2024 season they will be adding some seats to the open end zone but it will still be the smallest in the conference.
the reason college stadiums are so unique with the seat in the Endzone is due to the history of the stadiums. Most of these stadiums were built 100 years ago and the capacity was less. Therefore they only built seats on the sides in alot of cases because it gave better views. But with time and population growth and more fans they had to add seats and expand the stadiums so they would add seats to one of the endzones, then another tier of seats on the side, then maybe seats in the other endzone etc. This is why there are so many stadiums with weird asymmetrical designs or stadiums where one of the endzones is grass or smaller while the other side is full. Also the introduction of the big screens for replays and stats is pretty recent and created a "arms race" so to speak about 20 years ago where teams would add the new "biggest screen in football" and then a year later another team would add a screen just a little bit bigger and so on as they competed for bragging rights. The same goes for stadium size as University of Michigan (Big 10), Ohio State (Big 10), Tennessee (SEC) and Texas A&M (used to be Big 12, now SEC) compete with each other for the "biggest stadium".
Good comment. I’d just add that a school doesn’t want to overbuild capacity beyond what they can regularly fill, because lots of empty seats create a negative perception on TV, and degrade the game day experience, along with being unnecessarily expensive to build. For example, the Vanderbilt stadium holds about 40k fans. Their average home game in 2021 was about 23.5k. Imagine how empty it would look if they built-out their stadium even more with seating in the other end zone.
Just to add in the early years the end nearest the school would stay open also because they were part of campus. Physical education buildings right there next to track. So the first end closed would be away from campus
10:38 Great comment! Also, to answer this particular question, the age of a lot of these stadiums has a lot to do with why they have such a wide bowl shape. In the early-mid 1900s, making massive enclosed stadiums wasn’t really possible, simply because of construction limitations. It’s only been in the last several decades that construction of more vertical open air (or entirely enclosed) stadiums have been a thing. You can see that in a lot these stadiums. The sections nearest the field are the oldest and will be the most bowl like. The steeper, more vertical sections have been added on over the decades, leading to a lot of these stadiums taking on that asymmetrical look.
SEC is the powerhouse of College Football, they win more championship games than the other conference, LSU is also known as death valley, because of how loud the fans are in the stadium, it is one of the hardest stadiums to play in !
@@areguapiri actually yes it is,usually depending on crowd noise, to actually prove how hard it is to play in LSU,during a broadcast ESPN got one of the Coordinator radios, and borrowed on of the helmets that had a receiver in it. The interviewer was speaking into the radio, and the crowd noise was so loud, you could barley hear what was being said over the radio, despite the helmet being held up against a boom mic. If it's so loud you can't hear the radio that is 5 yards away, imagine how hard it is on field for the QB to accurately get the play over the radio.
Hi Arkansas razorback fan here answering question at 8:40 For most stadiums like ours it’s cause it’s been built up over time. Originally it only had one side, then they added the east side, then the press boxes, then another side, etc.
There is no morgue under the field at Neyland stadium lol. However there is an area on the other side of the river called the body farm. The aim is to gain a better understanding of the decomposition process, permitting the development of techniques for extracting information such as the timing and circumstances of death from human remains. Body farm research is of particular interest in forensic anthropology and related disciplines, and has applications in the fields of law enforcement and forensic science. By placing the bodies outside to face the elements, researchers are able to get a better understanding of the decomposition process.
Well, until 2017 the skeletal remains WERE stored under the stadium as that is where the anthropology department was located. Definitely not the quietest graveyard in the world.
Neyland Stadium has been updated a little since this video was produced. There are jumbotrons at each end of the stadium now. There isn't technically a morgue there but they did store skeletons from the Body Farm (a internationally known forensics, for lack of a better word, lab) there until 2017.
@2:20 if you want 50 yard line lower bowl tickets be prepared to spend about 1k per ticket to any good games. Good luck with something like Alabama vs LSU or Georgia vs Tennessee.
Bleachers: The open seating area in baseball was called the "bleaching boards" as early as 1877. The term "bleachers" used in the sense of benches for spectators can be traced back to at least 1889; named as such because the generally uncovered wooden boards were "bleached by the sun" - wiki.
One thing that explains how many college stadiums look, including the incongruent seating, is typically they’ve been in place for 100 years, and have been revised and expanded over the decades (Unlike modern NFL stadiums that are newly built and will never be expanded, but rather will just be abandoned and replaced within 30 years). My SEC team is Arkansas; as a kid in the 1970s it seated 44,000. Now it’s been substantially modified and seats 76,000 and has a far bigger fancier box section. The previous lack of seating in one end zone was because there was a training facility there instead. Not sure about now but in the past it had artificial Astroturf on the field, continuing past the end zone into that training facility. This made it the longest stretch of Astroturf in the world.
Thanks for the context Big_Tex. Seeing the scenes we’ve seen from College Football, I feel as though some stadiums would sell out no matter how much they increased the possible attendance
Arkansas’ locker rooms use to be the building with the scoreboard. When they ‘closed in’ that part of the stadium, they moved the locker rooms to a football center built in the southern area of the stadium.
I've heard Brits say they don't understand the college game popularity compared to pro. The college game is much older than the pros. The pros were created because the college games were so popular.
I didn't see if someone noted this already in the comments, but yes those are floodlights at Williams-Brice Stadium for the University of South Carolina -- they're for night games. For decades, University of Georgia didn't have lights, so we never had night games. ALL home games began with a 1:00pm kickoff
Yeah the shape of the stadiums affect the sound a lot. I'm an Ole Miss fan and I love our stadium, but its shape doesn't keep the sound in very well compared to others. Stadiums like LSU's with much steeper seating are incredibly intimidating to play in compared to others with similar capacities.
@@gracielynn9623 TV makes it sound a bit quieter than it really is, but there's a noticeable difference between being in the crowd and being on the field.
The great thing about Ole Miss' stadium is there's lots of room. I went to a game at Bammy and every time I had to pee everyone has to stand up to let you through. It's a tight fit. At Ole Miss you just walk through and they only twist their knees a bit to let you walk by. There's a reason that Alabama and Tenn have a lot of people. They pack you in like sardines.
@@brandonbp122 and at Tennessee if you trip you're not gonna get home in one piece. Those steps in the upper bowl are like 6 inches wide and 2 feet tall
3 sided stadiums are called horse shoe stadiums. They're simply cheaper. Recently, I've seen many teams put a building in the gap like Troy University. It looks so much better now. It houses the locker rooms on the bottom floor and fan experience venues on the others like the dual rooftop bars.
stadiums started out with just bleachers on each sideline, then were built up with the endzones (having the worst views) the last place teams added seats. But each deck of seats is hugely expensive so team will normally only add one at a time then fundraise for the other.
There's a great video on the design & build of Michigan stadium "How University of Michigan's football stadium became The Big House". It's a segment of a TV series called "American Built'. It also gives more history of college football and the race for whose stadium is bigger.
