Fun fact: despite having a naming rights deal with a heating and cooling systems manufacturer, the Carrier Dome only recently started having air conditioning installed.
As someone who currently goes to Cuse, the irony isn't lost on me that as soon as we finally get AC, we couldn't even go to games 😅 Got tickets for fall at least
Your mentioning of the lovely brick facade at Doak Campbell reminded me that Doak Campbell is the largest single continuous brick structure in the United States. Looking forward to your SEC video.
As a Canes fan, I’m impressed that someone like you from outside the US took the time to learn trivia and the little details about these college football stadiums. Really great video series, awesome job!
@@charlesmonroe2557 Y’all had one good season in how many years of existence? and now you want to trash talking team has historically superior in every fashion towards your program. Cocky, wouldn’t you say?
Busy, busy little bee. Exceptional, in depth work. Love the tongue in cheek sacrificial lamb quip. With every episode you keep raising the bar. See you next time.
Clemson’s stadium is called Death Valley because of a coach from another team was talking about Clemson and how they played them and that they have been beaten so badly by them that he started to call it Death Valley because they felt like we’re being best to death. Also Clemson touches a rock before running down a hill that is from Death Valley.
In addition, the campus graveyard is on a hill adjacent to the stadium. Before the south upper deck was built, you could see the trees surrounding the cemetery from the stands. I don't know where the idea of goat sacrifice comes from...
LSU's similarly named stadium is also nicknamed "Death [or 'Deaf'] Valley" in honor of the intimidating crowds that are found there. (Both teams are also called Tigers.)
@@donaldthomas7070 Not quite. LSU's Tigers play in Tiger Stadium. Clemson's Tigers play in Memorial Stadium - a tribute to the early years when the school was Clemson Agricultural and Military College (Clemson A&M). As an aside, football was brought to Clemson by a former Auburn coach, who brought the Tigers nickname along with some old Auburn uniforms whose colors had changed from Navy Blue and Orange to a Regalia Purple and Orange. (I'm guessing that a bad cycle in the laundry did it... LOL)
Went to see my first Carolina Panthers game at that stadium and their very first win one thing you did not mention in there is the beautiful view of Lake Hartwell to the south west of the stadium
With respect to Boston College, they built an indoor practice facility next to it, so they don't use the inflatable bubble anymore. $40m was the cost or something to build that new facility.
$52.6 million, but was badly needed by the school since they were lagging far behind other schools. the baseball stadium was a joke, thankfully they got a better one alongside the softball and other teams funny thing, it’s actually not seen in the video because the arial footage was from the time when it was under construction .
Sitting in that grandstand facing the field at 2:09 would sure give you a great view of the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the home of the Atlanta Falcons, and the Atlanta city skyline 🏙
about the old inflated roof in syracuse- because of how heavy the roof is- it pushes air out whenever a door is opened, which in turn pushes you out with a decent force
That caught me off guard a little when I went to a game there a few years ago. Also, the train horn and goddamn bell ringing after a score are pure punishment when at a game with a headache and Syracuse decides to put up 50+ points on an opponent.
Kenan Stadium actually is a mix of bowl seats and bleachers. The student section (west end zone) where access is free to enrolled students still has bleachers while the commercially ticketed sections on the two main stands and the section below the vip boxes behind the east end zone were retrofitted with bowl seats. It's a very pretty stadium especially for how closely integrated into the nice and shady campus it is, compared to others that are just surrounded by huge parking lots (looking at you, Carter-Finley)
idk why but it’s always a pleasure to see non-americans who enjoy american sports…i’ve binge watched all your CFB stadium videos and have loved every single one of them!
Fun fact:Kenan Memorial is so small for an FBS stadium due to the fact that when the money was donated for the stadium The Kenan family wrote in the contract that the stadium could never rise taller than the tallest tree in North Carolina.So the only way that it could ever hold more capacity is if they A)Build a new one or B)Purchase a California Redwood to put in Chapel Hill 😂
From my backyard I can see some upper deck seats at Cardinal Stadium. Love it. Pro and con though ... pro is free play-by-play from the PA announcer if I'm outside and the con is the games on tv are a little delayed, so I hear the train horn (TD celebration) go off before I see the play on tv. Big time spoiler.
Enjoying you're videos but can you do one all Scottish stadiums from league 2 up to the scottish premiership as we have had loads of Aussies playing here such as Tony vidmar, Craig Moore, scott Mcdonald, Mark vaduka, lyndon dykes( plays for Scotland but born and grew up in Australia) Kevin muscatt and Matt Mckay
@Steve A I think were thinking about two different schools here, yes VMI is not on Virginia tech’s campus. But Virginia Tech has its own military academy who operate on the same campus as the general school
@@thomastrain7311 Tech actually has a corps of cadets, which is more than a general ROTC program. It's one of I believe 6 non-academy universities with such program. Texas A&M is another notable college with one.
