Adam, here's a point of reference : Eight of the ten largest sports stadiums in the WORLD are football stadiums on the campuses of US colleges and Universities.
Yeah and they charge all the students a ridiculous stadium fee, whether or not we participate in sport or not, and most of us do not participate. $2000 a year in freaking fees for shit we never get to use or even care about. Universities in the USA rarely care about anything but generating revenues these days. If your football team or whatever is any good, it means lots of cash to give to deans and whatnot. Meanwhile our tuitions keep going up and the quality continues to plummet, while adjunct professors sleep in their cars....
@@leslietyler1164the university you go to or went to is probably big because of sports like football. it makes sense. football generates so much for the university.
And this is why there is an enormous amount of student debt. Colleges charge ridiculous fees to enter college and then take all your money to build unnecessarily oversized arenas like some of these.
0:20 is the University of Michigan...biggest stadium...around 108,000 people I think; 1:24 is the University of Tennessee at Neyland Stadium; 2:32 is Penn State University at Beaver Stadium; 3:48 is Virginia Tech University at Lane Stadium; 5:24 is University of South Carolina, the Gamecocks at Williams-Brice Stadium or the Cockpit; 6:30 is Wisconsin University at Camp Randall Stadium; 7:52 is University of Alabama at Bryant Denny Stadium; 8:50 is LSU or Louisiana State University at Tiger Stadium; 9:47 is Ohio State University at Ohio Stadium; 10:09 is Florida State University at Doak-Campbell Stadium; 10:55 is the University of Oregon at Autzen Stadium;
108,000 sounds about right after they removed some seats several years back taking it under the 110,000 that it was for several years. The big house is expanding again and it's going to be back up around or over the 110,000. I think if I remember correctly it's gonna be 112,000. It's not called the big house for no reason! Go blue!
The best part of these traditions is when one of these teams lose to another team in the other teams stadium… The PA blares the song and the losers get trolled.
From 1:24 to 2:27 that's Tennesse wining against Alabama 2 years ago. If I remember correctly, they threw the goalpost in the Tennessee River after they escorted it out of the stadium. Like many of the stadiums in this video, it has a capacity of 100 000+.
Hey Adam, South Carolina Gamecock fan here. We were the ones waving white towels and yelling USC. That entire time we are jumping up and down in sync, which causes the entire building to shake and sway. It's so ingrained into our tradition that one of our sayings is "If it ain't swayin, we ain't playin." Love your reaction!
At 6:28 when the band plays "Jump Around" at University of Wisconsin football games, the fans jumping registers on the Geology Department's seismograph 2 miles away.
They actually had to stop for a couple of games a couple of years ago while engineering studies were being conducted to make sure it wasn't destroying the stadium. So far it hasn't hurt the Camp Randall stadium.
@@TheGophernutzz Occasionally a surgeon at the nearby hospital has to pause for a few minutes. They no longer schedule surgeries close to game time but there can be emergencies.
Basically in america, college sports were a thing before professional sports took hold, especially with football. And so entire communities, for generations, have been built around the support and attendance of the local school in the same way that communities have developed around local soccer clubs in europe. Its why so many of us prefer college football to the NFL. Its jist way more fun and intimate. Its also why 8 of the 10 largest stadiums ON EARTH are american college football stadiums. The first being Univeristy of Michigan in the first clip. "The Big House" seats over 108,000 people
College football is a religion across the country, but is particularly worshipped in the southeast US. Stay up late on Saturday game day, get up early for Sunday bible study. As amazing and hyped as it feels to watch videos of these experiences, the feeling multiplies infinitly in person. It just puts its hooks in you deep and never lets go.
0:30 University of Michigan. "The Big House" 1:25 Nyland Stadium University of Tennessee 2:30 Penn St University Happy Valley 3:48 Virginia Tech University Lane Stadium (my personal favorite entrance in all of college football) 5:30 Williams Brice Stadium University of South Carolina 6:30 University of Wisconsin Camp Randall Stadium 7:55 Bryant Denny Stadium University of Alabama 8:55 Tiger Stadium Louisiana State University (highly recommend a night game here) 9:45 Ohio Stadium Ohio State University 10:11 Doak Campbell Stadium Florida State University (my second favorite entrance to a college football game) 10:55 University of Oregon Autzen Stadium
Best Tradition in College Football: There is a Children's Hospital that overlooks the field for the Iowa Hawkeyes. At the end of the first quarter of every home game, everyone in the stadium turns around and waves at the kids that can see the game from the top floors of the hospital.
The team in orange is The University of Tennessee Volunteers. Their stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, Neyland Stadium, holds right around 102,000 screaming, yelling, stomping fans. They generated a decibel reading of 124 db (equal to a 747 taking off 100 feet over your head) during this score to win the game against their arch rival, Alabama, on Oct 16, 2022. It literally measured as an earthquake on local seismographs when they won. The fans tore down the goal post after they won and they marched it down to the Tennessee River (beside the stadium) and they threw it in the river. Students are NOT supposed to run onto the field after a win, so the school's governing conference (The Southeastern Conference) fined the school $100,000 for this after the game.
I was at this game and I literally cried with my dad and best friend, lit up smuggled in cigars, and found our way into the field from the upper deck. Kissed both goal posts and kept a small piece of turf grass. What a game.
The Wisconsin Badgers Jump Around is how they start the 4th quarter of every home game. The opposing teams tend to really get into it as well which is a lot of fun to watch.
The 2nd team is Tennessee. Right up the road from me. That was after they beat Alabama for 1 time in a long time. They took the goalpost and threw it in the rive which is right across the road.
I went to LSU and we have a major rivalry with Alabama too. It's pandemonium when we beat them because it's almost always a hard fight from beginning to end.
Wisconsin's Jump Around is done before the 4th quarter of every game. It started in 1998 and has grown to be one of the greatest traditions in college football.
10:07 is where I went to college. Florida State University. We are the Seminoles and before every home game Chief Osceola rides out on his horse, “Renegade” and plants a burning spear into the Seminoles logo that is painted on the field. Florida State has formal permission from the Seminole tribe to use their tribal name, mascots etc. FSU gives them a LOT of money. The hand movement is the “tomahawk chop.” GO NOLES!
Interestingly enough, Florida state's mascot isn't Osceola or Renegade. They're symbols that were approved by the Seminole Tribe of Florida for use at certain events at FSU. However there is a mascot called Cimarron that appears at events like basketball games. They're a much more cartoonish, anthropomorphized horse. In the end though, deciding whether to call them symbols vs. mascots can be kind of a useless debate about semantics lol.
I didn’t call Osceola and Renegade the mascots. I was explaining who they are since Adam asked. Both my brother and I graduated from FSU. With “Seminoles” being what we call ourselves. My point was to make it simple for a non US resident who doesn’t know any of the teams in the video. Also, in this video the fans aren’t singing a well known song that gets radio play, we are doing the “war chant.” I mentioned that we have permission to use Seminole tribal images and names since so many teams that depict Native Americans are now considered racist (- like Washington’s NFL team that changed their name and all related marketing images) - but FSU has a partnership. I only ever attended FSU football games - which is specifically the subject of this video.
1st was Michigan, 2nd was Tennessee, 3rd was Pennsylvania state, 4th was Virgina tech, 5th was South Carolina 6th was Wisconsin 7th was Alabama, 8th was Louisiana state, 9th was Ohio State, 10th was Florida state, 11 was Oregon.❤
Adam, I'm a Penn State alumni and live 45 minutes from the stadium. If you ever come to the US during college football season I'd be more than happy to take you to a game so you can experience it first-hand.
2nd team is Tennessee Vols, im from canada and drove over 24 hours straight to that stadium for a game. It seats around 105,000 i believe, give or take couple thousand lol. But with the pre game rituals across the city and when we all sing rocky top.... theres no words for it
@@VetteZ06 My friend was a vols fan i was a cincinnati fan, but after that weekend i became a vols fan most definitely lol..... Also rocky top became one of my favorite songs!!
@@liamengram6326 At 'The Game" (Harvard vs Yale (since 1875)) in 2016 when it was down at the Yale Bowl, a Yale fraternity undergrad was driving a small U-Haul truck to the tailgate party with kegs in the back when he accidently ran over and killed a lady and injured 2 others. From then on, the tailgating at both schools has been seriously constricted are joyless. You should go to The Game this year at Harvard. After each touchdown, they play alum (1945) Tom Lehrer's effete fight song "Fight Fiercely Harvard". (Lehrer, the pianist and satirist composed the "Periodic Table of Elements" Song.
My nephew is a student at Virginia Tech, the school that plays "Enter Sandman." When the students jump up and down in the stadium, it registers on the local seismograph! His father (my brother) attended the University of Notre Dame, whose mascot is the "Fighting Irish." They are one of the famous college football teams. He played in their marching band, which was an enormous commitment of time. Ironically, my other brother and I both went to the University of Vermont, which is the only major state university that has no football team. They had one until the 1970s but got rid of it because the team was always terrible, had few fans, and cost a lot of money.
