Aussie Sports Fan Reacts to "BIG 10 COLLEGE FOOTBALL STADIUMS" 

So, just to clarify this isn’t the ten biggest stadiums, but the stadiums of the Big 10 conference which has 14 teams. The schools are divided into conferences by region and i believe it’s 126 teams in division 1

This is the Big Ten conference -- One of the top four conferences in the top tier of American college football. There were 14 teams at the time of this video but will be adding four more teams before the start of the next season.

The Big Ten is the oldest major conference in college sports. It was founded in 1896 and was originally made up of the biggest schools in the Great Lakes region. It's had relatively few changes in it's time compared to other conferences. Ohio State joined in 1912, Chicago left around WW2, Michigan State joined shortly after. Penn State joined in the 90s, and Nebraska, Maryland, and Rutgers all came in the early 2010s. This coming season they're adding UCLA, USC, Oregon, and Washington from the west coast.

Michigan Stadium, Beaver Stadium and Ohio Stadium are the 3rd, 4th and 5th largest in the world. The 14 largest stadiums in the country are college football stadiums; the NFL doesn't make the list until #15.

Recruiting lounge is where the team will host the recruits they bring in (these are high school kids who the school and team are trying to get to come to the school).

Illini" as in "The Fighting Illini" is pronounced ill-eye-nye. It's derived from the name of the native people for which the state of Illinois is named.

Yes, Iowa is the stadium that has the Children's Hospital nearby. Note as well that many of these stadiums are 60-100 years old. College football has a long standing popularity in America. Just as college football is the minor leagues for the NFL, high school football (which is also big in America) is the minor leagues for CFB. The recruiting areas are then seating for prospective HS recruits.

My ancestor was one of those Union Troops stationed at Camp Randall (Wisconsin). It’s home to the infamous “Iron Brigade”

The Parking at Camp Randle Stadium is a result of the Stadium being originally built in 1917, and its being surrounded by the city of Madison - so on game day you can either park further out and walk/ride a bus to the stadium, or - a lot of the folks around the stadium will allow people to park in their driveways or on their lawns- for a fee. The closer to the stadium, the more they'll charge. But since you are just off of downtown, there are a significant number of public parking structures within about a mile and a half of the stadium (2-3 km).

10:09 My mom & brother go to one Husker game per season, & frequently they're in “nosebleed” seats. Even though they can't see the game live that well, it's not THAT bad, since the stadium has a MASSIVE video screen that immediately replays every play of the game.

As already mentioned, University stadiums are in small towns sometimes. Omaha Nebraska is the largest city in Nebraska at 480,000. Lincoln is the 2nd largest and capital of Nebraska and home of the University of Nebraska and has 293,000 residents. So yeah the stadium becomes the 3rd largest town. on game days

The car parks are a few miles away. This is in a neighborhood with houses.... Park in the street.Walk 30 minutes. Shit ton of tailgating (beer, food, beer, beer, bourbon, beer, brats, burgers, beer, babes, beer...) Did I mention beer?

The Big 10 is just one of several college football conferences (divisions). There are 18 (?) Big 10 teams. Other conferences include the PAC-10 (Pacific), SEC (southeastern conference), Atlantic Coast conference, etc. but the Big 10 does have the largest stadiums.

These are the stadiums of the teams in the Big 10 Conference. There are a number of conferences in the US including the Southeastern, Big 12, Atlantic Coast, etc. There has been a Pacific 12 for many years but during the last year it sort of imploded and most of the teams moved to other conferences so there are only 2 teams left in it as of now. ps. Many of these state universities are in relatively small, rural towns, so some of them become the largest city in whatever state on game day.

You should check out the southeast conference (SEC) stadiums too, they have even more big stadiums. Also, you can probably guess, but college football brings in big money for the colleges. Football mainly, but mens and sometimes women's basketball are considered the main revenue generating sports, which pays for the other sports for the school, up to 18 different sports teams for each woman and men's. The US has a rule that there needs to be even mens and woman's athletic scholarships given. Considering football teams are allowed up to 85 scholarships, that means a lot of women's sports are provided full scholarship teams. Lastly, this is a big reason why the US does so good in so many Olympics sports, because many of them are college athletes, as well as the women's soccer team. Although, many international Olympic athletes also play for American university teams too, because they can recruit domestically and internationally for student athletes. All mainly because of college football.

Yes, Iowa is the one with the children’s hospital

The "Big Ten" started out with... you guessed it 10 teams, however, it has almost doubled in size due to other conferences closing and joining the Big Ten.

