So I messed up in this video. I've been researching the college championship games that are happening this weekend and I've just realised THE BIG 10 is a conference....Not the 10 biggest teams. I kind of realised midway through the video when there was no LSU, Alabama etc and I was seeing colleges such as Purdue but I just rolled with it. Hope you guys still enjoy the video and It just means I have plenty of other conferences to react to! Good luck in your championship games today!

@zellabelle

Жыл бұрын

good catch! most reactors would just not even acknowledge it

@HeavenhoundGiuseppe

Жыл бұрын

Conference called the Big Ten has 14 teams, soon to have 16, and a conference called the Big 12 has 10, soon to have 12. It's dumb but the conference names are such big brands now that they aren't going to change.

@josephharrison5639

Жыл бұрын

All good don’t worry, check out the one on the pac-12 some really great stadiums

@knoxvillain865

Жыл бұрын

i still have a little paper i wrote in school way back about my visit to the Maryland stadium lol my mother went to MD so im a huge terrapins fan but i attended Tennessee myself so it was awesome seeing you react to them

@seanhankerd1549

Жыл бұрын

Its fine people from the outside looking in i often wondered i get it yes you have confrences acc, pac 12, big 12, sec, B1G (big ten) then you have division 1 independent teams like notredame in a few years usc ucla is going to be joining the big ten confrence

He didn't mention that there's a children's hospital that overlooks the Iowa stadium, and at the end of the first quarter, all of the crowd turns and waves at the kids and their families who are watching the game from the hospital. It's funny that Northwestern has the smallest stadium, even though it's in the largest metropolitan area.

@Michadoo

Жыл бұрын

I came here to talk about the Iowa tradition lol. Even though I'm a Michigan fan. That's cool.

@tomphillips6594

Жыл бұрын

I was going to comment this-I lego hope he sees this

@dangerousboxx666

Жыл бұрын

Iowa be clowning on those kids. Showing a bunch of cancer ridden kids what a losing battle looks like. So messed.

@philpeters8200

Жыл бұрын

I always thought that is a great tradition for Iowa. Lot of class there. I heard that Northwestern is going to rebuild Ryan field and it will be out of use for the next 2-3 years. Games will be played at Soldier Field . Ryan Field is cool because it's in a residential neighborhood which gives it a more cozy feel.

@jamiemoss3633

Жыл бұрын

@@dangerousboxx666 it's just a game. People showing they care is more important than winning any game.

When you walk up to Michigan's Stadium it doesn't look big at all. But when you walk in it takes your breath away. Especially when it's packed for a game. A lot of visiting teams can't wait to play in our stadium.

@marklittle8805

Жыл бұрын

The sound of the crowd is amazing......it struck me of how big it was when I heard the band on the other end and it sounded so distant

@Tht1guy63

Жыл бұрын

would have been packed if the BIG 10 championship game was played there but respect the neutral ground approach they are going for now. I'm a Purdue alum and hoped for a spoilermaker event but was a decent game other than some Purdue mistakes and the better team won. Congrats Michigan.

@Mike.Rakow25

Жыл бұрын

I went there for the first time at homecoming this season against Maryland. It took my breath away.

@Mike.Rakow25

Жыл бұрын

@@marklittle8805 I like when one side of the stadium says go and the other says blue. It sounds like a wave of noise crashing down.

@ckerspilo

Жыл бұрын

@Top G I bet I've been there 30 times throughout the years and I never get tired of it. Just so magical

The outside of the stadiums being bare or dead is common in college football. Most of these campus are in college towns in a rural setting. There are several examples of the stadium being 4 or 5 times larger than the population of the entire town that it's in

@BritishGuy22

Жыл бұрын

This blows my mind that a stadium can have a larger capacity than a town has people! This would NEVER be the case in Europe but it's fascinating

@Reindurr417

Жыл бұрын

There are examples in this video where that's the case. Most of the fans are commuters to the home games from an hour or two out, sometimes more. There is also a designated student section where the students of the college always sit every home game (usually very cheap tickets or included in tuition at some schools). Another school that is known for a large stadium in a small town is Clemson. The town of Clemson, SC is only 17,000 but the stadium holds 82,000

@Reindurr417

Жыл бұрын

@markrapacki5855It's school to school. Some have awful seats but others aren't terrible. Some of the student sections on the 10-20 yard lines aren't terrible

@airmobiledivision7759

Жыл бұрын

@@BritishGuy22 On many game days, when the fans come to State College and Beaver Stadium, the town becomes the third most-populated in the state of Pennsylvania.

@orrenboyle2814

Жыл бұрын

@@BritishGuy22 You have to understand that many of the well-known football schools are "land-grant" universities. Around the time of the US Civil War, the federal government granted land and money (hence the name "land-grant") to the individual states so that they could set up universities for their populations. One of the requirements was that these universities had to offer programs in agriculture and mechanics. This is why many of these schools are named "{State} Agriculture & Mechanics" ("Texas A & M", for example). Agriculture requires ample acres (hectares) of land, so most of these schools were constructed in the middle of nowhere. Whereas, most European universities seem to be founded in major cities that existed long before the university was founded.

