Your mentioning of the lovely brick facade at Doak Campbell reminded me that Doak Campbell is the largest single continuous brick structure in the United States. Looking forward to your SEC video.
Fun fact: despite having a naming rights deal with a heating and cooling systems manufacturer, the Carrier Dome only recently started having air conditioning installed.
As someone who currently goes to Cuse, the irony isn't lost on me that as soon as we finally get AC, we couldn't even go to games 😅 Got tickets for fall at least
As a Canes fan, I’m impressed that someone like you from outside the US took the time to learn trivia and the little details about these college football stadiums. Really great video series, awesome job!
@@charlesmonroe2557 Y’all had one good season in how many years of existence? and now you want to trash talking team has historically superior in every fashion towards your program. Cocky, wouldn’t you say?
With respect to Boston College, they built an indoor practice facility next to it, so they don't use the inflatable bubble anymore. $40m was the cost or something to build that new facility.
$52.6 million, but was badly needed by the school since they were lagging far behind other schools. the baseball stadium was a joke, thankfully they got a better one alongside the softball and other teams funny thing, it’s actually not seen in the video because the arial footage was from the time when it was under construction .
From my backyard I can see some upper deck seats at Cardinal Stadium. Love it. Pro and con though ... pro is free play-by-play from the PA announcer if I'm outside and the con is the games on tv are a little delayed, so I hear the train horn (TD celebration) go off before I see the play on tv. Big time spoiler.
Clemson’s stadium is called Death Valley because of a coach from another team was talking about Clemson and how they played them and that they have been beaten so badly by them that he started to call it Death Valley because they felt like we’re being best to death. Also Clemson touches a rock before running down a hill that is from Death Valley.
In addition, the campus graveyard is on a hill adjacent to the stadium. Before the south upper deck was built, you could see the trees surrounding the cemetery from the stands. I don't know where the idea of goat sacrifice comes from...
LSU's similarly named stadium is also nicknamed "Death [or 'Deaf'] Valley" in honor of the intimidating crowds that are found there. (Both teams are also called Tigers.)
@@donaldthomas7070 Not quite. LSU's Tigers play in Tiger Stadium. Clemson's Tigers play in Memorial Stadium - a tribute to the early years when the school was Clemson Agricultural and Military College (Clemson A&M). As an aside, football was brought to Clemson by a former Auburn coach, who brought the Tigers nickname along with some old Auburn uniforms whose colors had changed from Navy Blue and Orange to a Regalia Purple and Orange. (I'm guessing that a bad cycle in the laundry did it... LOL)
Went to see my first Carolina Panthers game at that stadium and their very first win one thing you did not mention in there is the beautiful view of Lake Hartwell to the south west of the stadium
@@michaelmerck7576 fun fact about that skyline, the Bank of America Building clearly dominates it. It’s often referred to as “The pencil building” by Tech professors because when a Tech student originally came up with the idea of its design for a school project, a Tech professor graded it as a D and scoffed that it looks like a “pencil”. To which it’s also called the “middle finger to Georgia Tech”
oldest is used loosely…it looks nothing like the past, it’s like stands were slapped on top of the old stands and the original structure all but hidden making it a new stadium in all ways but sitting on top of the old one they basically did to it what Chicago did to Soldier Field
about the old inflated roof in syracuse- because of how heavy the roof is- it pushes air out whenever a door is opened, which in turn pushes you out with a decent force
That caught me off guard a little when I went to a game there a few years ago. Also, the train horn and goddamn bell ringing after a score are pure punishment when at a game with a headache and Syracuse decides to put up 50+ points on an opponent.
Bobby Dodd is the oldest FBS stadium, and Grant Field is the oldest continually used on-campus site for football. It's a bit of a hodgepodge, but the history makes it a lot cooler. Many colleges located in big cities have off-campus stadiums and share them with an NFL team (ahem, Miami). Their place has gotten a lot better, but it still looks like the Dolphins' joint, and the atmosphere stinks inside the stadium because of its cavernous dimensions for a college team and outside the stadium because college life is so distant.
Came here to say this, and surprised it wasn’t mentioned in the vid. The stadium is 110 years old. There is a World War 2 rifle range under the stands.
Enjoying you're videos but can you do one all Scottish stadiums from league 2 up to the scottish premiership as we have had loads of Aussies playing here such as Tony vidmar, Craig Moore, scott Mcdonald, Mark vaduka, lyndon dykes( plays for Scotland but born and grew up in Australia) Kevin muscatt and Matt Mckay
@Steve A I think were thinking about two different schools here, yes VMI is not on Virginia tech’s campus. But Virginia Tech has its own military academy who operate on the same campus as the general school
@@thomastrain7311 Tech actually has a corps of cadets, which is more than a general ROTC program. It's one of I believe 6 non-academy universities with such program. Texas A&M is another notable college with one.
Fun fact:Kenan Memorial is so small for an FBS stadium due to the fact that when the money was donated for the stadium The Kenan family wrote in the contract that the stadium could never rise taller than the tallest tree in North Carolina.So the only way that it could ever hold more capacity is if they A)Build a new one or B)Purchase a California Redwood to put in Chapel Hill 😂
Kenan Stadium actually is a mix of bowl seats and bleachers. The student section (west end zone) where access is free to enrolled students still has bleachers while the commercially ticketed sections on the two main stands and the section below the vip boxes behind the east end zone were retrofitted with bowl seats. It's a very pretty stadium especially for how closely integrated into the nice and shady campus it is, compared to others that are just surrounded by huge parking lots (looking at you, Carter-Finley)
Also the oldest on-campus stadium at the Power Five level. Also beneath the original lower west stands are the original bleachers. Bobby Dodd is lopsided due to a hill on the west side and Techwood Drive and the Techwood dorms on the east side.
