The reason they have attendances over capacity is the capacity is only permanent seats that are paid for. The attendance also includes accredited press, team staff, marching bands, support staff plus any sitting in temporary structures.
Can anyone explain to me how American college football works?
Are these colleges, like our equivalent of 6th form or universities?
Are these people turning up to watch under 18s or under 21’s fixtures? – the premier league stars of the future, if you like.
Do you support the team that you went to college at or the nearest college to you or is this usually the same thing?
Why do more people watch this than professional football?
I don’t understand.
They are the same as our uni's. 4 year institutions.
The large state uni's have around 50,000 under-grads on campus.
Sport is a huge part of campus life and is very tribal. Games are played in a regional conference style.
Its very well liked as the players are playing for the game rather than money, although the good ones will go on to get drafted into pro sports.
You have to have a certain GPA level per term to be able to participate in the NCAA the following season, so it re-iterates the students are their to primarily learn rather than play sports.
Are the US college stadia subject to less strict safety rules than NFL ones? It seems odd that there are not more, larger pro-football stadia when most teams easily sell out most of the time?
No, I don't think so. College football is just huge here.
That said, the Rose Bowl and the LA Coliseum, where UCLA and USC play college football respectively, are both massive, but they're both kind of shit. You're far away. Both are kind of dingy.
I still regret not going to Ben Hill Griffin while living in Gainesville, FL. My ex used to live about a mile from it and you could hear it on game days.
One of the reasons the college games sell out every game is they play so few games in a season, less than a dozen home games mostly. If the NFL teams don't make the playoffs, they only have eight home games, so they most often sell out.
One of the reasons the college games sell out every game is they play so few games in a season, less than a dozen home games mostly. If the NFL teams don't make the playoffs, they only have eight home games, so they most often sell out.
The college season is normally 12 games with extra games for Conference Championship games, end-of-season Bowl games, and the National Championship semi-finals and final. Most teams would probably only have five or six home games a year.
The reason they have attendances over capacity is the capacity is only permanent seats that are paid for. The attendance also includes accredited press, team staff, marching bands, support staff plus any sitting in temporary structures.
Blimey - so the place in Michigan Napa was talking about either finds somewhere to build temporary structures, even though it already holds 107'000, or they have a 4000 piece marching band?
I guess they go to the Daisy/Roly school of attendances if they include all those people in the head count.
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The attendance also includes accredited press, team staff, marching bands, support staff plus any sitting in temporary structures.
Twickenham, Stadium Australia and the mighty MCG
Are these colleges, like our equivalent of 6th form or universities?
Are these people turning up to watch under 18s or under 21’s fixtures? – the premier league stars of the future, if you like.
Do you support the team that you went to college at or the nearest college to you or is this usually the same thing?
Why do more people watch this than professional football?
I don’t understand.
The large state uni's have around 50,000 under-grads on campus.
Sport is a huge part of campus life and is very tribal. Games are played in a regional conference style.
Its very well liked as the players are playing for the game rather than money, although the good ones will go on to get drafted into pro sports.
You have to have a certain GPA level per term to be able to participate in the NCAA the following season, so it re-iterates the students are their to primarily learn rather than play sports.
That said, the Rose Bowl and the LA Coliseum, where UCLA and USC play college football respectively, are both massive, but they're both kind of shit. You're far away. Both are kind of dingy.
I still regret not going to Ben Hill Griffin while living in Gainesville, FL. My ex used to live about a mile from it and you could hear it on game days.
4 for me, those two, Nou Camp, and Wembley.
I guess they go to the Daisy/Roly school of attendances if they include all those people in the head count.
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I can't imagine they'd be very nice in the rain