Beaver Stadium is a force to be reckoned with, it is one of the most hostile environments to be in especially at night during a whiteout, while you have a seating capacity of “107,000” it’s gotten to nearly 112,000 and the sound is deafening and measures on the Richter scale. Players who have come into the Whiteout have said the field shakes, you can’t hear the guy next you screaming at you and all you can see around you is white. I’ve had friends from out of state come with me to a whiteout game and they were so impressed and couldn’t believe how insane of an experience it is. It’s definitely something to be experienced to truly understand the hype. I’ve even had Michigan fans say that while their stadium holds more they’d rather watch a game at Beaver Stadium because there’s more room and fans are more into the game as well as there’s more going on before, during and after the game as well as better music played the whole time which the whole stadium would sing along with, which he said didn’t really happen at the big house. Also it’s designed to be open so that you can see is beautiful surrounding scenery from anywhere in the stadium. Mount Nittany is visible through the openings of the corners of the end zone. Also Penn State is known for their agricultural program, you’re likely parking in cow pastures for games and hiking to the stadium. But getting some of the best ice cream in the world from the Berkey Creamery makes it all worth it. Also if you’ve had ice cream it’s likely influenced by Penn State, as Ben and Jerry’s, Colombo, Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, Haagen-Dazs, Baskin-Robbins, and countless others have learned how to make ice cream at Penn State.

@zandercerlong7238

Жыл бұрын

Calm down no one is reading all that lol

@Chesside

Жыл бұрын

What happened at the Penn state Michigan game this year?

@elilarson1529

Жыл бұрын

Bro it’s just a British guys reaction chill. It doesn’t matter

@chrismccloskey2502

Жыл бұрын

Lol! Love the passion. I've been going to games since the 90s. The tailgating is second to none. And, even a noon game against a div 2, or whatever acronym they are using this week, are a ton of fun. Been to games in most of the big10 & acc and a ton of one offs...Happy Valley will always be my favorite

@crashstitches79

Жыл бұрын

@@zandercerlong7238 Bragging about being a slow/remedial reader is a weird flex, but you do you, boo.

Penn Stater here. I get the point about the disjointed nature of the stadium. On the positive side, I've sat all over that stadium over the years and I've never had a bad seat. Also, as others have noted, the atmosphere on game days is insane, especially for the annual "White Out" game. On the negative side, because of the series of "standalone" updates, the concession stands and rest rooms are all over the place and it's very hard to walk around the inside of the stadium. It does have an interesting backstory. The stadium was originally on the west side of campus. At the end of the 1959 season, they cut the stadium into pieces, trucked the pieces across town to the east side of campus and then reassembled the pieces into a horseshoe configuration (while adding more seating). A series of smaller expansions and upgrades took place until 1978, when the stadium was jacked up and additional stands were placed around the inside of the field, filling in the running track that was surrounding the field previously. Right now, we're debating about whether to renovate the stadium or build a new one. I strongly prefer renovation. I like having one of the largest stadiums in the country, and I don't want to lose our home field advantage. 🙂

@mithcee

Жыл бұрын

It's crazy thinking that parts of Beaver Stadium date back to the 1920's. It's a wonder that thing holds together.

@CopiousJohn

Жыл бұрын

Are you serious? They took it apart and moved it to the other side of campus? Wow! That is wild. I never knew that. And as a Buckeye fan, I don't think anything in college football tops the atmosphere of a night time white-out game. Pretty awesome.

@CopiousJohn

Жыл бұрын

And the "Jump Around" at Camp Randall is pretty neat, too.

@orrenboyle2814

Жыл бұрын

@@CopiousJohn Agreed. One of my goals is to attend a PSU game at every other Big Ten stadium, plus a few outside the Big Ten.

@brandoncooke6564

Жыл бұрын

Michigan fan here. Penn State has the best football atmosphere (outside of Ann Arbor, of course). But it is my favorite Big Ten stadium, mostly BECAUSE of the erector set look of seats stacked on top of seats.

The Big Ten Conference is the oldest college sports league, having been founded in 1896. The conference had ten members from 1949 until 1990, when football independent Penn State joined. The schools elected to keep the traditional name, Big Ten Conference, even though there were now 11 members. Nebraska joined in 2011, and both Rutgers and Maryland joined in 2014, bringing the membership to 14 schools, while it was again decided to continue using the traditional name, Big Ten Conference. The conference will expand again in 2024, with California schools USC and UCLA both joining. By the way, the Illinois team nickname, Fighting Illini, is pronounced IL-LEYE-NEYE. The stadiums of all these schools are located on the campus of each school.

@GC-ps9mn

Жыл бұрын

The Michigan intercollegiate athletic division is actually the oldest college sports conference. It's division 3 though. It was founded on March 24, 1888.

@michaelmcgowen8780

Жыл бұрын

@@GC-ps9mn You are correct, the MIAA is the oldest. The Big Ten is oldest Division I conference, which is what I should have written. I believe the Big Ten is actually the 7th or 8th oldest, counting conferences that no longer exist.

@wolver73

Жыл бұрын

Yup, rhymes with wi-fi. 😉

@seanhankerd1549

Жыл бұрын

Not the oldest the miaa division 3 beat it for the oldest but big ten is the oldest d1 league yes

@Matt-ge9cf

Жыл бұрын

Except UCLA lol fat L

The Big House is one of the most awe inspiring views from the interior. Not a bad seat in the house. If you ever come to a Michigan game, go to the Golf Course for tailgating. Its about 3-5 miles of drinking, partying, and cookouts. Also show up super early otherwise good luck finding parking. #GoBlue

I'm a U of M alumni. I still vividly remember entering that stadium for the first time (1980). It was an overwhelming visceral experience. The color, the sound, the energy. One of my fondest memories. And the building next to the football stadium is Crisler Area - where their basketball team plays. Thanks for the tour!

