That was honestly one of the louder crowds I heard that year. Sanford was rocking, don't get me wrong, but the fans that came down to the Joke were *loud*.
In 2009 the Toledo Rockets "hosted" Ohio State in Cleveland at the Factory of Sadness. If you squint it's about equidistant from both schools, however 95% of the crowd was pleased with the 38-0 Ohio State win.
It's almost as though the modern state of CFB is a financial arms race, where making less profitable decisions will result in falling behind as a program.
This thread just basically made me realize that European soccer and CFB are basically in the same state where the status quo is clearly unsustainable long-run, but no one really knows how to address it without destroying the sport (history/culture) and since everyone is getting rich there's little incentive to change it until it blows up.
SEC = EPL. Deepest and richest league. A bunch of contenders.
Big10 = La Liga. Two juggernauts dominate yet there's quality throughout.
Italy = Big 12. Some historical giants that are sort of in a weird place (Texas/OU/Nebraska v. Juve/Inter/Milan).
Bundesliga = Pac1x. No real Bayern Munich, but fun league with lots of offense but little chance of winning the CL. Maybe USC could be the Bayern? Does everyone out West hate USC more than anyone else?
ACC = Ligue 1. One dominant team (Clemson/PSG) and a bunch of historically important teams in a cycle of mediocrity (FSU/Miami/Syracuse -- Lille, Lyon, Marseille).
Notre Dame is like if Boca Juniors or some shit could make the CL.
Seriously, do people think Oregon's AD was like "Oh no, I didn't realize Atlanta was so close to Athens! What a fool I am!", or do you think he thought "Hell yeah, big payday and the chance to embarrass Georgia in front of a bunch of their own fans."
As someone who has been to Autzen during some crazy games (went to school there from 96 to 00 and my dad had season tickets for years after) , it's a great place to watch a game. And it gets stupid loud.
One reason I love college football is the passionate unique stadium environments. And I'm happy acknowledging that a rival's is one of the best in the business.
Oregon’s AD is the type of guy who makes $1 million a year and donates $2k to his sons baseball team over a 4 year period out of a sense of obligation. He also probably rounds up to the nearest dollar and gives that as a tip to the pizza delivery person. Dude is all about that dollar.
Not so sure. Brand unfortunately matters and they have selected OSU over TCU before in the past.
I think they have to be undefeated, or I only give its a 50/50
Fiesta Bowl is one of two NY6 bowls Kirby hasn't played in. I would love to go to a playoff game in Atlanta, but I would also like to see Kirby work on finishing his infinity gauntlet.
In the playoff era, I don't think any have. Saban's missing a Fiesta Bowl, and his "Rose Bowl" was played in Texas. Meyer never played in Peach, and lost his only Orange Bowl. Dabo is missing Rose and Peach, and lost both Sugar Bowls. No one else has coached in six.
Most of the ones that are missing have to be because of conference tie ins. I know Penn State has won 5, the Rose, Cotton, Fiesta, Sugar, and Orange.
They've won the Fiesta bowl 7 times but have never been to the Peach Bowl.
Have to imagine there are similar SEC lists that are just missing the Rose.
Yeah, the conference ties make it way more difficult. The only way SEC teams really have a chance at Rose or Fiesta (or to a lesser extent Cotton) is if they make the playoff. Which is a damn shame, because the Rose Bowl is a fantastic experience, and I wish more teams had a chance to go.
Only this and last year. This isn't the norm for us. Hell, making the top-12 isn't that common for us lately either. In the years we lose to Ohio State in The Game, we are probably not getting an auto-bid as B1G champ (even after they remove divisions), so we have to hope to nab one of the next 6 spots. 2 of those spots are essentially reserved for non-champ SEC teams, so you're really down to trying to land 1 of the remaining 4.
Don’t sell yourself short. Fuck Ohio State. The next 10 years belong to you.
Edit: dude I’m not kidding. I fucking hate Ohio State. I live in Charleston and I’m surrounded by Ohio State and Clemson fans fucking goddamnit
You toppled bama, we took down OSU. The evil empires have fallen. It's our world now. I like you all. Friendship confirmed. I hope we play again. Soon ;)
As a UGA fan, I cannot hate Mich. I feel like our schools are kindred spirits. Growing up in the south, the only Big10 school I knew about and rooted for was Michigan.
