you have to check out the stadiums of the ACC and the SEC if you think this is video is crazy I think the same channel has videos for both of the others
First off, loving the content, brother. The Big 10 is just 1 of many conferences of college football. It is not the 10 biggest stadiums in college football.
Can't believe they didnt go over the fact that the Iowa Childrens Hospital directly overlooks the field so the kids have a good seat to watch the game from. And the Hawkeye Wave like how could you leave that out.
The "Big 10" is a conference in the NCAA. These are the stadiums of the schools in that conference. You should search "biggest college football stadiums" or something like that if you want to see the largest.
Nebraska has 392 consecutive sell outs. That’s every game being sold out since 1962. To put it in perspective, Lincoln-Memorial Stadium has the population of what would be the third most populated city in Nebraska.
This video left out the 4 newcomers to the Big 10 conference. Autzen stadium, home of the Oregon Ducks, has a capacity of 54,000 and is known as The House of Loud due to the insanely high decibel levels it can reach despite its small capacity thanks to its unique design and being built into a hill. Husky Stadium, home of the Washington Fusk-er, Huskies, has a capacity of 70,138 and until last year held the record for the highest recorded decibel level during a game at 133.6 decibels. It's also built adjacent to lake Washington where many fans roll up on their boats to, as they dub it, "sail gate" before the game. The Rose Bowl, home of the UCLA Bruins, has a capacity of 92,542 and is most famous for hosting the first ever post season game earning it the nickname of "The Granddaddy of Them All". These days it's also known for being half empty most of the time as the Bruins struggle to bring in enough fans during regular season games to fill it. Finally, there is Memorial Coliseum, home of the USC Trojans, which has a capacity of 77,500 and is more known for the many other events it's hosted than the USC games ranging from a World Series in baseball to the first ever Super Bowl to Olympic ceremonies. It's also home to dozens of feral cats who control the local rat population and occasionally make appearances during games. So there you go, NOW you're fully filled in on all the Big 10 stadiums. You're welcome 😊
@@shadowcastytOSU games are always the weekend after Thanksgiving, attendance is often lower than you’d expect. Best attendance is usually at early season games when the weather is nice.
Walking out into the stadium the first time at Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Stadium is a memory i won't ever forget. No atmosphere like a college tailgate and game. Food, adult beverages and good times.
@@AdamCouser There were 5 power conferences ("The Power Five") that featured major programs: "the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big Ten Conference, Big 12 Conference, Pac-12 Conference, and Southeastern Conference (SEC)." Next season there will be 4. This major realignment is driven in large part by the pursuit of TV dollars (live sports becoming more valuable as it becomes more difficult for networks to attract viewers0. The Pac-12 basically ceased to exist. Four of its teams joined the Big Ten and four others joined the Big 12. Texas and Oklahoma, two historic programs, left the Big 12 for the SEC. The names "Big Ten," "Big 12." and "Pac-12" at one time reflected the number of teams in the conference (which were regional in nature). The ACC is in danger of imploding. Other recent factors affecting college football: - Players can now be compensated for their name, image, and likeness. Top QBs can draw offers worth millions of dollars - Players can now easily transfer. They might do so to chase dollars or playing time, among other reasons. Used to be they would lose a year of eligibility if they transferred. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) operates as a governing body establishing rules and sanctioning schools who violate them. They lost legal cases that allowed these new developments. They would like congress to pass laws to help them rein in what's happening. Congress so far has been disinclined to act. The most powerful football programs--those with the most resources and history--tend to be state schools and it might not be popular politically to go against them and their alumni base. -
the only 2 stadiums in the world bigger than Michigan Stadium are in North Korea (mainly used for propaganda stuff) and a cricket stadium in India (despite having an official capacity of 132,000 it has never had a crowd larger than 105,000) so in that regard The Big House reigns supreme.
And the thing is this you've got to keep in mind. Not just that these stadiums have the number of seats that they list, but they fill those seats to a 100% capacity. Every single week until football season is over. So having a 100,000 seats is one thing, but filling them is another. Actually it's every other week because every other week is an away game. Then on top of that, keep in mind that there's about 40 of these games throughout the country, every single week. And they all basically fill the stadium.
40 games a week? So 80 teams altogether? Sorry Brad, but if you take all the sanctioning bodies, all the divisions, all the conferences, there's around 880 college football teams in America. Of course, not all of them fill the stands every game; maybe not even most. Maybe even never for some.
@@bob_._. Yes, I agree, in general with exactly what you just said. It's just that I'm not really considering division. 3 teams and maybe even a lot of division 2 teams because of the fact that you stated that they don't all fill their stadiums whereas division one teams absolutely fill those stadiums week after week. And for whatever it means I wasn't picking a number. That was exact. I was giving a generalized response sort of like saying I had around a dozen or something when in fact it might have been 10 or it might have been 15. But your point is taken and it is for whatever it's worth correct.So I guess what I'm saying is I agree with you
He didn't mention it but the big building next to Iowa stadium is a children's hospital, and the entire stadium waves to the children at some point during each game. I'm a Michigan fan so don't know when exactly, but love the tradition.
Worth mentioning, 11:30, Ryan Field technically doesn't exist anymore. It is being demolished and completely rebuilt. Northwestern is playing in a temporary stadium for the next 2 years i believe while that is happening
Okay this is an update Adam. NCAA College football are put into different conferences. This group is called the Big 10. Now the Nebraska statium was built in 1923 and now holds 85458 fans. Nebraska holds 5 National Championships and the Nebraska Cornhuskers own the NCAA record for the most consecutive sellouts at their stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska. As of November 17, 2022 Memorial Stadium's 100th season wraps up on Saturday. Nebraska football's home sellout streak will still be chugging along at 60-plus years and 389 games. The streak began on November 3, 1962. Nebraskans take their football to heart.
Even outside of that, holds the record for a soccer(football) match between Man U and Real Madrid. 3x stadium champs for attendance in the western hemisphere!
10:49 a "boiler marker" is also a drink. Pour in 1/2 a beer then drop a big shot of whiskey in the beer (drop the whole glass). You have to drink it fast or the drink will "boil over"
I'm a Michigan alumna. There is no place for football like the 'Big House.' It holds more people than the last 3 towns I've lived in. I worked at the Univ of Iowa. If you notice a white, football shaped building, next to the stadium, that is the university's Children's Hospital. Kids who are able, can come up to a lounge with big windows and look down on the stadium during the game. There is a new tradition of people in the stands turning and waving at the kids. It's gotten a lot of press and is one of the better college football traditions. While Ann Arbor goes football crazy, I think Iowa City goes even more nuts. It's a ghost town while a game is going on, home or away.
I've actually been on the field of Memorial Stadium in Lincoln Nebraska. During home gamedays, it is called the Sea of Red, because there is zero chance that any away fans will be there. It used to be one of the hardest stadiums for an away team to play at.