The hill at Scott Stadium is a general admission area, and you can't reserve seating there. It's a fun place to watch the game, rain and snow can make it a blast...especially if it's the last home game of the season, the infamous "fourth year fifth".
I grew up in the area and have been to games several of these. Renovations in the past couple of decades have greatly changed the look of many of them, generally greatly improving the quality of the stadiums. Duke's stadium, Wallace Wade, for instance, used to be much "cheaper" looking. With a beat up cinder track and about 20% less seating as well as a much smaller press box tower. Honestly I had seen more impressive high school stadiums. Now .. it is still small, but it looks nice. Ditto with Wake Forest's stadium. It looks much nicer and tidier and slicker now than it used to.
AWESOME VIDEO. As a Tar Heel fan, I just love Keenan. It fits the school. I wish they would add more seats to be the biggest in the state (college teams) but it's still cool. I remember watching them on t.v. before they closed the horseshoe and just hearing the ESPN announcers talk about the best views in college football. Once they closed it in, they still kept the beauty.
Not sure if you're aware of this or not, but the ACC is unique in this particular regard. The ACC has a rule that mandates no structures devoted to athletics can stand taller than the university's academic and administrative based structures. Obviously, there are exceptions to this rule in the cases of Miami, Pittsburgh, and Syracuse because those stadiums aren't actually located on campus grounds. This is why all ACC stadiums are sunk into the ground. The lower halves of their bowl seats are below ground level. When you walk in to an ACC football stadium you have to walk down steps to reach your seats. Sinking the bowl seats below ground level allows schools the opportunity to possess equal numbers of seats (65K+) as all the other schools they compete with in the SEC, Big Ten, Big XII, and Pac 12 without the typical structures that are built into football stadiums surpassing the heights of academic & administrative buildings on campus.
Even if Pitt had a stadium on campus, the Cathedral of Learning is 42 stories high (535 feet), they'd be in pretty good shape. Old Pitt stadium would have fit in well with the other conference stadiums, it was dug into the side of a hill.
Heinz field is great but a lot of Pitt students want an on-campus stadium, it’s pretty much on the opposite end of town from Pitt campus and its pain in the ass to get to if you don’t have a car. Similar situation to USF at Raymond James Stadium
I’ve gone to a North Carolina football game every year since I was born and we always tailgate in a parking lot at a church and the walk through the campus up to the stadium is amazing
Bobby Dodd Stadium will have a special place in my heart for one reason: it was the home of Atlanta United FC while Mercedes-Benz Stadium was being built.
Bobby Dodd is the oldest FBS stadium, and Grant Field is the oldest continually used on-campus site for football. It's a bit of a hodgepodge, but the history makes it a lot cooler. Many colleges located in big cities have off-campus stadiums and share them with an NFL team (ahem, Miami). Their place has gotten a lot better, but it still looks like the Dolphins' joint, and the atmosphere stinks inside the stadium because of its cavernous dimensions for a college team and outside the stadium because college life is so distant.
Came here to say this, and surprised it wasn’t mentioned in the vid. The stadium is 110 years old. There is a World War 2 rifle range under the stands.
Also the oldest on-campus stadium at the Power Five level. Also beneath the original lower west stands are the original bleachers. Bobby Dodd is lopsided due to a hill on the west side and Techwood Drive and the Techwood dorms on the east side.
Another thing to note: Carter-Finley Stadium will host the 2022 NHL Stadium Series (Bumped back from 2021). The stadium sits next to PNC Arena, where the Carolina hurricanes play, who will host a game at Carter Finley on a Saturday in February
Syracuse University nickname originally was the Saltine Warriors. Saltine as Syracuse area at one time was a leading Salt producer and the Warriors to honor the many native Indian tribes in the area/region. The orignal colors were, well, watermelon colors :) The university later changed the name to the Orangemen and Orange & Blue colors which reflected the skin color and war paint of the Mohawks and Iroquois tribes. Though their mascot, Otto the Orange is arguably looks like the Orange fruit, the name Syracuse Orange became about few years ago, when the NCAA banned the use of nicknames reflecting Indian tribes.
The Duke stadium was long overdue for an upgrade. Looks much better and hopefully that extends to the parts you can't see here like concessions. Saw Bama play (destroy) Duke there a few years ago. I remember going to the concessions stand and thinking it felt exactly like a high school stadium.
If I understand correctly, one of the stipulations of UNC's Keenan Stadium is that it can never be taller than the surrounding treeline. So they've had to get creative with any expansion to the facility. That or wait for the trees to grow taller.
I know you've been producing some interesting and entertaining content - which I've enjoyed - that's kept you busy, but are you going to get around to that Class Low-A minor league baseball stadiums video? I've been anxiously awaiting that one since you posted the High-A baseball stadiums video.
