Dumbfounded Aussie Reacts to "Best College Entrances Pt 2" 

Best Tradition in College Football: There is a Children's Hospital that overlooks the field for the Iowa Hawkeyes. At the end of the first quarter of every home game, everyone in the stadium turns around and waves at the kids that can see the game from the top floors of the hospital.

If I had a nickel for every time a non-American said, "I can't believe this is college," I'd be very wealthy. 😊

Texas once tried chasing a bull the way Colorado has the bison. There’s a reason it only happened once.

The Irish have green jerseys, but they only wear them on special occasions. Their helmets are plain gold because they are meant to mirror the golden dome that tops the administration building on the Notre Dame campus. The song they’re playing when the team runs on the field is the Notre Dame fight song. They play a song called, “Here Come the Irish” just before kickoff, which is followed by the Dropkick Murphy’s, “Shipping off the Boston”. The Irish are my team! Glad you watched this one.

LSU is Louisiana State, people have ties to their universities and whole family traditions to them. They have different uniforms for home and away games. This is so fun. If you come to my state in February (Fur Rendezvous time) you can run the street with reindeer. Yeah America is weird.

BTW, that is the state of Washington, not D.C. (they play different games in D.C.)

Being from Colorado and having gone to college in Colorado, ur reaction to CU's buffalo entrance has me dying

And Texas University has a longhorn for a mascot

I am a Florida Gator fan and before the team runs out on the field there are gigantic screens at both ends of the stadium that has a video of alligators in the swamp that start surfacing while the music to Jaws is playing. When the team runs out the noise level is unbelievable. FYI the current punter is Jeremy Crawshaw from New South Wales, Australia. A lot of the college football teams have Australian kickers for punters.

Camp Randall Stadium in Wisconsin was so loud during "Jump Around" in the first game back after it was shut down for 2 years because of the virus that it registered as an earthquake on the richter scale.

The rest of the world will never understand the culture of America. We are unique!

I'm glad you're so impressed with Ralphie. Yes, she's a girl. They couldn't handle a bull buffalo. The University of Colorado team is called the Buffaloes, hence the live bison/buffalo. I'm so happy that one of these team entrance RU-vids has finally included Ralphie. She's thrilling to see in person.

The reason that collegiate-level sports are so popular in the United States is because (other than baseball), that's where sport really got started here. They were centered on educational institutions rather than individual sport clubs. The players are all students, so the roster is in flux annually as they age out and graduate. This also had (and continues to have) the advantage of instantly including fellow students and alumni into the fan base. Many of these universities are enormous, with thousands of students. School pride is a remarkable thing and continues beyond just what town or city you live in later in life.

1:20 LSU is in Louisiana,Baton Rouge the state Capital hence Louisiana State University. Also a fun fact LSU was origanally In Alexandria as Louisiana Military Academy. It's First University President was William Tecumsah Sherman. The same guy who burned Atlanta during the Civil War. Oh Also LSU has a live animal mascot as do most Schools Mike the Tiger.

If you were shocked by a bison on the field, you might be interested to know that LSU has a live tiger as its mascot. Mike the tiger would be in a cage on a wagon by the visiting locker room until the mid 2000s, now Mike stays in his multi-million dollar habitat.

The origin of the nickname 'Fighting Irish' is not specifically known, by my favorite explanation is, 'Another tale has the nickname originating at halftime of the Notre Dame-Michigan game in 1909. With his team trailing, one Notre Dame player yelled to his teammates - who happened to have names like Dolan, Kelly, Glynn, Duffy and Ryan - “What’s the matter with you guys? You’re all Irish and you’re not fighting worth a lick.”

College football is been around for over 150 years. 50 years older than the NFL🎉 That's alot of tradition🎉❤🎉

Every college has a fight song/alma mater. It is very traditional for college football teams to enter the field to the school fight song. That’s why you didn’t hear a typical Irish folk song for Notre Dame.

Finally! You have CU Buffs with Ralphie!! We live in Denver Colorado and love watching her run! Yes, Ralphie is a female Buffalo 🦬

Notre Dame wears Madonna Blue to signify the respect for the Virgin Mary.

As for other live mascots, Auburn University is the Tigers, but the cry is "War Eagle!", and before home games they release a golden eagle which circles the stadium and returns to the handler on the field.