One thing you’ll notice with older built stadiums is they had to have an end open on one side. In the beginning stages these hosted a track for track and field events. Old age tracks used to have an extremely long stretch. Much longer than a football field. Hence why stadiums like the horseshoe exist. I would highly recommend looking into some of the pictures from the 1920s and 1930s. You can see how much these have grown over the last 100 years! Love the content keep it coming!
Michigan Stadium used to have a seating capacity of 109,901 until a recent remodel was done to ensure accessibility for handicap individuals. I think you’d get a kick out of the rivalry between Michigan and Ohio state, known simply as “The Game”. And while I’m at it, FUCK OHIO, GO BLUE!
The Big 10 is just one of many college football conferences. So this video is only showing you the teams in that particular conference. National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) are the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big Ten Conference, Big 12 Conference, Pac-12 Conference, Southeastern Conference (SEC), American Athletic Conference (AAC), Conference USA, Mid-American Conference, Mountain West and Sunbelt Conference. Some conferences have bigger universities than other conference. There are still other college conferences under different associations with smaller universities.
College athletics is a huge money maker. Especially college football. We used to have season tickets to Penn State (Beaver Stadium) football games. There is nothing like a whiteout game especially when they are winning. The place is rocking. After we would carry the party to the RV. Such memorable times. Even our dog loved it. We had so many people come to our RV to meet her because of word of mouth. They would knock on our door and ask to meet her. She was a Rottweiler who loved people. And they loved her. Great times.
A lot of these stadiums have lower capacity simply because they are in small cap markets and/or don't have a big/historical following, so they build to an accommodating capacity that is within their budgets. Schools like Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State (in the Big 10), or Tennessee, LSU or Alabama (in the SEC) are BIG money schools that also make a ton of money off of merchandise licensing - so they can afford to build out these bigger stadiums. Rutgers (as an example) is a very small market cap school that isn't richly steeped in college athletics, so doesn't really have a big following, the capacity need or the budget, to expand its stadium.
While Ohio Stadium lost its Horseshoe feel when the south stands were added, if you notice they don’t actually touch the main stadium. In 1974 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, so when the south stands were built they couldn’t touch the stadium as it would have altered the building
Yessss mate. Love the content. You need to check out the SEC stadiums next. The SEC is like the premier league of college football and is generally known as the best division, top to bottom, in college football
Check out SEC stadiums and high school stadiums. I’m in Tennessee and most of our stadiums don’t compare to Georgia, Florida, and of course Texas. But some in my area have Jumbotrons and seat 30,000. The SEC stadiums have unique histories. For instance, the Tennessee stadium used to have classes underneath it including gross anatomy. So cadavers were kept under the stadium. LSU’s is called Death Valley.
This video did not cover the stadia of the teams that are joining the B1G in 2024, like Oregon, UCLA, USC, and Washington. I went to Oregon for postgrad and Autzen is one of my favorite places to watch a game. The LA Memorial Coliseum and the Rose Bowl are iconic, and Husky Stadium is nice.
I absolutely love Camp Randell, but this video is a touch old. The end by the Field House has been renovated and it holds closer to 85,000 people. Best part about a Home Game there is "Jump Around" between the 3rd and 4th Quarters.
Hi Adam, Please react to the Navy Blue Angels or the Air Force Thunderbirds. I think you will enjoy the videos. The air demonstrations are breathtaking!
Recruiting lounge is where you take the high school kids you are recruiting to try and come to play for you. These kids get all kinds of gifts, schools have been busted having women sleep with recruits on visits, etc. You are basically competing against 5 other colleges that each get an official visit from the recruit. Say this weekend a top recruit goes to visit Ohio State, then next weekend he visits Michigan. Eventually you pick your school to play at. Keep in mind these are 17 and 18 year old high school kids.
Ayyyy Purdue is my Alma Mater! The state of Indiana is known for its basketball though. IU (Indiana University) and Purdue are legendary basketball powerhouses and our arenas are crazy. I remember one game the ESPN had to cut their mic because the crowd was so loud you couldn’t hear the announcers.
Go check out the stadiums of the SEC, but make sure it's an updated one that includes Oklahoma and Texas. Notice that most of the schools and stadiums are not in major cities. Beaver Stadium (Penn State) is in a small city right in the middle of Pennsylvania, several hours away from the cities of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, and it still fills to its 106k capacity.
even though stadiums may be listed as built in early 1900s, their original capacity was likely expanded to the current capacity with 1 or more construction expansions (could have upgraded different sections in different years) and to upgrade to more current technology/engineering options (skyboxes/elevators/video boards). it's also worth noting these stadiums are mainly used for 'football' around 7-9 times a year. many schools hold their spring inter-squad football game in April, they might have practice games for the public in August, the 6-7 home games-depending on scheduling. (The new playoff system has home games at these school stadiums depending who makes the playoff). The postseason bowl games mostly occur at pro football/NFL stadiums though some do occur at university stadiums (some college teams play their season home games at NFL stadiums). Otherwise, the stadiums are football dormant. Some have concerts, some use their stadium for graduation, some may use it for local high school football games, and some have other large field sports (like lacrosse or soccer/footie) or even converted for basketball (Syracuse University Carrier Dome stadium-indoor under a roof- is football & basketball). Apart from college football games and other activities, many are empty >340 days a year.
The U or horse shoe shape of most of these stadiums is due to them all hosting track and field in the past. Most had a track that would extend out of one side of the stadium with no seating.
The Big 10 is the conference that these schools play in, not a qualifier for how big their stadiums are. The other major conferences are the Big 12 (completely unrelated to the Big 10), the PAC 12, the ACC and the SEC. The SEC has the most large stadiums with 10 of them seating over 80k and 5 over 100k. And for some more context, college football has 21 stadiums larger than Old Trafford and 10 that are larger than Wembley.
College football has the largest stadium seating capacities of any sports venue in North America, partly because it a very popular spectator sport (in some areas, the most popular one), but also because they play significantly fewer games per season than most of their nearest competitors (pro football, college basketball, major league baseball). Even high school football has more games per season if you count JV games as well as varsity. Since there aren't very many college football games, a larger percentage of the fans attend any given game, and so the stadia need more seating.
Been to several of these stadiums over the years and to the "Shoe* (Ohio State University Stadium) well over 30 times to see the Buckeyes play. Always an awe inspiring time.
Pretty cool! College football is probably second to only the NFL as the most popular sport in the U.S. Might want to look into 'tailgating' at college football games. There can be another 50k - 100k partying and watching the game in the parking lots. When I had season tickets to Ohio State, we would get to the tailgating lots at 5 a.m. just to get a spot and get set up. Those were the days... lol Nicely done and thanks for sharing 🤠
There is also The Bryant-Denny stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The University of Alabama. It holds 101,000, and it is absolutely beautiful. Roll Tide!!
