I am a Bama fan and alum but I started watching the MAC games several years ago because there were a couple of games a week on TV during the week instead of Saturday. I had just gotten my new big screen flat panel TV and would watch anything sports because it was so awesome. Turns out, the MAC is very competitive and entertaining to watch. The casual fan will not be disappointed if they attend a game.
Fun fact: the Wolverine Amtrak train that runs right passed Western Michigan’s Waldo Stadium also runs right past Eastern Michigan University’s campus.
I believe Toledo is called the "Glass City," but when I think of Toledo, I think of scales-especially those "banjo" scales you used to see in public places where you could check your weight & read your fortune for a few cents.
Just wanna say, I'm In the shot of the central michigan marching band! I'm one of the saxophone players on the bottom right! Also, the first shot of Kelley/Shorts Stadium is waaaaayyyyy old lol its much, much bigger than that now
I have been to nearly all of these stadiums in my time. Let me tell you, there is nothing in college football like a Saturday afternoon MAC game. As nearly all the conference is in short driving distance from each other, you can make an easy day trip complete with tailgating and football.
yah, mid week MAC games are the best. even in the depths of winter, when it's 30 degrees and raining, and there are like 1,500 fans there, it's great to see. I remember I used to bet a lot on Miami when Big Ben was the qb, cause I spotted him as being something special. he most always seemed to win those years. they had a great coach at that time who sadly right after all of his success, he went onto coach Indiana, but got a brain tumor and died. I remember big ben went to one of his last games he coached on the sideline cause he remembered his coach. I thought that showed some class
I grew up going to games at Huskie Stadium It may not look to impressive but it was always a fun place to watch a game, especially with how wild the student section (which is basically the entire east stand) would get
@@natesullivanw24 it is The only problem was always how lame the PA announcer always talked combined with their dumb promotions Other then that though it was always fun
I'm going through all your college football videos and I have noticed that you are not critical, the worst think you ever say is "it's ok" and you find things to like even in the most simplest boring stadiums. especially nowadays, its so easy to be critical and you seem to find the positive in some of these stadiums. I think that's great
I’m a Ball State alum. The stadium now is much better than it was when I was there. But the thing that still bothers me to this day is the temporary-looking aluminum bleachers on the east side of the field. After all the improvements that’ve been made, this sticks out like a sore thumb to me. If they would build a permanent structure with the same dimensions as the press box side minus the press box, Scheumann Stadium overall would be a nice little mid-major venue.
Akron's Rubber Bowl was arguably the worst college football stadium during it's last years. Ohio's Peden Stadium isn't bad, but isn't great either. However, it's a lot better than the stadiums at EMU, Buffalo, and Kent State.
Miami University, the Great Miami River, and Little Miami River are named after the Miami Native American Tribe. The city of Miami, FL is named after the Great Miami River, because the architects of the road between Daytona Beach and Miami were from Dayton, OH and they got to name the cities at the ends of the road.
Nice to see some MAC love, the current plan is fall 2022 I’ll be attending western Michigan for my masters before going to Michigan state for my doctorate so this is awesome
Good channel and I enjoy checking out all of the stadiums. After watching about 10 of your videos, the only shot you take against a team for not being good is Miami. Meanwhile, Miami has the highest winning percentage and most conference titles in the MAC. I agree they aren’t a National powerhouse, but they are historically the best program in the conference.
Yes WMUs stadium has been ranked the best for years. Best facilities and score board in the MAC too. In fact, their score board was rated the most innovative state of the art out of the G5 teams. Go Broncos.
Craig Ferguson is the G.O.A.T eh? Careful Icarus! Although, when I'm not checking out The Wide World of Stadiums, I do enjoy the simple pleasures of Daffy Dook.
Awesome vids like normal, Kelly/Shorts stadium has been updated quite a bit since when ever that pic of the stadium you got was. Have a brand new screen on the endzone with the seating. And they just built a brand new building in place of that old building behind the other endzone.