You can tell how good a team is/has been by the size and expansions of the stadiums. Those that win expand instead of building new stadiums usually, that is why Ohio State is no longer a horseshoe, to get the capacity they wanted they closed that end. There are 15 college football stadiums with a greater capacity than EVERY NFL stadium

Bahahahaha! The narrator has a good sense of humor! I believe the recruiting station is for talent scouts looking to draft college players into the NFL! Great video Lyle! Thanks! 🤠

The second stadium. "That building" (Roman). is called the "Field House" and is the former basketball stadium. Lot's of history so they kept it after building new arena...

It's pronounced ILL-LIE-NIE. American colleges recruit some of their better players from other parts of the country. It can be a vicious game of recruiting between the schools.

5:08 hes talking about the 14 teams in that specific conference. The Ncaa has 10 conferences in Division1 FBS There are videos on all the FBS college conferences. Conferences have divisions but only regional two per conference. Each division has their own conferences D1fbs D1Fcs D2 D3 D1 FBS is American Athletic conference Atlantic coast conference Big 10 Big 12 Conference USA Independents Mid Atlantic conference Mountain West conference Pac12 South Eastern conference Sunbelt He also did videos on the Fcs conferences as well.

When you first show up to Michigan stadium your perspective of the place is slapped hard when you walk in and see it. It's so huge. It's so fucking big.

This is an old video, Ross-Ade at Purdue has been renovated (again) after 100 years and capacity is higher, even as it is lower than the seating in the 1970s and 1980s. Purdue is the founding school of the conference, organized by then Purdue president Smart. Many college football related traditions are tied to the BIG Ten, such as Purdue being the first marching band in the country to break ranks and create formations on the field. More recently added conference school Rutgers is where the first ever college game was played.

15:07 Ryan Field has since been demolished. They’re going to build a new stadium on the same site. Meanwhile they’re playing their home games at a temporary stadium on campus for two years.

6:01 fun fact: Kinnick stadium hosted a Wrestling Meet. During Wrestling season a few years ago, Iowa had one of their home meets on the football field.

There are two divisions in college football. 128 FBS schools/teams. The FBS is like the premier league, the biggest and the best. There are 133 FCS schools/teams. Each division subdivides into conferences. The FBS conferences: Atlantic Coast Conference ACC, American, Big 12, Big Ten, Conference-USA, Independent, Mid-American Conference, Mountain West, Pacific or PAC-12, Southeastern Conference(SEC) and Sun Belt conferences. Arguably, the best conferences are SEC, Big Ten and Big 12. ACC and Pac-12 make a good showing for themselves as well. While these conferences were initially regional, in the last few years teams have been moving conferences. Better conferences usually means better TV deals, more money for the schools, and better recruiting. During football season, multiple games will be played on multiple channels from about 11am east coast to about 11pm west coast. So yeah, 12 to 14 hours of grid-iron goodness. NFL is played on Sundays, 1 game on monday night and sometimes a game on thursday night.

i can see how it would be confusing but the title is referring to the teams in the big 10 conference. each conference more or less represents a region of the country and together form all of the highest level of college sports.

As an American, it is awesome to hear another perspective on these stadiums. Been loving these videos! Check out the Penn state vs Michigan first play of the game if you haven’t. It’s so loud!

In regards to Spartan Stadium holding more than the city population it's true. East Lansing has a population of about 46k (not including students) lol on gameday East Lansing becomes one of the most populous cities in the state usually drawing close to 200k to the area each game depending on the opponent. The whole state turns out when MSU and Michigan play at either of their stadiums, pure civil war.

James Beaver was Governor of Pennsylvania and got the legislature to appropriate money so that The Pennsylvania Agricultural College could play football. A Girls Gym is named after his daughter Mary Beaver White.

YOU need to check out the SEC - south eastern conference stadiums. Undoubtedly the conference with the best overall stadiums. And my team is not in it but its just obvious. There is a competitive nature between conferences themselves as well !

And along with the other information you got from previous comments. The 14 teams that you're seeing from the Big Ten Conference. Even those 14 aren't put into order of size. So there is no water. He just is doing schools conference by conference.

Yes Iowa is where the wave is done

He pronounced it very wrong, Illinois is the :"Fighting Ill-Lie-Nie", named for the Native Americqn tribe that the state of Illinois is named for.

Like NFL's Green Bay Packers' Lambeau Field. Same state, same family setting.

I'm going to be watching you. I'm from Memphis in America.