Heinz field is great but a lot of Pitt students want an on-campus stadium, it’s pretty much on the opposite end of town from Pitt campus and its pain in the ass to get to if you don’t have a car. Similar situation to USF at Raymond James Stadium
Not sure if you're aware of this or not, but the ACC is unique in this particular regard. The ACC has a rule that mandates no structures devoted to athletics can stand taller than the university's academic and administrative based structures. Obviously, there are exceptions to this rule in the cases of Miami, Pittsburgh, and Syracuse because those stadiums aren't actually located on campus grounds. This is why all ACC stadiums are sunk into the ground. The lower halves of their bowl seats are below ground level. When you walk in to an ACC football stadium you have to walk down steps to reach your seats. Sinking the bowl seats below ground level allows schools the opportunity to possess equal numbers of seats (65K+) as all the other schools they compete with in the SEC, Big Ten, Big XII, and Pac 12 without the typical structures that are built into football stadiums surpassing the heights of academic & administrative buildings on campus.
Even if Pitt had a stadium on campus, the Cathedral of Learning is 42 stories high (535 feet), they'd be in pretty good shape. Old Pitt stadium would have fit in well with the other conference stadiums, it was dug into the side of a hill.
You've never been to Virginia Tech, have you. Lane stadium is not sunk into the ground, nor is the one at Wake Forest. There is very little on the Wake Forest campus over three stories tall.
Did you say that Clemson sacrifices a goat before games???? Where did you get that? 😂😂😂 I’ve lived in Clemson my entire life and I can assure you that isn’t true.
The hill at Scott Stadium is a general admission area, and you can't reserve seating there. It's a fun place to watch the game, rain and snow can make it a blast...especially if it's the last home game of the season, the infamous "fourth year fifth".
Sitting in that grandstand facing the field at 2:09 would sure give you a great view of the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the home of the Atlanta Falcons, and the Atlanta city skyline 🏙
Another thing to note: Carter-Finley Stadium will host the 2022 NHL Stadium Series (Bumped back from 2021). The stadium sits next to PNC Arena, where the Carolina hurricanes play, who will host a game at Carter Finley on a Saturday in February
Clemson's Death Valley is in a natural valley between 2 hills. On top of one of those hills a cemetery, the hill is called cemetery hill. The valley is directly below the cemetery. More than 60 years ago an opposing coach nick named it Death Valley because it was so hard to win there. That must have been a joke about the sacrificial goat.
Have been to all the stadiums. They are in order of loudness - 1 Clemson 2 Florida State 3 Virginia Tech 4 Louisville 5 NC state 6 Georgia tech 7-9 UNC, Miami, and Pittsburgh 10-11 Syracuse, Virginia 12 wake forest 13 BC 14 Duke
Cite your goat sacrifice at Clemson reference please. I grew up in the shadow of Death Valley and I've never heard of a goat sacrifice. Can't find a source on Google either. Just doesn't sound like it's even close to the values of the university much MUCH less so if you take the current administration into account.
The name came first. PC's coach gave it the nickname. In the early 90s, Tiger Stadium at LSU was coined Deaf Valley because of the noise level. Talking heads on TV started missaying it to Death Valley, so that stuck. Same with what they did with Spurrior. It was Ole' Ball Coach and the idiots on TV kept saying Old.
What the heck? Clemson's stadium is called Death Valley because of Howard's Rock. It's a rock on a podium that is at the entrance to the field of the stadium that's in front of the home lockeroom. Said rock was actually brought from Death Valley, CA. Hence the nickname. The Clemson players actually touch the rock for good luck as they run out on to the field. lol.
Back in the day, the coach of Presbyterian College in Clinton, SC, called the place Death Valley, because his team always lost there. The home record of the Tigers is good, and some really great games have been played there over the years. If you want to see some really fired up fans, go to a Clemson-S. Carolina game at the Valley. GO TIGERS! Clemson grad here, '67. I've never heard of the sacrificial goat business, and I've been a fan sine 1963.
Lonnie McMillian was the name of the PC coach who first coined the "Death Valley" nickname in an interview with the Greenville News, post-game. "That place is like Death Valley, because my teams only go there to DIE". The goat story is hogwash. The Rock is actually from the desert in California. A graduate was there and brought it back to Coach Howard, who used it as a doorstop for several years. He told an assistant to take the rock and "put it somewhere". Coach was thinking something along the lines of the bottom of the Seneca River, but that assistant had a different idea. Despite a few vandalism attempts, it still sits atop the pedestal on the East endzone hill (grass, by the way). The quote from McMillian came several years before anyone started calling that Louisiana stadium "Deaf Valley"
@@mikeorr3333 Ha ha. I'm a BAMA fan so I didn't know all the details. But I definitely knew it had something to do with Howard's Rock. Thanks for the info.
