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OUcats82
8/23/2017 12:45 PM
I'd love to hear how many places some of the production staffers for say ESPN have been to in their careers. Does anyone know if they have regionally based teams to cover certain areas or will they just criss-cross the nation as needed?
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shabamon
5/28/2021 1:10 PM
Ever wanted to do three FBS games in one day?

You can September 4 in Atlanta.

12:00 Army @ Georgia State, Center Parc Credit Union Stadium (the converted Braves stadium)
3:30 Miami (FL) vs Alabama, Mercedes-Benz Stadium
7:30 Northern Illinois @ Georgia Tech, Bobby Dodd Stadium
Last Edited: 5/28/2021 1:11:15 PM by shabamon
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Hawaiian Bobcat
5/28/2021 2:20 PM
Fun game you guys. Stadiums I have watch a FBS college football game:

1. Peden (Ohio)
2. Ohio (TO$U)
3. Yager (Fiami)
4. Nippert (Cincinnati)
5. Notre Dame (Notre Dame)
6. Liberty Bowl (Memphis)
7. Aloha (Hawai'i)
8. Rose Bowl (UCLA)
9. Neyland (Tennessee)
10.Arizona (Arizona)
11. Superdome (Tulane)

The team indicated in the parenthesis is the school that used the stadium as their home field not one of the teams I saw play.

OUCats82, my roommate was a technical director for ESPN, next time I talk to him I will ask him how many venues he has visited. He sent me a picture standing on the 50 yard line at Alabama. I'm guess it is several if you include all the tennis and UFC he has worked.
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Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame
5/28/2021 4:58 PM
My list is small. Been to the following college stadiums:

Ohio
Army
Boston College

I've also seen Army-Navy in four stadiums. This year I'll see it in a fifth.
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OhioCatFan
5/28/2021 11:35 PM
I've watched college football games (mainly OHIO games) at the following school's stadiums (I don't remember in all cases that actual name of the stadium, so I'll use the school name):

1. Ohio
2. Ohio State
3. Bowling Green
4. Kent State
5. Marshall
6. Northwestern
7. Tennessee
8. Penn State (not to be confused with the State Penn)
9. Virginia Tech
10. Kentucky
11. Murray State
12. Wittenberg
13. Heidelberg (Ohio, not Germany, though I've seen that foreign one too)
14. Pittsburgh
15. Rutgers
16. Purdue
17. Morehead State
18. Louisville
19. Ford Field (MACC)
20. Ladd-Peebles (GMAC Bowl & Senior Bowl)
21. Michigan
22. Miami (the original, older one in Ohio, that also sucks)
23. Minnesota Hat's off to thee!
24. Maryland


As they say in Congress, I reserve the right to revise and extend my remarks, if I remember some that I've forgotten at the moment.

Revisions:

25. West Virginia (or as we called it at Marshall U. of Southern Pa.)
Last Edited: 5/30/2021 12:00:14 AM by OhioCatFan
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Pataskala
5/29/2021 12:32 AM
Yeah, my list isn't long either and they're all Bobcat games (not in chronological order):

Peden
Da Shoo
BG
WVU
UVA
UNC
Ford Field
Purdue
Last Edited: 5/29/2021 12:40:45 AM by Pataskala
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BillyTheCat
5/29/2021 11:04 AM
Wow, have not thought about this in awhile:

All current MAC stadiums,
Temple
UMass
UConn (on campus and off campus)
Rutgers
Penn State
WVU
Marshall
Youngstown State
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest
Missouri
UVA
NC State
UNC
Army
Navy
Army vs Navy in Phillyx2 Baltimore 1
Gator Bowl
Outback Bowl x2
Citrus Bowl
Fiesta Bowl (Tempe x2)
UCF
GMAC Ladd People’s
Ford Field x3
LSU
Vanderbilt
Tennessee
Kentucky
Northwestern x 3
Illinois
Minnesota Stadium
Metronome (Minnesota vs OHIO)
Pitt Stadium x3
Heinz Field (Pitt vs OHIO)
Big House
Indiana
Purdue x5
Iowa State x3
Colorado State
Tulsa
Last Edited: 5/31/2021 4:30:36 PM by BillyTheCat
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El Gato Roberto
5/29/2021 2:59 PM
I don’t get around much...seen games at these...have visited others without seeing a game.

Ross Ade - Purdue
Yeager - Miami
Ohio - Ohio St
Cotton Bowl
Doyt Perry - BGSU
Peden - Ohio
Waldo- Western Michigan
Glass Bowl - Toledo
Orange Bowl (Joe Robbie)
Citrus Bowl
Ryan Field - Northwestern
Ford Field
Beaver - Penn State
Memorial - Illinois
Memorial - Indiana
Last Edited: 6/8/2021 4:20:56 PM by El Gato Roberto
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Mark Lembright '85
5/29/2021 6:14 PM
This is a great thread!!! I don’t get around to nearly as many games as a lot of you but I’ll add a couple of anecdotes that are slightly interesting:

Virginia Tech - OU was playing VT and Don Strock was VT’s starting QB (yes I’m old)
Iowa State
Ohio/Peden Stadium - includes seeing game where Ben Roesthlisberger torched OU and he was only a freshman

Akron (Rubber Bowl) - Jason Taylor was a man amongst boys in that game. OU attempted maybe 3
passes yet won the game

Ladd Peebles Stadium/GMAC Bowl
Ford Field/Little Caesar’s Pizza Bowl
Michigan
Last Edited: 5/29/2021 6:25:09 PM by Mark Lembright '85
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SouthernCat
5/30/2021 7:54 AM
In order:
Ohio Stadium lost count
Cooper Stadium for Capital
Doyt Perry 2 times
Peden lost count
Yeager 4 times
Rynearson
Joan C Edwards
Memorial Stadium-Illinois
Ford Field
Ladd-Peeples
Eiler-Martin Stadium Division 2 East Stroudsburg
Bank of America Stadium 2 ACC championships
Gerald J. Ford Stadium
Wallace Wade Stadium
Last Edited: 6/1/2021 10:07:19 AM by SouthernCat
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roger
5/30/2021 8:17 AM
I’ve seen games at the following schools:

Ohio
Ohio State
Miami (Oxford)
North Carolina
North Carolina State
Duke
Appalachian State
Auburn
Alabama (legion field Birmingham)
Minnesota (the old brick house and the Metrodome)
Montana State
Camellia Bowl Montgomery Alabama
TCU
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
Tokyo, Japan (Wisconsin vs Michigan State)
Elon

Roger
Last Edited: 5/31/2021 8:03:05 PM by roger
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Mike Johnson
5/30/2021 9:14 AM
Ohio
Union College
Heidelberg
Ohio State
Iowa State
Michigan State
West Virginia
Kent State
Bowling Green
Akron (old and new)

Stadiums visited but not when games played: Stanford, Virginia, Penn State
Last Edited: 5/30/2021 9:31:23 AM by Mike Johnson
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SBH
5/31/2021 8:21 AM
Peden
Miami (old and new)
BGSU
Kent
Akron (old and new)
Eastern Mich.
Western Mich.
Central Mich.
OSU
Pitt (old and new)
West Virginia
UConn (old)
UMass
New Mexico State
Youngstown State
Ball State
Toledo
North Carolina State
Buffalo
Ford Field
Slippery Rock
Otterbein
Walsh University
Marshall
Colorado State

My stretch goal is to see Harvard-Yale in both venues.
Last Edited: 5/31/2021 8:25:02 AM by SBH
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Jeff McKinney
5/31/2021 1:15 PM
Peden
Marshall
OSU
Miami
Bowling Green
Akron
Kent State
Buffalo
North Carolina
North Carolina State
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Ladd Peebles Stadium, Mobile
Ford Field, Detroit
Northwestern
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Long Train Runnin'
5/31/2021 7:43 PM
I've been to college games at five stadiums:

Ohio (since 1989; more times than I can count)
Ohio St. (vs. Ohio)
Akron (Rubber Bowl; vs. Ohio)
Illinois (vs. Iowa)
Purdue (vs. Notre Dame)


I have also been inside one other D-1 and four D-3 stadiums, either for high school games or band contests:

West Virginia (band contest)
Muskingum (high school football; played in my first varsity game there)
Marietta (high school football)
Otterbein (band contest)
Capital (back when they played at Cooper Stadium*, configured for football; band contest)

(* - I had also been to Cooper Stadium many times for Columbus Clippers baseball games.)
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OUcats82
6/2/2021 2:51 PM
An OU buddy of mine went on a whirlwind minor league baseball tour with his wife about 10 years ago. Visited what I believe was all 120 stadiums at the time.

https://www.jacksonville.com/article/20120407/NEWS/801255182
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OU_Country
6/5/2021 1:10 PM
shabamon wrote:expand_more
Ever wanted to do three FBS games in one day?

You can September 4 in Atlanta.

12:00 Army @ Georgia State, Center Parc Credit Union Stadium (the converted Braves stadium)
3:30 Miami (FL) vs Alabama, Mercedes-Benz Stadium
7:30 Northern Illinois @ Georgia Tech, Bobby Dodd Stadium
I couldn't imagine sitting in the stands for 11 hours of college football.

I'd love to three hoops games in a day, or 24 hour period, which is very doable.
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mf279801
6/5/2021 8:27 PM
OU_Country wrote:expand_more
Ever wanted to do three FBS games in one day?

You can September 4 in Atlanta.

12:00 Army @ Georgia State, Center Parc Credit Union Stadium (the converted Braves stadium)
3:30 Miami (FL) vs Alabama, Mercedes-Benz Stadium
7:30 Northern Illinois @ Georgia Tech, Bobby Dodd Stadium
I couldn't imagine sitting in the stands for 11 hours of college football.