@@KevinPerry-wi5dw This was news to me, so I googled it. The only thing I found was that the NCAA banned it last year during the March Madness women's tournament. The NCAA didn't want any team songs played at whatever neutral site the tournament was being held. The students sang it anyway.
I love the Fightin’ Irish but I admit I got fired up back in October of 2021 when I saw your teams’ entrance. How can you not get jacked up for Enter Sandman? I absolutely LOVE this V. Tech tradition!! 🤘
@@JPMadden - Seriously?!? Why not just allow both teams to participate in their traditions? We’re both teams not allowed to play their fight songs too?
Its not an official tradition but WVU fans will chant "Eat Shit Pitt" when they play Sweet Caroline in the stadium 🤣 The context is West Virginia and Pittsburgh used to be big rivals when they played all the time, which was called the Backyard Brawl. You can find clips of it online, its hilarious.
It very much so is a tradition like any other. Has deep roots extending many generations and still holds merit to this day even if they just recently started playing again.
WVU here too. Fans in this state seem to show appreciation for the team through destruction of property ( the grand tradition of goal post removal) and arson ( burning couches) . The latter of which was declared illegal yet I assure you is still alive and well. Many people consider this a poor state , but I would invite them to visit the Blue Lot pre-game and count the $1 million + RVs tailgating.
The Wisconsin Badgers, when the crowd jumps to the song "Jump Around" they produce enough force to literally shake the stadium. Equipment for measuring and recording seismic activity (earthquakes), operated by the college's geology department, shows a seismic reading from the crowd jumping. Multiple times, measurements between 1 and 2 on the Richter Scale have been recorded. The first stadium (all the yellow - maize) is "The Big House" of the University of Michigan. While you reacted to the sizes of some of the other stadiums, that first one is actually the largest. It is the largest stadium of any kind in the United States, and it is the third largest stadium, again of any type, in the entire world. The 2014 International Champions Cup soccer match between Real Madrid and Manchester United was played there with over 109,000 people in attendance. Since 1975, for every home football game played there, at least 100,000 people have been in attendance. That is hundreds of games, uninterrupted, where more people have attended than most stadiums in the world are capable of holding, all for a collegiate football game.
College football is far and away the best representation of American sports. The passion from the fans and the traditions done every game make it one of the craziest sporting experiences someone can experience
At the 6ish minute mark is USC. In South Carolina. My school. When we do that, you can feel the stadium shaking and when you're on the field, you can feel every tremor. It's the greatest feeling in the world
2:32 is my alma mater's football stadium, Beaver Stadium at Penn State University. On Saturdays in Autumn, State College, PA becomes the third largest city in the state of Pennsylvania, behind Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Over 100,000+ people make the trek on Saturdays to attend the game and/or one of the many, many tailgates and parties on and off campus. There is nothing like a night time White Out game in Beaver Stadium. The atmosphere is ELECTRIC! We rock out to Kernkraft 4000 and Seven Nation Army on the regular.
At 2:04, the orange and white team is my team, the University of Tennessee Volunteers. Their stadium is on campus in Knoxville, Tennessee on the banks of the Tennessee river. It's named Neyland Stadium. It is usually sold out with a capacity of 102,000. Go VOLS!
My team too brother. I was on the Henley St. Bridge earlier today and I ALWAYS look over at the Cathedral of Knoxville (Neyland). It looked great as always.
2nd video . University of Tennessee! used to hold 102,455 sitting. 105k+ total. They recently renovated and dropped the capacity to 101k. Hands down the best atmosphere in college football. GO VOLS!
Oh this season we are back up to seating over 101,299, not including standing room. That's over 600 more seats this season from last season. If we were to include the club areas in the party deck region as well as the plaza top expansion, when complete, it will hold more a bit more than 105K, not including standing room. And Pilot is going to help us pay for it lol.
1:25 - Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee (home of the University of Tennessee Volunteers) - the orange checkerboard patterns in the end zones are associated with UT. Stadium seats close to 110,000. 2:36 is Beaver Stadium (home of the Penn State Nittany Lions) - also seats over 100,000. 3:47 is Virginia Tech University (they always use "Enter Sandman" as their "enter the field" song). 6:30 is Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin (home to the University of Wisconsin Badgers - they do "Jump Around" between the 3rd and 4th quarters). 7:55 is Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (home of the University of Alabama Crimson Tide - it's been renovated numerous times to expand its capacity). 9:45 is Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State Buckeyes - they are a HUGE rival of the first team in the video - the University of Michigan Wolverines). Yes, live bands play at college games in the USA - frequently the home team's marching band (and sometimes the visiting team) perform a show at halftime with choreography and having a central theme. 11:27 - the duck is the mascot for the home team (University of Oregon Ducks - the Oregon Duck is one of the more well-known college mascots)
Football is an institution. Our small town (25,000) near the coast of California was 2 and 1/2 hours away from Los Angeles. Whenever our High School football team was in the State Championship, just about the whole town traveled to cheer on our students. On the way home we followed the buses - it was so fun to see a long line of vehicles traveling from LA back home. The last 50 miles had no habitation so the headlights and tail lights were clearly visible as far as you could see in front and in back of your vehicle. We would pretty much fill both sides of the stadium with our towns people. Yeah! Football was a big institution and still is.
I feel that I can sort of speak for SEC games as I was in the band while in college. Years later; I went back as an instructor and so I have been to games at all of the stadiums. Yes, they were all like this! All of them have over the top experiences to offer. The acoustics at Tennessee along with all of those fans singing Rocky Top will give you chills. The cow bells at Mississippi State can be deafening. The Florida State warrior on horseback with that chant is very very intimidating and LSU makes you feel like there may be some serious voodoo being aimed at you...plus they have a REAL TIGER. If you go between the hedges (literally) at beautiful Georgia, you will see and hear one of the best fan bases/cheers in the country and you will always get to see an incredible baton twirler! At my beloved Auburn, we have an eagle that flies unfettered over the crowd, eventually landing on the 50 yard line as we yell Waarrr Eagle plus we have Aubie, the best mascot in NCAA history! The one thing all of the schools have in common besides the huge crowds is fantastic tailgates and wonderful people. You will meet some of the nicest people. And this is coming from someone who was obviously the "enemy" by my attire; yet, the fans on these 'away' campuses were always great. I am sure games across the country are the same...Ohio State, USC, Texas A&M.... You can't go wrong with a college game. You come on over here and somebody will get you to a game. You will be welcome and you will have a great time!
Hi 👋 Loyal Michigan Wolverines fan here. And i love when Mr. Brightside is played at their games. Been to a few where they played it and took part in singing it myself. To hear 100,000 people singing that in unison is great but to actually be a part of it is truly AWESOME!!!
Out of curiosity, do you know if they are the one's that started playing Mr.Brightside? I see it credited to Michigan pretty often, but a lot of schools have started doing it now too
Saturday night in Death Valley! LSU's Tiger stadium holds 102,321 people. It gets so loud and crazy that a couple games and a concert were registered on a seismograph as a small earthquake. Geaux Tigers!
@@Jeremy-pb5xk Adam ... that above comment was made by one of LSU's chief rivals ... so that's real respect when one of the teams that hates your home team tips the cap ;) ...
Check out University of Iowa doing the wave. It will bring tears to your eyes. At the end of the first quarter all the fans, players, staff turn to the childrens hospital behind them and wave to the kids.
The Iowa “Wave” is one of the newest CFB traditions and in my mind the best. Nothing ego -driven or self aggrandizement in that generous gesture. If Iowa is playing an important game that is being televised, the network almost always 0:19 send a camera operator up to the large recreation room near the top of the hospital tower. The university sets it up like a tailgate party you’ll find in the parking with good music games, special visitors etc. That’s where dozens of seriously ill children have a great time watching the game and they all love when they get the wave from 40,000 or so people across the street. The smiles on their faces and their own waves in return are probably the highlight of the week for many of them. Even patients too sick to leave their rooms are able to overlook the stadium from their own window. You’ll see many wonderful hand drawn signs and pictures taped up rooting on the Iowa Hawkeyes. I may be getting softer in my advancing years, but I always get a bit misty watching this tradition.
And even the opposing teams participate in the wave. I remember a couple years Iowa was away for a prime time game so to ensure the kids didn’t miss out they did the wave from the away stadium and included all the ESPN staff broadcasting and all the people behind the broadcast booth. It was amazing. Hands down the best tradition in college football. I go down to the University of Iowa for treatments 5 days a week and always drive past Kinnick
I just posted a comment about how they messed up this list by not including the eagle flying before Auburn's home games! I'm an Auburn fan so I'm biased lol but it makes me happy that even an Alabama fan agrees that it's a travesty that they didn't include that in this video! War Eagle!