1:41 So Penn State’s mascot is the Nittany Lions, which is a mountain lion or a cougar from the nearby Nittany mountain

The Big Ten Conference is what he is showing. This is only 1 Conference. Originally, this conference had 10 teams but has been expanded to 14 teams. There are 134 Div 1 teams in college football.

You were saying something about it being odd that the Michigan State University holding more people than the city it is in. Actually the stadium is located within East Lansing, a city directly adjacent to Lansing, the Capitol of Michigan. The stadium is centrally located within the state making it pretty easy for people to travel to. I live in a town of 10k just south of the Capitol. Rivalry between the U of M and MSU is pretty intense.

They recently expanded the Big-10 conference to include USC, UCLA, Washington, and Oregon. I think it's 18 now. As others have posted, these are stadiums of this particular conference, not the 10 best in the country. Other conferences include the SEC, Big-12, ACC, Mountain West, WAC, Conference USA, Sun Belt, etc.

Every College football team is in a conference. Like Big 10, SEC, Big 12,ACC. They have conference champions and they play each other in a round robin style tournament throughout the year. Then the top 12 (starting this year w 12, used to be 4) teams in all the conferences play in a bracket style playoffs.

When he says 14 teams, he’s talking about the 14 teams in the Big 10 Conference. Over the years, many conferences, such as the Big 10, SEC, ACC, and Big 12 have expanded the number of teams in their conference, but never changed their name😂In fact, the Big 10 conference now has 18 teams. New additions for the 2024/2025 season include the University of Southern California (USC), the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Oregon, and the University of Washington. These teams were apart of a conference called the Pac 12, but that conference essentially died due to realignment (teams going to other conferences). All but 2 former Pac12 teams went to the Big 10 or Big 12 conferences. You should watch a video on realignment as well as the new Playoff format. The 2024/2025 season will look VERY different than previous seasons

The pronunciation of the Fighting Illini in Illinois is phonetically pronounced "Illeyeneye.

The big 10 has 14 teams as of the making of that video. There are currently 10 D1-FBS Conferences, but will likely be 9 soon since the PAC-12 is losing members. Overall there are around 130 teams in D1-FBS. He mispronounced Illini (uh LIE ni). It's a reference to a Illiniwek a Native American tribe that lived in that area. The one that was at a NASCAR track was a regular season game played at the Bristol Motor Speedway. It's atendance was 150,000. Tennessee vs Virginia Tech. You have, they played Princeton in the first acknowledged College Football game, ever. Recruiting office for new players. We also have High School football. High School is grades 9-12.

The level of play at college is very high. Most of the guys have been scouted and recruited since H.S. with a resume of playing the game for 10 years often. They commit to play for a college after being recruited and usually offered scholarships worth alot of money to play, pluss now other endorsements. The facilities to train and resources available to them is ridiculous. A small fraction will make it to the NFL. If you make a college football or basketball team. That's impressive ! Shit , alot of kids never make the team in H.S.

9:32 most college football stadiums started out like this way back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As the game grew more and more popular, universities would start to expand the stadiums. Often by first building up each side, then often by closing in an end behind one of the end zones/goals. A lot of schools stopped here. Some made more upgrades to the “horseshoe” shaped stadiums. Often adding upper decks or completely rebuilding sections or even entire sides. Other schools chose to continue expanding their stadiums to completely encircle the playing fields. They also will add upper decks of more seating or again replacing whole sections or even entire sides. This is more often than not how some of these college football stadiums became as monstrous as they are. But please remember that most college stadiums use more bleacher seating than individual seating. This allows much larger capacities than NFL pro stadiums as the NFL stadiums use more individual seating which takes up more space. Also, PLEASE react to the College Football Stadiums of the SEC Conference, here on the same channel as the BIG10 stadiums video.

You should react to the best high school football stadiums

Wisconsin's university is on an isthmus, so there isn't a lot of parking anywhere. The big 10 is one of the college conferences.

Big Ten is a regional football conference. There are many different regional conferences.

Lol! the big 10 is a conference. Their are many college football conferences. Big 10, ACC, SEC, PAC 12, Big East, WAC among many others. These are usually referred to as the power conferences as they are some of the most top tier and competitive conference nationally. There are some conferences that are a somewhat separate from those but can also crack national rankings though they are usually outliers when they do compete against those power conferences. Ivy League schools like Harvard and Princeton. HBCU’s (historically black college universities) such as Morehouse, Hampton and Grambling university also have their own conference. Collegiate Sports is a massive deal in North America. Whereas major cities have more professional sports support, colleges are everywhere including more rural areas and tier 2 cities with smaller metropolitan areas. But generations upon generations of alumni are why you see massive support at these games.