@tylerkochman1007

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, Ryan Field, Michigan Stadium, Camp Randall, Memorial Stadium in Illinois, Ross Ade and probably others in the Big Ten all follow the trope of a college’s football stadium having an arena right by it (Though, in the case of Wisconsin, it no longer is the university’s main arena, and is now used by volleyball and wrestling)

@ohioexpax1592

10 ай бұрын

Buckeye fan. I got to look into The Big House years ago while attending the Mid-American Conference basketball tournament at Crisler Arena. It's pretty awesome. I've been in The 'Shoe four times: twice for my high school playing for he football state championship, once for a Battle of The Bands. My son played the trombone and says he'll never forget marching there. And finally, I went to watch the Buckeyes with a high school friend. He attended Ohio State, and they were playing my alma mater, Bowling Green that day. Bowling Green damn near won the game. (The only time I root against the Buckeyes is when they play Bowling Green).

The University of Illinois team is the Fighting Illini (ill-LINE-eye). It's named after a confederation of Indian tribes that lasted just long enough for the state to be named after them, and then disbanded. 189 of the 200 classical columns on the exterior of the stadium are dedicated to the university alums that died during WWI, hence "Memorial Stadium."

@johntolly1637

Жыл бұрын

Every Illinois fan had a mini stroke hearing that pronunciation

@juliewillson3378

Жыл бұрын

Hoosier fan, and I cringed at that pronunciation.

as a michigan fan, beaver stadium is probably one of the scariest toughest places to play in all of college football, especially at night.

@SurfTheSkyline

Жыл бұрын

As a fellow Michigan fan I will say that if you offer me a night game I will take it in Happy Valley over Kinnick even if there is a white out. Kinnick will never not fill me with dread and impending doom and not just because the football there as of late can only be described as an unholy abomination.

@marks2807

Жыл бұрын

As a Michigan fan the one place I would not feel safe going to after what happened in our tunnel this year is Spartan Stadium.

I'm a Michigan fan but I will say the best stadium tradition in the Big Ten takes place at Iowa's stadium. Iowa has a children's hospital that actually overlooks the stadium, and at the end of the 1st quarter of every home game everything with the game stops and everyone looks towards the children's hospital and waves to kids and families watching the game. It is called "The Hawkeye Wave" and there are videos you can watch on KZread

@derekkline8359

Жыл бұрын

As an Iowa Hawkeyes fan thank you!! Go win the college football playoffs and show what the Big Ten is made of (except for Nebraska fuck those corn suckers)

@zillatattoo

Жыл бұрын

yeah, its called a gimmick.

There was an article written in Popular Mechanics magazine a few years ago that named the architecture of Memorial Stadium in Lincoln Nebraska the best in college football.

Went to Michigan and games in the Big House really are incredible, including the surrounding area and all the tradition and circumstance. It's such a great time that my parents, neither of which ever went there except to visit me and go to a game or two on parents' weekend, want to plan another trip just to go to another game

I’m a Rutgers Alumni so it’s cool to see you react to our stadium. College Football in NJ/ east Atlantic can’t compete with the mid west stadiums or teams, but still have a lot of great memories there. Rutgers hasn’t been a competitive team for awhile but I was lucky enough to attend when they actually had some fairly good seasons and won a bowl game or two (07-11). Also Rutgers was the site of the very first intercollegiate football games ever played, when Rutgers invited Princeton to play some matches in 1869.

The Field House at Camp Randell was the home of most of the indoor sports teams for the University of Wisconsin and High School State Basketball Championships, minus Hockey which was held at the Dane County Coliseum. When the Kohl Center was built it became home to the basketball and Hockey teams so The Field House isn't as busy these days but they still play host to the volleyball and wrestling teams.

As a Nebraskan born and raised I can’t tell you how important our Cornhusker football is since we have no top tier professional sports teams and also only have one D1 school. Also love the fact that you love our stadium!

@samnickel6654

Жыл бұрын

Bruh we got 3 D1 schools wdym

@BrantleySchaaf

Жыл бұрын

I hated having to go 7 hours to a nfl game

11:45 Michigan Stadium nicknamed “The Big House”. On September 7, 2013, the game between Michigan and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish attracted a crowd of 115,109, overtaking the previous record of 114,804 set two years previously for the same match up. It was designed with footings to allow the stadium's capacity to be expanded beyond 100,000.Fielding Yost envisioned a day where 150,000 seats would be needed. The decision was made to build a smaller stadium than Yost envisioned but to include the footings for future expansion. A 2014 International Champions Cup soccer match between Real Madrid and Manchester United had an attendance of 109,318, a record crowd for a soccer match in the United States. In 1956, the addition of a press box raised the stadium's official capacity to 101,001. The one "extra seat" in Michigan Stadium is said to be reserved for Fritz Crisler, athletic director at the time. Since then, all official Michigan Stadium capacity figures have ended in "-01", although the extra seat's location is not specified.

@BritishGuy22

Жыл бұрын

This a really cool story! I wanna know where that extra seat is 👀

@pushpak

Жыл бұрын

@@BritishGuy22 You're welcome to come and try to find it like everyone else has.

@elh93

Жыл бұрын

I was at that game vs ND!

@Johnadams20760

Жыл бұрын

@@BritishGuy22 i don't think anyone knows , well someon probaby does but i think it is secret to 99.99999% of the population

@ThisIsMyRealName

Жыл бұрын

They eliminated seating for handicapped people to get the number 1 spot in biggest stadiums 🙅‍♂️👨‍🦽

12:07 Crisler Center (I still called it an Arena), home of the basketball team.Named for Herbert O. "Fritz" Crisler, head football coach at Michigan from 1938 to 1947.