Fun fact: That's the 2nd UB Stadium and the previous one was built only a few years before it. When I went to UB in 1984, they were still Division III and playing in the ancient stadium on the Main St campus - the stands on one side were condemned and not allowed to be used, the other half SHOULD have been. But in the next year or two they opened UB Stadium version 1 on the Amherst campus. It was a nice little stadium, earth berm built. But then they announced they were moving to Division 1 FCS and so they built ANOTHER UB Stadium that first opened in 1993. The 'old' stadium is now called Walter Kunz Stadium (yeah that name... lol) and it's still there because who wants to tear down a stadium thats less than 10 years old? It's a state university - your tax dollars at work, New Yorkers! :D
Oh by the way, the reason they didn't just expand the V1 UB Stadium - which reportedly was made to be expandable - was that whoever makes these decisions decided it was on the wrong end of the campus, so the new one was built next to Alumni Arena (UB's Amherst Campus was built in the late 60's during the student riot era, so it was built in a 1/2 mile-plus long line of buildings so as not to have a central point to demonstrate at. I have less than fond memories of literally running the length of the campus 'spine' to get to a class 10 minutes after the previous one...)
Eastern Michigan used to be the Hurons, another name for the Native American Wyandot people. The university chose to replace it with the nickname "Eagles" when they could've gone with the more unique "EMU Emus."
Kelly/Shorts has received some big upgrades since those pictures were taken, notably a new huge video scoreboard on the south end and a new locker room facility on the north end.
The MAC is a very stable conference , but I think the time is right to expand their brand with the demise of CUSA there is 2 schools they should consider for expansion. Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee ST. Good basketball and decent football, good basketball, football recruiting areas.
FYI for anyone that don't do expanded research the NIU expansion plans shown at 0:50 is from 2014. It is currently not being done and unknown if it ever will from what I can tell
@@Jeff-hq9cf That's kinda sad especially when a D3 school (UW-Whitewater) an 1h33mins across the state border north is able to pull a NET 13.5k each home game (comparing to 2019 numbers), and both schools are in the middle of nowhere
Living in Toledo, I can tell you a few things... Toledo is the 4th largest city in Ohio, and that stadium is NEVER sold out. Back in the 90s, Busta Rhymes held a concert immediately after the UT game, and if you had tix for the game the concert was free. And even then, not a sell out crowd.
Ball states stadium looks a lot different from what is shown in the video. Past the southern end zone there are now updated stands built on a athletic training building (which is beautiful) and behind that a brand new indoor training facility
As someone who lives in Kalamazoo I must say for a non Power 5 conference stadium, Western's Waldo stadium is pretty nice. However, I've been to Akron's Infocision Stadium and besides the name that stadium is fantastic. I actually went to 3 games the first year it opened ,in 2010 I think, and it was nicer than many some of the Big Ten stadiums I've been to. I've only been to Akron, Western Michigan, Eastern Michigan and Toledo in the MAC but I'm looking forward to getting to more after I complete my trip to all of the Big Ten stadiums (why did the have to add Rutgers and Maryland!?!)
I don’t like that last part 🥴 “Fcs Videos might not be coming as frequently” as long as you do the big sky conference first we good .. the goat conference of FCS stadiums
BG Alum. So the story of how we got our colors is basically that an old university official early on saw the colors orange and brown in the feathers on a woman’s hat during a trolly ride to Toledo.
Just so you are aware.. with the American Football stadiums.. especially the smaller schools etc . They will have one large "main" grandstand and a smaller one on the other side of the field. The home and neutral fans sit in the big stands.. the away fans sit in the small one on the other side of the field. I noticed you mentioned a few times about the smaller stands.. this is why!
Went to BGSU 80-81 on student exchange from Alabama. Everyone believed couldn’t believe when I said Alabama had only 10-11,00 @ that time, & that Bryant Denny Stadium was ‘only’ 60,000 capacity then. Everyone assumed because Alabama was so good in football then, we had 40-45,000 students. Also, it was hard to believe football was #3 behind ice hockey & men’s basketball. Now we have 38,600 students & the stadium is 102,000 & change. It’s not uncommon for 100,000 to show up just to tailgate.