@@DNReacts Michigan Stadium is an amazing and historic American sporting venue, except to a punk band in Columbus, Ohio called the Dead Schembechlers, who have created the novelty song, "Michigan Stadium is a Pile of S***". You can dig further into that one (no pun intended) if you wish.
The University of Tennessee does have a morgue beneath the stadium. The university is known for studying the decay of corpses to help police in homicide investigations. They also have a “cadaver farm” on campus where they study decaying corpses over the course of years to see how many insect generations grow at what stages of decay. It may sound morbid but it’s important to defining time lines in homicides where bodies aren’t found immediately. That’s actually the sort stuff universities should be doing.
Bryant-Denny is situated in a way that we can't really expand anymore. The last expansion cost us an historic firehouse. And we are a stubborn lot and don't want a new stadium elsewhere. The University itself has so many historic buildings, and is worth a tour of the famous haunted Roundhouse, one of the few building left standing after the university was burned during the civil war. Come visit for homecoming weekend for a real experience and Roll Tide.
6:15 the University of Tennessee is known for it's anthropological research facility aka The Body Farm. They put bodies (donated to science!) in various conditions around the 2.5 acre site so that their decomposition can be studied. y'all should look up the Battle at Bristol from 2016 when Tennessee played Virginia Tech at Bristol Motor Speedway and drew a crowd of over 150,000 people
I'm from Tennessee. I live in the next city over. They may be referring to what is called The body farm. The body frame is used to teach students Forensic Anthropology.
3:09 The name change to “Kroger Field” is pretty recent. It was Commonwealth Stadium (after the Commonwealth of Kentucky) from its construction, and honestly that’s what we still call it. (I love Kroger stores, but I hate they changed the name). I’m not surprised you’ve not seen anything from the football team yet. Historically, the school’s basketball program is one of the best in the country, but the football team has been….not. However, in recent years, the current head coach has been making huge strides in turning the program around. Us Big Blue fans are hopeful a playoff bid is in the near future!
You beat me to it! Guys, you wouldn’t have heard a lot about Kentucky football because until lately, there’s not been a lot to report aside from how we’d lost to Florida for 30 years straight, had only broken a similar streak with Tennessee, and were really cellar dwellers in the league. Under Coach Mark Stoops, that has changed. He’s delivered two 10-2 seasons, gotten Kentucky consistently ranked, and broken all of the streaks. In short, Go Cats!
Yeah guys, you don't need to see nfl stadiums. Most are domed, meaning they have a full roof, and only seat 60,000 to 70,000 fans because the nfl has a tv rule that if the stadium isn't sold out by game time, the game isn't aired on local TV channels. The SEC stadiums are all right around 100,000 seats. The biggest is Michigan, they seat 120,000-125,000.
Ain't nothing like GameDay in the SEC. The tailgating that happens around the stadium is the really impressive thing. Saturdays during the season here in Athens, GA is basically a giant party that takes over the town. They have to re-route the highway system that surrounds the city for the weekend every Home Game to accommodate the thousands of people that come in and out to see the Dawgs between the hedges. Glory, Glory to Old Georgia!
SEC football is crazy hard and very competitive. I attended the University of Florida from 1985 to 88 and was in Ben Hill Griffin stadium couple dozen times. We once snuck onto the field at night and spent a couple hours throwing frisbees before having to haul ass from security. Good times!
It is true what he said about Tennessee's stadium, they do have a place called "The Body Farm", where it is a leading Forensic Anthropology Center. They study how the body decays and train students and also law enforcement from around the country, even the FBI. Now, they stadium has recently been renovated somewhat and looks different from what was in this video, but the place is massive and the energy you get from the crowd is immense. I'd certainly recommend it one day!
Thank you for the context, appreciate it! We’ve seen a lot of Tennessee in our early days on this channel and have to say, it looks and sounds incredible!
Keep in mind these stadiums are old and have been added on to and remodeled through out the yrs as demand grows.(piece by piece) Universities are on budgets and have to pass spending projects through boards, chancellors, athletic departments...
Definitely look at NFL … it’s a different thing. The newest ones are architectural marvels, much more high tech and fancy than college stadiums, although seating fewer than the biggest college stadiums. Whereas college stadiums organically grow in stages over the decades and look far different than they did 70 years ago, NFL stadiums are designed from the ground up to be a finished product, will never be expanded, and will be abandoned and replaced in 25 or 30 years. They’re both great in their own ways but it’s just a different animal.
I didn't know standing on the bleachers wasn't allowed anymore. Being in the marching band starting in highschool we only ever stood on the bleachers (the actual part you're supposed to sit on, not on the walking path). We weren't allowed to sit down, and most fans also stood during the entire game. It was tradition to only sit down if a player was injured. I haven't been to a game in nearly 2 decades though.
the reason u hear very little about the kentucky wildcats football is because it is primarily a basketball college with one of the most famous basketball arenas in the world “Rupp Arena”.. plus fans in the UK love them as Kentucky is UK
At one time in the forties and fifties, Kentucky had Bear Bryant and Adolph Rupp both coaching there. They were for decades the winningest football and basketball coaches. But Bryant left in 1954 for Texas A&M because he felt there wasn't room in Lexington for two coaches of that stature.
Go Dawgs! Sanford Stadium is nestled right in the center of campus. The campus is absolutely beautiful and the stadium just rises up in the middle of the magnificent old growth trees. For the record, I'm an alumn, class of 1998. Good on, ya guys.
The prettiest stadium in all of college football by far with spectacular views of both mountains & water is the 70,000+ seats of Husky Stadium on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, Washington for the Huskies of the PAC-12 Conference. It has views on the shore of Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountain Range all along the east, Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains toward the west, and the Seattle skyline and the 14,411 ft (4,392 m) volcanic peak of Mt. Rainier to the south. To the north you might catch more volcanic mountains such as Glacier Peak and Mt. Baker. Husky stadium is also 1 of 3 collegiate stadiums where fans can arrive by boat but it is the only one by yacht. It is also the 3rd loudest stadium in the world and has a long tradition to being the loudest in collegiate football. The look of the stadium from field level after a major 2013 renovation is menacing and modern Darth Vader-esque with it's massive cantilevered roofs over the multi-tiered main stands.
Since the video didn't mention it, Florida Field is built on top of a sinkhole, making the playing surface actually below sea level, helping trap crowd noise and making it one of the louder stadiums in the conference. Go Gators.
Got you my seats are 12th row 47yrd line, chair backs no bleschers .. lol.. Most stadiums have great views even from the nose bleed seats . They also replay all the action on jumbo screens.
D/N I’d like to see you react to team mascots and team names. We have a lot of weird names like Hoosiers, Cornhuskers, Sooners, Hokies, Aggies, Native American names like the Illini and Seminoles, the Horned Frogs, Commodores, Gamecocks, Tarheels, Nittany Lions, Sun Devils, Ducks, and Volunteers. We also have some teams with two names like the Auburn Tigers also called the War Eagles, and the Virginia Tech Hokies are also called the Gobblers. The history of living animal mascots is rich from Mike the Tiger at LSU, to Handsome Dan and Uga the bulldogs at Yale and Georgia, to Albert the Gator at Florida, to Reveille the Collie at Texas A&M, to Ralphie the Buffalo at Colorado University. These mascots are beloved by the fans and are always present at the games. Uga has an air conditioned dog house and only his progeny are allowed to be the mascot at Georgia. He is perhaps the best known and recently he snapped at Bevo the actual Texas Longhorn cow.
