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Correction. The way the college football "playoff" works You need Ohio State, Alabama, and either Clemson or Georgia, plus some random university that over-performed that season.
@@tyreek.6815 Not really an exaggeration since SEC teams won 6 of the last 10 championships......and 7 in a row before that! They also have the most NFL players by a good margin.
There are approximately 100 players on each roster. Don't forget - this is still college (they are 18-22 years old) and most are on scholarship receiving a free college education, enjoying continuing to play football and will then enter the real world after graduation like the rest of us. Only about 1% of high school players play Division 1 football and about 1% of those players make it to the NFL. These entrances are for a typical game played every Saturday. It's even bigger for rivalries, Bowl Games and obviously the National Championship.
At the highest level of college football, teams are allowed 85 scholarship players per season. The number only approaches 100 for home games where the "walk-ons" (pay their own tuition) get to dress and be on the sideline. Visiting teams are limited to 70 players.
College football runs from late August to the first week in December. There are only about 6 home games each year, so each one is pretty special. However, if it is your rival or the teams are highly ranked then they tend to get more hype.
The second walkout is Virginia Tech, to Enter Sandman, and the stadium holds around 60,000 people and they regularly create seismic activity(small earthquakes). My sister goes there so I have been to a few games and nothing compares to that atmosphere truly. Insane.
Agree with this! I'm an SEC grad and of course, we think our football traditions are the best in the nation but when it comes to best entrance, it's Virginia Tech, period. I hope that passion never changes, even with Coach Beamer's retirement.
11 players on the field during play. About a hundred on the team. Hence, the fans at Texas A&M are referred to as the 12th man. The fans impact the game..
4:30 That particularly bright yellow corner is probably the students' section. Typically, students (and sometimes alumni) of American universities get free or very cheap tickets to school sporting events, and they have a whole section reserved for them at all the sports venues. Of course, by nature students tend to have a ton of school spirit, which means that they _pack_ the students' section, all decked out in the wide variety of school-colored t-shirts, jackets, scarves, and hats that are inevitably available at the university bookstore.
Every game is insane because every game of the season is important. But the night games, in state rivalry games, and conference games are a different beast all in itself lol.
Seeing enter sandman always gives me chills and I'm no VA tech fan at all. Whenever I see it at night I marvel at people who don't get sports. What an atmosphere
College football is amazing. When I was at LSU football games in college it was one of the most electric events I have ever witnessed. Most universities have so many students and their families attended that university producing even more fans and we show up for our team!
Yes, this is every college game. Each team plays 6 games at home, 6 on the road. Football is a religion in America with the kids (under 18) playing on Friday's, the boy (18-22) playing on Saturday's, and the men playing on Sunday's. Each of these stadiums are cathedral's dedicated to the game. A game which, by the way, is a war between two opposing forces, and most of the terminology of the game is taken from war strategies and tactics.
I went to Florida State, seeing Chief Osceola plant the flaming spear in the center of the field always got me excited for the upcoming game. It is one of my favorite college traditions.
College football is like having the playoffs for 14 games. One loss can keep out from playing for a national title….2 losses, that ship has sailed and you gotta aim for next year (the only 2 loss national champion in the BCS era (Bowl Championship Series) is the LSU Tigers in 2007) But normally that wouldn’t happen, you can make it and win with one loss but you would need alot of help (other teams have to lose to help your case) and in alot of cases some teams can go undefeated and never get in at all (factors like the conference you play in, the strength of your schedule, wins versus other ranked opponents, etc) which is wild alot of the time.
9:21 - Aggravating that they didn't show the horse rearing up and him spiking the spear into the ground. That's one of my most favorite traditions in college football. Ironically, my favorite team beat that team the last time my team won the National Championship.
While some of this is excitement for a "normal" game, there are very few "normal" games in college football. You have rivalry games and homecoming games, which bring out a lot of alumni. Also, prior to the college football playoff system, the National Champion was determined by a poll, which meant that 1 loss could end you chances at a championship. This meant that every game was essentially a playoff game.
Great reaction! It's the perfect combination of factors that generates this type of enthusiasm -- the students who are attending the school, the alumni of the school, and the community in general -- in some cases the school is hundreds of miles from a professional football team. It becomes an event -- a before, during, and after party. Fans, bands, cheerleaders, mascots -- and of course, the actual game, which is high level and exciting competition. The South does it the best -- but there are pockets in the East, Mid-West and West. There are better videos than this one -- I think it's called "the best American sports fans" which features college football and college basketball. The March Madness college basketball videos are crazy -- featuring last second buzzer beaters.
I live in Nebraska USA and I remember that night. This video brought tears down my face thank you I enjoy watching your family and videos about America.. my fathers family came to Plymouth Massachusetts on the ship the Hopewell in 1635 during the puritan migration so I always feel like the UK is family..
These are college football traditions some are new some are a 100 years old. There's nothing like college football and the home team does this every home game
Went to Tcu vs Texas this year in Austin Texas and it was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before! The atmosphere over the whole city was crazy all weekend leading up to the game!! And the pregame atmosphere was unreal!!
The "Red River Rivalry" or "Red River Shootout" is hige between Texas and University of Oklahoma. The game was in your video. Its always played in Dallas. That is always a killer game!!!
The yellow in that bottom corner of the Michigan game was the student section! Generally the rowdiest and honestly the drunkest section of fans at any college football game.
It's a competition in college football who can have the toughest environment. The key is make it harder for the other team because every game is important to making the playoff.
Couple responses to some of your guys questions. The entrances are the same for every home game. For the amount of players the NCAA requires 85 players to be roasted but the max is over 100. For the NFL they can't have more than 53 players rostered.
Home game atmosphere at places like Ohio State and Tennessee are on another level. It's massively theatrical and you can't help but get swept up in it. Certainly they'd never go for this buildup in EPL or the Bundesliga, but if they did it would be glorious
Beaver Stadium (Penn State Nittany Lions) has decibel readers and the mini seisometers through out the measure the ground shaking and the noise made during a game (especially the white out).
every...single...game...it is taken up a notch for special games...also they left out the best entrance...Colorado Buffalos run out behind Ralfie the Buffalo...she is a sweet little 1,300 pound thing
These are so sick. You gotta appreciate that a lot of these guys schedules day to day are insanely loaded. You gotta love what you do to have the energy to keep that up.
