Every college game has a "student section" for the students attending that school. They're very passionate and enthusiastic because they're young adults (18 to 21 years old). There's also a "marching band section," cheerleading team, a section for parents and alumni, and boosters (people who donate money to the school to support the athletic programs). Every year has 12 games (6 at home and 6 away) so the 6 home games are the only opportunity to show support for your team (unless you like to travel for away games).
Here's a reality check on American Football. EIGHT of the Top Ten sports stadiums in the World are College Football stadiums on the campuses of US Colleges and Universities. Every one of that eight seats over 100,000. By comparison, the largest NFL Professional Football stadium has a capacity of 82,000.
@@whoishim2998 I can't speak about other schools but LSU seats about 110k, no bleachers, and has so much demand that it costs 70-250 bucks for a student section seat.
Im from Michigan and my team was the very first one with the yellow pom pom singing Mr. Brightside...they are called the Michigan Wolverines. If you ever get a chance to attend a college football game here in the States please go. You will have much fun. 😊
Usually one end zone is for the students section. Thats probably what your seeing with the more animated fans. Im an LSU fan and have been to many games and it gets extremely loud in there on a Saturday night. The crowd caused an earthquake to show up on the Richter scale. Most people who played there say its the loudest stadium in college football. I feel that it is but i know there is a short list of other stadiums that are extremely loud as well. LSU is defining for sure.
5:50 this is my alma mater, University of South Carolina Gamecocks 🤙🏻🐓🔥 we actually have another intro to come out on the field to the ‘2001: A Sapce Odyssey’ that’s even more epic 🙌 we actually had Darude come to a game last season and did a full DJ set before and during the game, it was wild 🤯 you’re always welcome here my man 🫡🍻😢
The second video was Tennessee beating Alabama for the first time in 15 years. Yes, they did still the goal post, and it's now at the bottom of the Tennessee River. GO VOLS!
Schools will often have themes for the games, such as wearing the same color, as in the first clip where people were in maize, while another stadium was all in white, or you wear a color based on the section you are seated in. These clips focus on the student section, though the majority of attendees are alumni, their families, and those who like the school’s team. Given the distance to get to a game, you usually don’t get a lot of visiting fans. Don’t forget tailgating, which takes place before the game. Fans are mixed in where they sit. College games don’t have issues with fans like in the UK.
As a Michigan (first stadium you saw with them singing Mr Brightside) alum... yeah home games are crazy. I never went (mostly because I am not a crowds person) but our stadium is the largest in the whole Western Hemisphere!
12:03 you'll understand what the mascot is doing if you watched the 1978 movie "National Lampoon's Animal House." The song is from the movie and the movie was filmed on that campus at the University of Oregon.
Yes EVERY Uni/team has their own song . And student only sections . My team comes out to Jimmy Hendrix Purple Haze with purple smoke because our colors are 🟣🟡 ☠️
If you're impressed by the all-yellow attire at Michigan in the first clip, just wait until you see Tennessee's checkerboard stadium - each section is assigned to wear either orange or white (alternating). They don't do it for every game (the Tennessee clip they showed immediately after Michigan was all-orange). Storming the field and stealing the goalposts is a widespread old tradition for major victories (rivals, big upsets, or championship-clinching wins), but it's fallen out of favor a bit due to safety concerns. One of the funniest instances of this was when Iowa fans rushed the field to celebrate a conference title in a *road* game, at Minnesota back when they played in the Metrodome. The fans couldn't figure out how to get them through the stadium's revolving doors and just resorted to parading them around the field for a bit. What you're talking about at 8:45 is the student section. And yeah, that's where the real crazies are. In general, you don't have the same sort of strict separation of home and visiting fans that you might see in a European soccer match, but the student section is the main exception - a visiting fan going in there is just asking for trouble.
Part of the reason the atmosphere is so nuts is that with a twelve-game season you only have six home games and six on the road. And this is the biggest thing going on in a lot of these little college towns. Then make it a hundred year old rivalry game that alternates each year between home stadiums. Take for example Cal vs Stanford. They've met 126 times since 1892. Even years "The Big Game" is at Cal Berkeley, odd years at Stanford in Palo Alto. 1982 was a pretty memorable one, my parents were there. Dad the Cal grad. Go BEARS!.
4:06 I was a freshman at Virginia Tech at that game vs Notre Dame, it was an insane experience. Wish I could go back and experience it all over again for the first time. Go Hokies! 🔺🔸
The clip that was commented about "going to war" is the "Tomahawk chop" which was used for college and pro teams referencing teams with Native American names. A bit of controversy as it in a way was a negative slam against the Native American tribes, don't know if it is done anymore.