I'd love to three hoops games in a day, or 24 hour period, which is very doable.
Mercedes Benz Stadium is more of a fancy airport terminal where a football game happens to be taking place than it is sitting in the stands

The practical issue i see with this is that there’s no way you see ALL of all 3 of those games. Best case, you leave the GSU game at the end of the third quarter (probably earlier…say 2:30) and get over to the Benz to make sure you see all of the title card game. Then you make your way to Bobby Dodd afterwords to see what’ll likely be only the second half of the NIU game, if that (those prime time major network games always take forever)
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Pataskala
6/6/2021 3:54 PM
mf279801 wrote:expand_more
Ever wanted to do three FBS games in one day?

You can September 4 in Atlanta.

12:00 Army @ Georgia State, Center Parc Credit Union Stadium (the converted Braves stadium)
3:30 Miami (FL) vs Alabama, Mercedes-Benz Stadium
7:30 Northern Illinois @ Georgia Tech, Bobby Dodd Stadium
I couldn't imagine sitting in the stands for 11 hours of college football.

I'd love to three hoops games in a day, or 24 hour period, which is very doable.
Mercedes Benz Stadium is more of a fancy airport terminal where a football game happens to be taking place than it is sitting in the stands

The practical issue i see with this is that there’s no way you see ALL of all 3 of those games. Best case, you leave the GSU game at the end of the third quarter (probably earlier…say 2:30) and get over to the Benz to make sure you see all of the title card game. Then you make your way to Bobby Dodd afterwords to see what’ll likely be only the second half of the NIU game, if that (those prime time major network games always take forever)
You might have close to half an hour after the first game. Army isn't a throwing team so their games tend to go faster. Just hope there isn't a lightning delay. Bama 3:30 games always seem to take close to four hours, so you probably would miss the opening kickoff of the NIU game. Of course, since Bama's playing the Canes, that game might be out of hand by the end of the third quarter.
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shabamon
6/6/2021 4:14 PM
All three stadiums are essentially downtown proper, right? If Atlanta has bike or scooter rental, the day sounds plausible.

Tide/Canes is going to be one of those games where it's 7-3 after the first quarter and then ends up 49-13. Book it.
Last Edited: 6/6/2021 4:15:04 PM by shabamon
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OUcats82
6/6/2021 11:10 PM
shabamon wrote:expand_more
All three stadiums are essentially downtown proper, right? If Atlanta has bike or scooter rental, the day sounds plausible.

Tide/Canes is going to be one of those games where it's 7-3 after the first quarter and then ends up 49-13. Book it.
More or less-all three stadiums are linked on about a 4 mile stretch, bookended by Dodd and GA State's stadium.

It's roughly a 2 mile walk from MB Stadium to Dodd.

Being outside in the Georgia sun for the Army/GA State game would be pretty draining.

The Skyline Chili Crosstown Showdown here in Cincinnati used to have 4-5-6 week one high school games played at UC's Nippert Stadium in its golden era.

I got there for game one at noon and stayed until after midnight one year. It was exhausting being in the sun and heat late August. I even rode my bike from home on the westside to campus to get there. Thankfully my dad came down for the nightcap and we tossed it in the back of his truck to get home.
Last Edited: 6/6/2021 11:12:56 PM by OUcats82
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mf279801
6/7/2021 8:59 AM
shabamon wrote:expand_more
All three stadiums are essentially downtown proper, right? If Atlanta has bike or scooter rental, the day sounds plausible.

Tide/Canes is going to be one of those games where it's 7-3 after the first quarter and then ends up 49-13. Book it.
+ at least 20 minutes getting into or out of the Benz dome I’d estimate, unless you’re arriving late/leaving early.

Echo what OUCats82 said, sitting out for that Noon game on Labor Day weekend would really take it out of you. The second game (inside) would be fine, but that late game would really be a kick in the teeth to end that day, I’d think. You wouldn’t be in the sun for the most part, but it’ll still likely be 90% humidity and almost 90 degrees. Think you’d be better off trying something like this in an Atlanta November, if the schedules ever lined up (admittedly, finding that 3rd game would be tough if it’s not opening weekend)
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Kinggeorge4
6/7/2021 9:55 AM
My list isn't as long as most. Hope to add to it over the next few years.

OHIO
OSU
Pitt
WVU
Tennessee
Towson St.
Akron
Kent St.
Marshall
Buffalo
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oldkatz
6/7/2021 12:38 PM
Anyone else been to St Olaf at Klein Field at Manitou, watching the Oles and singing the Um Yaa Yaa fight polka?
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Tyler
6/8/2021 1:03 PM
Not a ton of college stadiums for me. I'm more of a baseball traveler (been to a game at all 30 current MLB ballparks).

Notre Dame
Navy
Clemson
Penn St
Tennessee
Arizona State
USC
Iowa
Pitt
Duke
Rutgers
App St
OHIO
Marshall
Kent St
Akron
Youngstown State
Mt. Union

Non-college football stadiums where I've attended college football games:
Super Dome (New Orleans Bowl)
State Farm Stadium (Fiesta Bowl)
Ford Field (MAC Championship/Little Caesar's Bowl)
Chase Field (Cheez-It Bowl)
FedEx Field (USC vs. Virginia Tech)
Last Edited: 6/8/2021 1:03:30 PM by Tyler
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