Auburn has an American Golden eagle that flies around the stadium at the beginning of each game that's why they say War Eagle! ( I hate "Awbarn" ) ROLL TIDE ROLL🐘🌊🐘🏈
Don't know when he made this video but the Arkansas stadium has been updated and looks better now. The open endzone with the jumbotron has been filled in with seating.
There are a lot of US states where there are no professional sports teams (or no WELL RUN pro sports teams lol) so these college programs are almost religions Nebraska, Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma and Wyoming spring to mind Nebraska football was one of the greatest dynasties in all of sports for ~20 years Also the Ohio State & Michigan football rivalry has been going on a looong time
The University of Tennessee's Anthropology Department is located in the building that serves as the South end's foundation. Within the department is one of the world's largest collection of bones, with literally thousands of human skeletons. UT's infamous "Body Farm" is not underneath the stadium. That is actually across the river. If you want to read about a true pioneer of an entire academic field of study, you should check out Dr. Bass, founder of the body farm at UT. He basically trained half of the nation's forensic scientists on how to conduct crime scene investigations to determine time and cause of death.
These videos never seems to mention the more interesting part of tiger stadium, how it was built. Tiger stadium (LSU's stadium) took a lot of political effort to build. The only way that H. P. Long was able to secure funding to build it was by building students dorms... dorms that just so happened to have a field between them and seating built on the tops of the buildings. Then they started building more sections from there, hence why all the sections look so different. You can look up pictures online to see what the dorms look like now underneath the stadium. They were condemned in the early 2000s so students no longer live in them, but at least when I was there students would sneak in all the time to explore.
At Ohio State, I know they used a horseshoe design because there used to be a track around the field and temporary stands would be pulled out for longer straight sections. Since then, they ditched the track, dug out the field and lowered it, brought seating right up to the field and filled in the open end.
The stadiums in college football are epic and have alot of history behind them (not saying the NFL ones dont but its jus different) the traditions and fans at those games are jus on another level.
As others have said, most of these stadiums have been expanded and upgraded multiple times since they have first opened. The SEC is impressive, but I prefer the BIG10. More history bigger, and generally more varied in design (there is a dome of 2).
The open end of college stadiums with "buildings" in that space are the home and visitors locker rooms, lounge areas, and VIP greeting areas. Also..... sports administrative offices are sometimes located there.
The University of Kentucky Wildcats are more known for their basketball program and it's history. In basketball, they are considered one of the "blue bloods"(cream of the crop, historically), just like the "blue bloods" of college football are usually seen as Alabama, Ohio State, Michigan, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Texas, Notre Dame and USC(Southern California). The Kentucky football program is middling at best. You will not see them in a bunch of football highlights videos.
Trivia: The term "blue blood" was originally termed in college basketball as a play on words because the four most dominant teams (Kentucky, North Carolina, Duke, UCLA) all four had blue in their colors.
A lot of college stadiums have, essentially, two sets of seating. One for the Fans, who pay full ticket prices and get bucket seating, etc. The other is for the students, who usually get a break on the ticket price (possibly not, if the team is #3 in the country, that season...), and get plain bench seating.
Some of the loudest NFL stadiums have roofs DESIGNED to amplify sound... like Seattle Seahawks home. Yes, you should react to NFL stadiums... some are very historic, some are amazing new structures.
He forgot to mention the Volunteer Navy! People who drive their boats by the hundreds and park on the river outside of Neyland stadium for another tailgate spot. Btw the bodies has to do with the university of Tennessee having a spot where law enforcement and FBI and other agencies actually study dead bodies. It’s called the “body farm” people donate their body to science and this is where top investigators come to study bodies in the ground. Definitely not under the stadium but literally just a block or 2 down the road
As we Southerners like to say, "The three things which are never discussed in polite conversation are Religion, Politics, and College Football." Oh and Go 'Noles!!
Offer still stands! I got 2 tickets for you guys for a south carolina game if you want to come 😂. We sit 50 yard line and 4th row of the upper deck. Amazing seats and not too high up
As a fellow Gamecock fan, I can confirm that the first few rows of the upper deck, on the 50 yard line are the best seats in the entire stadium. I’ve sat there several times myself. Are you on the east or west side? I love 305
When Americans offer to have a drink or whatever, it's a sincere invitation. they're not just saying it to be sociable..... When they say they will get you tickets, they mean it you'll get tickets, tailgating, hell of a good time. Don't be too British and reserved to take them up on it either.
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Oh, the NFL stadiums are worth it -- half of the 30 are very intriguingly designed and very luxurious. (While SEC and Big Top have the best college football played in them, the settings in the Pac-12 are stunning.)
You should react to the uniqueness that is Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho I won't spoil it to much, but for a while, the Boise State Broncos weren't allowed to wear their home kit.
Clemson's stadium is the best in the ACC. Check it out when you can. If you're ever in South Carolina during football season, give me a call and I'll take you to see a Clemson homegame. It'll be an experience that you will never forget! GO TIGERS!!!
This is just one conference in the FBS (Division 1, top tier). This guy does a videos on all the other FBS conferences also. Pac-12, Big10, Big 12, ACC, MWC, AAC, C-USA, MAC, and Sun Belt. I think the Pac-12 has the more unique looking stadiums and surroundings. I'm not sure, but he might have done videos for all the FCS (Division 2) conferences as well.
I love that guys dry aussie humor. Absolutely hilarious how he got you almost every time lol. So glad you loved the stadiums. I must say that Neyland stadium is my favorite, and I’m not even a Tennessee Volunteers fan. I love the scenic area around the stadium and the fact that it is right on the river. When it is filled with orange and white on game day it’s absolutely overwhelming. As for NFL stadiums, not really worth it because they are mostly all the same and pretty bland. They are also significantly smaller than college football stadiums in the big conferences at least.
For some more fun stuff: Big Man Plays. These are snippets showing times when the really big guys on the team got a chance to score a touchdown. ua-cam.com/video/oDA_gYuYT70/v-deo.html
Based on videos you reacted too yea Wildcats are basically a fill in school for the conference. They use to be a basketball school. LSU stadium when he says it looks like multiple stadiums were put together. Basically they just kept adding on some original parts still stand and it’s a work of art in person. Originaly it was just a grandstand on the home side and they kept expanding and the stadium had dorms as well. That’s what all those windows are abandoned dorms from decades ago.