❤️ the one at 5:17/11:07 bro clemson is a top contender here in south carolina we say that you are either a clemson fan or a fan of the south carolina gamecocks the two teams play in a annual rivalry game on the last saturday in november what is on the line for the fans of either team bragging rights for the next 52 weeks until the next rivalry game which is known as the palmetto bowl for the last seven years clemson has held a win streak against the gamecocks their latest win was on 11/27/21 were clemson took on the gamecocks on the gamecocks home turf clemson would score 30 points while keeping their rivals scoreless
Bobby Dodd Stadium will have a special place in my heart for one reason: it was the home of Atlanta United FC while Mercedes-Benz Stadium was being built.
"Sacrifice of a small goat" at Clemson? Since when? Never happened during the 25 years I lived in Upstate SC, and my family who is still in Seneca - 8 miles west of campus - has yet to inform me of that ritual...
Busy, busy little bee. Exceptional, in depth work. Love the tongue in cheek sacrificial lamb quip. With every episode you keep raising the bar. See you next time.
Sharing it with the Steelers makes sense. Even some NFL teams share stadiums now. I've always thought it looked like it was modeled after Bama's stadium.
@@robertd9850 I honestly thought the university could afford the upgrades that the old stadium needed. But I'll still be a Pitt Panther fan no matter where they play
They haven’t been the same since they knocked down Pitt stadium, renting an nfl stadium might sound good but both Pitt and Miami have fallen from where they used to be once they stopped using their own stadium.
@@talk-is-pitt the 90s were a lost decade, but losing that on campus experience especially for alumni who don’t get to campus is a negative. The AD at the time was more interested in making a big change and leaving his mark than taking care of what was passed down to him. Stadiums have changed a lot in 20 years and When you go to an on campus facility, it’s a museum or cathedral of the program that plays there.
Syracuse used to be the orangemen and that’s Native American they ditched the logo along time ago but then they just made it orange cause it made no sense without the logo
Alan Fox is right. I've heard and read (grew up there) the Orangemen and Orangewomen were named for the color of the uniforms and nothing to do with native tribes. Why are people assuming "red men" are orange? They switched to Orange to be gender neutral. The Post Standard of 1890 says Orange was a reference to the Dutch ancestry ("House of Orange") of the area such as Fort Orange over in Albany and other orange themes in New York like Orange County. It was the Saltine Warrior mascot they had to remove for reasons of indigenous relations. The football teams was briefly called The Orioles. www.syracuse.com/orangesports/2004/05/origins_of_orange_colors_nicknames_and_mascots_of_syracuse_sports_over_the_years.html
Syracuse University nickname originally was the Saltine Warriors. Saltine as Syracuse area at one time was a leading Salt producer and the Warriors to honor the many native Indian tribes in the area/region. The orignal colors were, well, watermelon colors :) The university later changed the name to the Orangemen and Orange & Blue colors which reflected the skin color and war paint of the Mohawks and Iroquois tribes. Though their mascot, Otto the Orange is arguably looks like the Orange fruit, the name Syracuse Orange became about few years ago, when the NCAA banned the use of nicknames reflecting Indian tribes.
I grew up in the area and have been to games several of these. Renovations in the past couple of decades have greatly changed the look of many of them, generally greatly improving the quality of the stadiums. Duke's stadium, Wallace Wade, for instance, used to be much "cheaper" looking. With a beat up cinder track and about 20% less seating as well as a much smaller press box tower. Honestly I had seen more impressive high school stadiums. Now .. it is still small, but it looks nice. Ditto with Wake Forest's stadium. It looks much nicer and tidier and slicker now than it used to.
I will never be able to pronounce the name of LV the ‘local’ way. I will always speak it as an homage to Louis XVI: *LEW-ee-ville* // Proud American, BTW 🇺🇸
If you've ever been, you would definitely be calling Carter-Finley the worst ACC stadium. The fans make it a good atmosphere, but it looks so, so dumpy.
@@jinmd9094 kinda true. I was at the UNC game this past year and even though it was reduced capacity, it was still one of the craziest crowds I've ever been in.
Went to the belk bowl 2 yes ago and that stadium in Charlotte is a great venue for the acc title game. Was the 1st time i had seats in the endzone and actually liked them. As far as conference stadiums go the acc has a handfull of the best in the country.
idk why but it’s always a pleasure to see non-americans who enjoy american sports…i’ve binge watched all your CFB stadium videos and have loved every single one of them!
Scott stadium in this list as my favourite FSU is quality, my Tigers 🐯 I prefer in yellow and purple Not related to the ACC but a awhile ago a friend of mine did a comparison between 4 stadiums all around 52000 capacity Waldstadion - Frankfurt St James Park - Newcastle Suncorp - Brisbane Floyd Casey - Baylor Looking at the four we could not work out how it was possible for Floyd Casey to hold 30k let alone 50k !! I guess it’s bench seating single tier compared to bucket seating, multi tier and roofs Looks can be very deceiving!
Cardinal stadium is deceptive. 62,000 all chair backs, if they had bench seating it could hold many more people. Also, the state hates UofL so the team and city practically funded it on their own.
The Syracuse Orange are called that when they changed the name from Indians so they choses the lol non political name Orangemen ( the colour is because the university was founded by Prods )
Lose the Charlotte skyline. They don't even have an ACC school. I've been to games in all these stadiums except BC and Cuse. I've even been to games in Miami's old Orange Bowl before it was raised for the new Marlins Stadium.
Considering that the University of Miami is in a very expensive suburb and is a small, private institution, it doesn't make financial sense to build a facility, and the City of Coral Gables would never let it happen anyway. Guess playing in a world class pro stadium will have to do!