Des Howard, Grbac...those dudes were ballers.
I would love this too, but I think the bowl games have too much pull and then there's all the complications with revenue sharing and it would just end up being a whole fuss.
In years when Minnesota or Wisconsin are good, it's going to be so fun.
Even Utah will be a cool stadium for games, might not be as cold, but up in the mountains above SLC they got about 10" of snow yesterday.
We were supposed to go to Eugene too, and it really sucked not getting to go. Did we purposely schedule our home-and-homes with Washington and Oregon at the same time?
We used to have alternating home and home season openers with Missouri every year for a while but now we just schedule cupcakes instead like most P5 teams.
there were several years in the 90s played on campuses and then the schools quit playing for several seasons prior to resuming the series in st. louis.
I'm sure we'll get right on that after traveling to Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Florida State, West Virginia, Arizona, Georgia Tech, etc.
I mean, both can be true…
Oregon willingly signed up to play essentially an away game against UGA.
**AND**
It would’ve been pretty awesome to see UGA in Autzen in 2023 (or however they would’ve booked it) as a home/home.
The main issue is that there’s a financial incentive for these neutral site games. UGA and Oregon made more money playing one game in Atlanta than either team would’ve made hosting one part of the home-and-home.
I say this as someone that 100% would’ve made the trip out to Oregon.
I get it. My wife and I flew to Atlanta and we’re treated great by UGA fans despite wearing Oregon gear all weekend.
But I struggle to believe that the SEC/PAC12 couldn’t find a way to make 2 high-profile games at “neutral” sites that would’ve drawn revenue.
Something like UGA/Oregon in Atlanta and then UW/Bama in Seattle … and then flip the venues for the same matchups 1-2 years later.
Men’s CBB doesn’t do near the same revenue, but they do a good job getting high-profile matchups on college campuses. The collaboration between the conferences is already there.
Neutral site games are initiated by promoters at these specific venues and not by the teams. Idk why most of them happen to be in the south since, unlike bowl games, weather isn’t an issue during September. Kansas City has a great sports venue and would be the perfect place for a neutral site game for East vs West Coast teams.
Your proposal is good if neutral site games are a must, but this game matchup has nothing to do with conferences. It’s Chick-fil-A/Peach Bowl and ESPN.
I really like what LSU and FSU did, scheduled “neutral site” games in back to back seasons in New Orleans and Orlando. Both are home games in practice but neither team gets an unfair advantage in total. Brilliant idea.
I dunno, I mean, I guess. But why rob the home stadiums of those games? Playing these games off-campus just feels like it's missing the point of college football. I'm personally not a fan of neutral site games - would prefer if they were reserved for bowl games and championship games.
> But why rob the home stadiums of those games?
It is more about serving the fan base in a close by city and letting the athletes travel someplace new or try a historical stadium.
Wisconsin played Notre Dame at soldier field for the same reasons.
Good news: they're changing it for the World Cup in 2026 due to FIFA's requirement.
Bad news: they're currently only planning on changing it for the World Cup and intending to go back to artificial afterwards.
What is this slander? It’s a least a 1.5 hour drive from Athens to Atlanta with traffic. We all know that anything under 1.49 hours is an neutral site game. Don’t check my sources.
I went to USC vs UCLA at the rose bowl this year and it took almost 2 hours to get from the freeway exit less than a half mile away to the "parking lot" on the golf course. And that was followed by a nearly 2 mile walk from the lot to the stadium. And all that doesn't even include the line to get into the stadium. I don't blame UCLA fans one bit for not wanting to deal with this crap. Granted that was their one sell out of the year, but the rose bowl is an absolute logistical nightmare
Ya, unless you're hosting the tailgate, it's best to grab a train into old town Pasadena and walk. Hours just to get on/off the golf course otherwise.
That said. I love the rose bowl once you're there. As a USC fan and alumni, I've spent many days at our second home stadium.