Penn State white out game (a game you should watch) is usually the game of the week. It’s on Saturday night. The crowd is so electric, it’s so loud, it’s an aweome atmosphere, hope to get to experience it one day.
Since you enjoyed the American College Football Videos so much: traditions, bands etc..... and we know you love food --Please check out "Tailgating", another great Fooyball tradition. FYI it is partying before the game in the parking lots -- many hours before the game starts. And eating and drinking yoursel into a near-coma! I say "near" as you do want to make it to the game! The food dishes served at the Tailgating is as varied as the States the game is being played in! I suggest: 'The Ten Most EpicTailgates in Collrge Football"
Loved this. I go to Michigan States football games. The stadium fits 75,000 there are about 55,000 students and 600,000 living alumni. I have been going to games at the University for about 30 years. Best time of the year for me. Every game day about 100,000 people desend on the campus to tailgate. Not everyone goes into the game. Its a gigantic party.
Fun fact, East Lansing becomes the third or fourth most populous city in Michigan on gamedays (if there isn't a game in Ann Arbor that weekend as well) lol normally 34th with a population of 47k (not including students) and balloons to about 200k on average if you include the tailgaters and other visitors not at the game itself.
I live just outside of Columbus, Ohio.where the Ohio State University is and the stadium. Its nickname is The Shoe as it was originally built to look like a horseshoe. It has been expanded over time.and now holds 110,000 people, and is usually packed for home games. My grandson played for Ohio State in the position of Wide Receiver. Its also the home of The Ohio State Marching Band. Check out their videos on RUclips. ( especially their tributes to movies and to Michael Jackson) The band is awesome. These are just stadiums in the Big Ten conference. There are at least 5 more conferences with many teams in each and so many more stadiums. College football is more popular than professional football, which is very popular. If you decide to come to the U.S. you should come in September or October when the trees are changing colors, the temperature is good; not to hot or cold, and catch a game of college football at Ohio Stadium and see the band. Also check out the Columbus Zoo. Its one of the best,
3 of the top 5 largest stadiums in the world are in this "Big Ten Conference" #3 Michigan Stadium (107k) #4 Beaver Stadium (106k) #5 Ohio Stadium (102k) #2 is in North Korea, #1 is in India
before they mandated the seats at park head, ibrox , and hampden park they were the largest capacity stadiums on the planet ALL 3 IN GLASGOW, even Murrayfeild for the rugby was over 100k
To answer your question on how some of the stadiums look like they should fit more/less. Its because (especially the older ones) some of the stadiums have smaller "seats". The bench seating style allows for much smaller areas than ones with actual stadium seats. Im a season ticket holder in one of these stadiums and the seats are about 16 inches wide. While your typical stadium seat with armrest is 20-22 inches wide. We really get crammed in there like sardines
I can tell you that the Penn State Stadium gets filled to capacity during home games. Traffic is horrendous up and down I90 and Old 220. It's crazy...lol Great tailgating in the parking lot.
Just a quick note about the last one - it is now called Huntington Bank Stadium after TCF got bought out by Huntington Bank. While US Bank Stadium was being built, the NFL team Minnesota Vikings played at this stadium. It's a lovely stadium, with the outside dedicated to Native American tribes.
A lot of these stadiums were originally built in the 1920s when the tracks for track and field had 220 yd/200 meter straightaways, so the horseshoe was because the track would keep going past the stadium back then. Once it became normal for the track to have 100 meter straightaways, seating was built behind the other endzone. Eventually, a lot of these colleges removed the track to get seats closer to the field since not that many people would show up for track meets and then have a stadium with a much smaller seating capacity for stuff like track, field hockey, soccer, and lacrosse.
Ryan field is actually gone. It was torn d down to make way for a new $800.million dollar stadium under construction. Check out their new lakeside on campus temporary stadium.
You need to research Neyland stadium and the Tennessee VOLS ( VOLS is short for Volunteers ) traditions. Look up the night games, spooky Neyland, or nightmare at Neyland, checker Neyland, the VOL walk and running through the T. The stadium is also known for the body farm under it.
The U shape is mostly because of the Jumbo-Tron. The large TV in the stadium. It takes up a lot of the viewing room unless they move it to make room for more seating which is WAY more expensive than just adding additional seats where seats already exist.
Most of these stadiums were built in the 1920s or before, but they weren't this large size at that time. The stadiums have had additions built to accommodate more seating capacity. College football in the US is so popular because the game was started at universities 30 or 40 years before the NFL got started. Also, a lot of these unis are in relaively rural cities making the football games in the fall the _only_ entertainment in town.
Now you got to see the big leagues lol, check out the best conference in college football, which some might say there are equals but all agree none are better. That being the SEC, or South Eastern Conference. That’s where my team plays. It’s the “Orange” stadium you saw in the video showing the entrances. That being UT, or the University of Tennessee. Our colors are orange and white, thus the orange you saw in the video. Our stadium, Neyland Stadium. It holds ~102,000 people, but use to hold ~ 104,200. They lost some seating where they added more sky boxes. Ours is not the largest, but is considered by everyone to be the loudest. It held the old record at 125.4 Db measured on the field, not the stands. Well, we broke our own record in 2023. After beating Georgia, they measured the sound level on the field as 137 Db. Fans that bleed orange blood get pretty loud come game day. By the way, the day of the old record was something you saw in the same video I mentioned earlier. The part where they tore the goal posts down was that 125.4 game. We beat Alabama that day. Ours isn’t the biggest, I think it’s eighth largest. But any in the SEC are nice. It’s understandable though as all the teams are doing well financially. Even smaller schools like Vanderbilt have nice stadiums. Hell, Florida has two lol!
Check out Louisville’s football stadium. 1 of the only college football stadiums that has all seats and no bleachers. Its a newer stadium built in 1998. Its my local college
Now to really blow your mind about how popular college football is. A lot of these stadiums have been sold out for years. With some having been sold out since the 1960s.
The bigger stadiums are usually bigger.Universities with a higher enrollment and a better football team.So they draw more friends.I think the university of michigan has about a hundred and fifty thousand students
The problem with the sunken bowl design of Michigan is the noise leaves. Tiers cause the sounds to reverberate, so PSU, OSU, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Iowa, all seem louder from the inside.
It’s definitely quiet considering how big it is. The new sky boxes help, but it’s still not close to OSU or PSU for noise. The Shoe is actually sunken a little too, but it’s so vertical everything gets stuck in it. The design of the big house just doesn’t work as well acoustically whereas a much smaller stadium like Autzen seems to be optimized for noise.