They left out Georgia's 4th quarter Light Up Sanford as well, but it does kind of pale in comparison to Sandstorm and Enter Sandman. We also don't get fireworks at UGA :(
At 3:48 is Virginia Tech. Our team enters the stadium to Enter Sandman by Metallica. Virginia Tech is one of the most electric atmospheres in college football. The stadium, Lane Stadium, has high sloped stands along the sidelines that make you feel on top of the field. In the South Endzone is the student section, the North Endzone are our bands, The Marching Virginians and the Highty-Tighties, as well as our Corps of Cadets(future US military officers) and other students and fans. The stadium has a capacity of 66,233. We have had home games that register on a nearby seismology facility when the place is really going crazy. We are best known for our raucous Thursday night games, renowned special teams play, the firing of a cannon on any home scoring play, and of course the entrance you saw. Go Hokies!!!
0:37 Michigan. 1:48 Tennessee. 2:45 Penn State. 4:03 Virginia Tech. 5:29 University of South Carolina. 6:31 Wisconsin. 7:56 Alabama. 8:50 LSU. 9:45 Ohio State (Go Bucks baby!). 10:10 Florida State. 10:55 Oregon. College football atmospheres are the best in the world.
@@Porkchop65210 For the longest time the decibel record for the loudest stadium belonged to Washington even though it's smaller, because the flat metal roofing amplified and echoed the crowd directly onto the field. I think Tennesse broke it just recently lol
I go to UW-Madison (the school that jumps with Jump Around by House of Pain) and I can tell you they absolutely do that every single game after the third quarter. There’s nothing quite like being apart of it. It’s truly an amazing experience
Taking down the goalposts is a big thing. When I went to school at App State we would take the goalposts down the hill from the stadium and threw it in the 'duck pond'. I wasn't there for when they beat Michigan on the road, but they took the goalposts over a mile and dropped them in the Chancellor's lawn. Always a great day to be a Mountaineer.
And I remember watching the videos of the chancellor coming out to meet them and celebrate too. Cool guy. I can only imagine how insane Boone was that night.
I went to school in Tennessee, but I spent a lot of time in Boone on the weekends snowboarding and just hanging out. I just happened to be in Boone the night that they beat Michigan on the road, AND IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST FUN NIGHTS OF MY ENTIRE LIFE.
My father-in-law was Alabama's track coach, and my husband went to Alabama. I'm an Oregon girl, and he's been living here for 20 years now. In my house, it's Go Ducks and Roll Tide.
My parents are Wisconsin alums and I currently attend Penn State so I’ve been to many games for both schools. I’m grateful to have experienced both a Whiteout game (2 actually) and the jump around. Both are so much fun!!
5:25 is the University of South Carolina (USC for short which is what the crowd is yelling). I’ve been to multiple games there and you can feel the crowd in your bones and feel the stadium swaying. I’m biased but it’s easily one of the most electric atmospheres I’ve personally ever experienced.
I love these videos. Love seeing people finally appreciate a little bit of American culture. I appreciate other countries traditions and love it when I finally see it reciprocated
College Football is my favorite sport of them all. It's the theatrics, the pageantry. The cultures and traditions. The crowd chants. When you go to a real game. It's something special and magical. If you ever get a chance definitely go to a big game. They aren't all like this, but they are all great to witness. OU vs Texas is my favorite rivalry game. I'm an OU fan. This game takes place at the halfway point between the two teams in the cotton bowl. And the crowd is split north and south, right down the middle 50 yd line. It's like a home game on one end, then an away game on the other end for both teams. And it gets LOUD AND CRAZY! I love it. There is also the Texas state fair that goes on right outside of the cotton bowl.
are you a gamer ? if so and you have a current gen counsole EA sports is making college football 25 comes out this july and 1 of the main parts they focused on was the pageantry. The cultures and traditions. The crowd chants.
6:48 “Surely it don’t get this crazy every game.” Actually it does. The regular season has 12-ish games and usually half of those are home games. The average fan isn’t gonna travel hundreds or thousands of miles for an away game, so the home games are always hype.
10:11 I may be biased with this being a Florida state fan but they have arguably the best tradition of all colleges with the chop and the chief Osceola(guy dressed in a Native American outfit) riding his horse across the field and then fireworks going off and then he plants the spear at the 50 yard line. What’s even crazier is this video recording is literally maybe 10 rows up from where I sit when I go to those games
The duck on the field at the end was the University of Oregon mascot. The movie "Animal House" was filmed in Eugene in 1977 and "Shout" is played between the 3rd and 4th quarter. The movie made that song famous. Oregon probably has the smallest stadium of the ones mentioned (56,000?) but it is among the loudest. College football reigns supreme every Saturday between September and December all over the U.S. No other sport comes close.
UO Alum here - you're close on the seating, it's 54,000 with standing room to 60,000 - though this goes over every season, I've seen 61k there before, and you're damn right about the Zoo being one of the loudest.
@@ChaosAndMayhemTV UO alum here as well (class of '80). Interior shots of the Delta house in the movie ( i.e.toga party) were filmed inside of my fraternity (Sigma Nu). Delta house exterior shots were filmed at the halfway house next door. One afternoon John Belushi was taking a break and wandered throughout our house and knocked on our (my roommate and I) door. We invited him in and he spent a while talking to the both of us. Nice guy; very cool. Many of the extras in the movie were my fraternity brothers. We had first crack at landing extra roles. I declined and to this day regret my decision. Such is life. Fun fact. I was able to watch over John Landis' shoulder as he was directing D-Day to ride up our stairs on his motorcycle.
sorry i had to GO BEAVES. but I was a duck fan until the admission decided to screw me over by playing with my emotional in the middle of the summer by rejecting me then a week later they rejected me
I still have a small section of the Tennessee goal post that “unnamed people” cut up and gave out the next day after Tennessee beat Vanderbilt for the SEC title in the mid 1980’s! It was a fun night!!!
@7:53 Most of these stadiums are quite old, some easily 80 to 100 years old. They are frequently renovated to keep them fresh. This is a clip from Alabama where their song is actually about Tennessee, and yes you heard it earlier when TN beat them, TN played this song while storming the field.
As an Aggie, I am very sad we were not included. We have a whole Midnight Yell the night before the game to practice our chants, and our band is second to none. Stadium holds 109,000
Diehard fan of all sports teams from the University of Tennessee here, if you can’t tell by the profile pic, and I’m so glad for you and others outside the US to see the passion and joy connected to college sports! You’ve gotta come to the states and catch a game sometime, and of course it’s gotta be in Neyland Stadium with 102,000 crazy fans in orange. One of the best venues in all of sports.
@@brycepeddicord6763 hahaha the Vols have definitely put me through hell over the years but I love em all the same. Much love to the Oregon program and i hope i get to go to a game in Autzen someday
@@bigorangebrandon Ohio State Oregon is gonna be bananas, college game day will be there. It's like 400$ a ticket but if you could go to one. That's the one!
My dood, the 2nd clip starting at @1:24 is The Tennessee Vols. Stadium currently holds around 103k, used to be 110k and I hope it goes back up. Just need to raise the jumbotron. After a big win the fans rush the field, pull down the goal posts and parade them around before throwing them in the river lol.
There is one college tradition that has an entire video from ESPN I feel you should watch. College Game Day did an entire program about the Iowa Hawkeye Wave. A very young tradition, but one that took off like a rocket.
Tennessee had just beaten Alabama 52-49 for the first time in forever. It's tradition for the students and fans to tear down the goal post. They not only tore it down but carried it out of the stadium, across the road and chucked into the Tennessee river. LOL
1. Michigan Wolverines 2. Tennessee Volunteers 3. Penn State Nittany Lions 4. Virginia Tech Hokies 5. Couldn't tell. 6. Wisconsin Badgers 7. Alabama Crimson Tide 8. Louisiana State Tigers 9. Ohio State Buckeyes 10. Florida State Seminoles 11. Oregon Ducks College football has a rabid fandom.
Enter Sandman is the entry to Virginia Tech football games. As a long time ticket holder, I think it is the best College Football entrance. Virginia Tech (aka Hokies) are located in Blacksburg, Virginia.
You might look up the capacity of the Michigan State football stadium. The stadium is sold out for every home game, and has a waiting list that tells you what year you should expect to have an opportunity to purchase season tickets. Some even go so far as to put their newborns name on that waiting list.
One thing you can always count on in America is crowd participation. All you have to do is play a song everyone knows, and the whole stadium will sing it. It's incredible to be there!!
Oh, one more thing. 10:05 that's from Florida State University, the Seminoles. It's a student dressed as Seminole Chief Osceola, who rides out and plants a flaming spear in the field at the 50-yard line. And the actual Seminole tribe in Florida has no problem with it, in fact they've approved the whole thing. Likewise with the chant (the "Chop").
