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Illinois Fighting Illini
Champaign, Illinois - Memorial Stadium
A value ticket in the middle of the conference footprint, with grass-lot tailgating at Grange Grove and frequent weeknight windows...
Teams and conferences
Follow a program, not just a score
Each team page covers how to watch, when to arrive, where to tailgate and what a trip actually involves. Coverage spans the Big Ten, SEC, Big 12 and ACC, plus Notre Dame. For professional clubs, see the NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL, MLS and NWSL directories.
Teams
Team pages
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Indiana Hoosiers
Bloomington, Indiana - Memorial Stadium
A college town that has become a much harder ticket, with a loud closed north end and a short walk from campus bars to the gates....
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Iowa Hawkeyes
Iowa City, Iowa - Kinnick Stadium
Defense, field position and a first-quarter wave to the children's hospital next door that has become the best tradition in the sp...
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Maryland Terrapins
College Park, Maryland - SECU Stadium
The easiest Big Ten road trip on the East Coast, with Metro access and a stadium that often fills with visiting fans....
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Michigan Wolverines
Ann Arbor, Michigan - Michigan Stadium
The biggest stadium in the country and a walkable campus town where the whole day happens on foot....
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Michigan State Spartans
East Lansing, Michigan - Spartan Stadium
A steep bowl in the middle of campus and a rivalry week that splits the state in half every October....
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Minnesota Golden Gophers
Minneapolis, Minnesota - Huntington Bank Stadium
A modern campus stadium inside a major city, which makes it one of the simplest Big Ten trips to plan....
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Nebraska Cornhuskers
Lincoln, Nebraska - Memorial Stadium
A sellout streak measured in decades and a crowd that still applauds the visiting team on the way out....
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Northwestern Wildcats
Evanston, Illinois - Ryan Field
The most accessible Big Ten venue for visiting fans, just north of Chicago and often close to a home-and-home split in the stands....
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Ohio State Buckeyes
Columbus, Ohio - Ohio Stadium
One of the largest home crowds in the sport, a marching band pregame worth arriving early for, and a city that turns over entirely...
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Oregon Ducks
Eugene, Oregon - Autzen Stadium
A small stadium that plays much louder than its capacity, and the West Coast anchor of the expanded conference....
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Penn State Nittany Lions
University Park, Pennsylvania - Beaver Stadium
A night-game destination with grass-lot tailgating that starts hours before anyone walks toward the gates....
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Purdue Boilermakers
West Lafayette, Indiana - Ross-Ade Stadium
One of the easiest in-and-out trips in the league, with the World's Largest Drum and a reliably affordable ticket market....
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Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Piscataway, New Jersey - SHI Stadium
The closest Big Ten stadium to New York City, which makes it the default road trip for East Coast alumni of every other program....
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UCLA Bruins
Los Angeles, California - Rose Bowl Stadium
Home games in the Rose Bowl, which means golf course tailgating and one of the best pregame settings in the country....
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USC Trojans
Los Angeles, California - Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
A historic bowl in Exposition Park with a marching band pregame and museums within walking distance of the gates....
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Washington Huskies
Seattle, Washington - Husky Stadium
The best setting in the conference, with Lake Washington behind one end zone and covered seating on both sidelines....
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Wisconsin Badgers
Madison, Wisconsin - Camp Randall Stadium
A physical, run-first identity and a student section that jumps between the third and fourth quarters....
Tuscaloosa, Alabama - Bryant-Denny Stadium
The most demanding home ticket in the sport, with a walk-of-champions pregame that turns the whole quad into the event....
Auburn, Alabama - Jordan-Hare Stadium
A small town built entirely around football, with an eagle flight before kickoff and a night-game atmosphere that ranks with anyth...
Fayetteville, Arkansas - Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium
A hill-country campus with the Hog call as a soundtrack and a schedule that occasionally moves to Little Rock....
Gainesville, Florida - Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
The Swamp sits sunken into campus, which traps heat and noise in equal measure through September....