It's every game. I'm from Tennessee, part of the (SEC) South Eastern Conference. We go crazy every weekend. College Football is a religion in the South. Love it much more than the NFL, but love them too. Enjoying your channel...
Exactly! Beverly! FACTS!👍 I'm from Texas.Yes! a Texas Longhorns Fan Since '98.I call The Best Conference in College Football "The NFL minor leagues "😂😂 We...well,they, other UT will be seeing and hearing ROCKY TOP in either 2023,or 2024.I HATE that Texas STUPIDITY joined the SEC.I said Nooooo!😳 what a foolish money grab move.when I saw on my local news that night.I was so angry,I just put my arms on top of my head yelling obscenities at my TV!😡😡It went something like this:👉"What the (BLEEP) we can't even beat,TCU (you seen what Georgia did to them..MERCY!😳) Univ.Washington,Texas Tech.What the (BLEEP) are they doing? There goes any Conference Titles,No Bowl games.Hell, Kentucky is now good in football" The Tennessee Vols Band and kickoff team is going to get winded by the 2nd quarter,they will have to pre-record thier Fight Song.The kickoff team wouldn't even run down field.Just kick the ball into the 3rd row with the 4th string kicker.😳😳 I HATE that Texas is leaving.Stay in The Big-12 where we can at least win 7- games.I bought all the 2005 National Championship Gear I could.Don't believe the 3rd ranked recruiting class rankings of 2023,but our HS football is not as good as it use to be.I follow it very closely here in Texas.Nice Checkerboard End Zone!👍🏈🇺🇲
@@anthonyjolly2066 Welcome to the SEC, best conference ever. You will love it. Trust me! Nothing like Saturday in the SEC. Can't wait for the UT vs the other UT game. Go Big Orange, Rocky Top will be Rocking!!!
@@beverlydorn9498Yeah! no argument from me.Boy! I'm so scared,that I could make coffee nervous!😳I seen the SEC on CBS and it's network..GEESH! the speed,the size,the pure athletes.We will look like Texas Christian University (TCU) in every game.The Board of Regents at Texas is going to REGRET joining the SEC.We are NOT good enough.I haven't stop shaking my NO! since I heard of Texas making this move.So,what we have Sarkisian,(no relation to the singer,actress Cher..yes that's her last name) We just lost the Alamo Bowl to Washington.😡Even though #11 Jalen Hyatt is going too the NFL,still Tenn.with HC Josh Heipel just put the next Parade All-American in at WR.Bevely,we don't have those athletes.It will be fun for Vols fans,not the other UT.We are doomed.We might beat the other,other, school in Tennessee, Vanderbilt in 3OT's.That song 'Bama band and fans was singing something like "Hey! Texas,we're going to beat the hell out you" I was at that game,I was scared of those SEC fans.I wore just a white plain T-shirt.Yes! Rocky Top,and Smokey will get tired of doing push-ups.The Eyes Of Texas gets played only 1-time...after the beat down.I hope Texas goes too KNOCKS-ville..oops! I mean Knoxville.😂 I call it that,bc they are going to KNOCK our 'Horns in the turf at beautiful Neyland Stadium.Thank You for being kind.Texas Fans don't deserve this torture..we don't.. it's not right!😭🥴🥴
@@anthonyjolly2066 Stop it! You guys will be okay. If anything your recruiting will get better, being in the SEC. Hope that doesn't make you mad for me saying that. Look forward to it. I can't wait. You never know what will happen in a game. Look what happened to us at So. Carolina. What? We are still wondering who that was wearing the orange & white that night? We have great fans, you will see. No torturing involved...
@@beverlydorn9498 No! No! Your right that doesn't make me mad,I'm just expressing my concerns.I've seen Texas have a Top- 5,or 10 recruiting class year after year since the '05 title season.All the expectations,get our hopes up,then Texas ends up with a 6-6,or 5-7 record 😡I also seen a lot of these guys play in HS.Just a little overrated.Like a 5-Star should be more of a 4-Star.The Conference hasn't put out what SEC division Texas would be in.I'm guessing in the division with rival Texas A&M,LSU,Arkansas, Oklahoma,Missouri,and Alabama.A lot of people here in Texas,even our own Governor Abbott been wanting to see Horns vs Aggies.Man! we had nice little cocoon,then the powers that be had to mess things up.Sometimes things are good enough we'll left alone..ughh!🥴🥴
The Tennessee entrance is called 'Running Through The T'. The T is formed by the UT Pride of the Southland Band. They've done this since 1965. It started in 1962 with the basketball team.
I went to Clemson, That clip didn’t have the music (Tiger Rag). It is staggering how loud it is. My room was about 1.5 miles from the stadium, and still stupid obvious when the the team ran in. Also, the thing at the top is a rock from Death Valley California (the nickname of Frank Howard Field is ‘Death Valley’ (dont’ get me started on LSU about the nickname or the music).
The virginia tech "hokies" during intro to home games it registers on the seismograph/Richter scale. "Measures earthquakes" Maybe that's common idk but really cool especially being from a small town. I believe lane stadiums capacity is like 67,000ish people which is insane for college football. Ik it's small compared to other college stadiums but sometimes the pics/videos dont do it justice! I've been a hokie fan my entire life "even tho they been struggling recently" but when I hear enter sandman it gives me goosebumps.
to your question at 12:16: In America, throughout high-school (or secondary school) and college sports, teams have what is called a "home-coming game". This game signifies the first home game after the teams longest streak of away games, they also have a "senior night" which is the last home game of the season and the last one that the current years graduating class will play in.. so most of these amazing entrances are home-coming or senior night games.. none the less, every game, the home team does have an entrance pre-game, and the fans are always jumping.
As a footnote, Virginia Tech, the school that has the Hokie mascot and enters to "Enter Sandman." That entrance shows up as seismic activity. That's not an exaggeration. If you don't know that Virginia Tech is having a football game, you might think there was a small earthquake in the area.
10:55 I lived in South Carolina for 6 years and saw a few games there in my time. Williams-Brice Stadium holds 77,500ish officially. But as you can see in the video people often stock up on the spiral ramps of the concourse because for big games they will sell "concourse tickets" where you aren't guaranteed a spot but can find one standing along those rails. As a result some games see 160,000 attendees and 100,000 in the actual stadium.