@@michaelmerck7576 fun fact about that skyline, the Bank of America Building clearly dominates it. It’s often referred to as “The pencil building” by Tech professors because when a Tech student originally came up with the idea of its design for a school project, a Tech professor graded it as a D and scoffed that it looks like a “pencil”. To which it’s also called the “middle finger to Georgia Tech”
oldest is used loosely…it looks nothing like the past, it’s like stands were slapped on top of the old stands and the original structure all but hidden making it a new stadium in all ways but sitting on top of the old one they basically did to it what Chicago did to Soldier Field
Have been to all the stadiums. They are in order of loudness - 1 Clemson 2 Florida State 3 Virginia Tech 4 Louisville 5 NC state 6 Georgia tech 7-9 UNC, Miami, and Pittsburgh 10-11 Syracuse, Virginia 12 wake forest 13 BC 14 Duke
Clemson's Death Valley is in a natural valley between 2 hills. On top of one of those hills a cemetery, the hill is called cemetery hill. The valley is directly below the cemetery. More than 60 years ago an opposing coach nick named it Death Valley because it was so hard to win there. That must have been a joke about the sacrificial goat.
The name came first. PC's coach gave it the nickname. In the early 90s, Tiger Stadium at LSU was coined Deaf Valley because of the noise level. Talking heads on TV started missaying it to Death Valley, so that stuck. Same with what they did with Spurrior. It was Ole' Ball Coach and the idiots on TV kept saying Old.
What the heck? Clemson's stadium is called Death Valley because of Howard's Rock. It's a rock on a podium that is at the entrance to the field of the stadium that's in front of the home lockeroom. Said rock was actually brought from Death Valley, CA. Hence the nickname. The Clemson players actually touch the rock for good luck as they run out on to the field. lol.
Back in the day, the coach of Presbyterian College in Clinton, SC, called the place Death Valley, because his team always lost there. The home record of the Tigers is good, and some really great games have been played there over the years. If you want to see some really fired up fans, go to a Clemson-S. Carolina game at the Valley. GO TIGERS! Clemson grad here, '67. I've never heard of the sacrificial goat business, and I've been a fan sine 1963.
Lonnie McMillian was the name of the PC coach who first coined the "Death Valley" nickname in an interview with the Greenville News, post-game. "That place is like Death Valley, because my teams only go there to DIE". The goat story is hogwash. The Rock is actually from the desert in California. A graduate was there and brought it back to Coach Howard, who used it as a doorstop for several years. He told an assistant to take the rock and "put it somewhere". Coach was thinking something along the lines of the bottom of the Seneca River, but that assistant had a different idea. Despite a few vandalism attempts, it still sits atop the pedestal on the East endzone hill (grass, by the way). The quote from McMillian came several years before anyone started calling that Louisiana stadium "Deaf Valley"
@@mikeorr3333 Ha ha. I'm a BAMA fan so I didn't know all the details. But I definitely knew it had something to do with Howard's Rock. Thanks for the info.
The Atlantic Coast Conference is a collegiate athletic conference located in the eastern United States. The Atlantic Coast Conference could probably become the new home of the Cincinnati Bearcats from the American Athletic Conference if they backed-out from the Big 12 Conference expansion that could lead into the mass exodus of all 10 members, such as the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners, who are joining the Southeastern Conference, the TCU Horned Frogs, who are joining the Sun Belt Conference, the Texas Tech Red Raiders, the Kansas Jayhawks, the Kansas State Wildcats, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, and the Baylor Bears, who are joining the American Athletic Conference, and the Iowa State Cyclones and the West Virginia Mountaineers, who are joining the Big Ten Conference
Except for the academic standards held by the acc and big ten would need to be downgraded. I know it's not a huge issue but both conferences hold those morals in high regard
@@jinmd9094 kinda true. I was at the UNC game this past year and even though it was reduced capacity, it was still one of the craziest crowds I've ever been in.
Went to the belk bowl 2 yes ago and that stadium in Charlotte is a great venue for the acc title game. Was the 1st time i had seats in the endzone and actually liked them. As far as conference stadiums go the acc has a handfull of the best in the country.
Alumni Stadium: built on the original stadium by that name forcing BC to play at Fenway Park. You missed that it sits next to a historic reservoir and the stadium’s entire western stands is built into the adjacent Conte Forum so that boxes overlook both the arena and the football stadium. and the Patriots playing there went down in infamy: a fire broke out in the stands during a game!
Scott stadium in this list as my favourite FSU is quality, my Tigers 🐯 I prefer in yellow and purple Not related to the ACC but a awhile ago a friend of mine did a comparison between 4 stadiums all around 52000 capacity Waldstadion - Frankfurt St James Park - Newcastle Suncorp - Brisbane Floyd Casey - Baylor Looking at the four we could not work out how it was possible for Floyd Casey to hold 30k let alone 50k !! I guess it’s bench seating single tier compared to bucket seating, multi tier and roofs Looks can be very deceiving!