This happens almost every Saturday across the country during the NCAA Mens Football season. I think there are 5 or 6 stadiums seating over 100K. Ohio State Marching Band is world famous. Look at one of their RUclips videos
CRAZY! Gin Blossoms ‘Hey Jealousy’ was released in ‘89 but it hit the charts in ‘93! They’re singing and using GEN X College days songs as all their intros…..ENTER SANDMAN, DARUDE, Hey Jealousy AND JUMP AROUND! ❤😉
Mind you, the visiting team comes out first and has to sit through this. I live in Nebraska where college football is everything. We have the tunnel walk. These videos don’t do it justice. Every home game sold out since 1962.
You should check out biggest college football rivalries and their respective histories as some of them (most notably The Game played by Michigan v Ohio State and the Iron Bowl played by Alabama v Auburn) are kinda crazy, Michigan v Ohio State is considered by many to be the biggest rivalry in all of sports
The first stadium (the one singing Mr. Brightside) is called "The Big House." It's the biggest stadium in the western hemisphere and the 3rd biggest stadium in the world with a capacity of 107,601.
the orange crowd is when tennesse beat alabama in 2022. Game of the century. Rumor is the fans thew the goal post in the tennesse river and now it is a tourist attraction.
Oregon always does "Shout" at the beginning of the 4th quarter. It's a shout out to the movie "Animal House" that was filmed on campus. Autzen stadium is always a good time!!
At 1:24,That was the Tennessee Volunteers when they beat the Alabama Crimson Tide after 15 years of losses. They were singing their fight song " Rocky Top"
Hearing Rocky Top at Neyland Stadium is an experience. I know the world is big on soccer but there's just something about NCAA football that hits different.
Adam, enter sandman is a tradition among Virginia Tech football since about 1997, which is in Virginia on the east coast of the United States. Jump around is from the University of Washington What you’re seeing is the pre game ceremonies of teams in what are known as the “Power 5” conferences of college football. Essentially there’s currently 4 “big” conferences made up of about the best 50-60 teams at the top level of college football, known as division 1
I used to attend Florida State games......unbelievable 🤩 Chief Osceola and his Horse Renegade introduce the Home Games by riding to Midfield with a Burning Spear and planting it in the Turf!
Adam, here's a point of reference : Eight of the ten largest sports stadiums in the WORLD are football stadiums on the campuses of US colleges and Universities.
Yeah and they charge all the students a ridiculous stadium fee, whether or not we participate in sport or not, and most of us do not participate. $2000 a year in freaking fees for shit we never get to use or even care about. Universities in the USA rarely care about anything but generating revenues these days. If your football team or whatever is any good, it means lots of cash to give to deans and whatnot. Meanwhile our tuitions keep going up and the quality continues to plummet, while adjunct professors sleep in their cars....
@leslietyler1164 well thats your fault for not going if you're paying for it...
@@leslietyler1164the university you go to or went to is probably big because of sports like football. it makes sense. football generates so much for the university.
And this is why there is an enormous amount of student debt. Colleges charge ridiculous fees to enter college and then take all your money to build unnecessarily oversized arenas like some of these.
@@Ryan-ws3yfstadiums are built by donors and boosters, not from tuition and/or fees paid by students. So it does not contribute to student loan debt
"Is this for a special occasion??"
Nah. It's just Saturday. 😂
For real
College football is now played Thursday-Saturday.
@@Nomad-vv1gkevery day except Sunday and Monday
Imagine the energy before a big rivals game...
Imagine English Soccer or World Cup Finals and magnify that by at least 10.
0:20 is the University of Michigan...biggest stadium...around 108,000 people I think; 1:24 is the University of Tennessee at Neyland Stadium; 2:32 is Penn State University at Beaver Stadium; 3:48 is Virginia Tech University at Lane Stadium; 5:24 is University of South Carolina, the Gamecocks at Williams-Brice Stadium or the Cockpit; 6:30 is Wisconsin University at Camp Randall Stadium; 7:52 is University of Alabama at Bryant Denny Stadium; 8:50 is LSU or Louisiana State University at Tiger Stadium; 9:47 is Ohio State University at Ohio Stadium; 10:09 is Florida State University at Doak-Campbell Stadium; 10:55 is the University of Oregon at Autzen Stadium;
Good call brother. Was gonna do this but thankfully I checked before hand lol
108,000 sounds about right after they removed some seats several years back taking it under the 110,000 that it was for several years. The big house is expanding again and it's going to be back up around or over the 110,000. I think if I remember correctly it's gonna be 112,000. It's not called the big house for no reason! Go blue!
The best part of these traditions is when one of these teams lose to another team in the other teams stadium… The PA blares the song and the losers get trolled.
107,601 for the University of Michigan. Go Blue!
Tennessee is Neyland Stadium
From 1:24 to 2:27 that's Tennesse wining against Alabama 2 years ago. If I remember correctly, they threw the goalpost in the Tennessee River after they escorted it out of the stadium. Like many of the stadiums in this video, it has a capacity of 100 000+.
You do remember correctly. It's still brought up every now and then around here.
This just to show how much of a beast Alabama is. When you beat us y’all freak out. We win the National Championship it’s no biggie😂
@@CASH-THE-NERD Haha the copium goes crazy.
@@tonto6876 wdym?
YES WE DID!
And it’s still there, you can see it on google maps.
Hey Adam, South Carolina Gamecock fan here. We were the ones waving white towels and yelling USC. That entire time we are jumping up and down in sync, which causes the entire building to shake and sway. It's so ingrained into our tradition that one of our sayings is "If it ain't swayin, we ain't playin." Love your reaction!
Go Cocks! 🤙🏼
@@lelandbuzhardt3993 USC! USC! USC! USC!...
USC? For a sec there, I thought you meant Southern California 😅
We used to park next to Jaco's and walk through the fairgrounds to get to the stadium, hate Jaco's is gone, good food and cold beer.
Forever to thee 🤙🏽
At 6:28 when the band plays "Jump Around" at University of Wisconsin football games, the fans jumping registers on the Geology Department's seismograph 2 miles away.
They actually had to stop for a couple of games a couple of years ago while engineering studies were being conducted to make sure it wasn't destroying the stadium. So far it hasn't hurt the Camp Randall stadium.
@@TheGophernutzz Occasionally a surgeon at the nearby hospital has to pause for a few minutes. They no longer schedule surgeries close to game time but there can be emergencies.
Go Badgers! The games are a lot of fun
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Badger Nation, cheese and corn fueled hops shaking the fear into our opponents 💪🤘😂
Just another Saturday afternoon on 100's of college campuses between August and December.
Expect vanderbilt. Their football team is a dumpster fire and I love it! Lol
@@ironhorse2094 Wait! Vanderbilt has a football team? No. That's supposed to be funny, right?
@@helgar791 lol unfortunately it is not.. I'm pretty sure it's a practice squad, but yeah. They call themselves a "football team."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@ironhorse2094 I refuse to believe it. The SEC will have to do more to convince me.
Best time of the year baby
Basically in america, college sports were a thing before professional sports took hold, especially with football. And so entire communities, for generations, have been built around the support and attendance of the local school in the same way that communities have developed around local soccer clubs in europe.
Its why so many of us prefer college football to the NFL. Its jist way more fun and intimate. Its also why 8 of the 10 largest stadiums ON EARTH are american college football stadiums. The first being Univeristy of Michigan in the first clip. "The Big House" seats over 108,000 people
Wow! That's cool to know. Thank you!
Penn State Brown Stadium actually holds more... they just refuse to make students suffer thru standing room only.
Not over 108, under
College football is a religion across the country, but is particularly worshipped in the southeast US. Stay up late on Saturday game day, get up early for Sunday bible study. As amazing and hyped as it feels to watch videos of these experiences, the feeling multiplies infinitly in person. It just puts its hooks in you deep and never lets go.
0:30 University of Michigan. "The Big House"
1:25 Nyland Stadium University of Tennessee
2:30 Penn St University Happy Valley
3:48 Virginia Tech University Lane Stadium (my personal favorite entrance in all of college football)
5:30 Williams Brice Stadium University of South Carolina
6:30 University of Wisconsin Camp Randall Stadium
7:55 Bryant Denny Stadium University of Alabama
8:55 Tiger Stadium Louisiana State University (highly recommend a night game here)
9:45 Ohio Stadium Ohio State
University
10:11 Doak Campbell Stadium Florida State University (my second favorite entrance to a college football game)
10:55 University of Oregon Autzen Stadium
Awesome post!