I think these were alphabetical by the stadium name (other than Kinnick, which was out of place). Which is kind of a weird order to do them in (I would have expected either alphabetical by school or sorting by size one way or the other), but whatever. Prior to this year (where a bunch more major shuffling occurs, mostly with teams abandoning the Pac-12 for more money elsewhere), there were 10 conferences (local groups of teams, mostly) at the top level of college football, each with between 9 and 14 teams, plus a few "independent" teams who don't play in a conference. Other than the independents, each team plays 3-4 games against teams outside of its conference and then 8-9 games within the conference. Five of the conferences were considered "major" conferences (large schools, traditional powerhouse teams) and five "minor" (less well known, smaller schools). Geographically, you have: Upper Midwest: Big Ten (major) and Mid-American (minor) West: Pac-12 (major) and Mountain West (minor) Southwest: Big 12 (major) and Conference USA (minor) Southeast: SEC (major) and Sun Belt (minor) East Coast: ACC (major) and American (minor) There are some geographical outliers in a few of those (the Big 12 stretches into the Great Plains and also has West Virginia for some reason, and the American and Conference USA overlap in area pretty heavily, to the point where if you named a team in one of those conferences and asked me which conference they were in, I doubt I'd guess more than 2/3 of them right), but for the most part teams are (or were, until recently) in the conference you'd expect based on geography. And the names "Big Ten" and "Big 12" are holdovers from the era before the major realignments started happening; neither actually has that number of teams anymore (and in fact for a few years in the early 2010s, the Big Ten had 12 teams and the Big 12 had 10, to the amusement of pretty much everyone).
When you said that camp Randall looked like a coliseum, I assume you didn’t know that there’s actually a college football stadium called the LA coliseum that will be in the Big 10 next year
Horseshoe stadiums are popular because horses are awesome and shoes are great for your feet. So combine them and you get a college football stadium. Im a scientist, trust me.
Adam just so you know, my hometown life long football time, The University of Michigan, that you saw in this video is also nicknamed "The Big House" and it is the biggest football stadium in the United States
The largest stadium in the world is 132,000 in India and the second one is 114,000 in North Korea. After that the next 8 of top ten largest stadiums in the world is college football stadiums with five of those being in the SEC or Southeastern Conference. Those 5 are as follows, College Station Texas home to Texas AM Aggies 102,733 also known as Kyle Field, Baton Rouge Louisiana home of the LSU Tigers 102,321, Neyland Stadium Knoxville TN home to the Tennessee Volunteers 101,915, Austin Texas Darrell K Royal Memorial Stadium home of Texas Longhorns 100,119 who is just joining the SEC conference this year, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Bryant Denny Stadium home of the Alabama Crimson Tide 100,077. There is not a single NFL stadium in the top ten largest stadiums in the world. Just for fun and a totally different comparison Talladega Super Speedway in Alabama can hold about 175,000 spectators but once again stadiums vs racing venue's two different things just thought I would throw that out there.
As others have said. This is just one conference and it’s not up to date. Not a fan of the narrator’s humor. He kind of misses the mark and misses the point.
This is just the big 10 confrence, it's one of 4 major confrences with 5 other smaller school subdivison confrences making up the rest of the league. This one has some huge stadiums but you should check out the SEC stadiums, they're consistently huge, that's where the big boys play
Ohio State used to have a track around the field and it extended out the open end. Not sure if that's the reason for the horseshoe, but it's barely one any more.
College Football is a very big deal in the USA. There are around 130 D1-FBS teams. There are also D1-FCS, D2, and D3 teams, but D1-FBS is the highest level. 4 teams make the D1-FBS playoffs, this year it expands to 12. The stadiums are so big, because the sport is so popular. On Saturdays during College Football season, many of the games are televised. If you live in Eastern Time you can watch games from around noon to 10PM. You'll have to pick which games you want to watch, because multiple games are on at once. In addition College Football no longer allows games to end in a tie. If you haven't seen it check out highlights from the 2022 Army-Navy game.
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These aren’t the ten biggest the Big 10 is a conference these are the biggest stadiums in the conference
Check out the ten biggest stadiums
tmrw right?
you have to check out the stadiums of the ACC and the SEC if you think this is video is crazy I think the same channel has videos for both of the others
Adam, LSU Tiger Stadium. Look that up buddy
First off, loving the content, brother. The Big 10 is just 1 of many conferences of college football. It is not the 10 biggest stadiums in college football.
Came here to say that. Thanks.
Thanks for this man!
Big ten has the larger stadiums though
@@spiritboxyxboxsome of them. SEC has some enormous ones too
Also, this isn't all of the Big 10 stadiums anymore with teams changing conferences
Can't believe they didnt go over the fact that the Iowa Childrens Hospital directly overlooks the field so the kids have a good seat to watch the game from. And the Hawkeye Wave like how could you leave that out.
That's outside the scope of this video; it's about the physical stadiums, not any activities connected with them.
Yeah I was waiting for him to say that too lol. Well from the accent the guy making the video clearly isn't from the midwest...
Imagine his reaction when he finds out about high school football in Texas.
That's what I keep suggesting! I can't wait for that one!!! 🏈😂🇺🇸
No doubt!
Hopefully they can explain why Texas kids go play football anywhere but Texas
Dude,the US is just like Europe, nobody gives a darn about soccer, but football? Hell yeah!!!
Imagine when he finds out the highest paid state employee in a lot of states are football coaches
The "Big 10" is a conference in the NCAA. These are the stadiums of the schools in that conference. You should search "biggest college football stadiums" or something like that if you want to see the largest.
Big ten has some of the biggest in NCAA lol
In fact they have the top three biggest. Being. Michigan, Penn State and Ohio State
@@CaseyWattsKnox Yes to all but Michigan blah....
@@CaseyWattsKnox They now also have 2 of the loudest with the additions of Autzen and Husky stadiums.
Michigan is better than your school, get ovet it @@deepdragon2
Nebraska has 392 consecutive sell outs. That’s every game being sold out since 1962. To put it in perspective, Lincoln-Memorial Stadium has the population of what would be the third most populated city in Nebraska.
This video left out the 4 newcomers to the Big 10 conference. Autzen stadium, home of the Oregon Ducks, has a capacity of 54,000 and is known as The House of Loud due to the insanely high decibel levels it can reach despite its small capacity thanks to its unique design and being built into a hill.
Husky Stadium, home of the Washington Fusk-er, Huskies, has a capacity of 70,138 and until last year held the record for the highest recorded decibel level during a game at 133.6 decibels. It's also built adjacent to lake Washington where many fans roll up on their boats to, as they dub it, "sail gate" before the game.
The Rose Bowl, home of the UCLA Bruins, has a capacity of 92,542 and is most famous for hosting the first ever post season game earning it the nickname of "The Granddaddy of Them All". These days it's also known for being half empty most of the time as the Bruins struggle to bring in enough fans during regular season games to fill it.