Cite your goat sacrifice at Clemson reference please. I grew up in the shadow of Death Valley and I've never heard of a goat sacrifice. Can't find a source on Google either. Just doesn't sound like it's even close to the values of the university much MUCH less so if you take the current administration into account.
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Fun fact: despite having a naming rights deal with a heating and cooling systems manufacturer, the Carrier Dome only recently started having air conditioning installed.
I think everybody is aware of that....but good job sport!
As someone who currently goes to Cuse, the irony isn't lost on me that as soon as we finally get AC, we couldn't even go to games 😅
Got tickets for fall at least
I thought it was because they can build an aircraft carrier inside of it.
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Your mentioning of the lovely brick facade at Doak Campbell reminded me that Doak Campbell is the largest single continuous brick structure in the United States. Looking forward to your SEC video.
Doak Campbell Stadium is the largest single brick structure in the world. 🐴🔥🏹
At Va Tech, the "castle" affect is because it's made from the limestone that almost all of the buildings on campus are made from, called "Hokiestone".
As a Canes fan, I’m impressed that someone like you from outside the US took the time to learn trivia and the little details about these college football stadiums. Really great video series, awesome job!
How’d that North Carolina beat down last year feel huh?
@@charlesmonroe2557 What’s North Carolina? I don’t recognize any schools without national championship titles.
@@johanfalk2875 bro at first I read that comment and was genuinely confused and then I realized 😞. But we’ll see how this ages over the next few years
@@charlesmonroe2557 Y’all had one good season in how many years of existence? and now you want to trash talking team has historically superior in every fashion towards your program. Cocky, wouldn’t you say?
@@johanfalk2875 so you recognize UCF?
This music involved in the video is actually really good. I found myself vibing while learning about these stadiums..
Busy, busy little bee. Exceptional, in depth work. Love the tongue in cheek sacrificial lamb quip. With every episode you keep raising the bar. See you next time.
Wow Lousiville and Miami, Lived and been to both stadiums before and after renovation! Great seats in most areas!
Clemson’s stadium is called Death Valley because of a coach from another team was talking about Clemson and how they played them and that they have been beaten so badly by them that he started to call it Death Valley because they felt like we’re being best to death. Also Clemson touches a rock before running down a hill that is from Death Valley.
In addition, the campus graveyard is on a hill adjacent to the stadium. Before the south upper deck was built, you could see the trees surrounding the cemetery from the stands. I don't know where the idea of goat sacrifice comes from...
LSU's similarly named stadium is also nicknamed "Death [or 'Deaf'] Valley" in honor of the intimidating crowds that are found there. (Both teams are also called Tigers.)
@@donaldthomas7070 Not quite. LSU's Tigers play in Tiger Stadium. Clemson's Tigers play in Memorial Stadium - a tribute to the early years when the school was Clemson Agricultural and Military College (Clemson A&M).
As an aside, football was brought to Clemson by a former Auburn coach, who brought the Tigers nickname along with some old Auburn uniforms whose colors had changed from Navy Blue and Orange to a Regalia Purple and Orange. (I'm guessing that a bad cycle in the laundry did it... LOL)
The true "Death Valley"
Went to see my first Carolina Panthers game at that stadium and their very first win one thing you did not mention in there is the beautiful view of Lake Hartwell to the south west of the stadium
With respect to Boston College, they built an indoor practice facility next to it, so they don't use the inflatable bubble anymore. $40m was the cost or something to build that new facility.
And they built a new baseball facility too
I’ve been to games at BC it’s a lot better than it looks lol
$52.6 million, but was badly needed by the school since they were lagging far behind other schools. the baseball stadium was a joke, thankfully they got a better one alongside the softball and other teams
funny thing, it’s actually not seen in the video because the arial footage was from the time when it was under construction .
Too bad he didnt mention that it's also connected to the hockey arena.That's kind of a cool feature, I always thought
Sitting in that grandstand facing the field at 2:09 would sure give you a great view of the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the home of the Atlanta Falcons, and the Atlanta city skyline 🏙
Conference by conference... smart choice. 👍🏽
about the old inflated roof in syracuse- because of how heavy the roof is- it pushes air out whenever a door is opened, which in turn pushes you out with a decent force
That caught me off guard a little when I went to a game there a few years ago. Also, the train horn and goddamn bell ringing after a score are pure punishment when at a game with a headache and Syracuse decides to put up 50+ points on an opponent.
"....*sighs* and the Steelers of course"
I feel that
pre expansion louisville stadium was incredible. i loved the grass and building in the background
Kenan Stadium actually is a mix of bowl seats and bleachers.