When you see some grass for seating in the endzone, it is for student seating. Usually, they can attend a game at no charge by showing their student ID, but their seating is in the grass. They don't care. It's a free celebration and a party on Saturday afternoon, and the rowdiest section of the stadium supports their school. It does upset me that many of these schools are now filling these sections with seats where they will make money, and the student sections are becoming smaller - or students have to pay to attend their school's football game. I don't think it's right. Also, the stadium's architecture is usually the same as the architecture of the buildings on campus. That is one of the only problems I have with this video you responded to. He states he doesn't like the building style, but it completely matches the historic architecture of each building at each school - which it should. The campus (or grounds in some cases) should be cohesive in its architectural style. He also takes photos from Google Earth, which doesn't show the stadiums during football season. The perfect example is the University of Tennessee. The first photo he showed was during the off-season when work was probably being renovated, and the field painting wasn't showing. Tennessee is infamous for its checkerboard painting in the endzone. Every field looks different during the off-season than during the actual football season. All of the stadiums, no matter the conference, are stunning in their own way.
Kentucky is more famous for its basketball than its football. The football team has produced some memorable upsets and some decent players and coaches but they haven't won much. The basketball team however has won many conference and national championships and produced some of the most famous names in basketball. Also, Kyle Field at Texas A&M hasn't shown up in many of the videos I've seen you watch but it has an INSANE atmosphere with some cool, quirky traditions. Also, it has a structural history akin to Old Trafford where it started as just a small set of bleachers then they built a 3/4 bowl, then they just kept building up and building up and renovating it to the point it is today. Bleachers are, in fact, solid benches with no chair backs. The University of Tennessee has a famous forensic sciences department that uses, yes, a morgue under the stadium, and also a forest near campus to study how human bodies decay in different conditions. Sometimes, the empty ends is due to these stadiums being inside cramped cities or small campuses (see Georgia's stadium) and they either can't fit more (like in Georgia's case) or they need to use that space for academic or athletic facilities that also need the room. That's why there are often whole buildings in those ends when that is the case. Find a video on tailgating in the US. That'll be entertaining enough on its own, and explain why crowds can be so nuts (beer, it's beer). But then find a video on Ole Miss tailgating (still beer) but just in the woods with what you might call southern charm. Those South Carolina things are just flood light gantries. Pro stadiums, while many have AMAZING architecture, are often a little more soulless for atmosphere because it costs more to go to games and they draw fans from all over the world. It's like how the fans of some bigger Premier League teams have complained about the atmospheres of their stadiums lacking in recent years (The Emirates, Stamford Bridge, Old Trafford).
I went to most of the home games for the last few years at the University of Texas and it’s a great atmosphere. Pre-game, there are lots of booths and carnival games around the stadium. Attendance is anywhere from about 90,000-100,000. The rough thing is those 11am games where you’re out there for 4 hours in the Texas heat. And the thing is, as much as I love the longhorns, there’s plenty of other schools out there that have game day atmospheres that are even better.
@@DNReacts You guys did show a video where LSU beat Kentucky on a last second hail-mary where the ball was tipped by 2 of UK's defensive backs and landed in the hands of an LSU receiver for a touchdown... I was there. I met some LSU fans who were also there, but left the stadium before that play. I wish I could transfer that memory from my brain to theirs... Love the videos guys!
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I'm a Vanderbilt fan. Vandy is the only private school in the conference and it's the smallest by number of undergraduate students enrolled. It was founded shortly after the United States civil War. The Vanderbilt family of New York wanted to help rebuild the south after the War and decided to build a university in Nashville with their own funds. The school's sports nickname is The Commodores after Cornelius Vanderbilt who was an American business magnate who made a fortune in railroads and shipping. His nickname was The Commodore.
The other schools in the SEC are all at least three times larger in student population than Vanderbilt and are supported by state, not private funding.Vandy gets no state funding.
Vandy is a founding member of the SEC which is probably why they let us stick around. For the first three decades of the conference Vanderbilt was competitive in football but they have not been consistent for a long time. They have a few seasons where they have made it to bowl games in recent years, but it's not often. We are better known for our men's and women's basketball teams and for our baseball team which has won several national championships.
Admission to Vanderbilt generally requires a higher GPA then most so recruiting athletes draws from a smaller pool of people than most of the schools in the conference.. Vanderbilt is a also known for its post-grad law and medical schools and the huge Vanderbilt Medical center and children's hospital here in Nashville.
We Vandy fans are a tough lot We're used to losing more than we win when it comes to football!
As much as I love our Tennessee Titans NFL team which is based in Nashville, bringing the Titans to town hurt the attendance at Vandy football games. It used to be that people who were football fans in general would come to watch Vanderbilt play in the SEC because the opposing teams usually have many future NFL stars. . But since the Titans came it's just die-hard Vandy fans and of course those who live in Nashville but support the opposing team's, who attend games. Then there's those like me who are just older and it's harder for me to get to the games so they're on television now there's pretty much coverage of every major conferences teams every week.
The football stadium is being renovated and updates are expected to be completed by the 2024 season they will be adding some seats to the open end zone but it will still be the smallest in the conference.
We need Vandy in the SEC to boost our conference GPA.
i have no empathy for poor little ole vanderbilt
Auburn University is also a private uni. Snooty Vandy student and obviously the the sharpest tool in the shed at that school.
@@michaellangevin3943lmfao no it is not. Auburn is public.
You are correct and I stand corrected and apologize It started private but was converted..@@WOODSLD80
the reason college stadiums are so unique with the seat in the Endzone is due to the history of the stadiums. Most of these stadiums were built 100 years ago and the capacity was less. Therefore they only built seats on the sides in alot of cases because it gave better views. But with time and population growth and more fans they had to add seats and expand the stadiums so they would add seats to one of the endzones, then another tier of seats on the side, then maybe seats in the other endzone etc. This is why there are so many stadiums with weird asymmetrical designs or stadiums where one of the endzones is grass or smaller while the other side is full. Also the introduction of the big screens for replays and stats is pretty recent and created a "arms race" so to speak about 20 years ago where teams would add the new "biggest screen in football" and then a year later another team would add a screen just a little bit bigger and so on as they competed for bragging rights. The same goes for stadium size as University of Michigan (Big 10), Ohio State (Big 10), Tennessee (SEC) and Texas A&M (used to be Big 12, now SEC) compete with each other for the "biggest stadium".
Penn State has the biggest capacity, and Bama is over 100,000 too.
Good comment. I’d just add that a school doesn’t want to overbuild capacity beyond what they can regularly fill, because lots of empty seats create a negative perception on TV, and degrade the game day experience, along with being unnecessarily expensive to build.
For example, the Vanderbilt stadium holds about 40k fans. Their average home game in 2021 was about 23.5k.
Imagine how empty it would look if they built-out their stadium even more with seating in the other end zone.
Great comment and read Tom, thanks for the context!