Athens, Georgia - Sanford Stadium
Hedges around the field, a downtown that starts early, and one of the hardest tickets in the country for conference games....
Lexington, Kentucky - Kroger Field
A basketball school that has built a real football weekend, with bourbon-country day trips built around the game....
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LSU Tigers
Baton Rouge, Louisiana - Tiger Stadium
Night games in Death Valley are the single loudest environment in college football, and the food in the lots is the best in the sp...
Starkville, Mississippi - Davis Wade Stadium
Cowbells, a compact campus and one of the more affordable ways to see a conference home game in person....
Columbia, Missouri - Faurot Field
A central-Missouri campus that is an easy drive from both Kansas City and St. Louis, which keeps ticket demand steady without bein...
Norman, Oklahoma - Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium
A tradition-heavy program in a compact college town, with the Sooner Schooner and a stadium that has been rebuilt around its origi...
Oxford, Mississippi - Vaught-Hemingway Stadium
The Grove is the most formal tailgate in the country, and for many visitors it is the actual reason for the trip....
Columbia, South Carolina - Williams-Brice Stadium
A pro-style stadium away from campus with fairgrounds tailgating and one of the better entrance traditions in the sport....
Knoxville, Tennessee - Neyland Stadium
A six-figure stadium on the Tennessee River, with the only tailgate fleet in the sport that arrives by boat....
Austin, Texas - Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium
A big-city game day with a stadium two blocks from the state capitol and a downtown that carries the night either way....
College Station, Texas - Kyle Field
The 12th Man tradition means the student section stands the entire game, and Midnight Yell the night before is a genuine event of ...
Nashville, Tennessee - FirstBank Stadium
The most accessible ticket in the conference, inside a city that gives you a full weekend even when the game is a walkover....
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Arizona Wildcats
Tucson, Arizona - Arizona Stadium
Desert football with late kickoffs to beat the heat and one of the more pleasant November climates in the country....
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Arizona State Sun Devils
Tempe, Arizona - Mountain America Stadium
A stadium carved between two buttes, with a walkable Tempe bar district a few blocks from the gates....
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Baylor Bears
Waco, Texas - McLane Stadium
A modern riverfront stadium where a good share of the crowd arrives by boat and ties up on the Brazos....
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BYU Cougars
Provo, Utah - LaVell Edwards Stadium
A mountain-backed stadium with a family atmosphere, no alcohol sales and one of the most scenic settings in the sport....
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Cincinnati Bearcats
Cincinnati, Ohio - Nippert Stadium
One of the oldest stadiums in the country, wedged into an urban campus with a stadium-to-bar walk of about five minutes....
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Colorado Buffaloes
Boulder, Colorado - Folsom Field
The Ralphie run before each half is the best live tradition in the sport, with the Flatirons behind the west stands....
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Houston Cougars
Houston, Texas - TDECU Stadium
A modern campus stadium in the fourth-largest city in the country, with easy freeway access and a big-city weekend around it....
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Iowa State Cyclones
Ames, Iowa - Jack Trice Stadium
One of the best-organized tailgate scenes in the Midwest, with acres of grass lots that open the night before....
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Kansas Jayhawks
Lawrence, Kansas - David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium
A basketball town with a rebuilt football stadium at the top of the hill and one of the best college main streets in the country....
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Kansas State Wildcats
Manhattan, Kansas - Bill Snyder Family Stadium
A purple-out crowd in the Flint Hills with a tailgate culture that treats visitors like guests rather than intruders....
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Oklahoma State Cowboys
Stillwater, Oklahoma - Boone Pickens Stadium
An orange-out crowd in a small town where the stadium is the largest thing for 50 miles in any direction....
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TCU Horned Frogs
Fort Worth, Texas - Amon G. Carter Stadium
A compact, modern stadium in a walkable Fort Worth neighborhood, and one of the easier premium experiences to get into in the leag...
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Texas Tech Red Raiders
Lubbock, Texas - Jones AT&T Stadium
West Texas football with a horse-and-rider entrance, tortilla tosses and wind that becomes part of the game plan....