The student section (west end zone) where access is free to enrolled students still has bleachers while the commercially ticketed sections on the two main stands and the section below the vip boxes behind the east end zone were retrofitted with bowl seats.
It's a very pretty stadium especially for how closely integrated into the nice and shady campus it is, compared to others that are just surrounded by huge parking lots (looking at you, Carter-Finley)
Carter Finley much better for tailgating though so it’s a good and bad
What a great video idea! Love the footage and smart narration. Well done!!
I don't usually do this, but you're now one of the few channels I'm subbed to that I actually hit the bell icon for!
I've had a couple of cousins that went through Va Tech and when they're good&they have a night game the Lane Stadium atmosphere is something else
idk why but it’s always a pleasure to see non-americans who enjoy american sports…i’ve binge watched all your CFB stadium videos and have loved every single one of them!
Fun fact:Kenan Memorial is so small for an FBS stadium due to the fact that when the money was donated for the stadium The Kenan family wrote in the contract that the stadium could never rise taller than the tallest tree in North Carolina.So the only way that it could ever hold more capacity is if they A)Build a new one or B)Purchase a California Redwood to put in Chapel Hill 😂
Love how positive all your videos are
Great video! Even as an avid cfb fan this was great to watch
From my backyard I can see some upper deck seats at Cardinal Stadium. Love it. Pro and con though ... pro is free play-by-play from the PA announcer if I'm outside and the con is the games on tv are a little delayed, so I hear the train horn (TD celebration) go off before I see the play on tv. Big time spoiler.
Same. You always know when we didn’t score because you don’t hear the horn when you are watching the game
Virginia Tech went with the castle design because, like the Army Black Knights, are also a military institution.
Enjoying you're videos but can you do one all Scottish stadiums from league 2 up to the scottish premiership as we have had loads of Aussies playing here such as Tony vidmar, Craig Moore, scott Mcdonald, Mark vaduka, lyndon dykes( plays for Scotland but born and grew up in Australia) Kevin muscatt and Matt Mckay
@Steve A operates on the same campus
@Steve A I think were thinking about two different schools here, yes VMI is not on Virginia tech’s campus. But Virginia Tech has its own military academy who operate on the same campus as the general school
VT has an rotc program but not a military school. Thats vmi ( George S Patton and many other great generals have attended there)
@@thomastrain7311 Tech actually has a corps of cadets, which is more than a general ROTC program. It's one of I believe 6 non-academy universities with such program. Texas A&M is another notable college with one.
Looking forward to this series!
The hill at Scott Stadium is a general admission area, and you can't reserve seating there. It's a fun place to watch the game, rain and snow can make it a blast...especially if it's the last home game of the season, the infamous "fourth year fifth".
I grew up in the area and have been to games several of these. Renovations in the past couple of decades have greatly changed the look of many of them, generally greatly improving the quality of the stadiums. Duke's stadium, Wallace Wade, for instance, used to be much "cheaper" looking. With a beat up cinder track and about 20% less seating as well as a much smaller press box tower. Honestly I had seen more impressive high school stadiums. Now .. it is still small, but it looks nice. Ditto with Wake Forest's stadium. It looks much nicer and tidier and slicker now than it used to.
AWESOME VIDEO. As a Tar Heel fan, I just love Keenan. It fits the school. I wish they would add more seats to be the biggest in the state (college teams) but it's still cool. I remember watching them on t.v. before they closed the horseshoe and just hearing the ESPN announcers talk about the best views in college football. Once they closed it in, they still kept the beauty.
love these stadium vids
Thanks again. I love these videos
Glad to hear it. Thanks for watching!
These videos are excellent!
Please add the BIG10 conference stadiums as soon as you can!!! Thank you and keep up the good work!
Not sure if you're aware of this or not, but the ACC is unique in this particular regard. The ACC has a rule that mandates no structures devoted to athletics can stand taller than the university's academic and administrative based structures. Obviously, there are exceptions to this rule in the cases of Miami, Pittsburgh, and Syracuse because those stadiums aren't actually located on campus grounds.
This is why all ACC stadiums are sunk into the ground. The lower halves of their bowl seats are below ground level. When you walk in to an ACC football stadium you have to walk down steps to reach your seats. Sinking the bowl seats below ground level allows schools the opportunity to possess equal numbers of seats (65K+) as all the other schools they compete with in the SEC, Big Ten, Big XII, and Pac 12 without the typical structures that are built into football stadiums surpassing the heights of academic & administrative buildings on campus.
Even if Pitt had a stadium on campus, the Cathedral of Learning is 42 stories high (535 feet), they'd be in pretty good shape. Old Pitt stadium would have fit in well with the other conference stadiums, it was dug into the side of a hill.