Your mentioning of the lovely brick facade at Doak Campbell reminded me that Doak Campbell is the largest single continuous brick structure in the United States. Looking forward to your SEC video.
Doak Campbell Stadium is the largest single brick structure in the world. 🐴🔥🏹
Fun fact: despite having a naming rights deal with a heating and cooling systems manufacturer, the Carrier Dome only recently started having air conditioning installed.
I think everybody is aware of that....but good job sport!
As someone who currently goes to Cuse, the irony isn't lost on me that as soon as we finally get AC, we couldn't even go to games 😅
Got tickets for fall at least
I thought it was because they can build an aircraft carrier inside of it.
@@MOisMe643 Ooo
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01:43...wish I-85 always looked like that.
You and me both
all acc stadiums are the same thing lmao. all just an oval bowl. (they are nice though)
At Va Tech, the "castle" affect is because it's made from the limestone that almost all of the buildings on campus are made from, called "Hokiestone".
Sadly, Tech is going to start moving away from using "Hokiestone" in future buildings.
Conference by conference... smart choice. 👍🏽
As a Canes fan, I’m impressed that someone like you from outside the US took the time to learn trivia and the little details about these college football stadiums. Really great video series, awesome job!
How’d that North Carolina beat down last year feel huh?
@@charlesmonroe2557 What’s North Carolina? I don’t recognize any schools without national championship titles.
@@johanfalk2875 bro at first I read that comment and was genuinely confused and then I realized 😞. But we’ll see how this ages over the next few years
@@charlesmonroe2557 Y’all had one good season in how many years of existence? and now you want to trash talking team has historically superior in every fashion towards your program. Cocky, wouldn’t you say?
@@johanfalk2875 so you recognize UCF?
With respect to Boston College, they built an indoor practice facility next to it, so they don't use the inflatable bubble anymore. $40m was the cost or something to build that new facility.
And they built a new baseball facility too
I’ve been to games at BC it’s a lot better than it looks lol
$52.6 million, but was badly needed by the school since they were lagging far behind other schools. the baseball stadium was a joke, thankfully they got a better one alongside the softball and other teams
funny thing, it’s actually not seen in the video because the arial footage was from the time when it was under construction .
Too bad he didnt mention that it's also connected to the hockey arena.That's kind of a cool feature, I always thought
From my backyard I can see some upper deck seats at Cardinal Stadium. Love it. Pro and con though ... pro is free play-by-play from the PA announcer if I'm outside and the con is the games on tv are a little delayed, so I hear the train horn (TD celebration) go off before I see the play on tv. Big time spoiler.
Same. You always know when we didn’t score because you don’t hear the horn when you are watching the game
The only one of these stadiums I’ve seen is Louisville’s and it is a standout in the area it is in and it looks like a great stadium
It’s a great stadium. Too bad it rarely gets filled.
It's a palace compared to the dump that was at the fairgrounds, I think of that every time I go to a game now.
Clemson’s stadium is called Death Valley because of a coach from another team was talking about Clemson and how they played them and that they have been beaten so badly by them that he started to call it Death Valley because they felt like we’re being best to death. Also Clemson touches a rock before running down a hill that is from Death Valley.
In addition, the campus graveyard is on a hill adjacent to the stadium. Before the south upper deck was built, you could see the trees surrounding the cemetery from the stands. I don't know where the idea of goat sacrifice comes from...
LSU's similarly named stadium is also nicknamed "Death [or 'Deaf'] Valley" in honor of the intimidating crowds that are found there. (Both teams are also called Tigers.)
@@donaldthomas7070 Not quite. LSU's Tigers play in Tiger Stadium. Clemson's Tigers play in Memorial Stadium - a tribute to the early years when the school was Clemson Agricultural and Military College (Clemson A&M).
As an aside, football was brought to Clemson by a former Auburn coach, who brought the Tigers nickname along with some old Auburn uniforms whose colors had changed from Navy Blue and Orange to a Regalia Purple and Orange. (I'm guessing that a bad cycle in the laundry did it... LOL)
The true "Death Valley"
Went to see my first Carolina Panthers game at that stadium and their very first win one thing you did not mention in there is the beautiful view of Lake Hartwell to the south west of the stadium
You forgot to mention that Georgia Tech’s stadium is the oldest FBS stadium.
The view of downtown skyline makes it a great scene
@@michaelmerck7576 fun fact about that skyline, the Bank of America Building clearly dominates it.
It’s often referred to as “The pencil building” by Tech professors because when a Tech student originally came up with the idea of its design for a school project, a Tech professor graded it as a D and scoffed that it looks like a “pencil”. To which it’s also called the “middle finger to Georgia Tech”
oldest is used loosely…it looks nothing like the past, it’s like stands were slapped on top of the old stands and the original structure all but hidden making it a new stadium in all ways but sitting on top of the old one
they basically did to it what Chicago did to Soldier Field
@@bostonrailfan2427 However, the field has been in continuous use longer than any other FBS school's field.
about the old inflated roof in syracuse- because of how heavy the roof is- it pushes air out whenever a door is opened, which in turn pushes you out with a decent force
That caught me off guard a little when I went to a game there a few years ago. Also, the train horn and goddamn bell ringing after a score are pure punishment when at a game with a headache and Syracuse decides to put up 50+ points on an opponent.