As noted below, the end zones are allotted to the student body, because the sideline seats are sold to grown up fans who can afford the steep ticket prices, but some of their fervor derives from most of them being in various stages of inebriation. This I know, as my nephew, while attending the University of Maryland, told me they mostly all did what he called "Pre Game" (drinking ) in the dorms before heading over to the stadium where the underaged could not buy alcohol or carry any in openly.
These happen every game by the way. At most, you'll have 7 home games per year. Most teams will have 6 home games per year so we make the best of what we have. Also, there are a lot of universities that have color scheming for games where they will tell fans to wear a certain color. Some will have striped crowds meaning that the stadium will alternate school colors depending on the section you are in. My university always does an all maroon game once per year as well as a white out for all the students once per year.
I feel like these videos are missing out on so much too. I’m tempted to make a compilation of like the top 25-30 atmospheres or places to watch a cfb game
I'm pretty sure that clip is from 2002 when my Hawkeyes beat Minnesota 55-7 to cap off an 8-0 Big Ten season and we tore down the goal post in THEIR stadium
The "passionate fans" are the student sections. Part of the perk of going to a big school is students get tickets for free or very cheap since they're paying to go there. They're also usually VERY drunk
@@shawnanderson6313 I don't see people using their passion for a sport as a way to act on the problems in their life, like poverty, mental illness, alcoholism, whatever it is, as a sign of passion. Either way, there are unfortunately instances of people dying over college football games as well. A father shot his own son over the result of a game a few years ago, I believe it was in Alabama.
@@emobx02boss just say you don’t know much about other sports they get wild about soccer in other countries there isn’t an american sport that can come close the majority just will never care like they do in other countries about there soccer
@@rinwob I've been to euro matches. eufa, champions league, etc. I know because I am a soccer fan. I have no desire to risk my life at a South American soccer game. I have seen people be absolute idiots over college football, but that's it. I also don't believe acting insane is actual passion. People that think this doesn't exist in college football don't know there are fan bases that actually act that stupid or "passionate" too in college football. It's the only American sport I've seen have that at that level, but it exists.
The roots of American college football go back over 150 years - it didn’t become a pro game until the 1920s - so the passion and ambiance you’re witnessing is established in traditions that span generations. The new season is about to get underway, so try to catch as many games as you can, particularly in the Southeastern Conference. Also, I highly recommend any videos that highlight the pregame tailgating culture in the South, especially at schools like Georgia, Alabama and Ole Miss.
If you're a D1-FBS school you only get 6 games at home per year. Why not go all out. 7 if you play in week 0 at home, or if you host a Conference Championship game. Thesse are normal games. The one with the goal posts being ripped down is when Tennessee beat Alabama. Alabama is usually the best team in College Football or close to it. The College Football playoffs are expanding this year from 4 teams to 12. That may mean more home games for teams that make the playoffs. Before this playoff games were played at neutral stadiums. We have a word for College and High School teams having bands at games: Normal. Also when it comes to American sports look into tailgating. It's essentially a pre-game barbeque/party. My family used to tailgate, and lived only 2 miles from the stadium. You're talking about arriving at 5 AM or before and getting home after midnight. Seats at the 50 yard line about 10 rows up, give or take, are usually considered the best seats in the stadium.
The Florida state Seminoles are based off the legendary Native Americans who ran throughout Florida. They were known as the Seminole tribe meaning runaways in their native language. They often fought the US cavalry that were stationed at st Augustine and fort Gatlin which was situated at the area right around modern Lake Eola right in the center of Orlando. The Seminoles were not ordinary native peoples as they liked to fight and often staged surprise attacks from grassy fields and from unexpected places. They were lead by chief Osceola for some time which is where we get the Osceola county from in honor of him. A lot of their names were incorporated into maps of the area. The Econ river just running just outside downtown has a long name but we call it the Econ river to make it simpler. The Seminoles did not take trophies like the natives of the west as they liked to really get a point across by slamming a tomahawk into the skull of the victim as a calling card and they often punched a body full of holes and really the person could only be identified by the paperwork they carried. Eventually the cavalry won as the Seminoles ran low on supplies. The entire tribe was moved to near Miami where they set up the hard rock hotel and casino.
Yeah, you kind of get a perfect storm of youth who are all getting their first taste of freedom and are all learning to drink (to excess) in unison. It's pretty nuts.