A max of 85 scholarship players are allowed each year in FBS (Division I), and 63 for FCS (Division II). Max player limit was 105, but that may have increased because of the new transfer portal that came 2 years ago. Not too sure. The players over the scholarship limit are walk-ons and pay their own way. I think the minimum player number needed aligns with scholarship limits. 25 scholarships are allowed to be given each year to incoming recruits (freshman or transfers). That limit has been suspended for the next two seasons, because the new transfer portal has caused a ton of roster turnover. Before the transfer portal, you'd have to sit out the following year at your new school if you switched. Now, you can transfer one time without sitting out the following year. If you transfer a second time, you'd have to sit out a year. The NCAA also gave every athlete who was in college at the time of COVID one extra year of eligibility (5 instead of 4), since so many games were canceled. So, athletes who are currently juniors or seniors still have their extra year if they choose to use it. Note: All athletes have 5 years to use 4 years of eligibility. Coaches will redshirt a freshman if they aren't ready to play (happens often in football) to save their full 4 years. In football, a player can still use a redshirt year if they haven't played above a certain percentage of the season's game (usually 4 games). A medical redshirt can be petitioned for and allow 6th year (6 years to play 4 years) if an athlete gets hurt early in the season.
What I dont think yall quite understand is how deafeningly loud the stadiums are. Its extremely easy to underestimate how loud they are when watching a video on youtube.
5:57 that's the naval recognition flag for a hurricane/typhoon. The Miami Hurricanes is the team featured. 6:43 that's the current(as of the filming) head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers walking out with the older man, who is Tom Osbourne. Osbourne is the greatest coach in Nebraska history who led them to a record of 255-49-3 and appeared in a Bowl Game every season he was head coach. Nebraska fell from prominence when he retired, yet, they remain 8th all time in wins despite nearly two decades of mediocrity. That's how good they WERE. You guys should react to the Wisconsin Badgers - "jump around" tradition.
The entrance is a huge part of football in general even at the High School level. I remember during my high school years running through a large banner with fireworks behind us while the band played our fight song. Its fully intended to get the home team and crowd juiced up and let me tell you it works because we’d be so ready to hit someone we’d be on the sidelines head butting each other 😂
In the UT video (the orange team) they ran through the power T formation that the band makes. It's for the University of Tennessee and it's a pretty unique tradition that we have here. Not many people get to run through a letter symbolizing the team's name. Really proud to be a Vol fan. We have one of the coolest stadiums/traditions in all of football.
They can have as many as 85 players on a team. You have your starters, then your backups in the form of 2nd string 3rd string and even down to 4th string players. Guys get hurt all the time, so you need replacements, and sometimes replacements get hurt. The 49ers in the NFL was a good example of that this season, their number one QB got hurt, then number two, then number three, they were down to their 4th QB and that hurt them in the playoffs.
College football entrances are like no other. On your level, think of our “average game during the season” entrance vs your championship winners exit… and it happens every week. Except in some stadiums…. It’s over 110,000 screaming people. Crazy and loved playing in it, was a dream.
I really like your channel. As an American, it is fun to see your reactions to these US college football videos. We also have, of course, professional football, but the atmosphere is very different - not as wild and exciting as college football. If you haven't yet seen it, I suggest you check out the University of Florida's tradition of the fans singing in unison Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down" at the end of the third quarter of the game. The stadium holds 88,000 fans, and it is usually full, so the it's quite a spectacle.
I always love it when the officers assigned as security get into it during the entrances, too. Like in the FSU clip,you can see the sheriff’s deputy’s hat bobbing up and down to the chant. Also, as a Hawkeye, I’d be remiss not to request that you check out The Wave if you do a football tradition reaction. It’s a beautiful tradition. Moving to watch on TV. INDESCRIBABLE in person. 🖤💛👋🏾 (Our entrance-aka The Swarm-isn’t too shabby either! 😉)
Due to the possibility of injuries in American football, the “travel squad” is about 50 to 60 guys compared to the 22 that you put on the field with both offense and defense When the game starts. It’s a big deal to make the “travel squad” as a young guy. The first time I made the travel squad as a freshman was a big deal. I wrote home to my parents.
Many of these stadiums hold over 100K. Incredible noise levels. Throw in the HOT cheerleaders, what better way to spend a fall Saturday! Yes you have marching bands! It`s quite the experience.
I went to Florida State University (aka FSU) and football season is amazing. You should watch a full pregame ceremony as it's one of the best in the nation. Chief Osceola riding Renegade onto the field and planting the flaming spear is awesome! The tailgating before the game and parties after are always fun. I feel very lucky to have gone to a school with such a great football program. It made weekends much more fun. It's also a friendly bunch of people for the most part. You can walk around at tailgating and meet people from opposing schools and share drinks and food. It's just great party environement.
the third team with all of the yellow is michigan and that stadium is biggest in college football at 108,000. you mentioned the more yellow in the bottom corner of the stadium....that is the student section. current students get free tickets to the game and all sit in the student section. it is by far the rowdiest, loudest and most colorful part of every stadium (every team has student section)
I went to Clemson (the first team featured on this video where the players run down the hill). Clemson is a school that has a pretty good engineering department. There’s a lie upper-classmen tell Freshman to freak them out … they say, “don’t jump to hard in the student section during a game. Word has it that the engineering majors replaced the stadium support with bamboo as part of a study. I hope this is the year it doesn’t break.”
My high school football team had over 200 players! We were ESPN and Sports Illustrated winner of the winningest town in America. The Valdosta Wildcats and the county high school and university in Lowndes County Georgia
Some of these shown in this video were special games like two highly ranked teams or a special tribute to a coach, but with that said pretty much every game is like this. Now if you are 1-11 and it’s a noon game probably not shooting off fireworks but the entrance and the theatrics are the same regardless of the “importance” of the game for most power 5 teams
American universities were once strongly tied to the military - dating back to the early 19th Century. Students were expected to participate in military science courses - this was especially true at universities with concentrations in the physical sciences. They would then receive commissions as officers in state militiae, subject to federal call-up in times of war. Marching bands are the product of that tradition. Because bugles, drums, and trumpets were used to communicate orders on a battlefield, university cadets would give demonstrations of precision marching and close order drill, based on musical cadence. The practice evolved to simply having the band itself do the marching. Those origins are the reason today's band uniforms still have a quasi-military, anachronistic sort of appearance - bear skin hats, epaulets, that type of thing.
this stuff pretty much happens for every regular season and even more intense for playoffs. I went a blue vs. white penn state game a couple years ago which is just an exhibition where the penn state offense plays the penn state defense and even that had a military flyover so its ridiculous how serious its taken
@@DNReacts Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park is the closest 'Premier League' atmosphere to a college game. They get really rowdy, and they have cheerleaders.