We will be getting to all of the Division 1 Conferences 😊

If you are looking at college football, you need to know the first game was played in 1869. The teams were Rutgers and Princeton. Both teams are from New Jersey. Rutgers won 6-4.

There are 128 teams in Division 1 FBS College Football. While there are also 133 teams in Division 1 FCS College Football.

There are 9 conferences in the top level of Division 1 or FBS - Football Bowl Subdivision . The 10th conference, The PAC- Pacific Coast Conf will dissolve starting this August when football season begins. Because of TV rights, money, teams are jumping to other conf. Each conf is independent with their own Commissioners, tv deals and even refferies umbrellaed under the rules of the NCAA. Years of tradition is gone for treasure in this new trend.. Division 1AA or FCS - football championship Subdivision is the next level of football. Followed by Division 2 and finally D3 ... D1 FBS with 130 teams is 90% of what is seen on tv or talked about. It also produces 90% of NFL players.

Big 10 just went through an expansion and added some more teams for this upcoming season- adding 4 more teams for a current total of 18. Ross Aide stadium just went through an update and Northwestern’s stadium is being torn down and rebuilt.

Watch more of his college football stadiums SEC,ACC,PAC12 and AAC . And check out the MLS(futbol/soccer) CFL (Canadians football) and CPL (Canadian Soccer)

Lived in Iowa City for almost 20 years. My sisters both went to the University of Iowa and my oldest sister married a guy from Iowa. Which they still live in Iowa City. My nephew's middle name is Nile after Nile Kinnick. I loved and still do going up there tailgaiting and watching the games. Yes the University of Iowa Children's hospital overlooks the stadium and the players and crowd stop and wave to the kids during the game.

Ryan field, northwestern has been destroyed to make a smaller stadium for seating but cost 1 billion. Will be the most technologically advanced stadium. Northwestern is a top ten university north of Chicago. Doesn’t have a huge following but a really really rich alumni.

I've been to Ohio Stadium (The Horseshoe/The 'Shoe) twice in my life. If you ever get the chance to go to a Ohio State Buckeyes game, which I definitely recommend, you'll be amazed by the size of the stadium and the noise of the crowd. Also yes, Iowa is the stadium with the Children's Hospital.

College football programs are recruiting high school players regularly. They like to have them there during big games. When the stadium is "rocking".

Also since this video has been Released the conference has added 4 teams (Washington, Oregon, usc and ucla)

There are three basic divisions for college football, with each division having different rules for recruiting football players. The basic rule difference is the number of players the teams can recruit with full (Division 1), partial (2), or none (3) athletic scholarships. So all the best prospective high school football players shop around for the best scholarships and best football coaches. They are all hoping a division 1 school will want them. Conferences were initially organized with 12 or less schools (or teams) so that everyone plays against each other during the 12 to 14 games played each season. With over 100 division 1 schools, there are around 10-12 conferences. Recently the number of schools in conferences have increased, so many conferences are dying as their teams join better conferences.

Northwestern is thankfully building a new stadium. It’ll be state of the art but also dramatically smaller than its current design.

Ohio stadium wasn't originally sunk in when it was built, later they dug the field down so it is below ground level now, it let them put more seats in without building up. Also, the super pristine looking fields aren't real grass, they're field turf. Some schools still use grass so they don't loom quite as perfect. Also also, Illini is pronounced uh-lie-nye. . Its bamed for thr confederation of indigenous tribes who historically had inhabited much of present-day Illinois; It's also sometimes used now as a term for anyone from Illinois.

Colleges need to recruit players. Players choose which college they attend. A lot of competition between Universities...

There are over 700 college football teams throughout the country.😊

The are a lot of places in the US that don't have a nearby NFL team.

You should check out the largest high school stadiums.

Go Bucks

Illinois is the Illini pronounce ILL-LIE-NYE

FEAR the Turtle. hi from Maryland

I didnt see anyone else mention it but as someone from New Jersey, and who had parents both graduate from Rutgers: Rutgers University, Formally known as Queen's College. Is one of the oldest universities in the US. Our football stadium houses a banner that says: "The Birthplace of College Football". we earned the right to bear that title by beating Princeton in the first college football game in 1869. Our mascot used to be an actual Scarlet Knight on top of a white horse but i dont know why they got rid of him for that ugly plushy we have now.

Trivia the name BIG is both the word big and the number 10, the IG doubles as the number 10.