@wolver73

Жыл бұрын

The hockey arena is also named for a football coach, Fielding Yost.

@DK-ed7be

Жыл бұрын

@@wolver73 Well yeah, that's because before it was a hockey arena it was a field house in which the football team would practice, the track team would run (there was a wooden track that ran around the inside of the building up in the rafters), and the basketball team would play their games. I saw my first Michigan basketball game in Yost Field House a couple of years before Crisler Arena was completed.

@robertmiller5777

Жыл бұрын

Crisler and Yost were also the athletic directors at Michigan. The basketball and hockey arenas were named for them in that regard, not because they were also the football coach.

The reason so many of them are called "Memorial Stadium" is because college football first became ultra-popular just after World War I and EVERYONE wanted to show off their school's patriotism by having the stadium as a "memorial" to the soldiers who had fallen in the then-recent war. Even my team, the Kansas State Wildcats (not a Big Ten team) has a "Memorial Stadium", though in our case, it was too small and the school built a bigger better stadium with a different name in the 1960s. The old "Memorial Stadium" is still around, but they've planted gardens over the old seating area.

Interesting fact about Kinnick Stadium (University of Iowa); the large building right next to the stadium is the Children's Hospital. Patient's in the hospital gather on the top floor during game day to watch the game from building next door. A more recent tradition is that after the 1st quarter, all of the fans and plays in the stadium turn around to wave to them.

@derekkline8359

Жыл бұрын

Go Hawkeyes 🖤💛🖤💛

Bruh, I’m a Michigan fan. Even tho he said a bunch of good things about the Big House, it looks way better with thousands of maze and blue shirts filling the stands.

@Johnadams20760

Жыл бұрын

we need to get british guy to a Michigan game

@michaelmelling9333

Жыл бұрын

Maize

Michigan looks so clean, that was my favorite on the list

The Fieldhouse at Camp Randall is an arena. It’s quite storied, built the 1930, used to host the basketball program way back in the day. Seats 7,590. Now is home to the popular and successful women’s volleyball program at U of Wisconsin. Also home to U’s men’s wrestling.

Penn State student here. We actually camp out, with tents and all, in front of the student section gate before every home game for 3 days in order to get front row seats. It’s a lot of fun. Also the stadium chicken baskets are a staple of PSU Football.

Most of the old Big Ten stadiums were horse shoe shaped because of running tracks. The one end was open to allow for the running of the 200 yard dash in a straight line. Now it’s run on a curve. Most of the tracks have since been removed. Michigan Stadium was built without a track.

@lagersparadice8739

Жыл бұрын

Because it had an indoor track for a college in the 1920s that is now the hockey rink

Born and raised in and around Ann Arbor...I had not been to a game since the 1970's...finally went again in 2014....once I got a full view of " The BIG House" tears came to my eyes. I was HOME!!!!

@kylehynes7480

Жыл бұрын

Had a sort of similar experience. Born and raised in State College, and I'd been to games, but never in the vaunted student section. I didn't end up going to PSU and so some friends and I had to sneak into the student section when we came home for Thanksgiving. Gave me the feeling that "oh, so this is how you watch Penn State football." Glad you got to have that experience though. Now if you'd stop kicking our asses...

@thomaskincaid9778

Жыл бұрын

@@kylehynes7480 glad you got to get in in that and we will try to start taking it easy on you....if we can....😂😂😂

My family has season tickets to Michigan football so I was very fortunate to grow up going to see games in The Big House every year. It's an amazing experience and absolutely something worth coming to visit Michigan for

Michigan Stadium holds three of the top four U.S. Soccer attendances crowds: In 2014, I attended the sold-out crowd of 109,318 where Manchester United defeat Real Madrid in an International Champions Cup match, 105,826 attended a 2016 International Champions Cup match where Real Madrid defeated Chelsea, 101,254 attended a 2018 International Champions Cup match where Liverpool defeated Manchester United.

Don't know if others have mentioned this, but Minnesota's stadium is now called "Huntington Bank Stadium" because of a merger between TCF and Huntington. I think most Gopher fans have settled into this new reality, but a number still prefer the old name, especially since the campus is in the Twin Cities and "TCF" used to stand for "Twin City Federal".

@elh93

Жыл бұрын

The name changed after I was done with grad school, so it's always TCF for me (unless I get in to a PhD, then I'll learn the new name)

Another fun fact of the big ten is that one of the original ten members was University of Chicago. They ended their football team in 1939 and left the big ten entirely in 1946. They thought Big Ten sports would distract from their academic focus (they are still to this day one of America’s most prestigious institutions, arguably the best school outside of the Ivy League, and often considered better than some of the schools that ARE in the Ivy League). They are now a Division III sports school, and have a football program with a less than 2,000 seat stadium. Also: after Chicago ended their football program, their abandoned stadium grandstand was used by the Manhattan Project scientists to secretly house the world’s first nuclear reactor where their experiments created mankind’s first self-sustaining artificial nuclear chain reaction. Insane that they did it smack dab in what was the USA’s second-largest city.

The U-M stadium was begun in 1927, for +70,000 fans, and as the video remarks, the design was very simple: just a lined hole in the ground, basically. It's been added on to numerous times since then, first with more seats, and recently with elaborate suites and press facilities. One thing that hasn't changed much is the tunnel leading to the field, where there was a fight between the departing teams this season.