Bobby Dodd is the oldest FBS stadium, and Grant Field is the oldest continually used on-campus site for football. It's a bit of a hodgepodge, but the history makes it a lot cooler. Many colleges located in big cities have off-campus stadiums and share them with an NFL team (ahem, Miami). Their place has gotten a lot better, but it still looks like the Dolphins' joint, and the atmosphere stinks inside the stadium because of its cavernous dimensions for a college team and outside the stadium because college life is so distant.
Came here to say this, and surprised it wasn’t mentioned in the vid. The stadium is 110 years old. There is a World War 2 rifle range under the stands.
Virginia Tech went with the castle design because, like the Army Black Knights, are also a military institution.
Enjoying you're videos but can you do one all Scottish stadiums from league 2 up to the scottish premiership as we have had loads of Aussies playing here such as Tony vidmar, Craig Moore, scott Mcdonald, Mark vaduka, lyndon dykes( plays for Scotland but born and grew up in Australia) Kevin muscatt and Matt Mckay
@Steve A operates on the same campus
@Steve A I think were thinking about two different schools here, yes VMI is not on Virginia tech’s campus. But Virginia Tech has its own military academy who operate on the same campus as the general school
VT has an rotc program but not a military school. Thats vmi ( George S Patton and many other great generals have attended there)
@@thomastrain7311 Tech actually has a corps of cadets, which is more than a general ROTC program. It's one of I believe 6 non-academy universities with such program. Texas A&M is another notable college with one.
Both the Dolphins and the Canes have never been the same since leaving the old OB.....
I'm sorry, did you say the Clemson sacrifices a small goat before each game. I have been a Clemson fan my whole life and never heard that one.
Yea, I can't imagine that any sort of animal cruelty would be allowed in this day and age.
You two short bus riders are something else.
Hahahahaha
Yea as a Clemson fan I have also never heard of that
@@stonew1927 ¿Animal cruelty? they need the meat for the tailgating
Wow Lousiville and Miami, Lived and been to both stadiums before and after renovation! Great seats in most areas!
Fun fact:Kenan Memorial is so small for an FBS stadium due to the fact that when the money was donated for the stadium The Kenan family wrote in the contract that the stadium could never rise taller than the tallest tree in North Carolina.So the only way that it could ever hold more capacity is if they A)Build a new one or B)Purchase a California Redwood to put in Chapel Hill 😂
I am from South Carolina. I have been a Clemson Fan for 46 years. I have NEVER heard of sacrificing a goat before a game. You get that from Wikipedia?
He made it up...trying to be funny
Kenan Stadium actually is a mix of bowl seats and bleachers.
The student section (west end zone) where access is free to enrolled students still has bleachers while the commercially ticketed sections on the two main stands and the section below the vip boxes behind the east end zone were retrofitted with bowl seats.
It's a very pretty stadium especially for how closely integrated into the nice and shady campus it is, compared to others that are just surrounded by huge parking lots (looking at you, Carter-Finley)
Carter Finley much better for tailgating though so it’s a good and bad
Bobby Dodd Stadium: Home of the Most Lopsided College Football Game in History...
Wake Forest 30- F$U- 0
Nah mate, Georgia Tech 222-0 Cumberland College.
222-0
Also the oldest on-campus stadium at the Power Five level. Also beneath the original lower west stands are the original bleachers.
Bobby Dodd is lopsided due to a hill on the west side and Techwood Drive and the Techwood dorms on the east side.
Beautiful memories. I wish I had studied and stuck with my Pure Mathematics plan. Oh well
Clemson's stadium is called Death Valley because that's where opposing teams go to die...so said the PC coach Lonnie McMillian back in 1948
"....*sighs* and the Steelers of course"
I feel that
Heinz field is great but a lot of Pitt students want an on-campus stadium, it’s pretty much on the opposite end of town from Pitt campus and its pain in the ass to get to if you don’t have a car. Similar situation to USF at Raymond James Stadium
Shade in Miami is always appreciated.
But winning titles at the OB is nicer
I've had a couple of cousins that went through Va Tech and when they're good&they have a night game the Lane Stadium atmosphere is something else
Not sure if you're aware of this or not, but the ACC is unique in this particular regard. The ACC has a rule that mandates no structures devoted to athletics can stand taller than the university's academic and administrative based structures. Obviously, there are exceptions to this rule in the cases of Miami, Pittsburgh, and Syracuse because those stadiums aren't actually located on campus grounds.
This is why all ACC stadiums are sunk into the ground. The lower halves of their bowl seats are below ground level. When you walk in to an ACC football stadium you have to walk down steps to reach your seats. Sinking the bowl seats below ground level allows schools the opportunity to possess equal numbers of seats (65K+) as all the other schools they compete with in the SEC, Big Ten, Big XII, and Pac 12 without the typical structures that are built into football stadiums surpassing the heights of academic & administrative buildings on campus.
Even if Pitt had a stadium on campus, the Cathedral of Learning is 42 stories high (535 feet), they'd be in pretty good shape. Old Pitt stadium would have fit in well with the other conference stadiums, it was dug into the side of a hill.
The Dome actually is located on the Syracuse campus. Obviously the ACC couldn’t require new members to the conference to adhere to old building rules.
