The Chaotic History of "Storming the Field" 

KU student here!! I was at the OSU-KU game last week and obviously rushed the field like I have all season. However, being right next to the post coming down was scary, but I didn't see anyone get hurt. UNTIL people starting moving the posts and these girls (maybe half a dozen of them) were being crushed/trampled by the bodyweight of 20 people trying to leave the stadium. It was genuinely terrifying watching them screaming and crying under the pile. Lowkey Astroworld shit but they did get out okay.

I need to hear more about the Florida V Florida State Field Goal Post Jousting match. This for sure deserves a full deep dive lol.

I've never seen the field stormed as much as Tennessee after they beat Alabama. Fun fact the river that the fans threw the field goal post in is now considered a tourist attraction.

Honestly I'd pay an insane amount of money to watch 2 mobs joust on a football field with goal posts while a band plays the star spangled banner, that would be unbelievable.

Storming the field at one of my high school football games was one of my core memories from this year.

Just to add to the video, there's an ESPN article that details what the clean up was like after the Tennessee game. The clean up crew was their until 2 AM after the game. "I went there and I literally picked up seven heaping handfuls of broken glass from the cigar tubes and cigar caps," Sorochan said. "It was crazy." "It was shoulder to shoulder, and the average person is probably about one and a half square feet," he said. "So there were probably 50,000 people on the field." Just wanted to add this as an interesting tidbit. For those who want to read that whole article, here's a link. www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34863098/how-tennessee-grounds-crew-got-neyland-stadium-field-ready-historic-upset-alabama

Rushing the field last year at the Minnesota - Wisconsin game was one of the best moments of my college years so far

That oooo sound effect killed me. 0:29 KTO's comedy is evolving 😂

Bros topics are always on point and intriguing

I stormed the field when I was a student at PSU for the 2016 PSU vs OSU game. It was absolute pandemonium on the field, and in every part of State College after. My brother, who was working auxiliary police that night, told me to "avoid going down Beaver Ave. and you wont get arrested". Probably one of my top 3 moments of my entire college experience

The fact you can make documentary like videos and condense then to a quick video takes a lot of talent

I am a KU Journalism student and sports media member, it was wild seeing goal post come down. Saw security cam footage, allegedly some fraternity members went to Potter Lake (where the crowd dumped it) aand recovered the goal posts from the lake. They're allegedly in some fraternities basement in Lawrence, Kansas. Also shoutout Caroline Soro for the footage you used of KU's goal post, colleague of mine.

Iowa fan here, I'll always remember in 2002 when Iowa tore down Minnesota's goalposts after winning a share of the Big Ten title

The Florida and Florida State jousting sounds like a true Renaissance painting.

1:06 I was at that game. There’s a good 8-10 foot drop to the field and people who aren’t use to that jump just ate it and turned ankles. Go Pokes!

as a rutgers/bc fan, seeing them featured as the first two field stormings was a moment i haven't seen since your 2007 video, keep up the great work!

LSU telling Kentucky fans to sit back down with a hail mary touchdown is one of the greatest things ever😂

Rushed the field in 2011 when Ohio state beat ranked Wisconsin led by Russell Wilson. It was an amazing feeling to be down there with everyone after that win.

I appreciate Clemson not being brought up in this. We get chastised a lot for our “Meeting at the Paw” tradition. Win or lose the fans join the team at midfield (or as close as you can get) and sing the Alma Mater along with them as the band plays, then they leave the stadium open so folks get to just hang out on the field. Kids take footballs and run routes, catch passes, and score TDs on the same field they just saw their team play on and it’s just awesome. Go Tigers!

Glad everyone got to see a close up of Potter Lake.

As an Iowa fan when Tennessee tore down the goalposts it reminded me when we tore down Minnesota's goalposts in 2002

i play american football at university in the uk and the thing you talked about at 6:45 happens to us every year against UWE; they scout in ncaa d1 postgrad students and dominate every year. It hurts

I remember going on a campus tour of Kansas and they told us they have a pond that they throw their goal post in after a win some are still missing to this day.

A major riot broke out in the late '80's when East Carolina fans stormed the field at NC State's stadium and tried to tear down the goal posts.

I'm so proud to have the vols fans be the thumbnail of this video

KTO you’re a f*ckin legend

Storming the field or court is one of the greatest experiences ever as a college sports fan. Celebrating victory with the fans and players as the fight song erupts is one of the most incredible experiences. Anyone who hates people for doing it or says “act like you’ve been here before” is just jealous that they’ve never got to experience it for themselves.