Finally, there is Memorial Coliseum, home of the USC Trojans, which has a capacity of 77,500 and is more known for the many other events it's hosted than the USC games ranging from a World Series in baseball to the first ever Super Bowl to Olympic ceremonies. It's also home to dozens of feral cats who control the local rat population and occasionally make appearances during games.
So there you go, NOW you're fully filled in on all the Big 10 stadiums. You're welcome 😊
That all-time attendance record at Michigan Stadium [aka The Big House] was 115,109 at the Michigan vs Notre Dame game on September 7, 2013.
Its funny that the record isn't held by an OSU game
It also holds the record for the largest crowd to witness a hockey game at 113,411.
@@shadowcastytOSU games are always the weekend after Thanksgiving, attendance is often lower than you’d expect. Best attendance is usually at early season games when the weather is nice.
@@shadowcastyt The game I went to in 2013 was at 113k+ and that was against osu
Yea cause OSU is in the asscrack of America, Ohio sucks donkey balls😂
I'm a student at Nebraska. I walk near the stadium essentially every day, but every time I do, I am amazed by its architecture.
Walking out into the stadium the first time at Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Stadium is a memory i won't ever forget. No atmosphere like a college tailgate and game. Food, adult beverages and good times.
Adam, just some FYI. The Big 10 is a conference in college football. Some others are the SEC, and
the ACC
Ohhh thank you!
@@AdamCouser the SEC
SouthEasternConference
has some of the biggest stadiums.
6 or 7 of them are over 100,000
@@mapexzildjian6361they have 5 over 100k. Texas A&M Alabama Tennessee LSU and now Texas
@@mapexzildjian6361only 5, with the new addition of Texas, along with Texas A&M Alabama lsu and Tennessee
@@AdamCouser There were 5 power conferences ("The Power Five") that featured major programs: "the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big Ten Conference, Big 12 Conference, Pac-12 Conference, and Southeastern Conference (SEC)."
Next season there will be 4.
This major realignment is driven in large part by the pursuit of TV dollars (live sports becoming more valuable as it becomes more difficult for networks to attract viewers0.
The Pac-12 basically ceased to exist. Four of its teams joined the Big Ten and four others joined the Big 12. Texas and Oklahoma, two historic programs, left the Big 12 for the SEC.
The names "Big Ten," "Big 12." and "Pac-12" at one time reflected the number of teams in the conference (which were regional in nature).
The ACC is in danger of imploding.
Other recent factors affecting college football:
- Players can now be compensated for their name, image, and likeness. Top QBs can draw offers worth millions of dollars
- Players can now easily transfer. They might do so to chase dollars or playing time, among other reasons. Used to be they would lose a year of eligibility if they transferred.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) operates as a governing body establishing rules and sanctioning schools who violate them. They lost legal cases that allowed these new developments. They would like congress to pass laws to help them rein in what's happening.
Congress so far has been disinclined to act. The most powerful football programs--those with the most resources and history--tend to be state schools and it might not be popular politically to go against them and their alumni base.
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the only 2 stadiums in the world bigger than Michigan Stadium are in North Korea (mainly used for propaganda stuff) and a cricket stadium in India (despite having an official capacity of 132,000 it has never had a crowd larger than 105,000) so in that regard The Big House reigns supreme.
And the thing is this you've got to keep in mind. Not just that these stadiums have the number of seats that they list, but they fill those seats to a 100% capacity. Every single week until football season is over. So having a 100,000 seats is one thing, but filling them is another. Actually it's every other week because every other week is an away game. Then on top of that, keep in mind that there's about 40 of these games throughout the country, every single week. And they all basically fill the stadium.
40 games a week? So 80 teams altogether? Sorry Brad, but if you take all the sanctioning bodies, all the divisions, all the conferences, there's around 880 college football teams in America. Of course, not all of them fill the stands every game; maybe not even most. Maybe even never for some.
@@bob_._. Yes, I agree, in general with exactly what you just said. It's just that I'm not really considering division. 3 teams and maybe even a lot of division 2 teams because of the fact that you stated that they don't all fill their stadiums whereas division one teams absolutely fill those stadiums week after week. And for whatever it means I wasn't picking a number. That was exact. I was giving a generalized response sort of like saying I had around a dozen or something when in fact it might have been 10 or it might have been 15. But your point is taken and it is for whatever it's worth correct.So I guess what I'm saying is I agree with you
He didn't mention it but the big building next to Iowa stadium is a children's hospital, and the entire stadium waves to the children at some point during each game. I'm a Michigan fan so don't know when exactly, but love the tradition.
For the record, they do the Kinnick wave at the end of the first quarter.
Worth mentioning, 11:30, Ryan Field technically doesn't exist anymore. It is being demolished and completely rebuilt. Northwestern is playing in a temporary stadium for the next 2 years i believe while that is happening
Okay this is an update Adam. NCAA College football are put into different conferences. This group is called the Big 10. Now the Nebraska statium was built in 1923 and now holds 85458 fans. Nebraska holds 5 National Championships and the Nebraska Cornhuskers own the NCAA record for the most consecutive sellouts at their stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska. As of November 17, 2022 Memorial Stadium's 100th season wraps up on Saturday. Nebraska football's home sellout streak will still be chugging along at 60-plus years and 389 games. The streak began on November 3, 1962. Nebraskans take their football to heart.
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@@timwalker6470not Adam. The guy he’s reacting to.
It’s gotta be an AI script
Fun fact the Big House of U of M holds the record for attendance of a hockey game when they hosted the Detroit Red Wings vs Toronto Maple Leafs.
Even outside of that, holds the record for a soccer(football) match between Man U and Real Madrid. 3x stadium champs for attendance in the western hemisphere!
10:49 a "boiler marker" is also a drink. Pour in 1/2 a beer then drop a big shot of whiskey in the beer (drop the whole glass). You have to drink it fast or the drink will "boil over"
I'm a Michigan alumna. There is no place for football like the 'Big House.' It holds more people than the last 3 towns I've lived in. I worked at the Univ of Iowa. If you notice a white, football shaped building, next to the stadium, that is the university's Children's Hospital. Kids who are able, can come up to a lounge with big windows and look down on the stadium during the game. There is a new tradition of people in the stands turning and waving at the kids. It's gotten a lot of press and is one of the better college football traditions. While Ann Arbor goes football crazy, I think Iowa City goes even more nuts. It's a ghost town while a game is going on, home or away.
You’re vids are great Adam. You spend a lot of time on them. Love from North Carolina
Thank you!
I've actually been on the field of Memorial Stadium in Lincoln Nebraska. During home gamedays, it is called the Sea of Red, because there is zero chance that any away fans will be there. It used to be one of the hardest stadiums for an away team to play at.
You need to see the SEC Stadiums.