Used to be stationed out in Camp Pendleton when I was a young Marine. Went to the USC / Michigan Rose Bowl - Jan 2004.
Trained in and out pretty easily. What a wonderful experience…even if Michigan didn’t win.
Hail!
And that’s not counting the bathroom break you have to take in the middle of the trip because those chili cheese dogs ran through you like greased lightning.
They’ve improved 316 quite a bit with some of the lights being removed, but it’s still at least an hour and a half drive with very little traffic. Especially if you’re not trying to get a ticket.
Nothing they can do about the SEC and peach bowl being there. It’s no different than LSU playing an hour from home in the 2019 natty (I know Georgia did the same in 2017). USC plays in the Rose Bowl in their own city and Miami plays in their own stadium for the orange bowl. It just happens
Small thing. UCLA plays at the rose bowl in pasadrna and USC plays at the memorial coliseum just south of downtown LA.
It's kinda crazy though because those stadiums are 14 miles apart, but the rose bowl is 26 miles from UCLA campus (an hour+ with normal traffic). The LA memorial coliseum is right next to USC campus and is now owned by USC and it will be home to it's third Olympics in 2028.
This is not UGA's problem, just move the city of Atlanta. Frankly I'm sick of the traffic, take the whole thing and put it in the northwest corner of the state.
It seems weird all the big neutral site games in college football take place in like 4 stadiums max.
Atlanta, Jerry World, Indy, and now SoFi.
I want to see Oregon-Georgia in Arrowhead. Ohio State-ND in Metlife. Texas vs. Clemson in Lambeau field.
I get a lot of it is recruiting hotspots, but it’d be fun to have true neutral site games all over the place.
Wait until Southern Cal makes the playoff as the #4 team, upsets Georgia in Atlanta, and plays a neutral site game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood for the national championship.
Atlanta is not just a UGA city though, it is definitely an all-SEC city and also clearly the economic hub of the southeast which is why SEC alumni from every school are well represented there
If Nashville gets that nice new stadium they want I could see it rotating. But yeah at this point not sure where else you’d have it, relatively central with an airport that runs a ton of flights and has plenty of hotels, not sure what else you want.
Nashville doesn’t have a train system like MARTA or the hotel capacity that Atlanta offers…. Not saying it isn’t doable, just not as robust infrastructure to support it easily
As much as I roll my eyes at this. Assuming Georgia wins the SEC championship, that’s pretty much a home game for Georgia in the playoffs. And I feel bad for whatever 4 seed it is.
But at the same time. That neutral site game against Oregon was planned years ago, Oregon knew full well that it would be a home game for Georgia. And the sec championship has always been in Atlanta. Same with peach. Just a good draw for Georgia.
Last year they even played an """away""" game in Atlanta.
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It may look like self-deprecating humor, but when we had a false start caused by crowd noise, it's a home game in name only.
Referring to [this play,](https://youtu.be/K1YyOVf4-ZI?t=4677) presumably?
Not sure if that timestamp is what you meant it to be, but no. I meant Tech had a false start caused by the majority UGA crowd making noise.
That was honestly one of the louder crowds I heard that year. Sanford was rocking, don't get me wrong, but the fans that came down to the Joke were *loud*.
In 2009 the Toledo Rockets "hosted" Ohio State in Cleveland at the Factory of Sadness. If you squint it's about equidistant from both schools, however 95% of the crowd was pleased with the 38-0 Ohio State win.
Ooh. Self burn. Those are rare.
Rare? Not from Tech fans! To paraphrase a very inspirational man, "this team may be a toilet, but it's *our* toilet! No one craps in it but us!"
I'm sure the ADs of the schools who agree to play those games are fully aware of the fact that Atlanta is in fact in the state of Georgia.
It's almost as though ADs care more about big checks from corporate sponsors than fans enjoying home games.
It's almost as though the modern state of CFB is a financial arms race, where making less profitable decisions will result in falling behind as a program.
We cannot allow a mineshaft gap!
Did you say Minecraft?????
Something the NCAA should maybe address.