As a proud East Tennessean and Vol fan, I never expected to see Robin Wilhoit in a KTO video

Good thumbnail

You can’t have KTO without Seat Geek

I was one of the fans that carried the 2014 Marshall goalpost out of the field. After the game the goal post was lowered down by stadium staff, then left for fans to carry out. Once out of the stadium police were guiding it to the steal mill where staff from the mill were waiting to cut it up for us. I have about a foot long section of it. It was a great time and awesome memory.

We need more college football videos

2:25 so apparently a long time ago like over 20 years ago Purdue tasked its student engineers with building a way to prevent people from tearing the goal post down

My favorite sports memory was November of 2016 when Colorado beat Utah to win the pac12 south and everyone rushed Folsom. I hope to relive that some day

I love the storming the field tradition! It better not end!!!

Once again, amazing video, you are my favorite person to watch on RU-vid. Your videos are excellent

It's a good day any day KTO uploads a new video!!!

I was at that Holy War game in 2011. Typical refball at the end almost lost us the game. It was mainly our student section that was rushing the field. Such a weird game but almost normal in the rivalry. Go Utes

I went to the civil war game in 2022 and was about 20 feet away from a duck player hauling off and punching a beaver fan after the beavs came back and won and the fans stormed. Crazy shit.

1978, Nebraska @ Penn State, we (PSU) won in a nail-biter. (We won the national championship in that, my senior year.) The fans stormed the field and tore down the goalpost at the student section end of the field. I wasn't a part of that but a short time later I found myself on College Ave (the main drag in State College PA), somehow at the head of the group carrying the goalpost. We were confused about what to do with the thing and somebody called out, "Where should we take it?" I yelled back "Old Main!" and the crowd started chanting, "Old Main! Old Main! Old Main!" And that's how that goalpost ended up on the lawn in front of the Penn State administration building.

I remember storming the field with my cousins after Boise State won their last WAC championship.One of my cousins hopped the fence and split his hand, ended up in stitches such a memorable night!

as a sports fan storming a field/court after an upset should be something on your bucket list. i’ve always wanted to experience something like that

Going on the field after games (meeting at the paw) has been a tradition at Clemson since the FSU victory in 2003. To the point that growing up as a Clemson fan I didn’t really realize that it was abnormal. The university even installed mechanical goal posts that drop on their own to keep fans from messing with them.

3:29 Idk why that’s so cool to me. Tearing it down is one thing but hiking it up the stands and throwing it over was fire

Man having your ashes spread on the field is real commitment!! That’s why we love college football!!

Storming the Field I feel like should be saved for a special moment in that team's history not just beating Alabama, even though that is impressive in itself, it should be when your team wins a bowl game or when you are the underdog by so many points and you come up with the win. Special moments in history that deserve the event of fans storming the field.

I've only got to storm the field once, and that was in Ann Arbor on 11/27/21. It's definitely my favorite memory at THE BIG HOUSE!

I was at the crowd crush at Camp Randall in 1993. On of my lasting memories of going to college football games, but not in a good way.

People used to be crazy, this is hilarious

Storming the field after the past two LSU games have been some of the most exciting moments of my life. It should never be banned.

I was literally watching this channel before I noticed the new video. What a legend

Honestly this is one of the best thing about upsets

Nothing better than a TKO video on Friday

Not surprised about Montana. Used to live in small town of Wyoming and I can actually picture the moment of the goal post being shoved into the bar of the small town. LOL

Its always fun watching a huge game and seeing the fans going insane

Storming the field is awesome. I did once when my college went to the FCS finals for the first time. It was great to see that happen. People meeting at the middle of the field and high fiving the players. It was a great night.

I'll always remember that Rutgers vs Louisville! The kicker kick that field goal and pointed up at the heli-cam, swag!

I’m saddened he did not mention the Iowa Minnesota game where the goalposts got taken by the Iowa fans

I am glad you are putting light on the Jermaine Burton allegations. He should have been punished for what he did and it's crazy that he is still playing.

KTO is such a solid RU-vid follow, very underrated.

Two of my favorite memories ever are storming the field after BYU snapped their 9-game losing streak to Utah and storming it again the next year when they beat Baylor in 2OT. Field storming is one of the greatest things about college football

The best part of this video is the lsu qb celebrating, the Kentucky fan seeing this, and changing from jubilation to "wait, what?"

As a current Tennessee student, thanks for the thumbnail and Go Vols

As a BYU fan that whole sequence left me in a state of shock for an hour

Only in Florida.