One thing I love about Iowa stadium that was not mentioned is the large building next to it is a children's hospital for children fighting for their lives. Every game everybody in the stadium turn to the hospital and wave to the children.

michigan statdium was oringally a little smaller, but built wel into the ground, they designed it so that it could maintain the same desing and hold up to 150,000 if they ever chose to.

Michigan stadium currently holds a streak of over 300 games straight of 100,000 fans. It routinely gets 110,000+ almost every home game. I went to the Illinois game a few weeks ago and it had 109,000.

Dude this is a really cool video idea! I am a Nebraska football fan and im glad you like our stadium!

I love how many comments brought up the Kinnick Wave. Truly one of the most heartwarming traditions in college football, even if it's a fairly recent "tradition" since the children's hospital is fairly new.

3:59 That's the "Fieldhouse" which is an old indoor arena that was originally used for basketball and boxing. Still in use for some smaller sports.

Enjoy your KZread page alot. It's interesting to get your perspective on these distinctly US sports stadiums. I have had the pleasure of helping televise games from every staium that you showed. I am a sports cameraman and have worked for all of the different networks who had the television rights to televise the B1G conference games. Most of those games I worked was for ESPN/ABC Sports from 1987 to 2018. I began running camera on the games back in 1985 and am now semi-retired. I still get asked to work a game or two as the football season progresses. Was just at the University of Illinois stadium back on 5 November when the Illini took on the Purdue Boilermakers. That was my only game this seson. All of these stadiums have seen major upgrades and renovations from when I started covering their teams back in '85. Mostly, it's the Athletic Directors from each of the B1G Ten schools trying to keep pace with each other. This entails building luxury suites for the well-moneyed alumni who either played or graduated from there and who donates tons of money to their rspective athletic departments. They get the suites. This is to help keep that school "ahead" or at least even with the other conference schools as far as facilities. Also adding more seating capacity because that means more revenue coming in. And the one thing that affected me the most was all of the new press boxes for the media which were rebuilt when the school started offering the luxury suites. This caused some of camera positions to get moved around. Sometimes not for the best. Michigan was probably my favorite stadium to work out of with Wisconsin's Camp Randall being me second favorite. And also, the buildings located next to the stadiums with all of the round roofs are the University's basketball arenas. The building attached to Wisconsin's Camp Randall stadium is the Wisconsin Fieldhouse which used to be the home of the Badger's mens basketball team. They moved to a brand new facility on campus back in 1996. The fieldhouse is now the home of the Badger's Women's Volleyball team Kepp up the great observations on our American sports culture.

Ty for the great video sir…well done 👏🏼〽️GoBlue

I’m from iowa, the big oval building next to the stadium is the university children’s hospital. At the end of the first quarter everyone in the stadium turns and waves to the kids who have their own viewing area near the top. It’s a great tradition. Next you should do the 10 stadiums of the big 12 😂

With the Big House, you have to see it in person too understand it’s size. It blew my mind away, Let’s put it like this: Per the legendary Longtime radio announcer Bob Ufer dubbed Michigan Stadium "The hole that Yost dug, Crisler paid for, Canham carpeted, and Schembechler fills every cotton-pickin' Saturday afternoon". Michigan stadium is in a hole! You walk in on ground level outside the stadium to being in the middle tier of the Big House when you enter. I’m a season ticket holder, and I’m in row 37. I have to walk DOWN to my row, after entering the Stadium at street level..

I've heard the bulldozer story before for Michigan Stadium. I've also heard it was actually a crane. It is all legend at this point. However, it looks like there is no evidence to support the Illinois story either. Michigan Stadium has an official capacity of 107k, but routinely has more in attendance and has currently held 300+ games straight with over 100k in attendance (not counting 2020 when fans weren't allowed at all). I think I've only, personally, attended one or two games with attendance below 109k. Also, the "mini stadium" next to Michigan Stadium is Crisler Center which is home to Michigan's basketball teams.

Michigan Stadium has had over 100,000 fans for almost 50 years straight. Where as other stadiums are just now getting to that point. The stadium next to Michigan Stadium is Crisler Arena where Michigan Basketball is played & holds over 13,000 fans. Michigan also has more wins than any other college football team in History. You do not understand how many people go to those games until you are there. Since I have lived in the area all my life I have been to probably 100 or more games. It can get so loud in there the whole stadium shakes. It is awesome. As far as the Big ten goes for 14 teams only ten were in the conference until 1990 when Penn State Joined then Nebraska joined in 2011 then Rutgers & Maryland in 2014. Michigan is one of the oldest football teams in the nations. Rutgers is actually the oldest football team in the Nation.

I have had the great pleasure of having a private tour of Michigan’s stadium ‘The Big House’ with my family. Really cool experience. We got to go to all the different areas of the complex like the basketball stadium and hockey arena. We got to go in the Michigan locker rooms and it was so cool. The best feeling of all was when we got to walk down the tunnel leading up to the field. It was so crazy exiting the tunnel into the absolutely massive stadium and seeing it from the perspective of the players on the field (we weren’t actually allowed onto the field itself but we were on the sidelines) It was such a cool experience and I would love to do it again. Would recommend it if your a big Michigan fan like me!

@bobbobbob9117

Жыл бұрын

We got to play on the field and drink beer this year 53rd bank had this private thing and some high up girl took us was freaking wild wish I could post pic we play games and drank and ate kick field goal and stuff the only thing we couldn't touch was the big m in the locker room it was rope off and guarded

@bobbobbob9117

Жыл бұрын

O got an all white Michigan ball signed by Corum too he was on the field playing catch with us there was like I think 75 people top that got to do it

@Dynamite_15

Жыл бұрын

@@bobbobbob9117 yeah when we were in the locker room during the tour we were not able to touch the M in the middle. It was roped off and they told us the story behind it and stuff.