Death Valley! GEAUX TIGERS
Best Tradition in College Football: There is a Children's Hospital that overlooks the field for the Iowa Hawkeyes. At the end of the first quarter of every home game, everyone in the stadium turns around and waves at the kids that can see the game from the top floors of the hospital.
that's one of the best . do you know was the hospital built in that location for that reason or did it just happen to be where they planed to build it
I’m a Bama fan but I have to admit the Hawkeyes tradition is by far the best one
Gamecock fan here -- gotta agree.
Hard to disagree with this one. It's so wholesome
@@dmx1721the hospital has been there for a while, but in 2017 they finished expanding the hospital to over look Kinnick.
I promise you that these videos don’t do it justice in person. Ya the vids are great but being there in person is a WHOLE other level!!!!!!
100%. It was a whole other level being on the field playing the LSU band pregame show in Death Valley. Man I wish I could do it again.
100% in person is another level
I was just going to say that. Being there in person ROCKS! (GO GATORS!🐊💙🧡💙🧡)
@@kakim4956 omg if you sit down low close to the bend at florida field, it's louder than the loudest concert you'll ever go to. ps: go noles! 👋👋👋
I think that rule goes for just about anything! 😀
The team in orange is The University of Tennessee Volunteers. Their stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, Neyland Stadium, holds right around 102,000 screaming, yelling, stomping fans. They generated a decibel reading of 124 db (equal to a 747 taking off 100 feet over your head) during this score to win the game against their arch rival, Alabama, on Oct 16, 2022. It literally measured as an earthquake on local seismographs when they won. The fans tore down the goal post after they won and they marched it down to the Tennessee River (beside the stadium) and they threw it in the river. Students are NOT supposed to run onto the field after a win, so the school's governing conference (The Southeastern Conference) fined the school $100,000 for this after the game.
Guarantee some booster paid that in advance just in case 😂😂!! At the very least, they "made a donation" afterwards to cover the cost.
@@libertybell8852yea we even bought new goal posts before the game😭
Worth it!
And then we hit 137 last year on Jaylen Wright's touchdown vs UGA
I was at this game and I literally cried with my dad and best friend, lit up smuggled in cigars, and found our way into the field from the upper deck. Kissed both goal posts and kept a small piece of turf grass. What a game.
The epic runout is Virginia Tech Enter Sandman. The rockinest entrance in all of sports. Look it up. It’s so epic
The Wisconsin Badgers Jump Around is how they start the 4th quarter of every home game. The opposing teams tend to really get into it as well which is a lot of fun to watch.
The 2nd team is Tennessee. Right up the road from me. That was after they beat Alabama for 1 time in a long time. They took the goalpost and threw it in the rive which is right across the road.
That was the last time mom and I got to watch a Tennessee game together before the dementia took over
Tennessee fans singing dixieland delight by the country band Alabama.
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I went to LSU and we have a major rivalry with Alabama too. It's pandemonium when we beat them because it's almost always a hard fight from beginning to end.
My husband uses the word pandelirium to describe atmospheres like that and our Iron Bowl, lol.
@@justincredible1192 very glad y’all got to have that experience🥲🥲🥲
Wisconsin's Jump Around is done before the 4th quarter of every game. It started in 1998 and has grown to be one of the greatest traditions in college football.
Plus we also have the 5th quarter, which is amazing on its own!
And Camp Randall seats only 80,321 - and we also do have a 5th Quarter post game. Go Badgers!!
During the Wisconsin Alabama game even the Alabama players joined in. It was actually really howl-some.
@@CASH-THE-NERDyeah Fr!!! I was there and just talking with an Alabama fan the whole time, she just had to join in 😂
@@itsafandomthing733can confirm as an Alabama fan i was jumping around
10:07 is where I went to college. Florida State University. We are the Seminoles and before every home game Chief Osceola rides out on his horse, “Renegade” and plants a burning spear into the Seminoles logo that is painted on the field.
Florida State has formal permission from the Seminole tribe to use their tribal name, mascots etc. FSU gives them a LOT of money.
The hand movement is the “tomahawk chop.”
GO NOLES!
Interestingly enough, Florida state's mascot isn't Osceola or Renegade. They're symbols that were approved by the Seminole Tribe of Florida for use at certain events at FSU. However there is a mascot called Cimarron that appears at events like basketball games. They're a much more cartoonish, anthropomorphized horse. In the end though, deciding whether to call them symbols vs. mascots can be kind of a useless debate about semantics lol.
I didn’t call Osceola and Renegade the mascots. I was explaining who they are since Adam asked. Both my brother and I graduated from FSU. With “Seminoles” being what we call ourselves. My point was to make it simple for a non US resident who doesn’t know any of the teams in the video. Also, in this video the fans aren’t singing a well known song that gets radio play, we are doing the “war chant.”
I mentioned that we have permission to use Seminole tribal images and names since so many teams that depict Native Americans are now considered racist (- like Washington’s NFL team that changed their name and all related marketing images) - but FSU has a partnership.
I only ever attended FSU football games - which is specifically the subject of this video.
I can confirm that Renegade appears at certain FSU baseball games as well, especially rivalry games such as Florida and Miami.
And as I read through the comments it seems this guy doesn't respond too anything. lol.
GO Gators!!!!
1st was Michigan, 2nd was Tennessee, 3rd was Pennsylvania state, 4th was Virgina tech, 5th was South Carolina 6th was Wisconsin 7th was Alabama, 8th was Louisiana state, 9th was Ohio State, 10th was Florida state, 11 was Oregon.❤
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Adam, I'm a Penn State alumni and live 45 minutes from the stadium. If you ever come to the US during college football season I'd be more than happy to take you to a game so you can experience it first-hand.
2nd team is Tennessee Vols, im from canada and drove over 24 hours straight to that stadium for a game. It seats around 105,000 i believe, give or take couple thousand lol. But with the pre game rituals across the city and when we all sing rocky top.... theres no words for it
Absolute best environment in college football
Truth! Glad you got to come visit!
Are you a fan or did you just randomly select a game you wanted to attend?
@@VetteZ06 My friend was a vols fan i was a cincinnati fan, but after that weekend i became a vols fan most definitely lol..... Also rocky top became one of my favorite songs!!
@paton9520 awesome brother we're gonna kick some ass this year hope u can make it back to a game in the future we're only gonna get better
College football is like a giant party with sports. And the pregame tailgate parties are so amazing! Cookouts, bars, kegs! ❤
Especially so for WI, we have a joke for it, there's a party going on and a football game broke out!
Tailgate? When I was in undergrad most people were already drunk on the bus over to the stadium. lol
@@liamengram6326 At 'The Game" (Harvard vs Yale (since 1875)) in 2016 when it was down at the Yale Bowl, a Yale fraternity undergrad was driving a small U-Haul truck to the tailgate party with kegs in the back when he accidently ran over and killed a lady and injured 2 others. From then on, the tailgating at both schools has been seriously constricted are joyless.
You should go to The Game this year at Harvard. After each touchdown, they play alum (1945) Tom Lehrer's effete fight song "Fight Fiercely Harvard". (Lehrer, the pianist and satirist composed the "Periodic Table of Elements" Song.
My nephew is a student at Virginia Tech, the school that plays "Enter Sandman." When the students jump up and down in the stadium, it registers on the local seismograph!
His father (my brother) attended the University of Notre Dame, whose mascot is the "Fighting Irish." They are one of the famous college football teams. He played in their marching band, which was an enormous commitment of time. Ironically, my other brother and I both went to the University of Vermont, which is the only major state university that has no football team. They had one until the 1970s but got rid of it because the team was always terrible, had few fans, and cost a lot of money.
Thought they weren't allowed to play that anymore
@@KevinPerry-wi5dw This was news to me, so I googled it. The only thing I found was that the NCAA banned it last year during the March Madness women's tournament. The NCAA didn't want any team songs played at whatever neutral site the tournament was being held. The students sang it anyway.
I love the Fightin’ Irish but I admit I got fired up back in October of 2021 when I saw your teams’ entrance. How can you not get jacked up for Enter Sandman? I absolutely LOVE this V. Tech tradition!! 🤘
@@JPMadden - Seriously?!? Why not just allow both teams to participate in their traditions? We’re both teams not allowed to play their fight songs too?
College teams can't move like pro franchises do.
"Absolute melons" 😂
There is really no way to describe what it's like to have 100,000 people all around you belt out a song all around you to support your team.
Its not an official tradition but WVU fans will chant "Eat Shit Pitt" when they play Sweet Caroline in the stadium 🤣
The context is West Virginia and Pittsburgh used to be big rivals when they played all the time, which was called the Backyard Brawl. You can find clips of it online, its hilarious.
It very much so is a tradition like any other. Has deep roots extending many generations and still holds merit to this day even if they just recently started playing again.
West Virginia here! It is a tradition! We also use to burn couches when we won in football. It’s against the law now in WV but it was fun
Pitt was the first to start the Sweet Caroline tradition.