Yeah, he does. 😁
I live 10 min from the university of tennessee and i couldn't agree more.
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@@Hoodie_NCA And I live 10 from UGA’s. Go DAWGS lol
Do the SEC!
One thing you’ll notice with older built stadiums is they had to have an end open on one side. In the beginning stages these hosted a track for track and field events. Old age tracks used to have an extremely long stretch. Much longer than a football field. Hence why stadiums like the horseshoe exist. I would highly recommend looking into some of the pictures from the 1920s and 1930s. You can see how much these have grown over the last 100 years! Love the content keep it coming!
Michigan Stadium used to have a seating capacity of 109,901 until a recent remodel was done to ensure accessibility for handicap individuals. I think you’d get a kick out of the rivalry between Michigan and Ohio state, known simply as “The Game”. And while I’m at it, FUCK OHIO, GO BLUE!
I have a bad feeling that Blue is going to seriously regress this year. 😢
The Big 10 is just one of many college football conferences. So this video is only showing you the teams in that particular conference. National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) are the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big Ten Conference, Big 12 Conference, Pac-12 Conference, Southeastern Conference (SEC), American Athletic Conference (AAC), Conference USA, Mid-American Conference, Mountain West and Sunbelt Conference. Some conferences have bigger universities than other conference. There are still other college conferences under different associations with smaller universities.
College athletics is a huge money maker. Especially college football. We used to have season tickets to Penn State (Beaver Stadium) football games. There is nothing like a whiteout game especially when they are winning. The place is rocking. After we would carry the party to the RV. Such memorable times. Even our dog loved it. We had so many people come to our RV to meet her because of word of mouth. They would knock on our door and ask to meet her. She was a Rottweiler who loved people. And they loved her. Great times.
A lot of these stadiums have lower capacity simply because they are in small cap markets and/or don't have a big/historical following, so they build to an accommodating capacity that is within their budgets. Schools like Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State (in the Big 10), or Tennessee, LSU or Alabama (in the SEC) are BIG money schools that also make a ton of money off of merchandise licensing - so they can afford to build out these bigger stadiums. Rutgers (as an example) is a very small market cap school that isn't richly steeped in college athletics, so doesn't really have a big following, the capacity need or the budget, to expand its stadium.
While Ohio Stadium lost its Horseshoe feel when the south stands were added, if you notice they don’t actually touch the main stadium. In 1974 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, so when the south stands were built they couldn’t touch the stadium as it would have altered the building
Yessss mate. Love the content. You need to check out the SEC stadiums next. The SEC is like the premier league of college football and is generally known as the best division, top to bottom, in college football
Ryan Field is currently being rebuilt with a smaller and more modern design.
Check out SEC stadiums and high school stadiums. I’m in Tennessee and most of our stadiums don’t compare to Georgia, Florida, and of course Texas. But some in my area have Jumbotrons and seat 30,000.
The SEC stadiums have unique histories. For instance, the Tennessee stadium used to have classes underneath it including gross anatomy. So cadavers were kept under the stadium. LSU’s is called Death Valley.
This video did not cover the stadia of the teams that are joining the B1G in 2024, like Oregon, UCLA, USC, and Washington. I went to Oregon for postgrad and Autzen is one of my favorite places to watch a game. The LA Memorial Coliseum and the Rose Bowl are iconic, and Husky Stadium is nice.
I absolutely love Camp Randell, but this video is a touch old. The end by the Field House has been renovated and it holds closer to 85,000 people. Best part about a Home Game there is "Jump Around" between the 3rd and 4th Quarters.
Love the videos brotha keep it coming ❤
Hi Adam,
Please react to the Navy Blue Angels or the Air Force Thunderbirds. I think you will enjoy the videos. The air demonstrations are breathtaking!
Recruiting lounge is where you take the high school kids you are recruiting to try and come to play for you. These kids get all kinds of gifts, schools have been busted having women sleep with recruits on visits, etc. You are basically competing against 5 other colleges that each get an official visit from the recruit. Say this weekend a top recruit goes to visit Ohio State, then next weekend he visits Michigan. Eventually you pick your school to play at. Keep in mind these are 17 and 18 year old high school kids.
Ayyyy Purdue is my Alma Mater! The state of Indiana is known for its basketball though. IU (Indiana University) and Purdue are legendary basketball powerhouses and our arenas are crazy. I remember one game the ESPN had to cut their mic because the crowd was so loud you couldn’t hear the announcers.
Go check out the stadiums of the SEC, but make sure it's an updated one that includes Oklahoma and Texas. Notice that most of the schools and stadiums are not in major cities. Beaver Stadium (Penn State) is in a small city right in the middle of Pennsylvania, several hours away from the cities of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, and it still fills to its 106k capacity.
even though stadiums may be listed as built in early 1900s, their original capacity was likely expanded to the current capacity with 1 or more construction expansions (could have upgraded different sections in different years) and to upgrade to more current technology/engineering options (skyboxes/elevators/video boards).
it's also worth noting these stadiums are mainly used for 'football' around 7-9 times a year. many schools hold their spring inter-squad football game in April, they might have practice games for the public in August, the 6-7 home games-depending on scheduling. (The new playoff system has home games at these school stadiums depending who makes the playoff). The postseason bowl games mostly occur at pro football/NFL stadiums though some do occur at university stadiums (some college teams play their season home games at NFL stadiums).
Otherwise, the stadiums are football dormant. Some have concerts, some use their stadium for graduation, some may use it for local high school football games, and some have other large field sports (like lacrosse or soccer/footie) or even converted for basketball (Syracuse University Carrier Dome stadium-indoor under a roof- is football & basketball). Apart from college football games and other activities, many are empty >340 days a year.
The U or horse shoe shape of most of these stadiums is due to them all hosting track and field in the past. Most had a track that would extend out of one side of the stadium with no seating.
The Big 10 is the conference that these schools play in, not a qualifier for how big their stadiums are.
The other major conferences are the Big 12 (completely unrelated to the Big 10), the PAC 12, the ACC and the SEC.
The SEC has the most large stadiums with 10 of them seating over 80k and 5 over 100k.
And for some more context, college football has 21 stadiums larger than Old Trafford and 10 that are larger than Wembley.
College football has the largest stadium seating capacities of any sports venue in North America, partly because it a very popular spectator sport (in some areas, the most popular one), but also because they play significantly fewer games per season than most of their nearest competitors (pro football, college basketball, major league baseball). Even high school football has more games per season if you count JV games as well as varsity. Since there aren't very many college football games, a larger percentage of the fans attend any given game, and so the stadia need more seating.
Been to several of these stadiums over the years and to the "Shoe* (Ohio State University Stadium) well over 30 times to see the Buckeyes play. Always an awe inspiring time.