@bobbobbob9117

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@@Dynamite_15 whay was the story I was just told only player can touch it

@Dynamite_15

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@@bobbobbob9117 I don’t remember the whole story but I think it was like everyone thought it was bad luck to stand on it but one day before the game the coach stood right on the M and gave a speech. Something like that.

Just a note: Michigan Stadium’s highest attendance is 115,109

Third video I've watched of yours so I figured it was time I subscribed. 👍

@BritishGuy22

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Appreciate it Emma!

A field house is another name for a basketball arena. The term was popular for arenas built in the 50s and 60s

We Americans are an obsessive but fun bunch. Stephen Fry was at an Auburn game vs. Alabama and - I'm paraphrasing - said, "this is overpriced, ridiculous, nuts.... wonderful." 😂🤣

Maryland is one of the most recent schools to join the Big Ten. For the longest time, it was part of the ACC, a conference that isn't really known for having huge stadiums for their football teams.

The horseshoe stadiums have a long tradition in American football. Harvard is where American football began and they built Harvard Stadium in 1903. It was a horseshoe and still stands. About a decade later their arch rival built the Yale Bowl. Those two designs really dominated the earliest stadiums for college football. Definitely understand the confusion around Big Ten. It was originally called the Western Conference. It was established in 1896. Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, Northwestern, and Purdue were all original members in 1896. It can claim it's the oldest big college football conference. It became the Big Ten in 1950 when Michigan State joined and it's been called that ever since, even after it has expanded. The first expansion was adding Penn State in 1990. The original Big Ten, as of 1950, was: Michigan Ohio State Michigan State Indiana Purdue Illinois Northwestern Minnesota Wisconsin Iowa Before Penn State, the Big Ten was a completely Midwestern conference. The conference is also known for high academic standards. Only one school is private (Northwestern), the rest of some of the best public universities in the country.

@BritishGuy22

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Thanks for the info and for forgiving my BIG 10 mistake haha! The Horseshoe is something I'm definitely not used to seeing but the Harvard one did look quite cool when it showed it in the video

@donovansauls8816

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Rutgers is the birthplace of college football

@kaziu312

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It'll be nice to have the Rose Bowl added to this list starting in 2024.

@insertcolorherehawk3761

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Prior to Michigan State joining, the University of Chicago was the 10th member

@CopiousJohn

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@@kaziu312 Travel is going to be a real grind for the teams. Worse than West Virginia joining the Big 12.

I went to Illinois. When you walk into the Big House at Michigan, there's a wow factor there. It's BIG. It gives you the same feeling when you see the San Francisco Bay for the first time. It really takes your breath away.

the reason why the Big 10 college conference is called that, though there are 14 teams is because its a historic name of the conference and well known. So even when they have added teams past the 10th team, they kept the name

I enjoy your reaction to our college fields. I hope you get to a game at The Big House in Michigan. Subscribed.

@BritishGuy22

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Thanks Keith!

Yes, you finally got it that the Big10 is just the name of one particular conference. Originally the Big10 was exactly what it says, a group of 10 schools. Over the years there has been reconfiguration and the Big10 currently has 14 teams and will soon have 16. Many of the stadiums were named Memorial Stadium as they were built in the years immediately after World War 1. The 3 largest college football stadiums in the United States are Michigan (the Big House), Penn State (Beaver Stadium), and Ohio State (the Shoe).

@bobespirit2112

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Isn’t Tennessee’s over 100k?

@stevedietrich8936

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@@bobespirit2112 It is. Tennessee, at 102455, is in 5th place behind the 3 mentioned and 4th place Kyle Field.

@mic1240

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Originally not 10 schools when Purdue President Smart organized what would become the BIG Ten. Btw, some of this video out of date, at Ross-Ade at Purdue was a beer garden where stands were, and now under construction filling in end zone seating for 100th year. He mispronounces some and names.

@CopiousJohn

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From the Encyclopedia Brittanica- Big Ten Conference, formerly Western Intercollegiate Conference, one of the oldest college athletic conferences in the United States, formed in 1896 by the Universities of Chicago, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin and Purdue and Northwestern universities.

@stevedietrich8936

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@@CopiousJohn Yep. The Big 10 name didn't come into existence until they had picked up Ohio State, Indiana, and Iowa, They subsequently lost Chicago and were the Big Nine, but later took in Michigan State and were once more the Big Ten (informally). Their formal name was something like Faculty Advisors of Intercollegiate Athletics, or something cumbersome like that. The Big10 is now a brand and they are going to keep that name regardless of how many schools they have.

To your question "what is a fieldhouse?" It is an indoor training facility for the team that typically includes a "field" for them to practice on, as well as weight training, spaces for film/video revue of themselves and upcoming opposing teams, and any other function of the coaching staff and team.

Really enjoy your videos 😊

The Big House is so symmetrical that if you have the crowd 'do the wave' it is perfect.

btw, i do hope you get to come one day and come to MIchigan staduim, it is awesome and fun. Ann Arbor is a great town, a beuatiful city.

Visited Michigan Stadium back in 2001, just on a non-game day. Just wish I had brought a camera in order to have a souvenir of being inside such a massive stadium!