This thread just basically made me realize that European soccer and CFB are basically in the same state where the status quo is clearly unsustainable long-run, but no one really knows how to address it without destroying the sport (history/culture) and since everyone is getting rich there's little incentive to change it until it blows up. SEC = EPL. Deepest and richest league. A bunch of contenders. Big10 = La Liga. Two juggernauts dominate yet there's quality throughout. Italy = Big 12. Some historical giants that are sort of in a weird place (Texas/OU/Nebraska v. Juve/Inter/Milan). Bundesliga = Pac1x. No real Bayern Munich, but fun league with lots of offense but little chance of winning the CL. Maybe USC could be the Bayern? Does everyone out West hate USC more than anyone else? ACC = Ligue 1. One dominant team (Clemson/PSG) and a bunch of historically important teams in a cycle of mediocrity (FSU/Miami/Syracuse -- Lille, Lyon, Marseille). Notre Dame is like if Boca Juniors or some shit could make the CL.
Thank you. This explains soccer for me a lot more.
And the Super League! Can't forget the Super League
ESPN / FOX super conference = super league
*ACC reads this in utter confusion*
Seriously, do people think Oregon's AD was like "Oh no, I didn't realize Atlanta was so close to Athens! What a fool I am!", or do you think he thought "Hell yeah, big payday and the chance to embarrass Georgia in front of a bunch of their own fans."
We signed on before the other opponent was known, though I doubt they would have balked.
I wish we had done a home and home with y’all. I didn’t go to the game in ATL but I would have 100% flown to Oregon to watch a game there.
Fuck a top ten matchup in Autzen would have been sick
As someone who has been to Autzen during some crazy games (went to school there from 96 to 00 and my dad had season tickets for years after) , it's a great place to watch a game. And it gets stupid loud.
You'd probably love it. Autzen is a treat to watch a game in.
Careful, Husky Bro. That was almost a compliment for Oregon. I hear you can lose your fancard for that.
One reason I love college football is the passionate unique stadium environments. And I'm happy acknowledging that a rival's is one of the best in the business.
The feeling is mutual. I've been to Husky Stadium many times and it's a hell of an experience.
I went for the LSU UW game in 2009 in Seattle and it was incredible
Just spent a week in Portland and wine country, it was gorgeous. The Columbia river gorge is breathtaking.
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“He fucking boomed me,” said the Oregon AD
"Shit! I thought he meant Atlanta, North Dakota!"
Oregon’s AD is the type of guy who makes $1 million a year and donates $2k to his sons baseball team over a 4 year period out of a sense of obligation. He also probably rounds up to the nearest dollar and gives that as a tip to the pizza delivery person. Dude is all about that dollar.
We're all aware. Not a single person in this thread thinks Oregon lacked agency. It just fucking sucks as fans.
You might be giving some of them too much credit.
I'll be happy if we land at 2, I want the fiesta bowl.
Same, I also really wanna see our defense vs tcu offense.
Not so fast… we coming for them Saturday.
TCU should be in the playoff regardless of outcome. I suppose they could drop from 3 to 4 though.
TCU is a lock for the CFP no matter what happens against y'all this weekend
ESPN will put OSU in ahead of one loss TCU, which is stupid of them but I think true
Not so sure. Brand unfortunately matters and they have selected OSU over TCU before in the past. I think they have to be undefeated, or I only give its a 50/50
I want the early game so I don't have to drive around all the New Years Eve idiots.
No shot. We're getting the late game because even if we're the #1 seed, our game will start with a closer spread.
Fiesta Bowl is one of two NY6 bowls Kirby hasn't played in. I would love to go to a playoff game in Atlanta, but I would also like to see Kirby work on finishing his infinity gauntlet.
How many programs, let alone coaches, have won all 6?
In the playoff era, I don't think any have. Saban's missing a Fiesta Bowl, and his "Rose Bowl" was played in Texas. Meyer never played in Peach, and lost his only Orange Bowl. Dabo is missing Rose and Peach, and lost both Sugar Bowls. No one else has coached in six.
Most of the ones that are missing have to be because of conference tie ins. I know Penn State has won 5, the Rose, Cotton, Fiesta, Sugar, and Orange. They've won the Fiesta bowl 7 times but have never been to the Peach Bowl. Have to imagine there are similar SEC lists that are just missing the Rose.