The yellow in the bottom corner is the student section. It's sort of the away section for home fans when compared to "soccer"...most colleges have discount or even free seats for students and they're all sat in 1 section
Third comment today 😂 but finally glad to see Nebraska get the respect they deserve. We've been bad for a while so people forget we won 5 national titles and a ton of conference titles over a 27 year period and are one of 8 blue blood programs in college football. Not to mention a sellout streak that dates to 1962. I've seen some comments on other UA-cam videos saying we're arrogant but really we're just proud.
Why so many players? 1. Teams have around 25 new players per yr that need developing. 2. The starters, #2s & best #3 back up players play significant snaps per game. 3. Scout teams, offensive/defensive players that are not quite good enough are used as practice dummies. They simulate the up coming opponents game plans in practice . This is done so the #1s can focus on what they need to do instead of playing the roll of the opponent in practice. 125 players per team with 85 scholarships players (per the rules ). Only 75 travel on away ganes .
The Iowa Hawkeyes are the only ones that come out hand in hand. After the 1st quarter, everyone, including the other team, turned and did a wave to the children in the kids wing of our hospital. The coach kirk ferentz started it. Theres a little you tube video about how the wave came to be, Kirk Ferentz son lost their baby after a week at the hospital, and its so sad to see him tear up. Anyway, the players come down the tunnel to back in black acdc😁
College Football is huge. Everyone is pumped up on Saturdays here in the US. Being from Oklahoma we love our Football here. But there's nothing like College Football in my opinion
This is pretty normal for all the big college football teams. One way to know if it’s a championship type game there will be a flyover from the United States military. But yes college football is a big deal, it’s a great experience, the tailgating, drinking, barbecuing starts days before, travel trailers everywhere outside the stadium, watching the other games while cheering with all the fans till the start, then you saw the entrances to these games. It’s a lot of fun. Oh don’t worry about pitch or field. It’s actually cool hearing the differences and sharing them.
If you ever want to experience a college football game you have to go to the Florida vs Georgia game in Jacksonville Florida in late October. It’s called the Worlds Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party
I feel the need to explain the first one (Clemson) as an alumni! The rock is called “Howard’s Rock”, and there is a tradition where the players rub the rock before each game and then run down the hill into “Death Valley” (the stadium). It was gifted to the coach Frank Howard in the 60s and it was put in the east end zone in 1966. Clemson was losing to Virginia with less than 20 mins in the game, but won by a good margin in the end. The next season they started rubbing the rock for tradition, and Coach Howard said “if you’re not going to give 110%, keep your filthy hands off my rock”. Now, as a pregame tradition the student section chants that before the team comes out in pregame. The stadium is also called Death Valley because a coach from another school in the 40s said coming to Clemson just to lose every time was like a “Death Valley” and it stuck.
Spectacles that you see on the screen happen, every game based upon the size and complexity of the University. Most of the band members are music majors in college and all are participants volunteers. Halftime spectacle is provided by the bands of both teams usually. Sometimes the opposing team must travel too far, and the respective band will not travel. The precision and the musicianship of college bands is truly accents, considering that they have to create a show each week that is different from the previous week in three days.
1) The number of players is roughly mid-80s. That's the number of full and partial scholarships (60ish)+ the few dozen walk-ons. 2) In the South-East, hence SouthEastern Conference (SEC: the best college football conference) this is EVERY single game! 3) We would love to have you over even if you know barely nothing. It's a party!
Come watch real football in the Midwest in November. The Big House is the biggest College Stadium in the world, holds 115,000 people. GO BLUE.!!!!!! Football in the cold weather is real football.
Plz watch the Iowa home game traditions where they wave to the children next door at the Children's Hospital!!!! It brings a tear to my eye EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT!!!! Plz react to the Iowa home game tradition!!!
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They way college football works one loss can keep you out of the playoff, so every weekend is an important game
Correction. The way the college football "playoff" works
You need Ohio State, Alabama, and either Clemson or Georgia, plus some random university that over-performed that season.
@@heywoodjablowme8120very very over exaggeration and disrespect to the other conferences buddy.
@@tyreek.6815 Not really an exaggeration since SEC teams won 6 of the last 10 championships......and 7 in a row before that! They also have the most NFL players by a good margin.
@@heywoodjablowme8120 pac 12 is barely even considered college football compared to the mighty SEC
@@heywoodjablowme8120 the SEC has totally dominated for the last 30 years … that’s quite the “ cycle”
There are approximately 100 players on each roster. Don't forget - this is still college (they are 18-22 years old) and most are on scholarship receiving a free college education, enjoying continuing to play football and will then enter the real world after graduation like the rest of us. Only about 1% of high school players play Division 1 football and about 1% of those players make it to the NFL.
These entrances are for a typical game played every Saturday. It's even bigger for rivalries, Bowl Games and obviously the National Championship.
At the highest level of college football, teams are allowed 85 scholarship players per season. The number only approaches 100 for home games where the "walk-ons" (pay their own tuition) get to dress and be on the sideline. Visiting teams are limited to 70 players.
They missed the University of Colorado entrance with Ralphie (a actual American Bison runs the field).
Just curious here. How many Ralphies have there been at Colorado University?
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@@UnreliableFuture Good to know. Thanks. 😊
College football is arguably bigger the the NFL in the US. It's HUGE and INSANELY fun to be in a crowd like that.
Most of these are like homecoming or rivalry games that everyone gets extra excited for
There's definitely a few games like this every year for each school though
Most of the time I get a bigger kick out of a college games than a NFL game.
No arguably about it. It is a fact. By any measurement, college football is bigger than the NFL.
Agreed
College football runs from late August to the first week in December. There are only about 6 home games each year, so each one is pretty special. However, if it is your rival or the teams are highly ranked then they tend to get more hype.
And likely more interesting. Been to many a Ga/Ga Tech/ Clemson games. It's pretty nuts every game.
The second walkout is Virginia Tech, to Enter Sandman, and the stadium holds around 60,000 people and they regularly create seismic activity(small earthquakes). My sister goes there so I have been to a few games and nothing compares to that atmosphere truly. Insane.
Agree with this! I'm an SEC grad and of course, we think our football traditions are the best in the nation but when it comes to best entrance, it's Virginia Tech, period. I hope that passion never changes, even with Coach Beamer's retirement.