Whoever is describing the stadiums mispronounced "Illini". Also, although I was born and raised in Illinois, I graduated from Michigan. My aunt and uncle lived in Ann Arbor, and my uncle eventually became one of the Deans of one of the schools. Back around 1959, when graduation ceremonies were still held in the stadium, I persuaded my aunt to take me to see that spring's graduation ceremony. The speaker was Edward R. Murrow, a well known American journalist. I graduated in a spring ceremony from Crisler, the basketball stadium. When I went to school there, I was informed that the Big House was designed so that it could be expanded to hold 150,000. Beginning in 2007, the stadium was renovated and expanded to hold its current capacity. Also, most of the schools in the Big 10 are state (public) schools. The exception is Northwestern which is a private school.

I haven't read all of the comments, but I'm sure someone mentioned that Man U played Real Madrid at the Michigan Big House in front of 109,000 soccer/footie fans, the largest crowd to attend a match in the US. Michigan stadium has also hosted both professional and college ice hockey games. Each game had over 105,000 frozen butts in the seats. A truly versatile venue.

The Big house is small from the outside, than you walk through the tunnel to find your seats and see you start at like row 84 🤣

I subscribed but expect to see a reaction to the ACC next, and then go on from there 😄

Purdue is currently working to close our horseshoe with renovations and adding seating. The picture you saw also didn't include our new scoreboard which is is one of the largest in the country. It's a beauty! Boiler up!

What you didn't mention was that Michigan has been packing over 100,000 people into every game since 1975. Thats 47 years straight.

The arena next to Michigan Stadium is the Crisler Center, home of Michigan's men's and women's basketball teams.

The Big 10 expands to 16 schools in 2024 with the addition of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of Southern California (USC), another university in Los Angeles. So it will add two more cool stadiums, The Rose Bowl and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to the list.

@AlexOtto

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Should be called the B16

@marcos3497

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Some rumors were that we were going to eventually take 4 other West Coast teams. Of course, there's also the possibility to take teams from the ACC in 10 years.

In the US, College Football teams date back to the late 1800's similar to English Football and Rugby teams. The NFL did not start until the 1920's as wasnt really very popular until the 1960's. So these teams and grounds are where the real history of the sport lies.

The information regarding Michigan Stadium is outdated. The official capacity is 109,901, but attendance regularly exceeds 110,000 on game days. This is the largest non-motorized sports stadium in North America. The stadium also holds the record for largest crowd to watch a hockey game at 105,491, and a professional soccer match between Manchester United and Real Madrid which drew a crowd of 105,315.

I have a friend from Spain that came over to the us and we brought him to a Michigan game. He was surprised on how big it looked compared to the outside, and it may look like it would be hard to see but the way they have sloped it while expanding has made it a pleasureable viewing experience and also holds the record for soccer attendance in the us for obvious reasons. Not the best stadium ever but a great one nonetheless.

When the USA comes up for any international cup, world games, or series like FIFA World Cup we always have a good chance. There are more than 80 stadia (that is stadium plural for those of you in Crumbley or Tuscaloosa) that have 65000+ seats. You don't have to raise and spend billions in the US. That is already done by all the pro teams and universities. The airports, highways, hotels are also ready to go in more than 60 cities for games of most any size. FIFA 2026 in the US could have picked 20 different combinations if they had wanted too though SOFI and Mercedes are hard to beat.

the seating in the big house is 107K, but it is always above 110K for games. dont ask me how we cram em in, but we do. its an amazing stadium

The really cool thing about Penn State is that they regularly call for “white-outs” for big games, where all the fans wear white. Makes for some really awesome overhead shots!

Cool stuff! Keep these coming. I'd love to do the same as an American traveling to some of Europe's best football venues. As a townie in A2 for the first half of my life, the child of U of M grads who took us to nonconference games every season back in the heady 70s', and a lifelong Michigan fan...Michigan Stadium may be a big and fantastic venue but it doesn't hold the noise in. It just doesn't compare to Washington's Husky Stadium, Death Valley at Clemson, or Tiger Stadium at LSU in that regard. The top row at Michigan Stadium feels and sounds like it's in the next county.

A Field House is a building that is used for multiple indoor sports. Also it can be used to as another name for a basketball arena.

James Beaver, Civil War General and governor of Pennsylvania in the early years of the University…

Not mentioned in the video but a pretty cool stat I mention since you liked the Nebraska stadium. They have sold out 389 consecutive games there, the longest streak in college football.

Michigan Stadium official capacity is 109,900… but has held several crowds over 115,000. It’s breathtaking to be part of that crowd. And pre-game tailgates around the stadium are an amazing start to football Saturdays.

Fun fact for you: Queen Elizabeth II (RIP), visited Maryland for a game against Univ. of North Carolina. Maryland used to be a member of the ACC, and recently became a member of the Big Ten in 2014. The ACC didn’t prioritize football like the B1G, rather it prized basketball, and so our basketball stadium is really quite nice. We’re playing catch-up for football, even though our indoor practice facility is awesome!

Watched your Michigan vs Ohio state reaction last year brought me here now ur channels fire bro

Hearing the praise for the big house brought a smile to my face

Other than the pink locker room, another fun thing about Kinnick stadium is "the wave." That circular building overlooking the stadium is a children's hospital, and at the end of the first quarter everybody takes a minute to wave at the kids at the hospital, both home team/ supporters and the opponent.