Acc is alot of small private schools. WF has 7k students. They cant build huge stadiums like conferences made up of mostly state schools
You've never been to Virginia Tech, have you. Lane stadium is not sunk into the ground, nor is the one at Wake Forest. There is very little on the Wake Forest campus over three stories tall.
@@tmcc9867 WFU seats 45k if you do not include the hill seating.
pre expansion louisville stadium was incredible. i loved the grass and building in the background
Did you say that Clemson sacrifices a goat before games???? Where did you get that? 😂😂😂 I’ve lived in Clemson my entire life and I can assure you that isn’t true.
The hill at Scott Stadium is a general admission area, and you can't reserve seating there. It's a fun place to watch the game, rain and snow can make it a blast...especially if it's the last home game of the season, the infamous "fourth year fifth".
This music involved in the video is actually really good. I found myself vibing while learning about these stadiums..
Sitting in that grandstand facing the field at 2:09 would sure give you a great view of the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the home of the Atlanta Falcons, and the Atlanta city skyline 🏙
Syracuse used to be called the Orangemen.. the original mascot was Native American Indian
And then Orangemen/Orangewomen was in reference to the Dutch settlers of the area.
Another thing to note:
Carter-Finley Stadium will host the 2022 NHL Stadium Series (Bumped back from 2021). The stadium sits next to PNC Arena, where the Carolina hurricanes play, who will host a game at Carter Finley on a Saturday in February
GO CANES
Man you're gonna have to put so many disclaimers in these videos now😂😂with all the conference realignment
Clemson's Death Valley is in a natural valley between 2 hills. On top of one of those hills a cemetery, the hill is called cemetery hill. The valley is directly below the cemetery. More than 60 years ago an opposing coach nick named it Death Valley because it was so hard to win there. That must have been a joke about the sacrificial goat.
because we bash everyone that shows up there. 34 straight home wins and counting
I need to take note of the upper decks at Boston College. One looks built atop an arena’s roof, the other is built atop a parking structure. Odd
Have been to all the stadiums. They are in order of loudness -
1 Clemson
2 Florida State
3 Virginia Tech
4 Louisville
5 NC state
6 Georgia tech
7-9 UNC, Miami, and Pittsburgh
10-11 Syracuse, Virginia
12 wake forest
13 BC
14 Duke
Clemson once held the record for loudest CFB stadium at 133.1 decibels.
Virginia's stadium is a lot louder when the play Virginia Tech. Half the stadium is Hokies...hence the nickname, "Lane Stadium East"....LOL
Cite your goat sacrifice at Clemson reference please. I grew up in the shadow of Death Valley and I've never heard of a goat sacrifice. Can't find a source on Google either. Just doesn't sound like it's even close to the values of the university much MUCH less so if you take the current administration into account.
Goat ? I think he's got that confused with chicago cubs of the MLB . LoL
This might require extra research, but you could probably mention the atmosphere if it’s a really good one, like what Clemson or Florida state has
3-6 FSU ain’t got no atmosphere rn
@@conorcane1211 well yeah but most years their atmosphere is electric and the tomahawk chant should probably be mentioned
Even though Kenan is a decently small stadium it has a really amazing game day atmosphere
Pitt and Miami don't count....they play in someone else's stadium.
Clemson's Memorial stadium - Sacrificing goats? WTF? Not true. is this a joke?
Clemson does not sacrifice a goat before each game. Come on dude!
I just heard that in a video last week.. I youtube’d it but couldn’t find anything on it
@@JUSAGUYNKY yup because it’s not true.
im not sure which came first the name or a rock from the namesake but clemson in their famous run down the hill touch what is called howards rock.
The name came first. PC's coach gave it the nickname. In the early 90s, Tiger Stadium at LSU was coined Deaf Valley because of the noise level. Talking heads on TV started missaying it to Death Valley, so that stuck. Same with what they did with Spurrior. It was Ole' Ball Coach and the idiots on TV kept saying Old.
What the heck? Clemson's stadium is called Death Valley because of Howard's Rock. It's a rock on a podium that is at the entrance to the field of the stadium that's in front of the home lockeroom. Said rock was actually brought from Death Valley, CA. Hence the nickname. The Clemson players actually touch the rock for good luck as they run out on to the field. lol.
Back in the day, the coach of Presbyterian College in Clinton, SC, called the place Death Valley, because his team always lost there. The home record of the Tigers is good, and some really great games have been played there over the years. If you want to see some really fired up fans, go to a Clemson-S. Carolina game at the Valley. GO TIGERS! Clemson grad here, '67. I've never heard of the sacrificial goat business, and I've been a fan sine 1963.
Lonnie McMillian was the name of the PC coach who first coined the "Death Valley" nickname in an interview with the Greenville News, post-game. "That place is like Death Valley, because my teams only go there to DIE". The goat story is hogwash. The Rock is actually from the desert in California. A graduate was there and brought it back to Coach Howard, who used it as a doorstop for several years. He told an assistant to take the rock and "put it somewhere". Coach was thinking something along the lines of the bottom of the Seneca River, but that assistant had a different idea. Despite a few vandalism attempts, it still sits atop the pedestal on the East endzone hill (grass, by the way). The quote from McMillian came several years before anyone started calling that Louisiana stadium "Deaf Valley"
He could have also used current photos/ videos. Those were a few years old and no longer do it justice.
@@mikeorr3333 Ha ha. I'm a BAMA fan so I didn't know all the details. But I definitely knew it had something to do with Howard's Rock. Thanks for the info.