The Dome actually is located on the Syracuse campus. Obviously the ACC couldn’t require new members to the conference to adhere to old building rules.
Acc is alot of small private schools. WF has 7k students. They cant build huge stadiums like conferences made up of mostly state schools
Love that you mentioned that Heinz Field was in Dark Knight Rises
The only one of these stadiums I’ve seen is Louisville’s and it is a standout in the area it is in and it looks like a great stadium
It’s a great stadium. Too bad it rarely gets filled.
It's a palace compared to the dump that was at the fairgrounds, I think of that every time I go to a game now.
Heinz field is great but a lot of Pitt students want an on-campus stadium, it’s pretty much on the opposite end of town from Pitt campus and its pain in the ass to get to if you don’t have a car. Similar situation to USF at Raymond James Stadium
I’ve gone to a North Carolina football game every year since I was born and we always tailgate in a parking lot at a church and the walk through the campus up to the stadium is amazing
Clemson's stadium is called Death Valley because that's where opposing teams go to die...so said the PC coach Lonnie McMillian back in 1948
Bobby Dodd Stadium will have a special place in my heart for one reason: it was the home of Atlanta United FC while Mercedes-Benz Stadium was being built.
The grass hill at Scott Stadium (UVA) is typically a student section and at big games is standing room only it can get really fun too!
I somehow ended up at the bottom of the hill when it was jammed pack because everyone started slowly pushing us down. But it was very fun though
Bobby Dodd is the oldest FBS stadium, and Grant Field is the oldest continually used on-campus site for football. It's a bit of a hodgepodge, but the history makes it a lot cooler. Many colleges located in big cities have off-campus stadiums and share them with an NFL team (ahem, Miami). Their place has gotten a lot better, but it still looks like the Dolphins' joint, and the atmosphere stinks inside the stadium because of its cavernous dimensions for a college team and outside the stadium because college life is so distant.
Came here to say this, and surprised it wasn’t mentioned in the vid. The stadium is 110 years old. There is a World War 2 rifle range under the stands.
Shade in Miami is always appreciated.
But winning titles at the OB is nicer
Both the Dolphins and the Canes have never been the same since leaving the old OB.....
Bobby Dodd Stadium: Home of the Most Lopsided College Football Game in History...
Wake Forest 30- F$U- 0
Nah mate, Georgia Tech 222-0 Cumberland College.
222-0
Also the oldest on-campus stadium at the Power Five level. Also beneath the original lower west stands are the original bleachers.
Bobby Dodd is lopsided due to a hill on the west side and Techwood Drive and the Techwood dorms on the east side.
Beautiful memories. I wish I had studied and stuck with my Pure Mathematics plan. Oh well
Another thing to note:
Carter-Finley Stadium will host the 2022 NHL Stadium Series (Bumped back from 2021). The stadium sits next to PNC Arena, where the Carolina hurricanes play, who will host a game at Carter Finley on a Saturday in February
GO CANES
Can't wait for the Big 12 video
Syracuse University nickname originally was the Saltine Warriors. Saltine as Syracuse area at one time was a leading Salt producer and the Warriors to honor the many native Indian tribes in the area/region. The orignal colors were, well, watermelon colors :) The university later changed the name to the Orangemen and Orange & Blue colors which reflected the skin color and war paint of the Mohawks and Iroquois tribes. Though their mascot, Otto the Orange is arguably looks like the Orange fruit, the name Syracuse Orange became about few years ago, when the NCAA banned the use of nicknames reflecting Indian tribes.
You should do the fcs conference after the fbs ones. There are some pretty cool ones
Your closing music is killer my friend
01:43...wish I-85 always looked like that.
You and me both
Mate, I believe you could check one stadium out to add it to beautiful small stadiums. It is called La Salera, in Nájera , Spain
The Duke stadium was long overdue for an upgrade. Looks much better and hopefully that extends to the parts you can't see here like concessions. Saw Bama play (destroy) Duke there a few years ago. I remember going to the concessions stand and thinking it felt exactly like a high school stadium.
Don't forget the independent schools. Great work
And then fbs 1AA and the fcs
Fun fact about Clemson's stadium, they have a rock ("Howard's Rock") that they rub before each game that was taken from Death Valley National Park
If I understand correctly, one of the stipulations of UNC's Keenan Stadium is that it can never be taller than the surrounding treeline. So they've had to get creative with any expansion to the facility. That or wait for the trees to grow taller.
I know you've been producing some interesting and entertaining content - which I've enjoyed - that's kept you busy, but are you going to get around to that Class Low-A minor league baseball stadiums video? I've been anxiously awaiting that one since you posted the High-A baseball stadiums video.
It will be the next video up on the channel.
Note about Cardinal Stadium, there are exactly 2 rows of bleachers to allow the band's drumline to put their drums on stands.