Ohio Stadium is on the National Register of Historic Landmarks, meaning that the current facade (put up during the last expansion) is a fully-reversible casing of sorts. It's also why the south stands can't be attached, since that would alter the original structure. And as others have pointed out, horseshoe stadiums were built to be multi-purpose, so one end had to left open to accommodate certain track events such as the 100-yard dash. Ohio Stadium still held track meets until the late-1990s, I believe. A little-known fact is that then-university President William Oxley Thompson allowed a new stadium on campus only on the proviso that it could not stand higher than the library! That is why the Horseshoe was built on a lower piece of land behind the library, which has managed to remain one of the tallest building on campus--in fact, at 11-stories it must be one of the tallest libraries in the country.

The reason people were coming for you about that size difference between the Big House and Ohio Stadium is, that we take our UofM v. OSU rivalry very serious. With that being said: GO BLUE!

Thoroughly enjoyed your video. As a Buckeye I'm glad you liked my Ohio State horseshoe. I spent many happy hours in there, and some not so happy. We also have the TBDBITL, The Best Damn Band In The Land. They're worth a video, how they plan and execute those marvelous formations.

Cool fact about Nebraksa, they have the longest running sell-out streak of any college football team. Dating back to 1962, we have sold out every home game consisting of 385 straight games :)

You should react to the “Best College Football Entrances” video if you haven’t already. They’re some of the best entrances in sport

The mini stadium next to the Big House is Chrisler Arena, home of the U of M’s basketball teams, volleyball teams, etc. The baseball field and hockey arena are all within walking distance as well.

Most Michigan fans agree that the stadium south of Ann Arbor looks more like a toilet than a horse shoe. The Big House had renovations done that they have a seating capacity of over 111,000. Then of course they can shoe horn more people in fir the really big games, like Michigan State, Wisconsin, Nebraska and the people from South of Ann Arbor, Ohio State. The last game of the season is always Michigan v Ohio State. It is called The Game and is the biggest rivalry in American sports. Big Ten expanded 12 teams and later added Rutgers and Maryland so there was a reach into the New York area for recruitment. There is a possibility that UCLA and USC are going to join the Big Ten in a few years

Northwestern is actually about to tear down its stadium and build a brand new one-with even fewer seats! The renderings look beautiful, though.

The round building next to the Big House is Crisler Center which is the UM Basketball arena.

You’ll notice that stadiums in America tend to be in rural places or the suburbs, wheras in Europe they’re more often right in the city. This is due to a few things. Land is cheaper in North America of course, meaning things can be more spaced out. That produces suburbs, which create a heavy reliance on cars, which require parking. Especially with stadiums built around the mid 20th century, you’ll see a stadium standing alone like an island in a sea of pavement. Recently, stadiums have begun to move back into the city, as architecture has shifted toward encorporating buildings into their surroundings rather than the other way around. The growth in sustainable design has also steered us increasingly away from creating massive parking lots with a huge area of impervious surface, as these both trap heat and disrupt water filtration. A very gradual shift towards public transit and biking in America’s future (hopefully) will make urban stadiums feasible. Some of the best college stadiums right now are great because they’re in walking distance and they see a ton of foot traffic, so much so that it becomes a tradition for all the students to walk to the stadium together on game day. College students don’t always have cars as well and parking tends to cost money, so a walkable college stadium is great design because it makes sense and it’s synergistic. Hopefully more pro teams will continue to follow that model as they move downtown.

I know it kinda looks like Michigan Stadium isn't that big from the areal photo, but for some perspective- that "mini-stadium" next to the stadium is a 14,000 seat basketball arena 😂

If you are able to get to the US, I'll happily buy you a ticket for a Michigan game, make sure you have a great tailgate before and a great meal after. The Big House is amazing.

He mispronounced the University of Illinois mascot, they are the Fighting "ill-Lie-Nigh" [Illini], named for the plural of the Native Americans who inhabited the area. Most of those stadiums named "Memorial Stadium" are were constructed after World War I and in honor of the soldiers who died in that war. Soldier Field in Chicago is also named this way.

It gets weirder. We're adding 2 teams from Southern California in 2024. UCLA plays in the Rose Bowl and USC has the Coliseum. It hosted the 1984 Olympic opener, and will host the opener for the '28 games in LA. Also, Ryan Field is set to be torn down and replaced with a state-of-the-art, albeit smaller stadium. If you like Ohio Stadium, check out our band's halftime shows. We even performed one in Wembley for an NFL game.

@CopiousJohn

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The Coliseum also hosted the 1932 Olympics.

I was at the Michigan record setting game. It was a night game vs Notre Dame, insane energy

I'm not *too* offended by your take on Beaver Stadium. That stadium is a tin can, but it's OUR tin can, and personally I hope they don't go through with the plan shown in the rendering in your video. Many parts of the stadium require an overhaul but I personally don't think we need to beautify it like that😀 As far as the empty surroundings, someone in another comment pointed out that these were founded as agricultural schools in rural areas. However the empty fields are actually a good thing... a big part of the college football tradition is "tailgating", essentially parking your car and setting up a huge picnic and extended drinking event with all of your friends. Penn State has several square MILES of tailgating space, so all of that empty space you see around the stadium is packed with 28,000 cars and endless food and debauchery all day before the game. Penn State might have the largest tailgating area in the country, I think? But other schools have great tailgating traditions. Ole Miss (University of Mississippi) has a historic tailgating area called "The Grove" set amongst giant Oak and Magnolia trees. LSU tailgating is famous for its Cajun/Creole food, and I hear they like to grill gator when they play University of Florida...

Really need to have accompanying gameday (especially night game) footage to really get a feel of the stadiums.