Each time it registers on the Richter Scale (which measures earthquakes)
I always thought the Iowa Hawkeye wave with the children's hospital was super neat.
11 players on the field during play. About a hundred on the team. Hence, the fans at Texas A&M are referred to as the 12th man. The fans impact the game..
I completely see why. The fans are brilliant!
4:30 That particularly bright yellow corner is probably the students' section. Typically, students (and sometimes alumni) of American universities get free or very cheap tickets to school sporting events, and they have a whole section reserved for them at all the sports venues. Of course, by nature students tend to have a ton of school spirit, which means that they _pack_ the students' section, all decked out in the wide variety of school-colored t-shirts, jackets, scarves, and hats that are inevitably available at the university bookstore.
Every game is insane because every game of the season is important. But the night games, in state rivalry games, and conference games are a different beast all in itself lol.
dont forget about home coming and senior night games.. so yeah pretty much every game lol
Every game isn't going to be important anymore.
They're degrading the magic of college football by trying to model it after the NFL for money.
Seeing enter sandman always gives me chills and I'm no VA tech fan at all. Whenever I see it at night I marvel at people who don't get sports. What an atmosphere
College football is amazing. When I was at LSU football games in college it was one of the most electric events I have ever witnessed. Most universities have so many students and their families attended that university producing even more fans and we show up for our team!
Yes, this is every college game. Each team plays 6 games at home, 6 on the road. Football is a religion in America with the kids (under 18) playing on Friday's, the boy (18-22) playing on Saturday's, and the men playing on Sunday's. Each of these stadiums are cathedral's dedicated to the game. A game which, by the way, is a war between two opposing forces, and most of the terminology of the game is taken from war strategies and tactics.
@@lagronemikal That would be 7 and 5, but I see your point.
I went to Florida State, seeing Chief Osceola plant the flaming spear in the center of the field always got me excited for the upcoming game. It is one of my favorite college traditions.
College football is like having the playoffs for 14 games. One loss can keep out from playing for a national title….2 losses, that ship has sailed and you gotta aim for next year (the only 2 loss national champion in the BCS era (Bowl Championship Series) is the LSU Tigers in 2007) But normally that wouldn’t happen, you can make it and win with one loss but you would need alot of help (other teams have to lose to help your case) and in alot of cases some teams can go undefeated and never get in at all (factors like the conference you play in, the strength of your schedule, wins versus other ranked opponents, etc) which is wild alot of the time.
9:21 - Aggravating that they didn't show the horse rearing up and him spiking the spear into the ground. That's one of my most favorite traditions in college football.
Ironically, my favorite team beat that team the last time my team won the National Championship.
While some of this is excitement for a "normal" game, there are very few "normal" games in college football. You have rivalry games and homecoming games, which bring out a lot of alumni. Also, prior to the college football playoff system, the National Champion was determined by a poll, which meant that 1 loss could end you chances at a championship. This meant that every game was essentially a playoff game.
Great reaction! It's the perfect combination of factors that generates this type of enthusiasm -- the students who are attending the school, the alumni of the school, and the community in general -- in some cases the school is hundreds of miles from a professional football team. It becomes an event -- a before, during, and after party. Fans, bands, cheerleaders, mascots -- and of course, the actual game, which is high level and exciting competition. The South does it the best -- but there are pockets in the East, Mid-West and West. There are better videos than this one -- I think it's called "the best American sports fans" which features college football and college basketball. The March Madness college basketball videos are crazy -- featuring last second buzzer beaters.
Thank you! We really enjoyed this one!
I live in Nebraska USA and I remember that night. This video brought tears down my face thank you I enjoy watching your family and videos about America.. my fathers family came to Plymouth Massachusetts on the ship the Hopewell in 1635 during the puritan migration so I always feel like the UK is family..
Anytime the video of Coach Osborne is shown I can't help but to shed some tears.
Every Game!!!
The Hokies are Virginia Tech and they are about 45 minutes south of me and that stadium is right on campus and it’s incredible to see
College football stadiums still blow my mind to this day. I went to a Penn State white out game once and my ears were ringing for 3 days after that😂😂
Every Game !!!!!!!!
Yall gotta come to the SEC and see a game. Experience it!!! Especially a rivalry game. I recommend the Iron Bowl. Auburn vs. Alabama.
These are college football traditions some are new some are a 100 years old. There's nothing like college football and the home team does this every home game
Went to Tcu vs Texas this year in Austin Texas and it was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before! The atmosphere over the whole city was crazy all weekend leading up to the game!! And the pregame atmosphere was unreal!!
Some might be more hyped for big games, but there are big entrances before all games.
Pretty much.
Yes. Every game
The "Red River Rivalry" or "Red River Shootout" is hige between Texas and University of Oklahoma. The game was in your video. Its always played in Dallas. That is always a killer game!!!
The yellow in that bottom corner of the Michigan game was the student section! Generally the rowdiest and honestly the drunkest section of fans at any college football game.
It's a competition in college football who can have the toughest environment. The key is make it harder for the other team because every game is important to making the playoff.
Every red-blooded American football fan marks their calendars for September 1st. Autumn in the U.S. is GLORIOUS. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🏈🏈🏈
Couple responses to some of your guys questions. The entrances are the same for every home game. For the amount of players the NCAA requires 85 players to be roasted but the max is over 100. For the NFL they can't have more than 53 players rostered.
Thank you for confirming Steve, great info!
Home game atmosphere at places like Ohio State and Tennessee are on another level. It's massively theatrical and you can't help but get swept up in it. Certainly they'd never go for this buildup in EPL or the Bundesliga, but if they did it would be glorious
Beaver Stadium (Penn State Nittany Lions) has decibel readers and the mini seisometers through out the measure the ground shaking and the noise made during a game (especially the white out).
every...single...game...it is taken up a notch for special games...also they left out the best entrance...Colorado Buffalos run out behind Ralfie the Buffalo...she is a sweet little 1,300 pound thing
These are so sick. You gotta appreciate that a lot of these guys schedules day to day are insanely loaded. You gotta love what you do to have the energy to keep that up.
It's every game. I'm from Tennessee, part of the (SEC) South Eastern Conference. We go crazy every weekend. College Football is a religion in the South. Love it much more than the NFL, but love them too. Enjoying your channel...