Pretty cool! College football is probably second to only the NFL as the most popular sport in the U.S. Might want to look into 'tailgating' at college football games. There can be another 50k - 100k partying and watching the game in the parking lots. When I had season tickets to Ohio State, we would get to the tailgating lots at 5 a.m. just to get a spot and get set up. Those were the days... lol Nicely done and thanks for sharing 🤠
There is also The Bryant-Denny stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The University of Alabama. It holds 101,000, and it is absolutely beautiful. Roll Tide!!
Penn States Beaver Stadium’s official attendance record is 110,889
Penn State white out game (a game you should watch) is usually the game of the week. It’s on Saturday night. The crowd is so electric, it’s so loud, it’s an aweome atmosphere, hope to get to experience it one day.
Since you enjoyed the American College Football Videos so much: traditions, bands etc..... and we know you love food --Please check out "Tailgating", another great Fooyball tradition. FYI it is partying before the game in the parking lots -- many hours before the game starts. And eating and drinking yoursel into a near-coma! I say "near" as you do want to make it to the game! The food dishes served at the Tailgating is as varied as the States the game is being played in! I suggest: 'The Ten Most EpicTailgates in Collrge Football"
Loved this. I go to Michigan States football games. The stadium fits 75,000 there are about 55,000 students and 600,000 living alumni. I have been going to games at the University for about 30 years. Best time of the year for me. Every game day about 100,000 people desend on the campus to tailgate. Not everyone goes into the game. Its a gigantic party.
Fun fact, East Lansing becomes the third or fourth most populous city in Michigan on gamedays (if there isn't a game in Ann Arbor that weekend as well) lol normally 34th with a population of 47k (not including students) and balloons to about 200k on average if you include the tailgaters and other visitors not at the game itself.
I live just outside of Columbus, Ohio.where the Ohio State University is and the stadium. Its nickname is The Shoe as it was originally built to look like a horseshoe. It has been expanded over time.and now holds 110,000 people, and is usually packed for home games. My grandson played for Ohio State in the position of Wide Receiver. Its also the home of The Ohio State Marching Band. Check out their videos on RUclips. ( especially their tributes to movies and to Michael Jackson) The band is awesome.
These are just stadiums in the Big Ten conference. There are at least 5 more conferences with many teams in each and so many more stadiums. College football is more popular than professional football, which is very popular.
If you decide to come to the U.S. you should come in September or October when the trees are changing colors, the temperature is good; not to hot or cold, and catch a game of college football at Ohio Stadium and see the band. Also check out the Columbus Zoo. Its one of the best,
3 of the top 5 largest stadiums in the world are in this "Big Ten Conference"
#3 Michigan Stadium (107k)
#4 Beaver Stadium (106k)
#5 Ohio Stadium (102k)
#2 is in North Korea, #1 is in India
Where is Kyle Field I thought it would be on here
before they mandated the seats at park head, ibrox , and hampden park they were the largest capacity stadiums on the planet ALL 3 IN GLASGOW, even Murrayfeild for the rugby was over 100k
The horseshoe design is to allow for track and field events as well as possible expansion, if necessary of the seating capacity.
To answer your question on how some of the stadiums look like they should fit more/less. Its because (especially the older ones) some of the stadiums have smaller "seats". The bench seating style allows for much smaller areas than ones with actual stadium seats. Im a season ticket holder in one of these stadiums and the seats are about 16 inches wide. While your typical stadium seat with armrest is 20-22 inches wide. We really get crammed in there like sardines
I can tell you that the Penn State Stadium gets filled to capacity during home games. Traffic is horrendous up and down I90 and Old 220. It's crazy...lol Great tailgating in the parking lot.
Just a quick note about the last one - it is now called Huntington Bank Stadium after TCF got bought out by Huntington Bank. While US Bank Stadium was being built, the NFL team Minnesota Vikings played at this stadium. It's a lovely stadium, with the outside dedicated to Native American tribes.
The “official” capacity of Beaver Stadium may be 106,000. But, we have had many crowds of almost 111,000 there.
A lot of these stadiums were originally built in the 1920s when the tracks for track and field had 220 yd/200 meter straightaways, so the horseshoe was because the track would keep going past the stadium back then. Once it became normal for the track to have 100 meter straightaways, seating was built behind the other endzone. Eventually, a lot of these colleges removed the track to get seats closer to the field since not that many people would show up for track meets and then have a stadium with a much smaller seating capacity for stuff like track, field hockey, soccer, and lacrosse.
Ryan field is actually gone. It was torn d down to make way for a new $800.million dollar stadium under construction. Check out their new lakeside on campus temporary stadium.
You need to research Neyland stadium and the Tennessee VOLS ( VOLS is short for Volunteers ) traditions. Look up the night games, spooky Neyland, or nightmare at Neyland, checker Neyland, the VOL walk and running through the T. The stadium is also known for the body farm under it.
You could also do a whole reaction video just on the 2022 Tennessee vs Alabama game alone. One of the greatest games in history.
The U shape is mostly because of the Jumbo-Tron. The large TV in the stadium. It takes up a lot of the viewing room unless they move it to make room for more seating which is WAY more expensive than just adding additional seats where seats already exist.
Most of these stadiums were built in the 1920s or before, but they weren't this large size at that time. The stadiums have had additions built to accommodate more seating capacity. College football in the US is so popular because the game was started at universities 30 or 40 years before the NFL got started. Also, a lot of these unis are in relaively rural cities making the football games in the fall the _only_ entertainment in town.
A lot of early stadiums had tracks for track and field as well, which is why so many have horseshoe style stadiums
Now you got to see the big leagues lol, check out the best conference in college football, which some might say there are equals but all agree none are better. That being the SEC, or South Eastern Conference. That’s where my team plays. It’s the “Orange” stadium you saw in the video showing the entrances. That being UT, or the University of Tennessee. Our colors are orange and white, thus the orange you saw in the video. Our stadium, Neyland Stadium. It holds ~102,000 people, but use to hold ~ 104,200. They lost some seating where they added more sky boxes. Ours is not the largest, but is considered by everyone to be the loudest. It held the old record at 125.4 Db measured on the field, not the stands. Well, we broke our own record in 2023. After beating Georgia, they measured the sound level on the field as 137 Db. Fans that bleed orange blood get pretty loud come game day. By the way, the day of the old record was something you saw in the same video I mentioned earlier. The part where they tore the goal posts down was that 125.4 game. We beat Alabama that day.
Ours isn’t the biggest, I think it’s eighth largest. But any in the SEC are nice. It’s understandable though as all the teams are doing well financially. Even smaller schools like Vanderbilt have nice stadiums. Hell, Florida has two lol!