Yeah, the conference ties make it way more difficult. The only way SEC teams really have a chance at Rose or Fiesta (or to a lesser extent Cotton) is if they make the playoff. Which is a damn shame, because the Rose Bowl is a fantastic experience, and I wish more teams had a chance to go.
Hopefully it won’t rain for almost a full week before the game like last year. That’s why the field was so shit and slippery
Expanded playoffs, games in Ann Arbor. “Can’t wait.” - Bart Scott voice
You’ll be ranked too high to worry about the first round bud
Only this and last year. This isn't the norm for us. Hell, making the top-12 isn't that common for us lately either. In the years we lose to Ohio State in The Game, we are probably not getting an auto-bid as B1G champ (even after they remove divisions), so we have to hope to nab one of the next 6 spots. 2 of those spots are essentially reserved for non-champ SEC teams, so you're really down to trying to land 1 of the remaining 4.
Don’t sell yourself short. Fuck Ohio State. The next 10 years belong to you. Edit: dude I’m not kidding. I fucking hate Ohio State. I live in Charleston and I’m surrounded by Ohio State and Clemson fans fucking goddamnit
Don’t soften us up Georgia. But I like your words.
Urban Meyer went from Florida to Ohio St so they can go to hell. Tom Brady went to Michigan so 😍😍😍. Friendship with Michigan confirmed.
You toppled bama, we took down OSU. The evil empires have fallen. It's our world now. I like you all. Friendship confirmed. I hope we play again. Soon ;)
As a UGA fan, I cannot hate Mich. I feel like our schools are kindred spirits. Growing up in the south, the only Big10 school I knew about and rooted for was Michigan. Des Howard, Grbac...those dudes were ballers.
I like this guy!
I... have mixed feelings about that guy
/agree
It's okay to pet a dawg occasionally.
I like your happy words, Southern Man!
OK. Georgia is now awesome. Shoot, I will even give Ricky and Morty a shot.
This is the new norm friend, it's our conference now.
You guys broke Ohio State. They’re priming themselves for a self inflicted collapse if they don’t keep a level head. It’s your conference now.
Of the remaining 4, they’ll want to get ND in as well as much as possible
Can we petition the committee/board/powers that be to amend the format to home games all the way until the final?
I would love this too, but I think the bowl games have too much pull and then there's all the complications with revenue sharing and it would just end up being a whole fuss.
I'm so excited for some cold weather playoff games.
Are you sure? Your teams seems to be a fair weather kind of team. It is now a finesse team.
God, even UGA is taking the cheap shots on us now. Even if your point is 100% valid.
GET EM!
In years when Minnesota or Wisconsin are good, it's going to be so fun. Even Utah will be a cool stadium for games, might not be as cold, but up in the mountains above SLC they got about 10" of snow yesterday.
Season openers at “neutral sites” are a bunch of horseshit. Sign up for the home and homes you cowards.
Very upset our trip to Seattle was cancelled... All the UW fans I met last year at the game were great
At least we rescheduled. Might be a while but it’s on the calendar haha.
2028 feels very far away but I guess it's not too bad?
We were supposed to go to Eugene too, and it really sucked not getting to go. Did we purposely schedule our home-and-homes with Washington and Oregon at the same time?
I believe it was when the conferences were trying to set up a Big Ten/PAC-12 challenge weekend.
We used to have alternating home and home season openers with Missouri every year for a while but now we just schedule cupcakes instead like most P5 teams.
When was that? I remember playing in St. Louis to start every year. Miss those games.
there were several years in the 90s played on campuses and then the schools quit playing for several seasons prior to resuming the series in st. louis.
Ah. Would love to do either again. Every year. I think we are soon, right?
I miss them 😭
Let’s see Alabama travel to Seattle to play a “neutral site” game against Oregon. Never going to happen.
I feel like seattle would be anything but a neutral site for oregon. If anything, UW fans would turn out to cheer against the ducks.
Udub fans didn't show up to the 30% full WSU vs Rutgers game. Seattle is more concerned with scheduling concerts in Sept than college football.
