The 2022 Road to CFB campaign is in the rearview mirror. Every game day was new and incredible, helped along by some amazing people. As I do every year in the wake of my college football road trip, I like to lay out by “Best Of” list. Who had the best tailgating? The loudest stadium? […]
Kinnick Stadium has been atop my wish list of college football game days for years. Finally– on a snowy and blustery Midwest afternoon– I made the seven-hour trek to Iowa City for some Hawkeyes football. Aside from having college football’s coolest tradition, an Iowa football game day is entrenched in tradition and history. Fight For […]
In front of a smattering of 2,000 or so sleepy fans, Tuesday and Wednesday nights are dominated by Mid-American Conference college football. While the atmosphere in the stadium is about as excited as to craft time at the local nursing home, millions tune in weekly to watch this action unfold. Endearingly, we call it “MACtion.” […]
Almost no one in the country does a college football game day quite like the Penn State Nittany Lions. The added dynamic of this being Penn State’s annual Whiteout, aka “The Greatest Show In Sports,” pushed this into Tier 1A in my travels. Greatest Show In Sports! The Big Ten’s SEC Team Every conference has […]
You don’t just happen across Morgantown, West Virginia. Situated 75 miles south of Pittsburgh, 200 miles east of Washington DC, and 200 miles west of Columbus, you have to be intentional to find it. For most, there’s one reason you find Morgantown, and that’s to cheer on the Mountaineers. Take Me Home, A Local Experience […]
It’s hard to get fans out to a Wednesday night football game. It’s even harder when the forecast calls for strong storms all game long. That was the case for my latest Road to CFB trek to Huntington, West Virginia, to catch a Marshall home football game day at Joan C. Edwards Stadium. The Thundering […]
Recently arriving on the national college football stage, Cincinnati has been putting on a pristine game day for decades. 38,000 of my closest friends and I descended on Nippert Stadium for the Bearcats’ sellout home stint with the Indiana Hoosiers. A Cincinnati football game day is dense with action and tailgating. Buckle up, there’s a […]
You’d be hard pressed to find a better place to be on a fall Saturday than in Madison, Wisconsin. When the Badgers are in town, the city comes alive, bathed in red and white bibs. A Wisconsin football game day truly has it all. Big Ten Tradition Like No Other! Everything But The W If […]
Over 51,000 fans braved sweltering heat, crowded concourses, and stagnant concession lines to see the East Carolina Pirates host the #13 NC State Wolfpack. The recorded attendance– 51,711– wasn’t totally accurate as ticket scanners passed a few thousand students over capacity in. What unfolded in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium was likely one of the biggest emotional rollercoaster […]
Selling out a football game doesn’t happen often at Old Dominion. When it does, there’s a big-time opponent in town. In this instance, it was a big time regional rival, the Virginia Tech Hokies. The promise of another upset like the Monarchs pulled off in 2018 brought people out in droves and filled up a […]