Just to add in the early years the end nearest the school would stay open also because they were part of campus. Physical education buildings right there next to track. So the first end closed would be away from campus
10:38 Great comment! Also, to answer this particular question, the age of a lot of these stadiums has a lot to do with why they have such a wide bowl shape. In the early-mid 1900s, making massive enclosed stadiums wasn’t really possible, simply because of construction limitations. It’s only been in the last several decades that construction of more vertical open air (or entirely enclosed) stadiums have been a thing. You can see that in a lot these stadiums. The sections nearest the field are the oldest and will be the most bowl like. The steeper, more vertical sections have been added on over the decades, leading to a lot of these stadiums taking on that asymmetrical look.
SEC is the powerhouse of College Football, they win more championship games than the other conference, LSU is also known as death valley, because of how loud the fans are in the stadium, it is one of the hardest stadiums to play in !
On the planet! Not just in the SEC. Saturday nights in Death Valley are magical
Don’t be manipulated by this redneck homer
The Big 6(Bama, LSU, Auburn, UGA, UT, UF) built this conference into the powerhouse it is today.
It's not "hard" to play in any stadium.
@@areguapiri actually yes it is,usually depending on crowd noise, to actually prove how hard it is to play in LSU,during a broadcast ESPN got one of the Coordinator radios, and borrowed on of the helmets that had a receiver in it. The interviewer was speaking into the radio, and the crowd noise was so loud, you could barley hear what was being said over the radio, despite the helmet being held up against a boom mic. If it's so loud you can't hear the radio that is 5 yards away, imagine how hard it is on field for the QB to accurately get the play over the radio.
Hi Arkansas razorback fan here answering question at 8:40
For most stadiums like ours it’s cause it’s been built up over time. Originally it only had one side, then they added the east side, then the press boxes, then another side, etc.
Thank you for the context, appreciate it!
There is no morgue under the field at Neyland stadium lol. However there is an area on the other side of the river called the body farm. The aim is to gain a better understanding of the decomposition process, permitting the development of techniques for extracting information such as the timing and circumstances of death from human remains. Body farm research is of particular interest in forensic anthropology and related disciplines, and has applications in the fields of law enforcement and forensic science. By placing the bodies outside to face the elements, researchers are able to get a better understanding of the decomposition process.
Thank you for explaining this and giving the context! I couldn’t keep up with the narrators “jokes”. He had me confused at times 😂
Well, until 2017 the skeletal remains WERE stored under the stadium as that is where the anthropology department was located. Definitely not the quietest graveyard in the world.
Neyland Stadium has been updated a little since this video was produced. There are jumbotrons at each end of the stadium now. There isn't technically a morgue there but they did store skeletons from the Body Farm (a internationally known forensics, for lack of a better word, lab) there until 2017.
@2:20 if you want 50 yard line lower bowl tickets be prepared to spend about 1k per ticket to any good games. Good luck with something like Alabama vs LSU or Georgia vs Tennessee.
Bleachers are long bench seating that you can either sit or stand on. Really love all the content so far, keep it coming!
And fans bring portable chair backs if they need the support.
Thank you Sean!
Bleachers: The open seating area in baseball was called the "bleaching boards" as early as 1877. The term "bleachers" used in the sense of benches for spectators can be traced back to at least 1889; named as such because the generally uncovered wooden boards were "bleached by the sun" - wiki.
Yeah and they're about as comfortable as seating from 1877
One thing that explains how many college stadiums look, including the incongruent seating, is typically they’ve been in place for 100 years, and have been revised and expanded over the decades (Unlike modern NFL stadiums that are newly built and will never be expanded, but rather will just be abandoned and replaced within 30 years). My SEC team is Arkansas; as a kid in the 1970s it seated 44,000. Now it’s been substantially modified and seats 76,000 and has a far bigger fancier box section.
The previous lack of seating in one end zone was because there was a training facility there instead. Not sure about now but in the past it had artificial Astroturf on the field, continuing past the end zone into that training facility. This made it the longest stretch of Astroturf in the world.
Thanks for the context Big_Tex. Seeing the scenes we’ve seen from College Football, I feel as though some stadiums would sell out no matter how much they increased the possible attendance
Arkansas’ locker rooms use to be the building with the scoreboard. When they ‘closed in’ that part of the stadium, they moved the locker rooms to a football center built in the southern area of the stadium.
I've heard Brits say they don't understand the college game popularity compared to pro. The college game is much older than the pros. The pros were created because the college games were so popular.
A Saturday Night in Death Valley tops all of them in terms of atmosphere. Geaux Tigers!
100% True !
For the sec, big ten has 3 better
I didn't see if someone noted this already in the comments, but yes those are floodlights at Williams-Brice Stadium for the University of South Carolina -- they're for night games. For decades, University of Georgia didn't have lights, so we never had night games. ALL home games began with a 1:00pm kickoff
As someone that’s been to many LSU games now, the atmosphere during a night game when the stadium is packed is absolutely unreal.
Neyland Stadium by the Tennessee River is a great venue the “Volunteer Navy” is a group of fans that sail up the river on game day in their boats.
University of Florida is where Gatorade was invented.
Florida State had their own drink but Seminole fluid didn't test well with polling groups.
You guys should check out the tailgating in college football, particularly in the SEC.
Hey, this is on the list! Hoping we can find some good videos for this 🤞
@DN Reacts I'm a die-hard University of Kentucky fan but nobody tailgates like Ole Miss.
Yeah the shape of the stadiums affect the sound a lot. I'm an Ole Miss fan and I love our stadium, but its shape doesn't keep the sound in very well compared to others. Stadiums like LSU's with much steeper seating are incredibly intimidating to play in compared to others with similar capacities.
Go Rebs
Yeah, when they show Ole Miss games on TV, it doesn’t sound very intimidating.
@@gracielynn9623 TV makes it sound a bit quieter than it really is, but there's a noticeable difference between being in the crowd and being on the field.
The great thing about Ole Miss' stadium is there's lots of room. I went to a game at Bammy and every time I had to pee everyone has to stand up to let you through. It's a tight fit. At Ole Miss you just walk through and they only twist their knees a bit to let you walk by. There's a reason that Alabama and Tenn have a lot of people. They pack you in like sardines.
@@brandonbp122 and at Tennessee if you trip you're not gonna get home in one piece. Those steps in the upper bowl are like 6 inches wide and 2 feet tall
3 sided stadiums are called horse shoe stadiums. They're simply cheaper. Recently, I've seen many teams put a building in the gap like Troy University. It looks so much better now. It houses the locker rooms on the bottom floor and fan experience venues on the others like the dual rooftop bars.
stadiums started out with just bleachers on each sideline, then were built up with the endzones (having the worst views) the last place teams added seats. But each deck of seats is hugely expensive so team will normally only add one at a time then fundraise for the other.
There's a great video on the design & build of Michigan stadium "How University of Michigan's football stadium became The Big House". It's a segment of a TV series called "American Built'. It also gives more history of college football and the race for whose stadium is bigger.
Thanks Pushpak. Added to the list!
@@DNReacts Michigan Stadium is an amazing and historic American sporting venue, except to a punk band in Columbus, Ohio called the Dead Schembechlers, who have created the novelty song, "Michigan Stadium is a Pile of S***". You can dig further into that one (no pun intended) if you wish.