In 1948 the head coach of PC, Lonnie McMillian called Clemson's stadium Death Valley
❤️ the one at 5:17/11:07 bro clemson is a top contender here in south carolina we say that you are either a clemson fan or a fan of the south carolina gamecocks the two teams play in a annual rivalry game on the last saturday in november what is on the line for the fans of either team bragging rights for the next 52 weeks until the next rivalry game which is known as the palmetto bowl for the last seven years clemson has held a win streak against the gamecocks their latest win was on 11/27/21 were clemson took on the gamecocks on the gamecocks home turf clemson would score 30 points while keeping their rivals scoreless
Don't forget the independent schools. Great work
And then fbs 1AA and the fcs
Bobby Dodd Stadium will have a special place in my heart for one reason: it was the home of Atlanta United FC while Mercedes-Benz Stadium was being built.
"Sacrifice of a small goat" at Clemson? Since when? Never happened during the 25 years I lived in Upstate SC, and my family who is still in Seneca - 8 miles west of campus - has yet to inform me of that ritual...
I go to the games I was wondering if anyone notice that
My seats at Heinz Field have a good view of the Downtown Pittsburgh
Can you do ACC baseball stadiums :D
Busy, busy little bee. Exceptional, in depth work. Love the tongue in cheek sacrificial lamb quip. With every episode you keep raising the bar. See you next time.
There's just nowhere to put a stadium for the Pitt Panthers
Sharing it with the Steelers makes sense. Even some NFL teams share stadiums now. I've always thought it looked like it was modeled after Bama's stadium.
@@robertd9850 I honestly thought the university could afford the upgrades that the old stadium needed. But I'll still be a Pitt Panther fan no matter where they play
They haven’t been the same since they knocked down Pitt stadium, renting an nfl stadium might sound good but both Pitt and Miami have fallen from where they used to be once they stopped using their own stadium.
@@sleeplessvirus losing our Stadium had nothing to do with it our problems started before that in the 90s
@@talk-is-pitt the 90s were a lost decade, but losing that on campus experience especially for alumni who don’t get to campus is a negative. The AD at the time was more interested in making a big change and leaving his mark than taking care of what was passed down to him. Stadiums have changed a lot in 20 years and When you go to an on campus facility, it’s a museum or cathedral of the program that plays there.
Syracuse used to be the orangemen and that’s Native American they ditched the logo along time ago but then they just made it orange cause it made no sense without the logo
Not true as regards
The name change from
Orangemen to Orange.
Ok look up Syracuse in the 50s and 60s they used to have a Native American that’s what orangemen meant
But they also changed it too cause of the men part in it for the women made it so they were offensive to them
Alan Fox is right. I've heard and read (grew up there) the Orangemen and Orangewomen were named for the color of the uniforms and nothing to do with native tribes. Why are people assuming "red men" are orange? They switched to Orange to be gender neutral. The Post Standard of 1890 says Orange was a reference to the Dutch ancestry ("House of Orange") of the area such as Fort Orange over in Albany and other orange themes in New York like Orange County. It was the Saltine Warrior mascot they had to remove for reasons of indigenous relations. The football teams was briefly called The Orioles.
www.syracuse.com/orangesports/2004/05/origins_of_orange_colors_nicknames_and_mascots_of_syracuse_sports_over_the_years.html
Plus The Local Minor League Baseball Team There, Might Be The Chiefs, Right?
Syracuse University nickname originally was the Saltine Warriors. Saltine as Syracuse area at one time was a leading Salt producer and the Warriors to honor the many native Indian tribes in the area/region. The orignal colors were, well, watermelon colors :) The university later changed the name to the Orangemen and Orange & Blue colors which reflected the skin color and war paint of the Mohawks and Iroquois tribes. Though their mascot, Otto the Orange is arguably looks like the Orange fruit, the name Syracuse Orange became about few years ago, when the NCAA banned the use of nicknames reflecting Indian tribes.
Q: if a tree falls in scott stadium will anybody hear it?
I grew up in the area and have been to games several of these. Renovations in the past couple of decades have greatly changed the look of many of them, generally greatly improving the quality of the stadiums. Duke's stadium, Wallace Wade, for instance, used to be much "cheaper" looking. With a beat up cinder track and about 20% less seating as well as a much smaller press box tower. Honestly I had seen more impressive high school stadiums. Now .. it is still small, but it looks nice. Ditto with Wake Forest's stadium. It looks much nicer and tidier and slicker now than it used to.
Bobby Dodd Stadium is also the oldest stadium in college football
No goat ritual happen at Clemson Memorial Stadium sir
Louisville is pronounced "Lou - uh - vill." Don't worry, even Americans don't get this right all the time.
A friend from KY taught me that you have to use your diaphragm and make it vibrate....LOU...vul, almost as if two syllables.
I will never be able to pronounce the name of LV the ‘local’ way. I will always speak it as an homage to Louis XVI: *LEW-ee-ville* // Proud American, BTW 🇺🇸
Lou-Uah-Vool
I don't usually do this, but you're now one of the few channels I'm subbed to that I actually hit the bell icon for!
Every home game at Virginia Tech doubles the population of Blacksburg. They don't hold game's it's a EVENT.
Absolutely correct. Also a earthquake now and then
If you've ever been, you would definitely be calling Carter-Finley the worst ACC stadium. The fans make it a good atmosphere, but it looks so, so dumpy.