Unfortunately college sports, and in particular college football is going the way of the NFL. Players are getting large sums of money through NIL, with the transfer protocol are switching team ever year. As expenses go up in stadiums renovations, coaches salaries, NIL, those cost are being passed down to fans, who are being priced out.
the tennessee one where they stole the goal post was playoffs or regular season against alabama one of the best teams and they won. but usa college football games are all insane atmospheres
These are great distractions that make the students forget about how fucked they are going to be with all that college debt they are saddled with for a degree that will be useless.
no these are regular games not championships
The endzone sections are usually reserved for students, so yeah they get pretty rowdy I can tell you from experience.
Every college game has a "student section" for the students attending that school. They're very passionate and enthusiastic because they're young adults (18 to 21 years old). There's also a "marching band section," cheerleading team, a section for parents and alumni, and boosters (people who donate money to the school to support the athletic programs). Every year has 12 games (6 at home and 6 away) so the 6 home games are the only opportunity to show support for your team (unless you like to travel for away games).
Here's a reality check on American Football. EIGHT of the Top Ten sports stadiums in the World are College Football stadiums on the campuses of US Colleges and Universities. Every one of that eight seats over 100,000. By comparison, the largest NFL Professional Football stadium has a capacity of 82,000.
Difference is tho a lot of college stadiums have bleachers and not actual seating……..not to mention most students get in games for free
@@whoishim2998 I can't speak about other schools but LSU seats about 110k, no bleachers, and has so much demand that it costs 70-250 bucks for a student section seat.
@@whoishim2998what FBS stadium is letting students in for free? That absolutely does not happen
Im from Michigan and my team was the very first one with the yellow pom pom singing Mr. Brightside...they are called the Michigan Wolverines. If you ever get a chance to attend a college football game here in the States please go. You will have much fun. 😊
The college game pre-dates (1869) the NFL (1920)
nfl fan culture is nothing like college football thats for sure brother!!!!
Usually one end zone is for the students section. Thats probably what your seeing with the more animated fans. Im an LSU fan and have been to many games and it gets extremely loud in there on a Saturday night. The crowd caused an earthquake to show up on the Richter scale. Most people who played there say its the loudest stadium in college football. I feel that it is but i know there is a short list of other stadiums that are extremely loud as well. LSU is defining for sure.
You have to put this on your USA travel bucket list. Going to a major college football game. You’d love it.
5:50 this is my alma mater, University of South Carolina Gamecocks 🤙🏻🐓🔥 we actually have another intro to come out on the field to the ‘2001: A Sapce Odyssey’ that’s even more epic 🙌 we actually had Darude come to a game last season and did a full DJ set before and during the game, it was wild 🤯 you’re always welcome here my man 🫡🍻😢
I've been involved in the Wisconsin Jump Around and the Michigan Mr. Brightside atmospheres, they're both great, but Wisconsin is bonkers.
Put that on my bucket list! It looks like one hell of a good time 👍
The second video was Tennessee beating Alabama for the first time in 15 years. Yes, they did still the goal post, and it's now at the bottom of the Tennessee River. GO VOLS!
🌊🐘😉
The "yeee - whoooo" at 9:21 was perfect
Back with the sports reactions 🔥🔥🔥 this is why I subbed back in 2019 ❤
Schools will often have themes for the games, such as wearing the same color, as in the first clip where people were in maize, while another stadium was all in white, or you wear a color based on the section you are seated in. These clips focus on the student section, though the majority of attendees are alumni, their families, and those who like the school’s team. Given the distance to get to a game, you usually don’t get a lot of visiting fans. Don’t forget tailgating, which takes place before the game. Fans are mixed in where they sit. College games don’t have issues with fans like in the UK.
As a Michigan (first stadium you saw with them singing Mr Brightside) alum... yeah home games are crazy. I never went (mostly because I am not a crowds person) but our stadium is the largest in the whole Western Hemisphere!
12:03 you'll understand what the mascot is doing if you watched the 1978 movie "National Lampoon's Animal House." The song is from the movie and the movie was filmed on that campus at the University of Oregon.
Yes EVERY Uni/team has their own song . And student only sections .
My team comes out to Jimmy Hendrix Purple Haze with purple smoke because our colors are 🟣🟡 ☠️
ECU
When they play Jump Around in Wisconsin, it registers on the local Richter scales (what they use to measure earthquakes). 😮
If you're impressed by the all-yellow attire at Michigan in the first clip, just wait until you see Tennessee's checkerboard stadium - each section is assigned to wear either orange or white (alternating). They don't do it for every game (the Tennessee clip they showed immediately after Michigan was all-orange).