The University of Tennessee does have a morgue beneath the stadium. The university is known for studying the decay of corpses to help police in homicide investigations. They also have a “cadaver farm” on campus where they study decaying corpses over the course of years to see how many insect generations grow at what stages of decay. It may sound morbid but it’s important to defining time lines in homicides where bodies aren’t found immediately. That’s actually the sort stuff universities should be doing.
Go Vols!
Carolina also has hedges around its field...
Bryant-Denny is situated in a way that we can't really expand anymore. The last expansion cost us an historic firehouse. And we are a stubborn lot and don't want a new stadium elsewhere. The University itself has so many historic buildings, and is worth a tour of the famous haunted Roundhouse, one of the few building left standing after the university was burned during the civil war. Come visit for homecoming weekend for a real experience and Roll Tide.
6:15 the University of Tennessee is known for it's anthropological research facility aka The Body Farm. They put bodies (donated to science!) in various conditions around the 2.5 acre site so that their decomposition can be studied.
y'all should look up the Battle at Bristol from 2016 when Tennessee played Virginia Tech at Bristol Motor Speedway and drew a crowd of over 150,000 people
I'm from Tennessee. I live in the next city over. They may be referring to what is called The body farm. The body frame is used to teach students Forensic Anthropology.
For Williams Brice, those are lights. Yep, the upperdecks used to sway 6-12 inches side to side.
Literally every SEC stadium is a great place to watch a game, but for different reasons. They all have their strengths (and weaknesses).
I see they save the best for last! Chilling at the Willie B.
3:09 The name change to “Kroger Field” is pretty recent. It was Commonwealth Stadium (after the Commonwealth of Kentucky) from its construction, and honestly that’s what we still call it. (I love Kroger stores, but I hate they changed the name).
I’m not surprised you’ve not seen anything from the football team yet. Historically, the school’s basketball program is one of the best in the country, but the football team has been….not. However, in recent years, the current head coach has been making huge strides in turning the program around. Us Big Blue fans are hopeful a playoff bid is in the near future!
You beat me to it! Guys, you wouldn’t have heard a lot about Kentucky football because until lately, there’s not been a lot to report aside from how we’d lost to Florida for 30 years straight, had only broken a similar streak with Tennessee, and were really cellar dwellers in the league.
Under Coach Mark Stoops, that has changed. He’s delivered two 10-2 seasons, gotten Kentucky consistently ranked, and broken all of the streaks.
In short, Go Cats!
Kentucky is technically the first place Bear Bryant won a championship, though. He was coach in 1950 when they upset Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl.
Yeah guys, you don't need to see nfl stadiums. Most are domed, meaning they have a full roof, and only seat 60,000 to 70,000 fans because the nfl has a tv rule that if the stadium isn't sold out by game time, the game isn't aired on local TV channels. The SEC stadiums are all right around 100,000 seats. The biggest is Michigan, they seat 120,000-125,000.
Ain't nothing like GameDay in the SEC. The tailgating that happens around the stadium is the really impressive thing. Saturdays during the season here in Athens, GA is basically a giant party that takes over the town. They have to re-route the highway system that surrounds the city for the weekend every Home Game to accommodate the thousands of people that come in and out to see the Dawgs between the hedges. Glory, Glory to Old Georgia!
GO DAWGS!!!!
SEC football is crazy hard and very competitive. I attended the University of Florida from 1985 to 88 and was in Ben Hill Griffin stadium couple dozen times. We once snuck onto the field at night and spent a couple hours throwing frisbees before having to haul ass from security. Good times!
College football just means more in the SEC. GO DAWGS!!!!
It is true what he said about Tennessee's stadium, they do have a place called "The Body Farm", where it is a leading Forensic Anthropology Center. They study how the body decays and train students and also law enforcement from around the country, even the FBI. Now, they stadium has recently been renovated somewhat and looks different from what was in this video, but the place is massive and the energy you get from the crowd is immense. I'd certainly recommend it one day!
Thank you for the context, appreciate it! We’ve seen a lot of Tennessee in our early days on this channel and have to say, it looks and sounds incredible!
Keep in mind these stadiums are old and have been added on to and remodeled through out the yrs as demand grows.(piece by piece)
Universities are on budgets and have to pass spending projects through boards, chancellors, athletic departments...
You should really check out the big ten it has the 2 biggest stadiums
Added to the list, thank you!
Definitely look at NFL … it’s a different thing. The newest ones are architectural marvels, much more high tech and fancy than college stadiums, although seating fewer than the biggest college stadiums. Whereas college stadiums organically grow in stages over the decades and look far different than they did 70 years ago, NFL stadiums are designed from the ground up to be a finished product, will never be expanded, and will be abandoned and replaced in 25 or 30 years. They’re both great in their own ways but it’s just a different animal.
I didn't know standing on the bleachers wasn't allowed anymore. Being in the marching band starting in highschool we only ever stood on the bleachers (the actual part you're supposed to sit on, not on the walking path). We weren't allowed to sit down, and most fans also stood during the entire game. It was tradition to only sit down if a player was injured. I haven't been to a game in nearly 2 decades though.
the reason u hear very little about the kentucky wildcats football is because it is primarily a basketball college with one of the most famous basketball arenas in the world “Rupp Arena”.. plus fans in the UK love them as Kentucky is UK
Thank you for the context added Jonathan. Appreciate it!
At one time in the forties and fifties, Kentucky had Bear Bryant and Adolph Rupp both coaching there. They were for decades the winningest football and basketball coaches. But Bryant left in 1954 for Texas A&M because he felt there wasn't room in Lexington for two coaches of that stature.
Go Dawgs! Sanford Stadium is nestled right in the center of campus. The campus is absolutely beautiful and the stadium just rises up in the middle of the magnificent old growth trees. For the record, I'm an alumn, class of 1998. Good on, ya guys.
Thank you Adam!
GO DAWGS!!!!
The prettiest stadium in all of college football by far with spectacular views of both mountains & water is the 70,000+ seats of Husky Stadium on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, Washington for the Huskies of the PAC-12 Conference. It has views on the shore of Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountain Range all along the east, Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains toward the west, and the Seattle skyline and the 14,411 ft (4,392 m) volcanic peak of Mt. Rainier to the south. To the north you might catch more volcanic mountains such as Glacier Peak and Mt. Baker. Husky stadium is also 1 of 3 collegiate stadiums where fans can arrive by boat but it is the only one by yacht. It is also the 3rd loudest stadium in the world and has a long tradition to being the loudest in collegiate football. The look of the stadium from field level after a major 2013 renovation is menacing and modern Darth Vader-esque with it's massive cantilevered roofs over the multi-tiered main stands.
Since the video didn't mention it, Florida Field is built on top of a sinkhole, making the playing surface actually below sea level, helping trap crowd noise and making it one of the louder stadiums in the conference. Go Gators.
Got you my seats are 12th row 47yrd line, chair backs no bleschers .. lol.. Most stadiums have great views even from the nose bleed seats . They also replay all the action on jumbo screens.