Exactly! Beverly! FACTS!👍 I'm from Texas.Yes! a Texas Longhorns Fan Since '98.I call The Best Conference in College Football "The NFL minor leagues "😂😂 We...well,they, other UT will be seeing and hearing ROCKY TOP in either 2023,or 2024.I HATE that Texas STUPIDITY joined the SEC.I said Nooooo!😳 what a foolish money grab move.when I saw on my local news that night.I was so angry,I just put my arms on top of my head yelling obscenities at my TV!😡😡It went something like this:👉"What the (BLEEP) we can't even beat,TCU (you seen what Georgia did to them..MERCY!😳) Univ.Washington,Texas Tech.What the (BLEEP) are they doing? There goes any Conference Titles,No Bowl games.Hell, Kentucky is now good in football" The Tennessee Vols Band and kickoff team is going to get winded by the 2nd quarter,they will have to pre-record thier Fight Song.The kickoff team wouldn't even run down field.Just kick the ball into the 3rd row with the 4th string kicker.😳😳 I HATE that Texas is leaving.Stay in The Big-12 where we can at least win 7- games.I bought all the 2005 National Championship Gear I could.Don't believe the 3rd ranked recruiting class rankings of 2023,but our HS football is not as good as it use to be.I follow it very closely here in Texas.Nice Checkerboard End Zone!👍🏈🇺🇲
@@anthonyjolly2066 Welcome to the SEC, best conference ever. You will love it. Trust me! Nothing like Saturday in the SEC. Can't wait for the UT vs the other UT game. Go Big Orange, Rocky Top will be Rocking!!!
@@beverlydorn9498Yeah! no argument from me.Boy! I'm so scared,that I could make coffee nervous!😳I seen the SEC on CBS and it's network..GEESH! the speed,the size,the pure athletes.We will look like Texas Christian University (TCU) in every game.The Board of Regents at Texas is going to REGRET joining the SEC.We are NOT good enough.I haven't stop shaking my NO! since I heard of Texas making this move.So,what we have Sarkisian,(no relation to the singer,actress Cher..yes that's her last name) We just lost the Alamo Bowl to Washington.😡Even though #11 Jalen Hyatt is going too the NFL,still Tenn.with HC Josh Heipel just put the next Parade All-American in at WR.Bevely,we don't have those athletes.It will be fun for Vols fans,not the other UT.We are doomed.We might beat the other,other, school in Tennessee, Vanderbilt in 3OT's.That song 'Bama band and fans was singing something like "Hey! Texas,we're going to beat the hell out you" I was at that game,I was scared of those SEC fans.I wore just a white plain T-shirt.Yes! Rocky Top,and Smokey will get tired of doing push-ups.The Eyes Of Texas gets played only 1-time...after the beat down.I hope Texas goes too KNOCKS-ville..oops! I mean Knoxville.😂 I call it that,bc they are going to KNOCK our 'Horns in the turf at beautiful Neyland Stadium.Thank You for being kind.Texas Fans don't deserve this torture..we don't.. it's not right!😭🥴🥴
@@anthonyjolly2066 Stop it! You guys will be okay. If anything your recruiting will get better, being in the SEC. Hope that doesn't make you mad for me saying that. Look forward to it. I can't wait. You never know what will happen in a game. Look what happened to us at So. Carolina. What? We are still wondering who that was wearing the orange & white that night? We have great fans, you will see. No torturing involved...
@@beverlydorn9498 No! No! Your right that doesn't make me mad,I'm just expressing my concerns.I've seen Texas have a Top- 5,or 10 recruiting class year after year since the '05 title season.All the expectations,get our hopes up,then Texas ends up with a 6-6,or 5-7 record 😡I also seen a lot of these guys play in HS.Just a little overrated.Like a 5-Star should be more of a 4-Star.The Conference hasn't put out what SEC division Texas would be in.I'm guessing in the division with rival Texas A&M,LSU,Arkansas, Oklahoma,Missouri,and Alabama.A lot of people here in Texas,even our own Governor Abbott been wanting to see Horns vs Aggies.Man! we had nice little cocoon,then the powers that be had to mess things up.Sometimes things are good enough we'll left alone..ughh!🥴🥴
The Tennessee entrance is called 'Running Through The T'. The T is formed by the UT Pride of the Southland Band. They've done this since 1965. It started in 1962 with the basketball team.
Please react to college and high school football teams doing the “Haka” ritual dance.
I went to Clemson, That clip didn’t have the music (Tiger Rag). It is staggering how loud it is. My room was about 1.5 miles from the stadium, and still stupid obvious when the the team ran in. Also, the thing at the top is a rock from Death Valley California (the nickname of Frank Howard Field is ‘Death Valley’ (dont’ get me started on LSU about the nickname or the music).
All these entrances are just the normal entrance during home games for these teams... the vibe is always electric!!!
The virginia tech "hokies" during intro to home games it registers on the seismograph/Richter scale. "Measures earthquakes" Maybe that's common idk but really cool especially being from a small town. I believe lane stadiums capacity is like 67,000ish people which is insane for college football. Ik it's small compared to other college stadiums but sometimes the pics/videos dont do it justice! I've been a hokie fan my entire life "even tho they been struggling recently" but when I hear enter sandman it gives me goosebumps.
That sounds amazing!
to your question at 12:16: In America, throughout high-school (or secondary school) and college sports, teams have what is called a "home-coming game". This game signifies the first home game after the teams longest streak of away games, they also have a "senior night" which is the last home game of the season and the last one that the current years graduating class will play in.. so most of these amazing entrances are home-coming or senior night games.. none the less, every game, the home team does have an entrance pre-game, and the fans are always jumping.
As a footnote, Virginia Tech, the school that has the Hokie mascot and enters to "Enter Sandman." That entrance shows up as seismic activity. That's not an exaggeration. If you don't know that Virginia Tech is having a football game, you might think there was a small earthquake in the area.
There are a few games known as "Earth Quake" games that actually registered on the Richter Scale
Chief Osceola riding out on renegade and planting the burning spear at midfield 🍢
10:55 I lived in South Carolina for 6 years and saw a few games there in my time. Williams-Brice Stadium holds 77,500ish officially. But as you can see in the video people often stock up on the spiral ramps of the concourse because for big games they will sell "concourse tickets" where you aren't guaranteed a spot but can find one standing along those rails. As a result some games see 160,000 attendees and 100,000 in the actual stadium.
Thanks for the comment Liam - That is crazy, 160,000!! That must have been some atmosphere
Nothing like football under the lights of Willy B USC Columbia SC
The bands and dance teams for the schools perform during halftime and you do need to react to the bands - they are incredible.