1. University of Washington, Husky Stadium, Alaska Airlines Field (I will no longer include corporate names for stadiums or fields, it's offensive), Seattle, Washington. The team is known as the Huskies. Capacity 70k. 2. Louisiana State University, Tiger Stadium, no Field name, Baton Rouge, Lousiana. Also known as "Death Valley" like Clemson, who are also Tigers for some reason. Likely the loudest stadium on earth (especially at night), with the seismic lab on campus backing it up with measurements. I've attended 3 games here and can attest, bring hearing protection. There is a fierce competition to be the drunkest in the stadium. Seats 102k drunk cajuns and their friends (whom they have corrupted). 4. The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Beaver Stadium, Beaver Field (these terms are used interchangeably, referring to the same place), State College, Pennsylvania. This game is one of their hooks called a "White-out" where all the fans wear white. The team is known as the Nittany Lions. Capacity 106k and change. 5. Yes, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame Stadium, no one cares Field. The team is known as the Fighting Irish and the most consistently overrated team in college football. They tap on the sign to remember to win. Famous for arguing that Alabama is not better and failing. Capacity 77k. They'd love 77,777 I'm sure. 6. THE Ohio State University, Ohio Stadium, Corporate Name Field, Columbus, Ohio. Seats 102k worth of arrogant fans. Just ask them, they'll tell you. Don't forget the THE. They do a thing with their marching band called "dotting the I". 7. University of Colorado, Folsom Field, Boulder, Colorado. The team is known as the Buffaloes or just Buffs. That is a real female bison and her name is Ralphie. The people you see running are part of the 15 people who turn in 20 hours a week caring for her. Capacity 50k. 8. University of Texas, Darrel K Royal - Texas Memorial Stadium, Campbell-Williams Field, Austin, Texas. The team is known as the Longhorns, because they like cattle. They have a live longhorn steer they bring to games, which tried to attack the University of Georgia's live mascot, Uga, a bulldog. Capacity 100k, but they'll cram 105k in for teams like the Tide. Ask them how they liked that day. 9. University of Florida, Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Steve Spurrier-Florida Field Gainesville, Florida. Yeah, too long a name for Floridians, so it's univerally called "The Swamp" since that's what Coach Spurrier named it. Team is known as the Gators. Dr. Robert Cade invented gatorade here in 1965. Capacity 91k Florida Mans.

IN MY VIEW America doesn't care about impressing anyone......We just care about Being Ourselves because we have that Freedom!

Colorado Buffaloes... It's always a girl and her name is always Ralphie. Go Buffs!!

Really enjoyed your reaction to this video especially your surprise at seeing the bison. Pure gold. There’s also a great college rivalry called The Army-Navy game. The two teams are the United States Military Academy (West Point) (Army) and the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis) (Navy). This rivalry has been played out since 1890. Also, these teams play other college teams including the United States Air Force Academy. When you get a chance I’d love to see your reaction to “The Flyover: America’s Greatest Pregame Tradition”.

lol yeah the CU Buffs. (Buffaloes) hence bringing out the bison/American buffalo. The seating changes because a lot of the time in stadiums you will get bench seating instead of individual seats so it's subjective to interpretation on how full they are.

Notre Dame’s school colors are gold and blue. Sometimes they decide to wear green. They can’t make up their minds.

The Florida Gators first football game was in 1906. The Buffalo Bills first football game was in 1960. The Bills look like the Gators... not the other way around :):) College football is much much older than pro football.

Like I said in the 1st. As of june 2024 Texas A&M now has the largest college football stadium In the USA. They just upgraded it and recently had the largest Concert attendance on record in the USA of over 103 thousand people for George Strait

the largest NFL stadium seats around 82,000 people(NY Giants and Jets), the largest college stadium seats over 107,000(University of Michigan) with 7 others also seating over 100k

The "Bison" or Buffalo is their team mascot.

Notre Dame alum here! ND has green alternate uniforms but they are blue and gold for the colors of the Virgin Mary (catholic school). Additionally the gold helmets match the golden dome of the main building on campus. The school was actually founded by French priests but got the nickname/mascot later on. The origin of the name isn’t totally known, some say it was an insult in some papers that they played like a bunch of fighting Irishman and they embraced it, some say it’s from some Irish students who made up some brigades in the civil war, some say it’s from the football team (a lot of Irish Catholics there) back in the day breaking up a KKK rally and beating up and chasing the members out of town. There are a lot of Irish things about the university, but the fight song isn’t one. Great school, very storied program, and a good game day!