WVU here too. Fans in this state seem to show appreciation for the team through destruction of property ( the grand tradition of goal post removal) and arson ( burning couches) . The latter of which was declared illegal yet I assure you is still alive and well. Many people consider this a poor state , but I would invite them to visit the Blue Lot pre-game and count the $1 million + RVs tailgating.
Very classy WVU, a mediocre team at best.
The school band team is a huge part of college games! The teams are extremely competitive every year for the best band and performances
Well, until they come up against Ohio State (or FAMU to be fair lol).
As a Michigan Wolverine, I detest Ohio St. but I can't deny they have the best band.
@@chrismartindale7840no they don’t
My favorite band appearance is always going to be the Cal - Bears in '82. XD
Tennessee's Pride of the Southland has to something to say about OSU and FAMU
The Wisconsin Badgers, when the crowd jumps to the song "Jump Around" they produce enough force to literally shake the stadium. Equipment for measuring and recording seismic activity (earthquakes), operated by the college's geology department, shows a seismic reading from the crowd jumping. Multiple times, measurements between 1 and 2 on the Richter Scale have been recorded.
The first stadium (all the yellow - maize) is "The Big House" of the University of Michigan. While you reacted to the sizes of some of the other stadiums, that first one is actually the largest. It is the largest stadium of any kind in the United States, and it is the third largest stadium, again of any type, in the entire world. The 2014 International Champions Cup soccer match between Real Madrid and Manchester United was played there with over 109,000 people in attendance. Since 1975, for every home football game played there, at least 100,000 people have been in attendance. That is hundreds of games, uninterrupted, where more people have attended than most stadiums in the world are capable of holding, all for a collegiate football game.
The university of Tennessee has managed to show up on the Richter scale several times as well, just with sheer volume
College football is far and away the best representation of American sports. The passion from the fans and the traditions done every game make it one of the craziest sporting experiences someone can experience
At the 6ish minute mark is USC. In South Carolina. My school. When we do that, you can feel the stadium shaking and when you're on the field, you can feel every tremor. It's the greatest feeling in the world
Go Cocks!
2:32 is my alma mater's football stadium, Beaver Stadium at Penn State University.
On Saturdays in Autumn, State College, PA becomes the third largest city in the state of Pennsylvania, behind Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Over 100,000+ people make the trek on Saturdays to attend the game and/or one of the many, many tailgates and parties on and off campus.
There is nothing like a night time White Out game in Beaver Stadium. The atmosphere is ELECTRIC! We rock out to Kernkraft 4000 and Seven Nation Army on the regular.
At 2:04, the orange and white team is my team, the University of Tennessee Volunteers. Their stadium is on campus in Knoxville, Tennessee on the banks of the Tennessee river. It's named Neyland Stadium. It is usually sold out with a capacity of 102,000. Go VOLS!
GO DAWGS
@@Spaghatee I bleed orange but if someone else's gotta be on top it may as well be you instead of the Grammar Jammers.
@@mfree80286 lol both y'all stay mad roll damn tide
My team too brother. I was on the Henley St. Bridge earlier today and I ALWAYS look over at the Cathedral of Knoxville (Neyland). It looked great as always.
GBO 🍊
2nd video . University of Tennessee! used to hold 102,455 sitting. 105k+ total. They recently renovated and dropped the capacity to 101k. Hands down the best atmosphere in college football. GO VOLS!
Go Vols!
VFL 🍊
Some folks from Baton Rouge might disagree with you.
@@jrousselle7828 I’ll allow that Baton Rouge has really good food.
Oh this season we are back up to seating over 101,299, not including standing room. That's over 600 more seats this season from last season. If we were to include the club areas in the party deck region as well as the plaza top expansion, when complete, it will hold more a bit more than 105K, not including standing room. And Pilot is going to help us pay for it lol.
5:14 is Virginia Tech
Let’s Go Hokies!!!!
Hokies!!
I’m not a Hokie fan but without a doubt their entrance is one of the best in all college football!
@@ruadhrose It’s electric. 🤩
Can't wait to hear Metallica play at lane stadium next year!
1:25 - Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee (home of the University of Tennessee Volunteers) - the orange checkerboard patterns in the end zones are associated with UT. Stadium seats close to 110,000. 2:36 is Beaver Stadium (home of the Penn State Nittany Lions) - also seats over 100,000. 3:47 is Virginia Tech University (they always use "Enter Sandman" as their "enter the field" song). 6:30 is Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin (home to the University of Wisconsin Badgers - they do "Jump Around" between the 3rd and 4th quarters). 7:55 is Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (home of the University of Alabama Crimson Tide - it's been renovated numerous times to expand its capacity). 9:45 is Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State Buckeyes - they are a HUGE rival of the first team in the video - the University of Michigan Wolverines). Yes, live bands play at college games in the USA - frequently the home team's marching band (and sometimes the visiting team) perform a show at halftime with choreography and having a central theme. 11:27 - the duck is the mascot for the home team (University of Oregon Ducks - the Oregon Duck is one of the more well-known college mascots)
Football is an institution. Our small town (25,000) near the coast of California was 2 and 1/2 hours away from Los Angeles. Whenever our High School football team was in the State Championship, just about the whole town traveled to cheer on our students. On the way home we followed the buses - it was so fun to see a long line of vehicles traveling from LA back home. The last 50 miles had no habitation so the headlights and tail lights were clearly visible as far as you could see in front and in back of your vehicle. We would pretty much fill both sides of the stadium with our towns people. Yeah! Football was a big institution and still is.
I feel that I can sort of speak for SEC games as I was in the band while in college. Years later; I went back as an instructor and so I have been to games at all of the stadiums. Yes, they were all like this! All of them have over the top experiences to offer. The acoustics at Tennessee along with all of those fans singing Rocky Top will give you chills. The cow bells at Mississippi State can be deafening. The Florida State warrior on horseback with that chant is very very intimidating and LSU makes you feel like there may be some serious voodoo being aimed at you...plus they have a REAL TIGER. If you go between the hedges (literally) at beautiful Georgia, you will see and hear one of the best fan bases/cheers in the country and you will always get to see an incredible baton twirler! At my beloved Auburn, we have an eagle that flies unfettered over the crowd, eventually landing on the 50 yard line as we yell Waarrr Eagle plus we have Aubie, the best mascot in NCAA history! The one thing all of the schools have in common besides the huge crowds is fantastic tailgates and wonderful people. You will meet some of the nicest people. And this is coming from someone who was obviously the "enemy" by my attire; yet, the fans on these 'away' campuses were always great. I am sure games across the country are the same...Ohio State, USC, Texas A&M.... You can't go wrong with a college game.
You come on over here and somebody will get you to a game. You will be welcome and you will have a great time!
I'm an SEC mutt (all my friends went to SEC schools, I went small private) so agreed! If he could get to the Auburn/Bama game, it'd blow his mind.
Fair warning: The hedges got replanted this year, so they're ITTY BITTY for the 2024 season.
@@katarh It is an all round good venue, though, and great for the tailgate! The hedges will grow and be full in no time!
SEC baby!
Hi 👋 Loyal Michigan Wolverines fan here. And i love when Mr. Brightside is played at their games. Been to a few where they played it and took part in singing it myself. To hear 100,000 people singing that in unison is great but to actually be a part of it is truly AWESOME!!!
Out of curiosity, do you know if they are the one's that started playing Mr.Brightside? I see it credited to Michigan pretty often, but a lot of schools have started doing it now too
@@jonahcarter6887 As far as I know, it's Michigan
Mizzou does it better Fuck KU
2:06 that was the Tennessee Volunteers' Rocky Top chant that they do about 50 times per game
Right after they beat Alabama in 2022 i believe
@@gamershane7260 yeah they did it just about every 5 minutes.
Go vols baby!!🍊🍊🍊🍊rocky top for life born and raised!!
At least🤓
War Eagle!
Enter Sandman is Lane Stadium @ Virginia’s Tech University! It’s a mind blowing experience to be in that crowd even one time!
Saturday night in Death Valley! LSU's Tiger stadium holds 102,321 people. It gets so loud and crazy that a couple games and a concert were registered on a seismograph as a small earthquake. Geaux Tigers!
Yes!!! The last time LSU beat AL, I think it registered a 4.3. Geaux tigers!
It is well known by all SEC fans that Saturday night in Death Valley is the most intimidating atmosphere in all of college football. Roll Tide
There is nothing that compares to an SEC football game on a Saturday night in Death Valley at LSU.
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Adam ... that above comment was made by one of LSU's chief rivals ... so that's real respect when one of the teams that hates your home team tips the cap ;) ...
@@lukematusicky6051 Bryant Denny can get loud and I love Bama, but I envy the atmosphere of tiger stadium on a fall Saturday night
Check out University of Iowa doing the wave. It will bring tears to your eyes. At the end of the first quarter all the fans, players, staff turn to the childrens hospital behind them and wave to the kids.