Check out Louisville’s football stadium. 1 of the only college football stadiums that has all seats and no bleachers. Its a newer stadium built in 1998. Its my local college
Michigan stadium has the record for the most people to attend a game on campus and has over 300+ games with over 100k
Now to really blow your mind about how popular college football is. A lot of these stadiums have been sold out for years. With some having been sold out since the 1960s.
I love this content you need to do SEC stadiums. Including Oklahoma and Texas!!!
There used to be 10 schools in the Big Ten. Currently there are 14 , soon to be 18.
The bigger stadiums are usually bigger.Universities with a higher enrollment and a better football team.So they draw more friends.I think the university of michigan has about a hundred and fifty thousand students
Here in the US our smaller colleges have stadiums that seat 20-30k
Ryan field (Northwestern) has been completely torn down and they are rebuilding a whole new stadium right now.
The problem with the sunken bowl design of Michigan is the noise leaves. Tiers cause the sounds to reverberate, so PSU, OSU, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Iowa, all seem louder from the inside.
It’s definitely quiet considering how big it is. The new sky boxes help, but it’s still not close to OSU or PSU for noise. The Shoe is actually sunken a little too, but it’s so vertical everything gets stuck in it. The design of the big house just doesn’t work as well acoustically whereas a much smaller stadium like Autzen seems to be optimized for noise.
@@AL_1547 interesting. I've probably been to the shoe 100 times (including graduation) and never noticed it was sunken. Very cool.
Ryan Field the one you said you liked the least has recently been demolished, they are building a new state of the art stadium as we speak.
Northwestern's stadium Ryan Field was demolished these past few months. It will be rebuilt to look like a European soccer stadium.
Memorial Stadium is a very nice stadium and the campus of University of Illinois is nice as well.
Illinois is also pronounced as ill-la-noi
College sports is big over here. You should check out the High School stadium videos. Also enjoying seeing all the reactions.
Most college football stadiums built before the 1990s normally had an athletic track around them.
I think these were alphabetical by the stadium name (other than Kinnick, which was out of place). Which is kind of a weird order to do them in (I would have expected either alphabetical by school or sorting by size one way or the other), but whatever.
Prior to this year (where a bunch more major shuffling occurs, mostly with teams abandoning the Pac-12 for more money elsewhere), there were 10 conferences (local groups of teams, mostly) at the top level of college football, each with between 9 and 14 teams, plus a few "independent" teams who don't play in a conference. Other than the independents, each team plays 3-4 games against teams outside of its conference and then 8-9 games within the conference. Five of the conferences were considered "major" conferences (large schools, traditional powerhouse teams) and five "minor" (less well known, smaller schools). Geographically, you have:
Upper Midwest: Big Ten (major) and Mid-American (minor)
West: Pac-12 (major) and Mountain West (minor)
Southwest: Big 12 (major) and Conference USA (minor)
Southeast: SEC (major) and Sun Belt (minor)
East Coast: ACC (major) and American (minor)
There are some geographical outliers in a few of those (the Big 12 stretches into the Great Plains and also has West Virginia for some reason, and the American and Conference USA overlap in area pretty heavily, to the point where if you named a team in one of those conferences and asked me which conference they were in, I doubt I'd guess more than 2/3 of them right), but for the most part teams are (or were, until recently) in the conference you'd expect based on geography. And the names "Big Ten" and "Big 12" are holdovers from the era before the major realignments started happening; neither actually has that number of teams anymore (and in fact for a few years in the early 2010s, the Big Ten had 12 teams and the Big 12 had 10, to the amusement of pretty much everyone).
He's just listing the stadiums in the Big Ten athletic Conference. There are several different regional Conferences.
When you said that camp Randall looked like a coliseum, I assume you didn’t know that there’s actually a college football stadium called the LA coliseum that will be in the Big 10 next year
The Big Ten conference will also have 18 Teams this season, college football really is a different animal. Love the vid's .... Go Bucks (Ohio State)!
Horseshoe stadiums are popular because horses are awesome and shoes are great for your feet. So combine them and you get a college football stadium. Im a scientist, trust me.
Just a heads up the BIG 10 conference expanded and added teams from the West coast with some good stadiums too
Adam just so you know, my hometown life long football time, The University of Michigan, that you saw in this video is also nicknamed "The Big House" and it is the biggest football stadium in the United States
Many of them don't have more seating because they would never completely fill them due to average fan support.
The largest stadium in the world is 132,000 in India and the second one is 114,000 in North Korea. After that the next 8 of top ten largest stadiums in the world is college football stadiums with five of those being in the SEC or Southeastern Conference. Those 5 are as follows, College Station Texas home to Texas AM Aggies 102,733 also known as Kyle Field, Baton Rouge Louisiana home of the LSU Tigers 102,321, Neyland Stadium Knoxville TN home to the Tennessee Volunteers 101,915, Austin Texas Darrell K Royal Memorial Stadium home of Texas Longhorns 100,119 who is just joining the SEC conference this year, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Bryant Denny Stadium home of the Alabama Crimson Tide 100,077. There is not a single NFL stadium in the top ten largest stadiums in the world. Just for fun and a totally different comparison Talladega Super Speedway in Alabama can hold about 175,000 spectators but once again stadiums vs racing venue's two different things just thought I would throw that out there.
You need to check out the sports dissected series check some of these college facilities it’s really interesting to watch.
As others have said. This is just one conference and it’s not up to date. Not a fan of the narrator’s humor. He kind of misses the mark and misses the point.
Btw these stadiums are so big because of the amount of people they must hold. Students, relatives, casuals or just people cheering for their team.
This is just the big 10 confrence, it's one of 4 major confrences with 5 other smaller school subdivison confrences making up the rest of the league. This one has some huge stadiums but you should check out the SEC stadiums, they're consistently huge, that's where the big boys play
You should do SEC stadiums next bruv
Ohio State used to have a track around the field and it extended out the open end. Not sure if that's the reason for the horseshoe, but it's barely one any more.
The 3rd biggest stadium in the WORLD!!!! COLLEGE, OR PROFESSIONAL!!! A TRUE EXPERIENCE!!
Nebraska has sold out 396 games in a row which is by far a ncaa record
The last time they did not sell out was 1962
Well kinda. If you count buying up the tickets when they wouldn’t have sold out just to save the streak. Y’all have great fan support though.
Need to do SEC stadiums! Keep pumping out the great content
College Football is a very big deal in the USA. There are around 130 D1-FBS teams. There are also D1-FCS, D2, and D3 teams, but D1-FBS is the highest level. 4 teams make the D1-FBS playoffs, this year it expands to 12.
The stadiums are so big, because the sport is so popular. On Saturdays during College Football season, many of the games are televised. If you live in Eastern Time you can watch games from around noon to 10PM. You'll have to pick which games you want to watch, because multiple games are on at once. In addition College Football no longer allows games to end in a tie.
If you haven't seen it check out highlights from the 2022 Army-Navy game.