The bison was crazy. You should see LSU. They used to wheel out a tiger in a cage with their cheerleaders sitting on top of the cage.

College football is hugely popular…..as is high school football. In Austin,Texas there’s a has HS team that is sponsored by Lexus and a few HS Texas stadiums have a capacity near 50,000.

If Colorado's buffalo blows your mind, LSU keeps a live tiger on campus as a mascot. They even used to put in front the visiting team's locker room during home games.

Also in Texas our High school stadiums are huge too for just HS. In Montgomery County north of Houston. We have Woodforest Stadium for one of the top school districts in the nation called CISD. First game for football is usually on TV against Mexicos only team Monterey Tech 😂 and we kick there ass

6:55 You are absolutely correct. Gatorade was the commercial product developed from the electrolyte solution used to support the Florida Gator's football team. (I only know this from what I've read online.)

At 5:02, That is "Ralphie" the Buffalo. University of Colorado (known as CU) Buffaloes. I believe that they are on Ralphie V at the moment. Runs around the stadium than right into a pen. The handlers hats fly everywhere and it gets fairly chaotic.

Im from Iowa and attended the UofI for 2 years before I was drafted. I agree with newgirl that the salute to the children's hospital is one of the most touching traditions in college football. The hospital wasn't built yet when I was there.

I don't know if they still do it but Florida State Seminoles had a Native American in War garb riding a horse around the field, heading to the middle (50 yard line) and throwing a spear into the ground on the logo as a battle challenge. Cultural appropriation aside, it was a powerful battle cry.

In 1991, at the University of Washington, the crowd set a then worlds record for crowd noise. It was an amazing experience to feel all that energy!!

Notre Dame's traditional colors are blue jersey with the golden dome helmet. Back in the day teams' names were acquired. Usually some sports reporter would come up with a nickname and it would catch on. ND was playing football before they acquired the name Fighting Irish. Notre Dame has an alternate green jersey. ND pretty much invented the alternate jersey, which every team has nowadays.

They never show it, but Colorado isn't the only one with a big beast on the field. Texas has a real Longhorn. Georgia Bulldogs have a bulldog and Auburn has a hawk they call the War Hawk that flies around the stadium when the team comes in. Nebraska has a covered wagon

For reference, Death Valley Stadium at LSU (Louisiana State University) has been unanimously recognized as the most hostile (loudest) environment to play in American sports.

It's May in Georgia, and I am starving for college football. Your reactions to the utter spectacle of the best game on Earth brings me joy and makes me smile. Thank you! Cannot wait until the next one you post. Have a fab weekend and Go Dawgs!! xo

LSU Louisiana State Univ.... I live in Ohio and am not a fan of Ohio State... I am an Alabama fan all the way.. yes that is a bison.. it is the mascot... florida seminoles have a horse,, one team has a hawk or eagle flying,, Georgia bulldogs have a beloved bulldog..

He hasn't even touched on the military academies that have sky divers landing on the 50 yard line with the game ball, cannons going off, helicopters, and fighter jets flying over the stadium, cadets doing push-ups after touch downs in the stands and sideline.

LSU has a live tiger on campus named Mike the Tiger and he used to be wheeled out into the middle of the stadium before home games and then he would sit on the sideline during it but then we found out that doing that gave Mike anxiety so we stopped it.

The history of animal mascots in CFB are nuts. Baylor used to have a real life bear, LSU’s Mike the Tiger chooses whether or not to come to canes, and the Louisiana Tech are the bulldogs because of a heroic dog that gave its life saving undergrads from a boarding house fire in 1899.

These young men start playing ball in grade school. We are serious about our High School as well. Not on the level of college football. The college kids are recruited while in High School. My brother-in-law and four of my nephews have played college football with scholarships. Pretty cool.

Lyle you have to react to *Best Traditions in College Football* and *10 BIGGEST College Football Stadiums*

Australia’s largest stadium is for cricket and would rank number 9 compared to the largest stadiums in the U.S., all of which are college football stadiums.

It is actually the Buffalo Bill's that took their color scheme from the University of Florida. UF football dates back to 1906, the Bills were founded in 1959. That is actually the case with most NFL teams. College football predates the NFL or any professional league.

that is Ralphie the mascot for the university of Colorado he always leads the team onto the field..

Different color uniform indicates whether it's a away game or a home game.