Appreciate it 😂
D/N I’d like to see you react to team mascots and team names. We have a lot of weird names like Hoosiers, Cornhuskers, Sooners, Hokies, Aggies, Native American names like the Illini and Seminoles, the Horned Frogs, Commodores, Gamecocks, Tarheels, Nittany Lions, Sun Devils, Ducks, and Volunteers.
We also have some teams with two names like the Auburn Tigers also called the War Eagles, and the Virginia Tech Hokies are also called the Gobblers.
The history of living animal mascots is rich from Mike the Tiger at LSU, to Handsome Dan and Uga the bulldogs at Yale and Georgia, to Albert the Gator at Florida, to Reveille the Collie at Texas A&M, to Ralphie the Buffalo at Colorado University. These mascots are beloved by the fans and are always present at the games. Uga has an air conditioned dog house and only his progeny are allowed to be the mascot at Georgia. He is perhaps the best known and recently he snapped at Bevo the actual Texas Longhorn cow.
Auburn has an American Golden eagle that flies around the stadium at the beginning of each game that's why they say War Eagle! ( I hate "Awbarn" ) ROLL TIDE ROLL🐘🌊🐘🏈
"If it ain't swayin' we ain't playin'" is a real saying. I went to USC. Never sat in the swaying seats though.
South Carolina native, been to Willy B plenty of times, yes those are flood lights on top of the stadium 😂
Don't know when he made this video but the Arkansas stadium has been updated and looks better now. The open endzone with the jumbotron has been filled in with seating.
Y'all should look up some of the best traditions of college football traditions. There are some awesome traditions across college football.
There are a lot of US states where there are no professional sports teams (or no WELL RUN pro sports teams lol) so these college programs are almost religions
Nebraska, Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma and Wyoming spring to mind
Nebraska football was one of the greatest dynasties in all of sports for ~20 years
Also the Ohio State & Michigan football rivalry has been going on a looong time
I know this was a year ago but Bryant Denny in Alabama has been over 100,000 for years!
The University of Tennessee's Anthropology Department is located in the building that serves as the South end's foundation. Within the department is one of the world's largest collection of bones, with literally thousands of human skeletons. UT's infamous "Body Farm" is not underneath the stadium. That is actually across the river. If you want to read about a true pioneer of an entire academic field of study, you should check out Dr. Bass, founder of the body farm at UT. He basically trained half of the nation's forensic scientists on how to conduct crime scene investigations to determine time and cause of death.
The University of South Carolina, Williams-Brice Stadium (The Cockpit) is my hometown stadium 15 minutes from where I live.
Please do Big 10 conference stadiums next.
These videos never seems to mention the more interesting part of tiger stadium, how it was built. Tiger stadium (LSU's stadium) took a lot of political effort to build. The only way that H. P. Long was able to secure funding to build it was by building students dorms... dorms that just so happened to have a field between them and seating built on the tops of the buildings. Then they started building more sections from there, hence why all the sections look so different.
You can look up pictures online to see what the dorms look like now underneath the stadium. They were condemned in the early 2000s so students no longer live in them, but at least when I was there students would sneak in all the time to explore.
Thank you for this added context, interesting read and makes a lot of sense!
You should react to College Football facilities next.
We have one on the channel 😊
At Ohio State, I know they used a horseshoe design because there used to be a track around the field and temporary stands would be pulled out for longer straight sections. Since then, they ditched the track, dug out the field and lowered it, brought seating right up to the field and filled in the open end.
The stadiums in college football are epic and have alot of history behind them (not saying the NFL ones dont but its jus different) the traditions and fans at those games are jus on another level.
Totally right about benches, by the way. 14 inch 'seat' widths...
As others have said, most of these stadiums have been expanded and upgraded multiple times since they have first opened. The SEC is impressive, but I prefer the BIG10. More history bigger, and generally more varied in design (there is a dome of 2).
The open end of college stadiums with "buildings" in that space are the home and visitors locker rooms, lounge areas, and VIP greeting areas. Also..... sports administrative offices are sometimes located there.
The University of Kentucky Wildcats are more known for their basketball program and it's history. In basketball, they are considered one of the "blue bloods"(cream of the crop, historically), just like the "blue bloods" of college football are usually seen as Alabama, Ohio State, Michigan, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Texas, Notre Dame and USC(Southern California). The Kentucky football program is middling at best. You will not see them in a bunch of football highlights videos.
Thanks for the info!
Trivia: The term "blue blood" was originally termed in college basketball as a play on words because the four most dominant teams (Kentucky, North Carolina, Duke, UCLA) all four had blue in their colors.
I’m from Kentucky. Been to our stadium every Saturday for 15+ years. Check us out man
A lot of college stadiums have, essentially, two sets of seating. One for the Fans, who pay full ticket prices and get bucket seating, etc. The other is for the students, who usually get a break on the ticket price (possibly not, if the team is #3 in the country, that season...), and get plain bench seating.
Love this, gentlemen!
Thank you Zach!
Some of the loudest NFL stadiums have roofs DESIGNED to amplify sound... like Seattle Seahawks home.
Yes, you should react to NFL stadiums... some are very historic, some are amazing new structures.
He forgot to mention the Volunteer Navy! People who drive their boats by the hundreds and park on the river outside of Neyland stadium for another tailgate spot. Btw the bodies has to do with the university of Tennessee having a spot where law enforcement and FBI and other agencies actually study dead bodies. It’s called the “body farm” people donate their body to science and this is where top investigators come to study bodies in the ground. Definitely not under the stadium but literally just a block or 2 down the road
GO VOLS!!!!
As we Southerners like to say, "The three things which are never discussed in polite conversation are Religion, Politics, and College Football." Oh and Go 'Noles!!
Offer still stands! I got 2 tickets for you guys for a south carolina game if you want to come 😂. We sit 50 yard line and 4th row of the upper deck. Amazing seats and not too high up
As a fellow Gamecock fan, I can confirm that the first few rows of the upper deck, on the 50 yard line are the best seats in the entire stadium. I’ve sat there several times myself.
Are you on the east or west side? I love 305
@@MrSteeles912 we are in 505 seats 4,5,6,7!
Bojack Horseman is one of the greatest shows I've ever watched.
When Americans offer to have a drink or whatever, it's a sincere invitation. they're not just saying it to be sociable..... When they say they will get you tickets, they mean it you'll get tickets, tailgating, hell of a good time. Don't be too British and reserved to take them up on it either.
The Ohio State University is only 10 minutes away from my apartment! The Ohio State University Stadium can have over 110,000 people in the stands!
I always look forward to your reactions on all the videos you review and wish great success in increasing your membership. It is great to hear the comments of our cousins across the pond especially as it relates to American sports. Just a suggestion. It would be great if you put on your background wall either posters of your favorite British teams or perhaps the British Union Jack or any other items that hold your interest. I think it could give your youtube channel a personal touch and and give your subscriber an insight as to your personalities and interests.