Aussie are the best mate, Great video as usual
nice vid👍🏻
I am from South Carolina. I have been a Clemson Fan for 46 years. I have NEVER heard of sacrificing a goat before a game. You get that from Wikipedia?
He made it up...trying to be funny
You forgot to mention that Georgia Tech’s stadium is the oldest FBS stadium.
The view of downtown skyline makes it a great scene
@@michaelmerck7576 fun fact about that skyline, the Bank of America Building clearly dominates it.
It’s often referred to as “The pencil building” by Tech professors because when a Tech student originally came up with the idea of its design for a school project, a Tech professor graded it as a D and scoffed that it looks like a “pencil”. To which it’s also called the “middle finger to Georgia Tech”
oldest is used loosely…it looks nothing like the past, it’s like stands were slapped on top of the old stands and the original structure all but hidden making it a new stadium in all ways but sitting on top of the old one
they basically did to it what Chicago did to Soldier Field
@@bostonrailfan2427 However, the field has been in continuous use longer than any other FBS school's field.
Looking forward to the Mountain West Conference
Unc fan. But I can say when nc state has big night games their atmosphere is unreal. Loudest stadium I’ve been to, including the valley
My seats at Heinz Field have a good view of the Downtown Pittsburgh
I'm sorry, did you say the Clemson sacrifices a small goat before each game. I have been a Clemson fan my whole life and never heard that one.
Yea, I can't imagine that any sort of animal cruelty would be allowed in this day and age.
You two short bus riders are something else.
Hahahahaha
Yea as a Clemson fan I have also never heard of that
@@stonew1927 ¿Animal cruelty? they need the meat for the tailgating
Have been to all the stadiums. They are in order of loudness -
1 Clemson
2 Florida State
3 Virginia Tech
4 Louisville
5 NC state
6 Georgia tech
7-9 UNC, Miami, and Pittsburgh
10-11 Syracuse, Virginia
12 wake forest
13 BC
14 Duke
Clemson once held the record for loudest CFB stadium at 133.1 decibels.
Clemson's Death Valley is in a natural valley between 2 hills. On top of one of those hills a cemetery, the hill is called cemetery hill. The valley is directly below the cemetery. More than 60 years ago an opposing coach nick named it Death Valley because it was so hard to win there. That must have been a joke about the sacrificial goat.
because we bash everyone that shows up there. 34 straight home wins and counting
Fun fact - Va Tech's stadium when it was built in the late 60s looked almost like what Wake Forest's stadium looks like now.
Could be wrong but I was told the two stadiums were designed by the same people.
Came here to say that, and I believe Indiana's Memorial Stadium is the the third of, effectively, the same original design.
@@schmanda_42 did not know that, thanks for the info I am Stadium geeking out
Well done
Could you do a FBS series
Thank you sir. The favorite part of this series was 6:06. Go Canes...
im not sure which came first the name or a rock from the namesake but clemson in their famous run down the hill touch what is called howards rock.
The name came first. PC's coach gave it the nickname. In the early 90s, Tiger Stadium at LSU was coined Deaf Valley because of the noise level. Talking heads on TV started missaying it to Death Valley, so that stuck. Same with what they did with Spurrior. It was Ole' Ball Coach and the idiots on TV kept saying Old.
I need to take note of the upper decks at Boston College. One looks built atop an arena’s roof, the other is built atop a parking structure. Odd
At some point you should do NASCAR tracks. That would be very fascinating.
Syracuse used to be called the Orangemen.. the original mascot was Native American Indian
And then Orangemen/Orangewomen was in reference to the Dutch settlers of the area.
Man you're gonna have to put so many disclaimers in these videos now😂😂with all the conference realignment
5:47.' "Symmetry " '? Crikes! 45-year Tiger fan, mite: no worries from me, but the ghosts of Clemson could haunt ya one day. Nice video.
Can you do ACC baseball stadiums :D
What the heck? Clemson's stadium is called Death Valley because of Howard's Rock. It's a rock on a podium that is at the entrance to the field of the stadium that's in front of the home lockeroom. Said rock was actually brought from Death Valley, CA. Hence the nickname. The Clemson players actually touch the rock for good luck as they run out on to the field. lol.
Back in the day, the coach of Presbyterian College in Clinton, SC, called the place Death Valley, because his team always lost there. The home record of the Tigers is good, and some really great games have been played there over the years. If you want to see some really fired up fans, go to a Clemson-S. Carolina game at the Valley. GO TIGERS! Clemson grad here, '67. I've never heard of the sacrificial goat business, and I've been a fan sine 1963.