Fun fact: Miami was a college when Florida still belonged to Spain
Fun Fact: ;)
As someone who lives in Florida, I am now pondering how to further make fun of Miami using this fact.
My dad graduated from Miami of Ohio and now lives in Miami, Florida... He lets people know this fact on occasion.
Also one of the only four(?) schools to produce a super bowl winning qb and a president
I lived in Cincy for 5 years and heard that fact almost on a regular basis 🤣
Look at you getting some MACtion!
I am a Bama fan and alum but I started watching the MAC games several years ago because there were a couple of games a week on TV during the week instead of Saturday. I had just gotten my new big screen flat panel TV and would watch anything sports because it was so awesome. Turns out, the MAC is very competitive and entertaining to watch. The casual fan will not be disappointed if they attend a game.
Plus NIU is 1-0 against Bama! 😂
@@dongzilla1979 Oh, you're right! I forgot about that. Pre-Saban era but still . . .
Mac started this bball on grass football we see today
1 ok
MACtion on a Tuesday night is the best thing.
Fun fact: From 1946-1951 the Cleveland Browns had their training camp in Bowling Green. The Browns colors are also orange and brown.
What a DDLC reference lmao
Being a Browns fan I wished they camped in Kent, Columbus, Akron, or Toledo.
I live near Toledo and you'd be surprised how many people are Lions fans around here. Then again we're closer to Detriot than Cleveland.
@@PTSayoriD Toledo is basically not Detroit. They're right there on the border
1. Browns 2. Stillers 3. Lions
Fun fact: the Wolverine Amtrak train that runs right passed Western Michigan’s Waldo Stadium also runs right past Eastern Michigan University’s campus.
I think it's a crime against word play that Dix Stadium isn't at Ball State.
Well played sir, well played 👏
As a Ball State student, I approve this message.
As a Kent State student. I wholeheartedly agree with this
Yeah, change it to Ball Stadium. I love my name--Ball. 10-20-2021
Miami of Ohio gets its name from the native tribe that lived in the area. Props on correctly pronouncing "Olentangy," too. 👍
The Glass Bowl is named that way, because Toledo was home to a glass making company.
This series was fantastic truly marvelous, looking forward to the FCS series
A buddy of mine went to OU, and he said the stadium atmosphere always was electric!
only when the marching 110 take the field
Toledo's Glass Bowl and Akron's Rubber Bowl was named because glass in Toledo and rubber in Akron are the main source of income in the city.
I believe Toledo is called the "Glass City," but when I think of Toledo, I think of scales-especially those "banjo" scales you used to see in public places where you could check your weight & read your fortune for a few cents.
You should look at NCAA college hockey arenas!
Just wanna say, I'm In the shot of the central michigan marching band! I'm one of the saxophone players on the bottom right! Also, the first shot of Kelley/Shorts Stadium is waaaaayyyyy old lol its much, much bigger than that now
Absolutely love Waldo Stadium and there joke you put there :)
One of my earliest memories was sitting on the hill in Peden Stadium watching the bobcats play during my parent’s homecoming one year
I have been to nearly all of these stadiums in my time. Let me tell you, there is nothing in college football like a Saturday afternoon MAC game. As nearly all the conference is in short driving distance from each other, you can make an easy day trip complete with tailgating and football.
I have only been to Tulsa golden hurricanes statdium and ou sooners statidum
These day it's all about Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Thank you ESPN.