As a Michigan fan I always have respect for Iowa doing that. Much love.
As a Sooner fan I will say that the wave to the children’s hospital is the best tradition in college football.
The Iowa “Wave” is one of the newest CFB traditions and in my mind the best. Nothing ego -driven or self aggrandizement in that generous gesture.
If Iowa is playing an important game that is being televised, the network almost always 0:19 send a camera operator up to the large recreation room near the top of the hospital tower. The university sets it up like a tailgate party you’ll find in the parking with good music games, special visitors etc. That’s where dozens of seriously ill children have a great time watching the game and they all love when they get the wave from 40,000 or so people across the street.
The smiles on their faces and their own waves in return are probably the highlight of the week for many of them.
Even patients too sick to leave their rooms are able to overlook the stadium from their own window. You’ll see many wonderful hand drawn signs and pictures taped up rooting on the Iowa Hawkeyes. I may be getting softer in my advancing years, but I always get a bit misty watching this tradition.
And even the opposing teams participate in the wave. I remember a couple years Iowa was away for a prime time game so to ensure the kids didn’t miss out they did the wave from the away stadium and included all the ESPN staff broadcasting and all the people behind the broadcast booth. It was amazing. Hands down the best tradition in college football. I go down to the University of Iowa for treatments 5 days a week and always drive past Kinnick
theres many great traditions and then theres the best one because its for the kids up there
As an Alabama fan I feel it’s necessary to say that watching the eagle fly at Jordan-Hare is one of the coolest experiences. Roll Tide.
I just posted a comment about how they messed up this list by not including the eagle flying before Auburn's home games! I'm an Auburn fan so I'm biased lol but it makes me happy that even an Alabama fan agrees that it's a travesty that they didn't include that in this video! War Eagle!
As an Auburn girl appreciate your comment
@@treysimmons2589lol was going to post the same. Get goosebumps just thinking about it
Ole Miss here, completely agree, amazing to see in person
They left out Georgia's 4th quarter Light Up Sanford as well, but it does kind of pale in comparison to Sandstorm and Enter Sandman. We also don't get fireworks at UGA :(
At 3:48 is Virginia Tech. Our team enters the stadium to Enter Sandman by Metallica. Virginia Tech is one of the most electric atmospheres in college football. The stadium, Lane Stadium, has high sloped stands along the sidelines that make you feel on top of the field. In the South Endzone is the student section, the North Endzone are our bands, The Marching Virginians and the Highty-Tighties, as well as our Corps of Cadets(future US military officers) and other students and fans. The stadium has a capacity of 66,233. We have had home games that register on a nearby seismology facility when the place is really going crazy. We are best known for our raucous Thursday night games, renowned special teams play, the firing of a cannon on any home scoring play, and of course the entrance you saw. Go Hokies!!!
0:37 Michigan. 1:48 Tennessee. 2:45 Penn State. 4:03 Virginia Tech. 5:29 University of South Carolina. 6:31 Wisconsin. 7:56 Alabama. 8:50 LSU. 9:45 Ohio State (Go Bucks baby!). 10:10 Florida State. 10:55 Oregon. College football atmospheres are the best in the world.
The first stadium is "The Big House" at the University of Michigan. It holds 107,601 people. It is the largest of all universities.
One of the largest stadiums in the world. Go Blue 🔵🟡🟦🟨💙💛
The bowl allows it to be big but it will never be as loud as stacked stadiums around the same size like Bever Stadium or Death Vally.
@@Porkchop65210 For the longest time the decibel record for the loudest stadium belonged to Washington even though it's smaller, because the flat metal roofing amplified and echoed the crowd directly onto the field. I think Tennesse broke it just recently lol
@@M_S_Blanc thats along the lines of what I was saying, shape matters as much or more than size when it comes to how loud the stadium gets.
I go to UW-Madison (the school that jumps with Jump Around by House of Pain) and I can tell you they absolutely do that every single game after the third quarter. There’s nothing quite like being apart of it. It’s truly an amazing experience
Do they still body pass people to the top in the end zone area?
@@xxcelr8rsunfortunately not any more. That may have died more than 20 years ago.
Taking down the goalposts is a big thing. When I went to school at App State we would take the goalposts down the hill from the stadium and threw it in the 'duck pond'. I wasn't there for when they beat Michigan on the road, but they took the goalposts over a mile and dropped them in the Chancellor's lawn. Always a great day to be a Mountaineer.
And I remember watching the videos of the chancellor coming out to meet them and celebrate too. Cool guy. I can only imagine how insane Boone was that night.
I went to school in Tennessee, but I spent a lot of time in Boone on the weekends snowboarding and just hanging out. I just happened to be in Boone the night that they beat Michigan on the road, AND IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST FUN NIGHTS OF MY ENTIRE LIFE.
I was there for that game. I would like to forget it.
You stole your name from WVU?
7:53 that's my Alma Mater of The University of Alabama. A lifetime of great memories are there for me.
My father-in-law was Alabama's track coach, and my husband went to Alabama. I'm an Oregon girl, and he's been living here for 20 years now. In my house, it's Go Ducks and Roll Tide.
My parents are Wisconsin alums and I currently attend Penn State so I’ve been to many games for both schools. I’m grateful to have experienced both a Whiteout game (2 actually) and the jump around. Both are so much fun!!
5:25 is the University of South Carolina (USC for short which is what the crowd is yelling). I’ve been to multiple games there and you can feel the crowd in your bones and feel the stadium swaying. I’m biased but it’s easily one of the most electric atmospheres I’ve personally ever experienced.
“If it ain’t swayin’ we ain’t playin’” - the late Coach Joe Morrison.
@@nettiemacwas going to say the same thing!
I love these videos. Love seeing people finally appreciate a little bit of American culture. I appreciate other countries traditions and love it when I finally see it reciprocated
College Football is my favorite sport of them all. It's the theatrics, the pageantry. The cultures and traditions. The crowd chants.
When you go to a real game. It's something special and magical. If you ever get a chance definitely go to a big game. They aren't all like this, but they are all great to witness.
OU vs Texas is my favorite rivalry game. I'm an OU fan.
This game takes place at the halfway point between the two teams in the cotton bowl. And the crowd is split north and south, right down the middle 50 yd line.
It's like a home game on one end, then an away game on the other end for both teams. And it gets LOUD AND CRAZY!
I love it. There is also the Texas state fair that goes on right outside of the cotton bowl.
are you a gamer ? if so and you have a current gen counsole EA sports is making college football 25 comes out this july and 1 of the main parts they focused on was the pageantry. The cultures and traditions. The crowd chants.
same
Collage football is crazy like NFL football man.!!!!
6:35 is Wisconsins Jump around after the third quarter, the stadium actually had to be renovated due to structural concerns over everyone jumping
Good to know but great Tradition
You also need to check out the marching bands doing Pre-game and Half-time shows.
The “tailgate” parties BEFORE the game are epic! If you ever make it to a game, don’t miss the tailgate.
6:48 “Surely it don’t get this crazy every game.” Actually it does. The regular season has 12-ish games and usually half of those are home games. The average fan isn’t gonna travel hundreds or thousands of miles for an away game, so the home games are always hype.
Unless you are a bama fan, bama travels well anywhere. You could play a bama in Germany and pack the stadium!
Va Tech with the lunch box and Enter Sandman is the absolute best.
10:11 I may be biased with this being a Florida state fan but they have arguably the best tradition of all colleges with the chop and the chief Osceola(guy dressed in a Native American outfit) riding his horse across the field and then fireworks going off and then he plants the spear at the 50 yard line. What’s even crazier is this video recording is literally maybe 10 rows up from where I sit when I go to those games
The duck on the field at the end was the University of Oregon mascot. The movie "Animal House" was filmed in Eugene in 1977 and "Shout" is played between the 3rd and 4th quarter. The movie made that song famous. Oregon probably has the smallest stadium of the ones mentioned (56,000?) but it is among the loudest. College football reigns supreme every Saturday between September and December all over the U.S. No other sport comes close.
UO Alum here - you're close on the seating, it's 54,000 with standing room to 60,000 - though this goes over every season, I've seen 61k there before, and you're damn right about the Zoo being one of the loudest.
@@ChaosAndMayhemTV UO alum here as well (class of '80). Interior shots of the Delta house in the movie ( i.e.toga party) were filmed inside of my fraternity (Sigma Nu). Delta house exterior shots were filmed at the halfway house next door. One afternoon John Belushi was taking a break and wandered throughout our house and knocked on our (my roommate and I) door. We invited him in and he spent a while talking to the both of us. Nice guy; very cool. Many of the extras in the movie were my fraternity brothers. We had first crack at landing extra roles. I declined and to this day regret my decision. Such is life. Fun fact. I was able to watch over John Landis' shoulder as he was directing D-Day to ride up our stairs on his motorcycle.
sorry i had to GO BEAVES. but I was a duck fan until the admission decided to screw me over by playing with my emotional in the middle of the summer by rejecting me then a week later they rejected me
Before you even ask, yes, the Duck mascot is indeed based on Donald Duck!