5:08 as a CU student this is ralphie, our beloved Buffalo. She runs twice every home game, once at the very start and a second time after halftime. The crowd is often more excited for her than touchdowns. Ralphie herself is halfway domesticated, she’s comfortable around humans especially ones she’s around a lot, handlers and runners. However I would not advice trying to pet her, she’s fluffy but deadly 1000% should’ve been in part one

Notre Dame was founded by a French religious order. Back in the 1890's, a newspaper headline, writing about the game said, the team "fought like a bunch of Irishmen". Hence the team name.

In Part 1 the team in orange was the Tennessee Volunteers. Then there's U. of Texas in burnt orange. Texas A & M stands for Texas Agricultural & Mechanical. The Colorado team is the Buffaloes and that was their mascot that ran the length of the field. Back in the 1920s the Michigan Wolverines had an actual wolverine in a cage in the stadium tunnel. They had to get rid of it because it was scaring the players! These traditions are what make college football so great. Knowing that your grandfather sat in those same seats and so will your grand children someday, cheering on your team. Tradition is what makes college football unlike any other sport. And these were just regular season games, not playoffs. But in a 12-game season every game is critical, and a rivalry dating back 120 years sets the stage before the players even take the field. I can't wait until September!

Colorado's Ralphie is one of the most energizing pregame traditions, Went to Co as a Iowa fan years ago it was awesome.

Utah has a smallish stadium at just over 51,000 but it's one of the loudest. We love our Aussie players that have come over to play for our team the last dozen years!

Penn state university has the single greatest experience you'll ever have especially if you go to their "whiteout" game...if you ever do go just make sure you wear white🤣

Gotta look at the Army vs Navy football game intro with all the helicopter and plane fly overs. Also just Army home games they have people jumping out of planes and parachuting onto the field

Check out some college football animal mascots getting into it videos. Georgia bulldog bit an Auburn player and got into with the Texas Longhorn mascot in 2 different incidents.

The previous video left out some stuff.. Oklahoma enters the field with a wagon pulled by horses. And for Florida State the guy with the flaming spear on the horse rides to the center of the field and the horse rears up and the spikes the flaming spear into the ground.

Colors and patterns change over time. When I first came to know football as a kid in the 1970s, Notre Dame did indeed wear bright green jerseys. But, as I eventually learned, that had been a recent non-traditional change that pissed off a lot of fans. They eventually switched back to their traditional dark blue. A common thing to tweak is to switch between colored pants and white pants.

That Notre Dame song the band is playing is arguably the most famous college fight song.

The North Carolina State University’s basketball stadium is used by North Carolina’s National Hockey League as their home stadium. That stadium seats 18,700 for hockey games, 19,500 for basketball games, and 21,000 for concerts. Their football stadium seats 56,919. College sports are taken very seriously here. The University of North Carolina have the nickname, The Tarheels, but their team mascot is Ramses (a ram).

The Bison is also known as a Buffalo here in the USA. That Buffalo is the mascot for University of Colorado. The Colorado Buffalo’s.

Lyle, college football began in 1869. Not all teams started at that time, but most are over 100+ years old. Its a tradition!

You mean, international sports is getting up to the levels of college football.

It's probably been mentioned already, but the geology department at LSU measured siesmic activity on their equipment, 1,000 feet away from the stadium, the precise moment LSU scored a winning touchdown against Auburn in 1988. The crowd size was a little under 80,000. 😮

Here at the University of Florida, we're known for two things...Gatorade...

I'm a Virginia Tech alumnus so my favorite is Enter Sandman but love many other entrances.....and the reaction to Ralphie at Colorado has me crying laughing.

I am a proud Miami Hurricane. if you want to look at a great band. The Texas A and M band is the best hands down in the country. Funny story I was a high school football official. Before a state championship game we had a team that had a ram for a mascot. When they came out the ram ran in front of them and I asked how they trained the ram to do that. They told me they had a female ram at the other end zone in a pen and he was running to try and get to her.

Try Auburn University. They are the Alabama Crimson Tide's in-state rival. Auburn has War Eagle for their entrance - n actual domesticated bald eagle (the national symbol of the USA). War Eagle is released, circles over the stadium, and lands on the field to be retrieved by handlers - as the crowd deliriously chants War Eagle!

A little fun fact The University of Oklahoma has used the Play Like A Champion Today sign since at least the 50s long before Notre Dame used it. Notre Dame fans claim OU stole it from them but it’s actually the opposite.

There have to be at least 10 schools that have 100,000+ stadiums and they are usually full, some are perpetual sell outs.