Tuesday night MACtion
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yah, mid week MAC games are the best. even in the depths of winter, when it's 30 degrees and raining, and there are like 1,500 fans there, it's great to see. I remember I used to bet a lot on Miami when Big Ben was the qb, cause I spotted him as being something special. he most always seemed to win those years. they had a great coach at that time who sadly right after all of his success, he went onto coach Indiana, but got a brain tumor and died. I remember big ben went to one of his last games he coached on the sideline cause he remembered his coach. I thought that showed some class
I grew up going to games at Huskie Stadium
It may not look to impressive but it was always a fun place to watch a game, especially with how wild the student section (which is basically the entire east stand) would get
I always thought it looked classy
@@natesullivanw24 it is
The only problem was always how lame the PA announcer always talked combined with their dumb promotions
Other then that though it was always fun
I'm going through all your college football videos and I have noticed that you are not critical, the worst think you ever say is "it's ok" and you find things to like even in the most simplest boring stadiums. especially nowadays, its so easy to be critical and you seem to find the positive in some of these stadiums. I think that's great
I played on 3 of these stadiums. Long ago, in 1990s, when astro turf felt like concrete.
Wow, I'm impressed. As a Ball State alum and someone who regularly watches your videos, I was expecting A LOT of bad jokes when it came to Ball State.
Yeah, I bet, especially since Beaver College changed its name....
I love that he made the Letterman connection.
“The Ball State Fighting Ball Fighting State Fighting Cardinals” 😂
True, but this guy did think that Eastern Michigan had a nice stadium
@@Raerofficial oof that gray field 🤢
@@Kanerfan8 wait till you see central arkansas
I liked them all; Toledo and Kent were my favorite
I've been to rynearson stadium multiple times and it looks so cool at night with that field
Do Stadiums of HBCU Schools in the SWAC and MEAC, Please.
I’m a Ball State alum. The stadium now is much better than it was when I was there. But the thing that still bothers me to this day is the temporary-looking aluminum bleachers on the east side of the field. After all the improvements that’ve been made, this sticks out like a sore thumb to me. If they would build a permanent structure with the same dimensions as the press box side minus the press box, Scheumann Stadium overall would be a nice little mid-major venue.
My brother played on the team from 2018-2022 , he started at linebacker but moved to Fullback , so chirp chirp all the way
I remember watching an Eastern Michigan game and wondering what was wrong with my tv
Akron's Rubber Bowl was arguably the worst college football stadium during it's last years. Ohio's Peden Stadium isn't bad, but isn't great either. However, it's a lot better than the stadiums at EMU, Buffalo, and Kent State.
Miami University, the Great Miami River, and Little Miami River are named after the Miami Native American Tribe. The city of Miami, FL is named after the Great Miami River, because the architects of the road between Daytona Beach and Miami were from Dayton, OH and they got to name the cities at the ends of the road.
Nice touch having the aerial shot of Petoskey, MI at the end.
The London silly nannies is still the best team name ever
Craig Ferguson is the 🐐. Thank you for mentioning him/that!
Another great job …thanks man !
love the vids brother
Ready for those FCS Conference videos! Especially the SoCon!
Real Super Fun And Interesting!
Nice to see some MAC love, the current plan is fall 2022 I’ll be attending western Michigan for my masters before going to Michigan state for my doctorate so this is awesome
You should do college hockey arenas or some type of hockey arena
I love watching your video's solely for the one liners and cheesy jokes lol
Cheddar. 10-20-2021
Love some Thursday night MACtion
The EMU field is gray because the stadium is nicknamed the Factory, since it's where the team goes to work.
Good channel and I enjoy checking out all of the stadiums. After watching about 10 of your videos, the only shot you take against a team for not being good is Miami. Meanwhile, Miami has the highest winning percentage and most conference titles in the MAC. I agree they aren’t a National powerhouse, but they are historically the best program in the conference.
Yes WMUs stadium has been ranked the best for years. Best facilities and score board in the MAC too. In fact, their score board was rated the most innovative state of the art out of the G5 teams. Go Broncos.
Love your vids! Would be cool if you showed the Greek super league stadiums
Craig Ferguson is the G.O.A.T eh? Careful Icarus! Although, when I'm not checking out The Wide World of Stadiums, I do enjoy the simple pleasures of Daffy Dook.