"Shout" enjoyed a resurgence in popularity with the movie Animal Hoise. But the movie was shot at Oregon State University in Corvallis.
I still have a small section of the Tennessee goal post that “unnamed people” cut up and gave out the next day after Tennessee beat Vanderbilt for the SEC title in the mid 1980’s! It was a fun night!!!
@7:53 Most of these stadiums are quite old, some easily 80 to 100 years old. They are frequently renovated to keep them fresh. This is a clip from Alabama where their song is actually about Tennessee, and yes you heard it earlier when TN beat them, TN played this song while storming the field.
Such a great game!!
2:00 Thats the Tennessee Volunteers and their team and state song Rocky Top
I can’t believe Texas A&M wasn’t in there. The War Hymn they sing before and after the game is badass
As an Aggie, I am very sad we were not included. We have a whole Midnight Yell the night before the game to practice our chants, and our band is second to none. Stadium holds 109,000
Diehard fan of all sports teams from the University of Tennessee here, if you can’t tell by the profile pic, and I’m so glad for you and others outside the US to see the passion and joy connected to college sports! You’ve gotta come to the states and catch a game sometime, and of course it’s gotta be in Neyland Stadium with 102,000 crazy fans in orange. One of the best venues in all of sports.
I'm sorry to hear about your favorite team being the volunteers. Good luck out there 👀
Sincerely, a ducks fan 😅
@@brycepeddicord6763 hahaha the Vols have definitely put me through hell over the years but I love em all the same. Much love to the Oregon program and i hope i get to go to a game in Autzen someday
@@bigorangebrandon Ohio State Oregon is gonna be bananas, college game day will be there. It's like 400$ a ticket but if you could go to one. That's the one!
Oregon is just Vandy but with a Nike sugerdady
I'll stick to watching the Big Orange!
My dood, the 2nd clip starting at @1:24 is The Tennessee Vols. Stadium currently holds around 103k, used to be 110k and I hope it goes back up. Just need to raise the jumbotron. After a big win the fans rush the field, pull down the goal posts and parade them around before throwing them in the river lol.
There is one college tradition that has an entire video from ESPN I feel you should watch. College Game Day did an entire program about the Iowa Hawkeye Wave. A very young tradition, but one that took off like a rocket.
That tradition makes me cry any time I watch a video of it. I hope Adam does watch a video about college traditions and that was is watched.
its a crime this was left out. No doubt the best tradition in all of sports
3:50 Virginia Tech Hokies run out to Enter Sandman. Been there, done that, its amazing!!💪🏼💪🏼
Nothing like College Football Saturdays. Alot of different traditions that are all awesome
Tennessee had just beaten Alabama 52-49 for the first time in forever. It's tradition for the students and fans to tear down the goal post. They not only tore it down but carried it out of the stadium, across the road and chucked into the Tennessee river. LOL
You can see the goalpost in the river on Google Maps
Vols go vols go
Best night of my life
#GBO!!!
Absolutely no class
Gotta watch the Ohio State Marching Band do "Blockbuster Movies". Mind blowing.
The Ohio State band is The best damn band in the land! Watch any of their half time shows!
1. Michigan Wolverines
2. Tennessee Volunteers
3. Penn State Nittany Lions
4. Virginia Tech Hokies
5. Couldn't tell.
6. Wisconsin Badgers
7. Alabama Crimson Tide
8. Louisiana State Tigers
9. Ohio State Buckeyes
10. Florida State Seminoles
11. Oregon Ducks
College football has a rabid fandom.
5 was South Carolina Gamecocks
nearly all 9f these stadiums hold 75,000 fans and the majority are over 100,000
University South Carolina Sandstorm
The couldn't tell was USC South Carolina
Enter Sandman is the entry to Virginia Tech football games. As a long time ticket holder, I think it is the best College Football entrance. Virginia Tech (aka Hokies) are located in Blacksburg, Virginia.
My favorite collage football tradition is at Penn State games when we say “WE ARE PENN STATE” with that one song I love it
“Kernkraft 400” by Zombie Nation
The second clip is Univeristy of Tennessee in 2022 beating Alabama in by a FG on the last play of the game in a wild game.
You might look up the capacity of the Michigan State football stadium. The stadium is sold out for every home game, and has a waiting list that tells you what year you should expect to have an opportunity to purchase season tickets. Some even go so far as to put their newborns name on that waiting list.
Every game Adam...this shit happens at every single game 🤣
dude i love this. i'm from tennessee and we LOVE our team. just like y'all do with your football
It’s a southern thing. I’m from GA and love GA Tech and Georgia. College football in general. My friends up north don’t like it and just watch NFL
One thing you can always count on in America is crowd participation. All you have to do is play a song everyone knows, and the whole stadium will sing it. It's incredible to be there!!
Oh, one more thing. 10:05 that's from Florida State University, the Seminoles. It's a student dressed as Seminole Chief Osceola, who rides out and plants a flaming spear in the field at the 50-yard line. And the actual Seminole tribe in Florida has no problem with it, in fact they've approved the whole thing. Likewise with the chant (the "Chop").
TELL EM GO NOLES
And on August 24th the Seminoles play in Dublin!
A&M has quite a few game day and game traditions, and one of the biggest stadiums, halftime is awesome!
This happens almost every Saturday across the country during the NCAA Mens Football season. I think there are 5 or 6 stadiums seating over 100K. Ohio State Marching Band is world famous. Look at one of their RUclips videos
CRAZY! Gin Blossoms ‘Hey Jealousy’ was released in ‘89 but it hit the charts in ‘93! They’re singing and using GEN X College days songs as all their intros…..ENTER SANDMAN, DARUDE, Hey Jealousy AND JUMP AROUND! ❤😉
This delightful craziness is at every home game, so yeah, every game, the host team puts on this show for their fans.
Mind you, the visiting team comes out first and has to sit through this. I live in Nebraska where college football is everything. We have the tunnel walk. These videos don’t do it justice. Every home game sold out since 1962.
Nebraska is a testament to the tradition and passion of college football. Even when we’re bad, we show up in numbers
Nebraska hasn't been relevant for years!
You should check out biggest college football rivalries and their respective histories as some of them (most notably The Game played by Michigan v Ohio State and the Iron Bowl played by Alabama v Auburn) are kinda crazy, Michigan v Ohio State is considered by many to be the biggest rivalry in all of sports
This year its Nov 30th.
Ohio state fans know how to spell Ohio.
It’s the only true prerequisite to get in
1,651 days. Go Blue
1:00 I call this the “Choir effect”, and it works be cause of the many different types of voices, and it all cancels out and makes it sound amazing.
every college football game is a celebration with a huge crowd intent on having a good time and enjoying great competition.
The first stadium (the one singing Mr. Brightside) is called "The Big House." It's the biggest stadium in the western hemisphere and the 3rd biggest stadium in the world with a capacity of 107,601.
everyone needs to go to a football game sometime in their life. a big one too because the volume and the hype in those stadiums is like nothing else
Having been to a Michigan night game this year, they totally overhauled the lighting effects during Mr. Brightside, and its incredible!
the orange crowd is when tennesse beat alabama in 2022. Game of the century. Rumor is the fans thew the goal post in the tennesse river and now it is a tourist attraction.
Oregon always does "Shout" at the beginning of the 4th quarter. It's a shout out to the movie "Animal House" that was filmed on campus. Autzen stadium is always a good time!!
At 1:24,That was the Tennessee Volunteers when they beat the Alabama Crimson Tide after 15 years of losses. They were singing their fight song " Rocky Top"
11:08 U. of Oregon playing song from Animal House as film was made in that town. Otis Day and the Knights! He loved us!! Otis! my Man!
Hearing Rocky Top at Neyland Stadium is an experience. I know the world is big on soccer but there's just something about NCAA football that hits different.
Adam, enter sandman is a tradition among Virginia Tech football since about 1997, which is in Virginia on the east coast of the United States.
Jump around is from the University of Washington
What you’re seeing is the pre game ceremonies of teams in what are known as the “Power 5” conferences of college football.
Essentially there’s currently 4 “big” conferences made up of about the best 50-60 teams at the top level of college football, known as division 1
absolutely love VT's introduction. Went to my first VT game last year and it was UNREAL
I used to attend Florida State games......unbelievable 🤩 Chief Osceola and his Horse Renegade introduce the Home Games by riding to Midfield with a Burning Spear and planting it in the Turf!