VT Hokie fan here, but I will say that I love Carter-Finley, fans are great and inside the stadium is unique.
Fun fact about Clemson's stadium, they have a rock ("Howard's Rock") that they rub before each game that was taken from Death Valley National Park
Doak Campbell Stadium has one of the greatest atmospheres in football.
Well not so much lately, but it used to rocking when the Noles were good.
@@jinmd9094 kinda true. I was at the UNC game this past year and even though it was reduced capacity, it was still one of the craziest crowds I've ever been in.
@@jinmd9094 yep I miss the annual wide right games when the U would silence the ever hopeful crowd and dash their title hopes once again 😆
@@williamwilkinson381 at least we've had title hopes in the ACC.
Went to the belk bowl 2 yes ago and that stadium in Charlotte is a great venue for the acc title game. Was the 1st time i had seats in the endzone and actually liked them. As far as conference stadiums go the acc has a handfull of the best in the country.
This year, they will be welcoming in Southern Methodist University, Stanford, and Cal, to the Atlantic Coast Conference.
What a great video idea! Love the footage and smart narration. Well done!!
idk why but it’s always a pleasure to see non-americans who enjoy american sports…i’ve binge watched all your CFB stadium videos and have loved every single one of them!
Sadly, no research done on Virginia Tech, ie no mention of the infamous Metallica Enter Sandman entrance.
Looking forward to the Mountain West Conference
Scott stadium in this list as my favourite
FSU is quality, my Tigers 🐯 I prefer in yellow and purple
Not related to the ACC but a awhile ago a friend of mine did a comparison between 4 stadiums all around 52000 capacity
Waldstadion - Frankfurt
St James Park - Newcastle
Suncorp - Brisbane
Floyd Casey - Baylor
Looking at the four we could not work out how it was possible for Floyd Casey to hold 30k let alone 50k !!
I guess it’s bench seating single tier compared to bucket seating, multi tier and roofs
Looks can be very deceiving!
Have you been to a game at Scott Stadium? It is aesthetically pleasing. One of my favorites as well
The grass hill at Scott Stadium (UVA) is typically a student section and at big games is standing room only it can get really fun too!
I somehow ended up at the bottom of the hill when it was jammed pack because everyone started slowly pushing us down. But it was very fun though
5:47.' "Symmetry " '? Crikes! 45-year Tiger fan, mite: no worries from me, but the ghosts of Clemson could haunt ya one day. Nice video.
Cardinal stadium is deceptive. 62,000 all chair backs, if they had bench seating it could hold many more people. Also, the state hates UofL so the team and city practically funded it on their own.
Aye!!! Go state!!! Go pack!!!
Aussie are the best mate, Great video as usual
Go jackets!!!!! Bobby Dodd is also the oldest FBS stadium!
The Syracuse Orange are called that when they changed the name from Indians so they choses the lol non political name Orangemen ( the colour is because the university was founded by Prods )
North Carolina and Clemson 💙💙💙💙🏈🏈🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏
🧡🧡🧡💜💜💜🐅🐅🐅🐅🐅
Can't wait for the Big 12 video
I can't believe Doak Campbell was second to last. That doesn't seem accurate or acceptable. 😂😂😂
2:08 Mercedes Benz Stadium 😲
Fun fact - Va Tech's stadium when it was built in the late 60s looked almost like what Wake Forest's stadium looks like now.
Could be wrong but I was told the two stadiums were designed by the same people.
Came here to say that, and I believe Indiana's Memorial Stadium is the the third of, effectively, the same original design.
@@schmanda_42 did not know that, thanks for the info I am Stadium geeking out
Wells it's obvious the narrator does know where Clemson got its (death valley) label from and yes LSU is not death valley
Go Tar Heels 💙💙🤍🤍💙💙🤍🤍🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏
Go Cavaliers 🧡🧡💙💙⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️UVA
Please add the BIG10 conference stadiums as soon as you can!!! Thank you and keep up the good work!
Mate, I believe you could check one stadium out to add it to beautiful small stadiums. It is called La Salera, in Nájera , Spain
The early stadium miami used was orange bowl but they tore it down and built the marlins stadium and miami had to move in with the dolphins.
Lose the Charlotte skyline. They don't even have an ACC school.
I've been to games in all these stadiums except BC and Cuse. I've even been to games in Miami's old Orange Bowl before it was raised for the new Marlins Stadium.
Well, to be fair, Charlotte does host the ACC Championship game every year, so BofA Stadium is at least kind of an ACC stadium.
Cardinal Stadium used to called Papa John's Cardinal Stadium
We don’t call it bucket seating in North America in a stadium It is referred to as Chair back
Syracuse: The name Orange comes from William the Orange.
Bobby Dodd is also the oldest stadium in the fbs
Doak and Clemson Memorial are the two best. It's not even close.
You forgot to mention one of the coolest parts of Clemson’s stadium. They players enter by running down the hill
Most exciting 25 seconds in college football!
The death part has something to do with what happens to the sorry ass fools who step into our house
Miami doesn’t have a stadium 😂
Considering that the University of Miami is in a very expensive suburb and is a small, private institution, it doesn't make financial sense to build a facility, and the City of Coral Gables would never let it happen anyway. Guess playing in a world class pro stadium will have to do!
You should do the fcs conference after the fbs ones. There are some pretty cool ones
ND? Where is Notre Dame, joined the ACC.