Awesome vids like normal, Kelly/Shorts stadium has been updated quite a bit since when ever that pic of the stadium you got was. Have a brand new screen on the endzone with the seating. And they just built a brand new building in place of that old building behind the other endzone.
FCS next.
I knew you would enjoy the glass bowl
Bowling green class of ‘23. Great video it’s a small conference but there’s nothing like mid week maction!
7:48 The row of columns at the Ball St. stadium is called a peristyle
There are conference realignments going on now. You will have to do SEC and Big 12 all over again
Fun fact: That's the 2nd UB Stadium and the previous one was built only a few years before it. When I went to UB in 1984, they were still Division III and playing in the ancient stadium on the Main St campus - the stands on one side were condemned and not allowed to be used, the other half SHOULD have been. But in the next year or two they opened UB Stadium version 1 on the Amherst campus. It was a nice little stadium, earth berm built. But then they announced they were moving to Division 1 FCS and so they built ANOTHER UB Stadium that first opened in 1993. The 'old' stadium is now called Walter Kunz Stadium (yeah that name... lol) and it's still there because who wants to tear down a stadium thats less than 10 years old? It's a state university - your tax dollars at work, New Yorkers! :D
Oh by the way, the reason they didn't just expand the V1 UB Stadium - which reportedly was made to be expandable - was that whoever makes these decisions decided it was on the wrong end of the campus, so the new one was built next to Alumni Arena (UB's Amherst Campus was built in the late 60's during the student riot era, so it was built in a 1/2 mile-plus long line of buildings so as not to have a central point to demonstrate at. I have less than fond memories of literally running the length of the campus 'spine' to get to a class 10 minutes after the previous one...)
MAVERIK STADIUM IN UTAH HELL YEA nice video again bro. what’s your favorite stadium?
Fun fact: Toledo’s Glass Bowl gets the name from the glass industry in the town. Nicknamed the ‘Glass City’.
Another stadium video let's go
Hopefully you will do the SWAC conference of the FCS :)
COLLEGE FOOTBALL FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND EVER!!!!!
AND EVER - AND EVER - AND EVER!!!!
👏 you pronounced Olentangy correctly 10,000 miles away when people 100 miles outside of Columbus still call it Olen-Tangy
I have been corrected in the comments of an earlier video, where I pronounced it wrong.
To be fair, it *should* be olen-tangy.
Peden Stadium is a nice stadium to watch a game, if your car survives Richland Avenue approaching campus from the south end of town.
I went to Muncie Indiana during a ball state game. There was crowds and traffic everywhere
Love these vids but......the "voice went Husky" dad joke made me audibly say "uuugh" and I sprained my eyes rolling them
Eastern Michigan used to be the Hurons, another name for the Native American Wyandot people. The university chose to replace it with the nickname "Eagles" when they could've gone with the more unique "EMU Emus."
MAC-tion! Nothing like Wednesday football
Do Mexican Baseball Stadiums (include LMB (summer league) and LMP (winter league) because they all have incredible stadiums) 🙌
ive been to peden stadium a few times. it’s cool
Kelly/Shorts has received some big upgrades since those pictures were taken, notably a new huge video scoreboard on the south end and a new locker room facility on the north end.
The MAC is a very stable conference , but I think the time is right to expand their brand with the demise of CUSA there is 2 schools they should consider for expansion.
Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee ST. Good basketball and decent football, good basketball, football recruiting areas.
FYI for anyone that don't do expanded research the NIU expansion plans shown at 0:50 is from 2014. It is currently not being done and unknown if it ever will from what I can tell
no need to expand, they do not draw well with what they have. Horrible support for a good program
@@Jeff-hq9cf That's kinda sad especially when a D3 school (UW-Whitewater) an 1h33mins across the state border north is able to pull a NET 13.5k each home game (comparing to 2019 numbers), and both schools are in the middle of nowhere
Craig Ferguson is the GOAT. I miss him on the Late Late Show so much.
The Glass Bowl is the best stadium in the MAC and it’s not close.