Conference: Big 10, ACC, SEC, etc. Divisions...

Yes Iowa has the children hospital next to stadium that they wave

Make sure to react to SEC stadiums as well

Yes, University of Iowa has the children hospital wave from the stadium. The best Big 10 college hands down. Go Hawkeyes!!!

Band- Pop Evil, The BIG HOUSE!!!.

Gotta do the SEC!!

Please do a video on the SEC college football stadiums

FBS, or the Football Bowl Subdivision, consists of 11 different conferences: the ACC, American, Big 12, Big Ten, C-USA, Independent, MAC, Mountain West, PAC-12, SEC and Sun Belt conferences.

I seen you reacted to Ohio State band. Maybe check out some HBCU bands? HBCU is (Historical Black Colleges & Universities) their bands are far better but I have no videos to suggest but if you do take a look try looking at some of the betters ones like. Southern University Human Juke Box Jackson State Sonic Boom PV Marching Storm North Folk St Spartan Legion Texas Southern Ocean of Soul

This upcoming season the Big 10 gets additional teams, UCLA, USC, Oregon and Washington

(Edit: make sure you react to 2024 editions. There has been a lot of changes) There is definitely Michigan fans going around telling y’all to react to the big 10 stadiums. I’ve seen like 3 people do it. React to a video showing the biggest college football stadiums… as well please react to SEC stadiums. That’s where the actual big stadiums are.

I went to IU and they crushed the small field during my time there, but before that construction happened we would regularly break in after a night out to run around and be idiotic college students on the field. it was the best

Purdue’s field looks different because it’s REAL GRASS, most of the fields in the Big 10 are Prescription Artificial Turf. You know, fake grass with the sand and rubber pellets in the foundation.

I hope you will check out some games this year

These aren’t the ten largest stadiums, they are from the college football conference known as the Big 10, which are schools of the industrial Midwest around the Great Lakes.

The Big Ten Conference expanded to 16 teams.

The Big 10 is one of 5 major power conferences when it comes to football. Big 10 SEC Big 12 ACC PAC 12 - which is effectively collapsed due to realignment of schools.

Yes Iowa has the Childrens hospital view

Yes Iowa is the one where they wave to the children’s hospital

Let me try to explain the football culture, for that matter the sports culture of the United States. As you may well know the United States is very patriotic which comes from its history of how it came to be, but that patriotism goes into our sports as well. We might have the American patriotism for our country, but every sports team whether it be football, baseball, basketball, or even NASCAR, and nowadays even soccer have fans that are very patriotic towards that specific team and/or sport. Now with football it all starts as young as little tykes playing during their grade school years at public after school teams. That gives them the taste whether they want to continue to play football as they grow up or not. After grade school or what we also call elementary school comes junior high which has school teams, where the enthusiasm begins for the players. Then comes high school where each high school has a team, and the enthusiasm goes beyond the players but also to the public of that specific city where that high school is located. The attendance is pretty stepped up at this level at least for that particular high school city district. Now as the players graduate from that high school athletic scouts from the universities go and check out the high school players, and according to their ability and player stats they could earn a scholarship to a university / college, and play for that university. Now as you can see by the videos that you have been watching, the fandom goes way beyond a specific area because students may be coming to that university from the other side of the United States therefore their families and friends might root for that college because of that, but there are also other reasons why people will root for a specific college not in their area. Maybe because they are alumni, or as simple as they just like that particular college football stats or team. Now with college football the enthusiasm as I told you ramps up the players have recruiters from the professional teams come to watch their games with special seating or even sky boxes high up at the top of the stands to watch the players, and according to their stats they will be recruited to the professional NFL teams. Now with the NFL the enthusiasm gets even stronger throughout our country, and like I said people can be pretty patriotic for specific teams let alone our own country. I hope this helps understand our football, but also our sports culture in general in the United States. The same thing happens in all other sports that we enjoy.

Yeah Terps!

Michigan is the biggest and best in everything

His dry wit about turtles does ring true. Why for football? There are so many legend about football. Some true & some not. I have no idea about a sunken bulldozer. College is liked better than NFL?? I like it better but I'm not sure that is universal. NFL does have a massive following. College has a lot more loyal fans. Pros seem pick up & lose fans depending on how they play.

Iowa is where they wave to the children across the street at the end of the first quarter

The Big10 (B1G) is just the self-given name a conference of (origanally 10) teams, it does not represent the 10 biggest teams of college football

Lyle, was this announcer your cousin by chance? Got those dad jokes going on , lol.