Storming the field and stealing the goalposts is a widespread old tradition for major victories (rivals, big upsets, or championship-clinching wins), but it's fallen out of favor a bit due to safety concerns. One of the funniest instances of this was when Iowa fans rushed the field to celebrate a conference title in a *road* game, at Minnesota back when they played in the Metrodome. The fans couldn't figure out how to get them through the stadium's revolving doors and just resorted to parading them around the field for a bit.
What you're talking about at 8:45 is the student section. And yeah, that's where the real crazies are. In general, you don't have the same sort of strict separation of home and visiting fans that you might see in a European soccer match, but the student section is the main exception - a visiting fan going in there is just asking for trouble.
Part of the reason the atmosphere is so nuts is that with a twelve-game season you only have six home games and six on the road. And this is the biggest thing going on in a lot of these little college towns. Then make it a hundred year old rivalry game that alternates each year between home stadiums. Take for example Cal vs Stanford. They've met 126 times since 1892. Even years "The Big Game" is at Cal Berkeley, odd years at Stanford in Palo Alto. 1982 was a pretty memorable one, my parents were there. Dad the Cal grad. Go BEARS!.
Just remember Clemson holds the title for “most exciting 25 seconds in college football”
I love your videos Lav 💖😍! Thank you for being wonderful and back with your reactions 💟! It's good
Been watching since you were only doing sports reactions, this is a classic 😂
I remember this energy! I haven't been to a game in years. I guess I got old. 😂
yes, every game. Their website will announce well in advance that it will be a Yellow Out, blue out, white out etc.
Good way to sell multiple jerseys to each person
I'd rather watch college ball anyday! Love it
Welcome back to the channel, sports!
A shame you can't really post sports videos on TH-cam. But I can understand why.
Nothing like an English Premier League match
4:06 I was a freshman at Virginia Tech at that game vs Notre Dame, it was an insane experience. Wish I could go back and experience it all over again for the first time. Go Hokies! 🔺🔸
Every game is big because they only get 6 to 7 home ganes a yr out of 12 regular season games .
Then if your lucky a few post season games .
For as much as it costs, you better get a good show.
The clip that was commented about "going to war" is the "Tomahawk chop" which was used for college and pro teams referencing teams with Native American names. A bit of controversy as it in a way was a negative slam against the Native American tribes, don't know if it is done anymore.
As noted below, the end zones are allotted to the student body, because the sideline seats are sold to grown up fans who can afford the steep ticket prices, but some of their fervor derives from most of them being in various stages of inebriation. This I know, as my nephew, while attending the University of Maryland, told me they mostly all did what he called "Pre Game" (drinking ) in the dorms before heading over to the stadium where the underaged could not buy alcohol or carry any in openly.
That's the band on the field.
These happen every game by the way. At most, you'll have 7 home games per year. Most teams will have 6 home games per year so we make the best of what we have. Also, there are a lot of universities that have color scheming for games where they will tell fans to wear a certain color. Some will have striped crowds meaning that the stadium will alternate school colors depending on the section you are in. My university always does an all maroon game once per year as well as a white out for all the students once per year.
I feel like these videos are missing out on so much too. I’m tempted to make a compilation of like the top 25-30 atmospheres or places to watch a cfb game
Pulling down the goalposts is a tradition.
I'm pretty sure that clip is from 2002 when my Hawkeyes beat Minnesota 55-7 to cap off an 8-0 Big Ten season and we tore down the goal post in THEIR stadium
The “really passionate fan sections” that you’re referring to is the student sections
The "passionate fans" are the student sections. Part of the perk of going to a big school is students get tickets for free or very cheap since they're paying to go there. They're also usually VERY drunk
Most colleges if not all of them have a student section. That is usually the loudest section.
Only OG's remembers Thurston' s sports reactions.
You should check out college basketball atmospheres
Giving you a thumbs up but I've already watched the video on Patreon.
College football has the most passionate fans of any sport in the world
Soccer easily, especially in Latin America and Europe. People die.
@@shawnanderson6313 I don't see people using their passion for a sport as a way to act on the problems in their life, like poverty, mental illness, alcoholism, whatever it is, as a sign of passion. Either way, there are unfortunately instances of people dying over college football games as well. A father shot his own son over the result of a game a few years ago, I believe it was in Alabama.