You should come visit in the fall. Get tickets to a game. It'll change your life!

Not just limited to college football. You should see the crowds during baseball/softball, basketball for both men & women's. I'm a TN Vols fan, and the crowds for those sports I mentioned are MASSIVE

FYI, there are about 765 college football programs across the US (out of 3000 total colleges), though most are much smaller in terms of crowds and money. These big crowds are from the 130 members of the top-division, called Division I FBS. There is also a lesser Division I FCS, and a Division II, Division III, and a small division called NAIA.

I’m a Michigan State Spartan who lives outside of Ann Arbor MI USA! Spartans!! 🏈🏈

A video showing best tailgate parties before college football games and pro games as well

That was Notre Dame! I was born about a mile from the university!

LSU is Louisiana State - it's in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a little ways west of New Orleans. You might actually recognize the Notre Dame fight song - I think the Sydney Swans use the same tune for their song (with different lyrics, of course). And yes, Colorado has a real buffalo running out on the field. They're not the only ones with a live-animal mascot - Georgia and Mississippi State both have bulldogs, Texas A&M has a border collie, Texas has a longhorn steer, and LSU has a live tiger (I don't know if they still do it, but they used to have the tiger sitting in a cage right by the visiting team's entrance to the field).

"LSU" is Louisiana State University. The school mascot is the tiger. The name dates to the American Civil War. A unit of Louisiana Zouaves (state militia) was nicknamed "the Louisiana Tigers" for their ferocity and tenacity. The school colors, purple and gold, have even older roots. Those are the colors of the French House of Bourbon, which once governed Louisiana as a colony. The name of the state itself is an homage to Louis XIV. Many university athletic teams have origin stories beyond the random selection of colors and nicknames. There is a saying I have heard from more than one source; "If you don't understand why so many Americans are passionate about college sports, you cannot possibly understand America". I find there to be a fair degree of truth to that. Addendum edit: Notre Dame's official colors are blue and gold because blue is the color of Saint Patrick and gold represents the golden dome of the church on the university campus. The team is sometimes informally called "the Golden Domers". Unlike many schools whose helmets are factory made in the school colors, Notre Dame's are painted gold prior to every game.

The pros make a lot of money but college teams play for the love of the game and to make it to the pros so they play their hearts out

That was Penn State with the white fireworks on the top of Beaver Stadium. And if you watch it again, you'll see it was during a "White Out", a school tradition where all the students and fans wear completely white clothing.

Can I suggest a video for you. Hearing the South Carolina Gamecocks react to a soldier surprising his family on the field is worth the watch. “ soldier surprises family at South Carolina game”!

Football is the biggest sport in America. They only play once a week when in season. So bc there are so few games, generally 13 in college football and 17 in the NFL regular season, the stadiums have to be big. High demand, more limited opportunities. Also, games are on the weekend which makes it accessible to more people.

It's not a stadium entrance, but the Krypton Fanfare in the University of Georgia's Sanford Stadium between the 3rd and 4th quarter is a great tradition. Especially at a night game. Another fun tradition for UGA fans is watching Tennessee's Neyland Stadium empty of Tennessee fans before the 4th quarter. Vols are all piss and vinegar before kick-off, but stumbling home by the start of the 4th after UGA has put a whoopin' on them... again.

LSU is Louisiana State University. ND has the golden dome is main building on campus, hence the golden helmets. Colorado "Buffaloes".

That video didn’t do Notre Dame’s entrance justice. It’s so much better than that.

Yup, that was a real bison. Lol

Notre Dame's colours are gold and navy. They do wear green uniforms on special occasions

A lot of teams used to, and a few still do, have live mascots. LSU ( Louisiana State University) has a live Tiger but it's not on the field. Clemson used to have a live Tiger as well. Auburn has an eagle, Georgia has a bulldog, etc.

"is that...👀...Bison on the field?!" 🤣

Bro, make it to a rivalry game one day! They’re insane. Even the rivalry amongst small schools is awesome! I’m a Fresno state fan and when we play Boise every year, the atmosphere is insane! And that’s only with 40-50k people in the stands

Colorado Buffaloes so they bring out Ralphie. Ralphie is a female. A male bison would be too big. She runs them ragged though. 🥰 Yeah I’ve wondered about the color scheme for Notre Dame too.

If you haven't already check out the video about the "flyover," it's fantastic.

Chek out JSU marching in. Get you excited like watching these college entrances.