We will be doing bands soon!
You get this in college stadiums across the whole country on Saturdays
A max of 85 scholarship players are allowed each year in FBS (Division I), and 63 for FCS (Division II). Max player limit was 105, but that may have increased because of the new transfer portal that came 2 years ago. Not too sure. The players over the scholarship limit are walk-ons and pay their own way. I think the minimum player number needed aligns with scholarship limits.
25 scholarships are allowed to be given each year to incoming recruits (freshman or transfers). That limit has been suspended for the next two seasons, because the new transfer portal has caused a ton of roster turnover.
Before the transfer portal, you'd have to sit out the following year at your new school if you switched. Now, you can transfer one time without sitting out the following year. If you transfer a second time, you'd have to sit out a year.
The NCAA also gave every athlete who was in college at the time of COVID one extra year of eligibility (5 instead of 4), since so many games were canceled. So, athletes who are currently juniors or seniors still have their extra year if they choose to use it.
Note: All athletes have 5 years to use 4 years of eligibility. Coaches will redshirt a freshman if they aren't ready to play (happens often in football) to save their full 4 years. In football, a player can still use a redshirt year if they haven't played above a certain percentage of the season's game (usually 4 games). A medical redshirt can be petitioned for and allow 6th year (6 years to play 4 years) if an athlete gets hurt early in the season.
What I dont think yall quite understand is how deafeningly loud the stadiums are. Its extremely easy to underestimate how loud they are when watching a video on youtube.
We can’t understand that fully without being there! But it looks incredible!
5:57 that's the naval recognition flag for a hurricane/typhoon. The Miami Hurricanes is the team featured.
6:43 that's the current(as of the filming) head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers walking out with the older man, who is Tom Osbourne. Osbourne is the greatest coach in Nebraska history who led them to a record of 255-49-3 and appeared in a Bowl Game every season he was head coach. Nebraska fell from prominence when he retired, yet, they remain 8th all time in wins despite nearly two decades of mediocrity. That's how good they WERE.
You guys should react to the Wisconsin Badgers - "jump around" tradition.
Thrilled they included my Vols in the reaction vids. Less than thrilled that it was a clip from the Butch Jones era.
The entrance is a huge part of football in general even at the High School level. I remember during my high school years running through a large banner with fireworks behind us while the band played our fight song. Its fully intended to get the home team and crowd juiced up and let me tell you it works because we’d be so ready to hit someone we’d be on the sidelines head butting each other 😂
8:29 College marching bands are actually mental, you gotta check them out
We will do!
In the UT video (the orange team) they ran through the power T formation that the band makes. It's for the University of Tennessee and it's a pretty unique tradition that we have here. Not many people get to run through a letter symbolizing the team's name. Really proud to be a Vol fan. We have one of the coolest stadiums/traditions in all of football.
Thanks for the info Tim!
@@DNReacts Last time I checked, we have the 8th largest stadium in the world. College football really is different!
@@DNReactsthe stadium seats 103,000
They can have as many as 85 players on a team. You have your starters, then your backups in the form of 2nd string 3rd string and even down to 4th string players. Guys get hurt all the time, so you need replacements, and sometimes replacements get hurt. The 49ers in the NFL was a good example of that this season, their number one QB got hurt, then number two, then number three, they were down to their 4th QB and that hurt them in the playoffs.
College football entrances are like no other. On your level, think of our “average game during the season” entrance vs your championship winners exit… and it happens every week. Except in some stadiums…. It’s over 110,000 screaming people. Crazy and loved playing in it, was a dream.
I really like your channel. As an American, it is fun to see your reactions to these US college football videos. We also have, of course, professional football, but the atmosphere is very different - not as wild and exciting as college football. If you haven't yet seen it, I suggest you check out the University of Florida's tradition of the fans singing in unison Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down" at the end of the third quarter of the game. The stadium holds 88,000 fans, and it is usually full, so the it's quite a spectacle.
“All this just for the entrance?” 🤣🤣🤣
If you are ever in Texas, I would be happy to give you a College Football experience. It is really special.
Watching them open that T in knoxville Tenessee Gives you chills in person
I always love it when the officers assigned as security get into it during the entrances, too. Like in the FSU clip,you can see the sheriff’s deputy’s hat bobbing up and down to the chant.
Also, as a Hawkeye, I’d be remiss not to request that you check out The Wave if you do a football tradition reaction. It’s a beautiful tradition. Moving to watch on TV. INDESCRIBABLE in person. 🖤💛👋🏾 (Our entrance-aka The Swarm-isn’t too shabby either! 😉)
Due to the possibility of injuries in American football, the “travel squad” is about 50 to 60 guys compared to the 22 that you put on the field with both offense and defense When the game starts.
It’s a big deal to make the “travel squad” as a young guy. The first time I made the travel squad as a freshman was a big deal. I wrote home to my parents.
Many of these stadiums hold over 100K. Incredible noise levels. Throw in the HOT cheerleaders, what
better way to spend a fall Saturday! Yes you have marching bands! It`s quite the experience.
You guys should look at college basketball! Equally as wild!
We will!
This is EVERY game!!! You should show up hours before for tailgating... It's amazing!!!
"Is this a normal game..." This is EVERY game
I went to Florida State University (aka FSU) and football season is amazing. You should watch a full pregame ceremony as it's one of the best in the nation. Chief Osceola riding Renegade onto the field and planting the flaming spear is awesome! The tailgating before the game and parties after are always fun. I feel very lucky to have gone to a school with such a great football program. It made weekends much more fun. It's also a friendly bunch of people for the most part. You can walk around at tailgating and meet people from opposing schools and share drinks and food. It's just great party environement.
the third team with all of the yellow is michigan and that stadium is biggest in college football at 108,000. you mentioned the more yellow in the bottom corner of the stadium....that is the student section. current students get free tickets to the game and all sit in the student section. it is by far the rowdiest, loudest and most colorful part of every stadium (every team has student section)
I went to Clemson (the first team featured on this video where the players run down the hill). Clemson is a school that has a pretty good engineering department. There’s a lie upper-classmen tell Freshman to freak them out … they say, “don’t jump to hard in the student section during a game. Word has it that the engineering majors replaced the stadium support with bamboo as part of a study. I hope this is the year it doesn’t break.”
if i can remember im pretty sure it has the largest fan capacity in the USA
My high school football team had over 200 players! We were ESPN and Sports Illustrated winner of the winningest town in America. The Valdosta Wildcats and the county high school and university in Lowndes County Georgia
Some of these shown in this video were special games like two highly ranked teams or a special tribute to a coach, but with that said pretty much every game is like this. Now if you are 1-11 and it’s a noon game probably not shooting off fireworks but the entrance and the theatrics are the same regardless of the “importance” of the game for most power 5 teams
Some are definitely more emotional based on the opposition but every game is a spectacle. It's incredibly wild to be a part of, so much fun!