European fútbol is far superior in terms of passion
@@emobx02boss just say you don’t know much about other sports they get wild about soccer in other countries there isn’t an american sport that can come close the majority just will never care like they do in other countries about there soccer
@@rinwob I've been to euro matches. eufa, champions league, etc. I know because I am a soccer fan. I have no desire to risk my life at a South American soccer game. I have seen people be absolute idiots over college football, but that's it. I also don't believe acting insane is actual passion. People that think this doesn't exist in college football don't know there are fan bases that actually act that stupid or "passionate" too in college football. It's the only American sport I've seen have that at that level, but it exists.
College football fans are a lot more passionate than NFL. Most of them will have attended that university so they feel more affinity to the team.
The roots of American college football go back over 150 years - it didn’t become a pro game until the 1920s - so the passion and ambiance you’re witnessing is established in traditions that span generations. The new season is about to get underway, so try to catch as many games as you can, particularly in the Southeastern Conference.
Also, I highly recommend any videos that highlight the pregame tailgating culture in the South, especially at schools like Georgia, Alabama and Ole Miss.
If you're a D1-FBS school you only get 6 games at home per year. Why not go all out. 7 if you play in week 0 at home, or if you host a Conference Championship game. Thesse are normal games. The one with the goal posts being ripped down is when Tennessee beat Alabama. Alabama is usually the best team in College Football or close to it.
The College Football playoffs are expanding this year from 4 teams to 12. That may mean more home games for teams that make the playoffs. Before this playoff games were played at neutral stadiums.
We have a word for College and High School teams having bands at games: Normal.
Also when it comes to American sports look into tailgating. It's essentially a pre-game barbeque/party. My family used to tailgate, and lived only 2 miles from the stadium. You're talking about arriving at 5 AM or before and getting home after midnight.
Seats at the 50 yard line about 10 rows up, give or take, are usually considered the best seats in the stadium.
The Florida state Seminoles are based off the legendary Native Americans who ran throughout Florida. They were known as the Seminole tribe meaning runaways in their native language. They often fought the US cavalry that were stationed at st Augustine and fort Gatlin which was situated at the area right around modern Lake Eola right in the center of Orlando. The Seminoles were not ordinary native peoples as they liked to fight and often staged surprise attacks from grassy fields and from unexpected places. They were lead by chief Osceola for some time which is where we get the Osceola county from in honor of him. A lot of their names were incorporated into maps of the area. The Econ river just running just outside downtown has a long name but we call it the Econ river to make it simpler. The Seminoles did not take trophies like the natives of the west as they liked to really get a point across by slamming a tomahawk into the skull of the victim as a calling card and they often punched a body full of holes and really the person could only be identified by the paperwork they carried. Eventually the cavalry won as the Seminoles ran low on supplies. The entire tribe was moved to near Miami where they set up the hard rock hotel and casino.
There's a special section for the students and others for alumni.
The biggest compliment an NFL fanbase or NBA can get is "it's like a college atmosphere"
Go DUCKS !!!!! Conquer the Big 10.
a little bit louder now... a little bit louder now... a little bit louder now... a little bit louder now...
In the NFL, fans are customers.
In college, fans are passionate diehards
Yeah, you kind of get a perfect storm of youth who are all getting their first taste of freedom and are all learning to drink (to excess) in unison. It's pretty nuts.
Go Hokies! You should watch a TH-cam video of the whole Virginia Tech entrance. With Metallica introducing it and everything
I miss the football reactions
Make sure you check out Part 2!
him thinkin tennessee won a championship is objectively hilarious
"SWEET CAROLINE, Oooo, Ooooo, Ooooo!"
;-)
(Showin' mah Age a bit with that one.)
Sports reactions back?😮💨
Unfortunately college sports, and in particular college football is going the way of the NFL. Players are getting large sums of money through NIL, with the transfer protocol are switching team ever year. As expenses go up in stadiums renovations, coaches salaries, NIL, those cost are being passed down to fans, who are being priced out.
Let’s go!!!
the tennessee one where they stole the goal post was playoffs or regular season against alabama one of the best teams and they won. but usa college football games are all insane atmospheres
nice
College football is 100x more fun than NFL.
I don't even watch NFL... College is way better... 🐘🌊
Students can attend sporting events for free.
These are great distractions that make the students forget about how fucked they are going to be with all that college debt they are saddled with for a degree that will be useless.
The one that you said was your favorite is the Oregon ducks football team.
Go Ducks!❤
Lavish Luka back to sports 🥲🥲🥲