Lonnie McMillian was the name of the PC coach who first coined the "Death Valley" nickname in an interview with the Greenville News, post-game. "That place is like Death Valley, because my teams only go there to DIE". The goat story is hogwash. The Rock is actually from the desert in California. A graduate was there and brought it back to Coach Howard, who used it as a doorstop for several years. He told an assistant to take the rock and "put it somewhere". Coach was thinking something along the lines of the bottom of the Seneca River, but that assistant had a different idea. Despite a few vandalism attempts, it still sits atop the pedestal on the East endzone hill (grass, by the way). The quote from McMillian came several years before anyone started calling that Louisiana stadium "Deaf Valley"
He could have also used current photos/ videos. Those were a few years old and no longer do it justice.
@@mikeorr3333 Ha ha. I'm a BAMA fan so I didn't know all the details. But I definitely knew it had something to do with Howard's Rock. Thanks for the info.
In 1948 the head coach of PC, Lonnie McMillian called Clemson's stadium Death Valley
Was that stadium in the thumbnail the one in The Dark Knight?
Hey, you need to do a tour of Texas High School Stadiums. Some are nicer & larger than some lower level & P5 FBS stadiums
You should do fcs
Do missouri valley conference soon
The Atlantic Coast Conference is a collegiate athletic conference located in the eastern United States. The Atlantic Coast Conference could probably become the new home of the Cincinnati Bearcats from the American Athletic Conference if they backed-out from the Big 12 Conference expansion that could lead into the mass exodus of all 10 members, such as the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners, who are joining the Southeastern Conference, the TCU Horned Frogs, who are joining the Sun Belt Conference, the Texas Tech Red Raiders, the Kansas Jayhawks, the Kansas State Wildcats, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, and the Baylor Bears, who are joining the American Athletic Conference, and the Iowa State Cyclones and the West Virginia Mountaineers, who are joining the Big Ten Conference
You could be right
Except for the academic standards held by the acc and big ten would need to be downgraded. I know it's not a huge issue but both conferences hold those morals in high regard
Doak Campbell Stadium has one of the greatest atmospheres in football.
Well not so much lately, but it used to rocking when the Noles were good.
@@jinmd9094 kinda true. I was at the UNC game this past year and even though it was reduced capacity, it was still one of the craziest crowds I've ever been in.
@@jinmd9094 yep I miss the annual wide right games when the U would silence the ever hopeful crowd and dash their title hopes once again 😆
@@williamwilkinson381 at least we've had title hopes in the ACC.
Went to the belk bowl 2 yes ago and that stadium in Charlotte is a great venue for the acc title game. Was the 1st time i had seats in the endzone and actually liked them. As far as conference stadiums go the acc has a handfull of the best in the country.
Alumni Stadium: built on the original stadium by that name forcing BC to play at Fenway Park. You missed that it sits next to a historic reservoir and the stadium’s entire western stands is built into the adjacent Conte Forum so that boxes overlook both the arena and the football stadium.
and the Patriots playing there went down in infamy: a fire broke out in the stands during a game!
Go jackets!!!!! Bobby Dodd is also the oldest FBS stadium!
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This might require extra research, but you could probably mention the atmosphere if it’s a really good one, like what Clemson or Florida state has
3-6 FSU ain’t got no atmosphere rn
@@conorcane1211 well yeah but most years their atmosphere is electric and the tomahawk chant should probably be mentioned
Even though Kenan is a decently small stadium it has a really amazing game day atmosphere
We don’t call it bucket seating in North America in a stadium It is referred to as Chair back
Scott stadium in this list as my favourite
FSU is quality, my Tigers 🐯 I prefer in yellow and purple
Not related to the ACC but a awhile ago a friend of mine did a comparison between 4 stadiums all around 52000 capacity
Waldstadion - Frankfurt
St James Park - Newcastle
Suncorp - Brisbane
Floyd Casey - Baylor
Looking at the four we could not work out how it was possible for Floyd Casey to hold 30k let alone 50k !!
I guess it’s bench seating single tier compared to bucket seating, multi tier and roofs
Looks can be very deceiving!
Have you been to a game at Scott Stadium? It is aesthetically pleasing. One of my favorites as well
Eventually go to the FCS ones
Bobby Dodd Stadium is also the oldest stadium in college football
The early stadium miami used was orange bowl but they tore it down and built the marlins stadium and miami had to move in with the dolphins.
Does it snow at Scott stadium rains there but doesn’t snow
Bobby Dodd is also the oldest stadium in the fbs
Aye!!! Go state!!! Go pack!!!
Cite your goat sacrifice at Clemson reference please. I grew up in the shadow of Death Valley and I've never heard of a goat sacrifice. Can't find a source on Google either. Just doesn't sound like it's even close to the values of the university much MUCH less so if you take the current administration into account.
Goat ? I think he's got that confused with chicago cubs of the MLB . LoL
This year, they will be welcoming in Southern Methodist University, Stanford, and Cal, to the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Do the Big 10 conference!!!!!