Living in Toledo, I can tell you a few things... Toledo is the 4th largest city in Ohio, and that stadium is NEVER sold out. Back in the 90s, Busta Rhymes held a concert immediately after the UT game, and if you had tix for the game the concert was free. And even then, not a sell out crowd.
So I guess the Glass Bowl is half full.
@@musiccityguy2314 it certainly does answer that age old question lol
Being stuck between Michigan, Ohio St, and Notre Dame hurts. The Rockets are an afterthought for most people here unless you’re an alum.
For the apparent size of them, I can't believe they don't seat more people. They look like they should more.
Ball states stadium looks a lot different from what is shown in the video. Past the southern end zone there are now updated stands built on a athletic training building (which is beautiful) and behind that a brand new indoor training facility
Nice to know: the mascot of the Akron Zips is a Kangaroo 🦘named Zippy.
G O B R O N C O S !!!
At some point you should do interesting and unique High School football stadiums
MAC and cheese. Perfect combo. 👍
As someone who lives in Kalamazoo I must say for a non Power 5 conference stadium, Western's Waldo stadium is pretty nice. However, I've been to Akron's Infocision Stadium and besides the name that stadium is fantastic. I actually went to 3 games the first year it opened ,in 2010 I think, and it was nicer than many some of the Big Ten stadiums I've been to. I've only been to Akron, Western Michigan, Eastern Michigan and Toledo in the MAC but I'm looking forward to getting to more after I complete my trip to all of the Big Ten stadiums (why did the have to add Rutgers and Maryland!?!)
Yeah, sucks how the conference realignments lately seem to disregard geographic footprint
1:08 in the subtitles it said "d1ck stadium" 😂🤣
all your jokes in your videos make me laugh a lot🤣😂 Greetings from Bogotá 🇨🇴
The MAC should add Eastern Illinois and Youngstown State to the conference if they ever expand imo
No. Miami Ohio got its name from the tribe that was local to the region.
Get some of that MACtion!
you should do FCS
Please do southern conference stadiums
Go Zips!🏈
Love the programs. How about the Ivy League?
I was brought here by the fact that the GIF that plays when you over the video was 3:46-3:50
I don’t like that last part 🥴 “Fcs Videos might not be coming as frequently” as long as you do the big sky conference first we good .. the goat conference of FCS stadiums
Fire Up Chips! Kelly-Shorts Stadium did just recently undergo a renovation though
Craig Ferguson IS the goat. And yes, Ball State’s stadium blows.
The conference headquarters is in Cleveland, Ohio.
So far I've only been to
Yager Stadium
But I'm going to Scheumann Stadium in September
BG Alum. So the story of how we got our colors is basically that an old university official early on saw the colors orange and brown in the feathers on a woman’s hat during a trolly ride to Toledo.
Wait a second on my way back from Michigan Escanaba I passed Bowling Green and saw this stadium to my hotel and the arena
Just so you are aware.. with the American Football stadiums.. especially the smaller schools etc . They will have one large "main" grandstand and a smaller one on the other side of the field. The home and neutral fans sit in the big stands.. the away fans sit in the small one on the other side of the field. I noticed you mentioned a few times about the smaller stands.. this is why!
you should start doing high school and d2 maybe d3 stadiums
UB Stadium was built for the 1993 Universiade, or World University Games. The end zone stands were not original to the stadium.
Went to BGSU 80-81 on student exchange from Alabama. Everyone believed couldn’t believe when I said Alabama had only 10-11,00 @ that time, & that Bryant Denny Stadium was ‘only’ 60,000 capacity then. Everyone assumed because Alabama was so good in football then, we had 40-45,000 students. Also, it was hard to believe football was #3 behind ice hockey & men’s basketball.
Now we have 38,600 students & the stadium is 102,000 & change. It’s not uncommon for 100,000 to show up just to tailgate.
Oh my
Go Broncos!
Reign On!
Yes go Broncos
Go Flashes! ⚡
The poor man's Big Ten.