American universities were once strongly tied to the military - dating back to the early 19th Century. Students were expected to participate in military science courses - this was especially true at universities with concentrations in the physical sciences. They would then receive commissions as officers in state militiae, subject to federal call-up in times of war.
Marching bands are the product of that tradition. Because bugles, drums, and trumpets were used to communicate orders on a battlefield, university cadets would give demonstrations of precision marching and close order drill, based on musical cadence.
The practice evolved to simply having the band itself do the marching. Those origins are the reason today's band uniforms still have a quasi-military, anachronistic sort of appearance - bear skin hats, epaulets, that type of thing.
College football is a multi-billion dollar industry in itself. It's huge! It's awesome!!!
Every game is special!
this stuff pretty much happens for every regular season and even more intense for playoffs. I went a blue vs. white penn state game a couple years ago which is just an exhibition where the penn state offense plays the penn state defense and even that had a military flyover so its ridiculous how serious its taken
Watch some TEXAS high school state championship games if you think college pulls a big crowd. It’s huge on every level of the sport
You should check out the Tailgate Parties out in front of stadium before games.
PARTY STARTS EARLY 🤪 Fun Video,
The chicago Bulls basketball team come out to the court to the band, Alan Parson Project's song, Sirius also
I've seen videos of fans at soccer matches in Europe and it looks absolutely insane.
Yeah some of them can be so good!
@@DNReacts Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park is the closest 'Premier League' atmosphere to a college game. They get really rowdy, and they have cheerleaders.
Find the video of Penn State's White Out entrance vs Michigan, if you want to be impressed.
5:20 The Big House. 3rd largest stadium(by seats) in the word. The largest outside of Asia.
The yellow in the bottom corner is the student section. It's sort of the away section for home fans when compared to "soccer"...most colleges have discount or even free seats for students and they're all sat in 1 section
Check out the red river rivalry! The pagentry is a sight to see
Third comment today 😂 but finally glad to see Nebraska get the respect they deserve. We've been bad for a while so people forget we won 5 national titles and a ton of conference titles over a 27 year period and are one of 8 blue blood programs in college football. Not to mention a sellout streak that dates to 1962. I've seen some comments on other UA-cam videos saying we're arrogant but really we're just proud.
Why so many players?
1. Teams have around 25 new players per yr that need developing.
2. The starters, #2s & best #3 back up players play significant snaps per game.
3. Scout teams, offensive/defensive players that are not quite good enough are used as practice dummies. They simulate the up coming opponents game plans in practice . This is done so the #1s can focus on what they need to do instead of playing the roll of the opponent in practice.
125 players per team with 85 scholarships players (per the rules ). Only 75 travel on away ganes .
The Iowa Hawkeyes are the only ones that come out hand in hand. After the 1st quarter, everyone, including the other team, turned and did a wave to the children in the kids wing of our hospital. The coach kirk ferentz started it. Theres a little you tube video about how the wave came to be, Kirk Ferentz son lost their baby after a week at the hospital, and its so sad to see him tear up.
Anyway, the players come down the tunnel to back in black acdc😁
Love all the football sports you do. Hope you check out the NHL as well. Best plays or hits or saves etc. Thanks again gentlemen. Carry on....
Really appreciate your support Craig! We have an NHL video coming up!
Every week it’s a crazy party. Alumni, students, community all come. College football best sport ever ever.
You may be right good sir.
If you want something crazy, you should look up the college football facility tours. Check out Oregon, Alabama, and others. The facilities are insane.
College Football is huge. Everyone is pumped up on Saturdays here in the US. Being from Oklahoma we love our Football here. But there's nothing like College Football in my opinion
This is pretty normal for all the big college football teams. One way to know if it’s a championship type game there will be a flyover from the United States military. But yes college football is a big deal, it’s a great experience, the tailgating, drinking, barbecuing starts days before, travel trailers everywhere outside the stadium, watching the other games while cheering with all the fans till the start, then you saw the entrances to these games. It’s a lot of fun.
Oh don’t worry about pitch or field. It’s actually cool hearing the differences and sharing them.
If you ever want to experience a college football game you have to go to the Florida vs Georgia game in Jacksonville Florida in late October. It’s called the Worlds Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party
I feel the need to explain the first one (Clemson) as an alumni! The rock is called “Howard’s Rock”, and there is a tradition where the players rub the rock before each game and then run down the hill into “Death Valley” (the stadium). It was gifted to the coach Frank Howard in the 60s and it was put in the east end zone in 1966. Clemson was losing to Virginia with less than 20 mins in the game, but won by a good margin in the end. The next season they started rubbing the rock for tradition, and Coach Howard said “if you’re not going to give 110%, keep your filthy hands off my rock”. Now, as a pregame tradition the student section chants that before the team comes out in pregame. The stadium is also called Death Valley because a coach from another school in the 40s said coming to Clemson just to lose every time was like a “Death Valley” and it stuck.
Spectacles that you see on the screen happen, every game based upon the size and complexity of the University. Most of the band members are music majors in college and all are participants volunteers. Halftime spectacle is provided by the bands of both teams usually. Sometimes the opposing team must travel too far, and the respective band will not travel. The precision and the musicianship of college bands is truly accents, considering that they have to create a show each week that is different from the previous week in three days.
1) The number of players is roughly mid-80s. That's the number of full and partial scholarships (60ish)+ the few dozen walk-ons.
2) In the South-East, hence SouthEastern Conference (SEC: the best college football conference) this is EVERY single game!
3) We would love to have you over even if you know barely nothing. It's a party!
Roll Tide
Come watch real football in the Midwest in November. The Big House is the biggest College Stadium in the world, holds 115,000 people. GO BLUE.!!!!!! Football in the cold weather is real football.
Plz watch the Iowa home game traditions where they wave to the children next door at the Children's Hospital!!!! It brings a tear to my eye EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT!!!! Plz react to the Iowa home game tradition!!!