Thank you for the comment and support! Appreciate it. We’ve been talking about the background, hoping to fill it with something soon 🤞
Oh, the NFL stadiums are worth it -- half of the 30 are very intriguingly designed and very luxurious. (While SEC and Big Top have the best college football played in them, the settings in the Pac-12 are stunning.)
Thanks, I’ve added NFL Stadiums to our list! Can’t wait to check them out
You should react to the uniqueness that is Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho I won't spoil it to much, but for a while, the Boise State Broncos weren't allowed to wear their home kit.
Yall should react to Big 12 stadiums to.
Clemson's stadium is the best in the ACC. Check it out when you can. If you're ever in South Carolina during football season, give me a call and I'll take you to see a Clemson homegame. It'll be an experience that you will never forget! GO TIGERS!!!
Do Mountain West stadiums next
Old stadiums usually only had two sides. End zones to these are expansions.
This is just one conference in the FBS (Division 1, top tier). This guy does a videos on all the other FBS conferences also. Pac-12, Big10, Big 12, ACC, MWC, AAC, C-USA, MAC, and Sun Belt. I think the Pac-12 has the more unique looking stadiums and surroundings. I'm not sure, but he might have done videos for all the FCS (Division 2) conferences as well.
Wow, looks like we’re going to be busy!
I love that guys dry aussie humor. Absolutely hilarious how he got you almost every time lol. So glad you loved the stadiums. I must say that Neyland stadium is my favorite, and I’m not even a Tennessee Volunteers fan. I love the scenic area around the stadium and the fact that it is right on the river. When it is filled with orange and white on game day it’s absolutely overwhelming. As for NFL stadiums, not really worth it because they are mostly all the same and pretty bland. They are also significantly smaller than college football stadiums in the big conferences at least.
For some more fun stuff: Big Man Plays. These are snippets showing times when the really big guys on the team got a chance to score a touchdown. ua-cam.com/video/oDA_gYuYT70/v-deo.html
Nicest ones to me are LSU and Texas a&m
Based on videos you reacted too yea Wildcats are basically a fill in school for the conference. They use to be a basketball school. LSU stadium when he says it looks like multiple stadiums were put together. Basically they just kept adding on some original parts still stand and it’s a work of art in person. Originaly it was just a grandstand on the home side and they kept expanding and the stadium had dorms as well. That’s what all those windows are abandoned dorms from decades ago.
You should check out this same channels
review of Big 12 stadiums..
I think the best game you could go to if you went to one would be Ohio State vs Michigan.
Kentucky is more of a basketball school than a football school.
The View is better higher up but from the side than being behind the end zone.
When you see some grass for seating in the endzone, it is for student seating. Usually, they can attend a game at no charge by showing their student ID, but their seating is in the grass. They don't care. It's a free celebration and a party on Saturday afternoon, and the rowdiest section of the stadium supports their school. It does upset me that many of these schools are now filling these sections with seats where they will make money, and the student sections are becoming smaller - or students have to pay to attend their school's football game. I don't think it's right.
Also, the stadium's architecture is usually the same as the architecture of the buildings on campus. That is one of the only problems I have with this video you responded to. He states he doesn't like the building style, but it completely matches the historic architecture of each building at each school - which it should. The campus (or grounds in some cases) should be cohesive in its architectural style.
He also takes photos from Google Earth, which doesn't show the stadiums during football season. The perfect example is the University of Tennessee. The first photo he showed was during the off-season when work was probably being renovated, and the field painting wasn't showing. Tennessee is infamous for its checkerboard painting in the endzone. Every field looks different during the off-season than during the actual football season.
All of the stadiums, no matter the conference, are stunning in their own way.
Kentucky is more famous for its basketball than its football. The football team has produced some memorable upsets and some decent players and coaches but they haven't won much. The basketball team however has won many conference and national championships and produced some of the most famous names in basketball.
Also, Kyle Field at Texas A&M hasn't shown up in many of the videos I've seen you watch but it has an INSANE atmosphere with some cool, quirky traditions. Also, it has a structural history akin to Old Trafford where it started as just a small set of bleachers then they built a 3/4 bowl, then they just kept building up and building up and renovating it to the point it is today.
Bleachers are, in fact, solid benches with no chair backs.
The University of Tennessee has a famous forensic sciences department that uses, yes, a morgue under the stadium, and also a forest near campus to study how human bodies decay in different conditions.
Sometimes, the empty ends is due to these stadiums being inside cramped cities or small campuses (see Georgia's stadium) and they either can't fit more (like in Georgia's case) or they need to use that space for academic or athletic facilities that also need the room. That's why there are often whole buildings in those ends when that is the case.
Find a video on tailgating in the US. That'll be entertaining enough on its own, and explain why crowds can be so nuts (beer, it's beer). But then find a video on Ole Miss tailgating (still beer) but just in the woods with what you might call southern charm.
Those South Carolina things are just flood light gantries.
Pro stadiums, while many have AMAZING architecture, are often a little more soulless for atmosphere because it costs more to go to games and they draw fans from all over the world. It's like how the fans of some bigger Premier League teams have complained about the atmospheres of their stadiums lacking in recent years (The Emirates, Stamford Bridge, Old Trafford).
Fantastic comment, great read. Thank you Kevin! We’ll definitely try to find a good tailgating video
There are 3 conferences that matter NFC, AFC, and the SEC.
That was what James Franklin used to say in his recruiting pitches for Vandy. I wonder what he says now?
I went to most of the home games for the last few years at the University of Texas and it’s a great atmosphere. Pre-game, there are lots of booths and carnival games around the stadium. Attendance is anywhere from about 90,000-100,000. The rough thing is those 11am games where you’re out there for 4 hours in the Texas heat. And the thing is, as much as I love the longhorns, there’s plenty of other schools out there that have game day atmospheres that are even better.
UCF has a great game day atmosphere and Texas opened UCF's inaugural stadium in 2007!!! Too bad we lost that one 35-32!
Kentucky is known for basketball, but their football team recently became pretty alright
Bleacher seats => No seatback to rest your back against
Kentucky native, it's okay you haven't covered us. We'll come up in the college basketball videos :')
Can’t wait!
@@DNReacts You guys did show a video where LSU beat Kentucky on a last second hail-mary where the ball was tipped by 2 of UK's defensive backs and landed in the hands of an LSU receiver for a touchdown... I was there. I met some LSU fans who were also there, but left the stadium before that play. I wish I could transfer that memory from my brain to theirs... Love the videos guys!
I bet that is a painful memory 😭 thank you!
TAVON AUSTIN OR DE’ANTHONY THOMAS COLLGE HIGHLIGHTS NEXT PLEASE
They named dropped Doak Campbell Stadium. Not as big as some youve seen, but a very beautiful stadium for my alma mater. Check out ACC in time gents
ACC added to the list! We definitely want to get through all the conferences eventually
If they have one you need to do the American,they have some smaller stadiums, but very beautiful.
Razorback Stadium is elite
If you want to hear about Kentucky watch some college basketball videos.