That goal post fight is so Florida 🤣

The staff at Washington-Grizzly knew exactly what was gonna happen after we won our semi-final game in 2023 they had the goal posts on the ground and disassembled in less than 60 seconds and the pieces were on the way out of the stadium in 2 minutes. The fans had no shot at getting there hands on the posts. I always loved the story of the students marching the post to reds bar in downtown, the last two times I saw them take them down they couldn't get it out of the stadium and the other time they took it to the river but the police stopped them from throwing it in.

I find it funny how my college is playing their last regular season game tomorrow and if we win we’re gonna go undefeated. I’ve heard talks about us taking down the goalpost and throwing it into the lake. I also had a lot of friends at that KU game that saw them do the same.

My favorite is Iowa storming the field and tearing down the goalposts after beating Minnesota... in Minnesota. Then carrying the thing around the Metrodome tryna figure out how to get it out

When BYU finally officially beat Utah for the first time in program history in 1942 (a game played at Utah), the BYU fans that were there stormed the field and started trying to tear the goalposts down. A fight then broke up between fans and Utah players who wanted to stop them and police stormed onto the field and started arresting people. Wanting to avoid their players being arrested, the UofU marching band started playing the national anthem, which made the police stop and stand at attention long enough for the goalposts to be torn down relatively peacefully. A piece of one of the posts is still on display at BYU. Legendary stuff.

I think of the "Greatest Game Ever Played" in 1958 for Pro Football and how fans took down the goal posts immediately following that OT victory.

Texas Tech in 2001 tore down their goal post after defeating Texas A&M and threw into the visitor’s section. The chaos led to many fights including Governor Rick Perry being punched in the face by an unknown assailant.

We stormed the field two home games in a row at LSU. Ole miss and Alabama

Interesting and unique idea! Great job!

can you imagine just battling it out with another goal post as the star spangled banner is playing in the background 😂😂 that’s some funny shit

You know your college team has experience with storming the field when they currently have the double ground posts version 😂 WSU Washington State University I’m looking at you 🤘

Texas Tech has goalposts that can be lowered cause we put them in the A&M fan section in the 90s 😂. Then the A&M fans started fighting each other.

As a life long LSU fan I was waiting all video for the blue grass miracle. 😂 The ups and downs through the years makes those big wins like bama this year even better.

The FSU and Florida jousting with field goal post is the only video I want to see!

I love that this came out the day before Kentucky got beat by Vanderbilt.

2:47 my dad played on that Marietta team during that losing streak. He said they played the university of Ohio in a scrimmage and gave up over 100 points 😭😭

I'm kinda surprised at how little effort has been made to at least moderate field storms slightly. The Tennessee storm was probably the craziest one there has been, a cut to Fireworks and then back and there was no green to be seen. Most of the others has left way too much green to be able to compete with UT's attempt. Quite impressed how there has been over 100 years of storming yet very little notable unsatisfactory outcomes but I still think there will be some additional regulation and changes regarding them in the upcoming season. The best attempts to stop field storms that I have seen are stadium layouts and how easy it is to get on the turf from a higher-up seat.

I got to experience this for the first time Friday. Unforgettable.

I was hoping to see the scuffle after the 2001 Tech vs. A&M game.

Life long Kentucky fan here.... Thanks for the final send off KTO...... I was hoping you were going to skip that one.

Getting Plummer to take selfies with my phone will be my greatest memory of Cal football ever

KTOOOOOOO!! That last one is hilarious lol. To be on the field to know what happened and see their faces as they figure it out.

Running the field after this year's Bowling Green/Marshall game which BG was winless and Marshall was undefeated and a week after winning in South Bend was a bucket list moment for me but probably won't do that again for safety.

C’mon man. How can u talk about storming the field and not mention Clemson. It’s done every game and it’s iconic. All love. Great vid

Never heard anything more American than fighting rivals with field goal posts while the start spangled banner plays. As a soldier in the army, i now know why i defend our country😭😭

Thank you kto for this amazing video

as a vol fan, thanks for the thumbnail!

Keep up the great work

I remember watching that LSU one live.

I was working on the town square in Oxford when Ole Miss beat Alabama in 2014. One of the dishwashers came in from smoking a cigarette and said something about a bunch of people carrying "some kind of flag pole." I walked out the back door to see a group of guys carrying the field goal post through the square. The square is over a mile from the stadium. They carried that thing on a tour of Oxford. Also, I've never seen more people that were literally falling down drunk than I did that day.

I love how the Kentucky fan stopped dead in his tracks to check the score when he saw the LSU player jumping

Great video as always!!!

This is a banger already

Babe wake up a new KTO video dropped

8:00 i was just lookin this up bro thank you because I couldn’t find it.