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UCF Knights
Orlando, Florida - FBC Mortgage Stadium
A loud, bouncing metal stadium on a huge campus, in a city where the rest of the weekend takes care of itself....
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Utah Utes
Salt Lake City, Utah - Rice-Eccles Stadium
A mountain-view stadium with a light-rail stop at the gate and ski country 45 minutes up the canyon....
Morgantown, West Virginia - Milan Puskar Stadium
Country Roads after a win is one of the great stadium moments in the sport, and the gold-out night games are genuinely loud....
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts - Alumni Stadium
A small, tight stadium reachable by the Green Line, with New England fall weather that is at its best in October....
Berkeley, California - California Memorial Stadium
Bay views from the upper deck, a hike-up approach through Strawberry Canyon, and the best weather of any campus in the conference....
Clemson, South Carolina - Clemson Memorial Stadium
Running down the hill and touching Howard's Rock is the loudest 25 seconds in college football, and the lake town around it is wor...
Durham, North Carolina - Wallace Wade Stadium
A stone-walled stadium on one of the prettiest campuses in the country, and one of the easiest tickets in the conference....
Tallahassee, Florida - Doak Campbell Stadium
The flaming spear at midfield before kickoff is one of the sport's signature entrances, inside the largest continuous brick struct...
Atlanta, Georgia - Bobby Dodd Stadium
The oldest on-campus stadium in the sport, sitting in midtown Atlanta with the skyline directly over the north stands....
Louisville, Kentucky - L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium
A modern stadium with strong tailgating and a bourbon-and-barbecue city that makes the weekend easy to sell to a non-fan....
Miami Gardens, Florida - Hard Rock Stadium
A pro stadium 20 miles from campus, with the smoke entrance, night kickoffs and a city that never treats a Saturday as the whole p...
Raleigh, North Carolina - Carter-Finley Stadium
A loud stadium with acres of surrounding lots, which makes it one of the more traditional tailgate days in the conference....
Chapel Hill, North Carolina - Kenan Memorial Stadium
A stadium set in the pines with a walk down Franklin Street that is the best pregame stroll in the conference....
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Acrisure Stadium
College football in an NFL stadium on the river, with the downtown skyline framed through the open end....
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SMU Mustangs
Dallas, Texas - Gerald J. Ford Stadium
A small, renovated stadium on a leafy Dallas campus, with the easiest big-city logistics of any program in the conference....
Stanford, California - Stanford Stadium
A modern, low-slung stadium on a palm-lined campus, with bike-in tailgating and reliably perfect weather....
Syracuse, New York - JMA Wireless Dome
The only indoor stadium in the conference, which makes it the safest November trip on the calendar....
Charlottesville, Virginia - Scott Stadium
A hillside stadium below the Blue Ridge, with wine country and Monticello turning the trip into a full weekend....
Blacksburg, Virginia - Lane Stadium
Enter Sandman before kickoff makes the whole stadium jump, and it is the single best entrance in the conference....
Winston-Salem, North Carolina - Allegacy Federal Credit Union Stadium
The smallest program in the conference by enrollment, with an easy ticket, easy parking and a genuinely pleasant fall Saturday....
Notre Dame, Indiana - Notre Dame Stadium
An independent schedule means a national slate of opponents every year, and the campus rituals before kickoff are as much of the d...
Conferences
Conference hubs
Big Ten
Eighteen schools, four time zones, and the most consistently full stadiums in college sports. If you follow the Big Ten, your season is a broadcast puzzle and a travel calendar at the same time.
Network: Big Ten Network
SEC
Sixteen schools across the South, the deepest stadium capacities in the sport, and a Saturday calendar built around three national windows plus the conference network.
Network: SEC Network
Big 12
Sixteen schools stretched from Orlando to Tucson, which makes this the widest geographic footprint in college football and the one with the most kickoff windows.
Network: ESPN and FOX family
ACC
Seventeen schools running from Boston to the Bay Area, mixing traditional Southern campuses with two NFL venues and the only dome in major conference football.
Network: ACC Network