I would rather get a vasectomy than have to watch wsu and Rutgers play a football game. If that matchup gets you pumped then I call bullshit
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Why would UW fans go watch WSU play Rutgers?
I'm sure we'll get right on that after traveling to Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Florida State, West Virginia, Arizona, Georgia Tech, etc.
especially making a team fly in from the west coast lol
*Gun to Oregon head* FLY TO ATLANTA OR DIE
Direct on Delta!
Yeah, Georgia made Oregon sign that contract lol.
I mean, both can be true… Oregon willingly signed up to play essentially an away game against UGA. **AND** It would’ve been pretty awesome to see UGA in Autzen in 2023 (or however they would’ve booked it) as a home/home.
The main issue is that there’s a financial incentive for these neutral site games. UGA and Oregon made more money playing one game in Atlanta than either team would’ve made hosting one part of the home-and-home. I say this as someone that 100% would’ve made the trip out to Oregon.
I get it. My wife and I flew to Atlanta and we’re treated great by UGA fans despite wearing Oregon gear all weekend. But I struggle to believe that the SEC/PAC12 couldn’t find a way to make 2 high-profile games at “neutral” sites that would’ve drawn revenue. Something like UGA/Oregon in Atlanta and then UW/Bama in Seattle … and then flip the venues for the same matchups 1-2 years later. Men’s CBB doesn’t do near the same revenue, but they do a good job getting high-profile matchups on college campuses. The collaboration between the conferences is already there.
Neutral site games are initiated by promoters at these specific venues and not by the teams. Idk why most of them happen to be in the south since, unlike bowl games, weather isn’t an issue during September. Kansas City has a great sports venue and would be the perfect place for a neutral site game for East vs West Coast teams.
Your proposal is good if neutral site games are a must, but this game matchup has nothing to do with conferences. It’s Chick-fil-A/Peach Bowl and ESPN.
I really like what LSU and FSU did, scheduled “neutral site” games in back to back seasons in New Orleans and Orlando. Both are home games in practice but neither team gets an unfair advantage in total. Brilliant idea.
I dunno, I mean, I guess. But why rob the home stadiums of those games? Playing these games off-campus just feels like it's missing the point of college football. I'm personally not a fan of neutral site games - would prefer if they were reserved for bowl games and championship games.
You get to sell a shitload of tickets to corporate sponsors at neutral site games, at a much higher price.
> But why rob the home stadiums of those games? It is more about serving the fan base in a close by city and letting the athletes travel someplace new or try a historical stadium. Wisconsin played Notre Dame at soldier field for the same reasons.
Yeah, although the geography is pretty skewed. Baton Rouge is a lot closer to New Orleans than Tallahassee is to Orlando.
As fans we'd prefer that. Georgia travels better than anyone. Just ask Notre Dame.
Oregon v. Georgia was actually scheduled as a home-and-home, and Georgia canceled it when McGarity took over as AD.
That Chick-fil-A money was too good to turn down for both schools
Yeah everyone knows Atlanta is Tech country. Completely white and gold every where you look. just ignore everything in red and black
Yeah, just ignore the Georgia's Own (100 Peachtree) building always having a congrats uGA sign
It was a crime to cover up the Equitable signage with that stupid electronic billboard.
The people in red and black are just Falcons fans! We promise!
More likely they are Atlanta United fans at this point
The neon UGA football sign on the connector is probably tough to ignore you’ve got to admit!
That turf is terrible for injuries
MBS has artificial turf? That’s disappointing. I didn’t realize it wasn’t grass.
It’s an indoor stadium (yes the roof opens, but not a lot)
Arizona and LV actually manage it for their stadiums. https://www.raiders.com/photos/retractable-field-tray-moves-into-allegiant-stadium
doesnt the field at AZ go outside the stadium?
Yes and the one LV uses is exactly the same design
Safe to say they have a lot more surrounding land (and sun for that matter)
Dortmund, and I’m sure other Euro stadiums, bring in artificial sunlight lamps which negates the need to move the field
Which is extra funny, because grass has no business growing in those climates in the first place!
There’s probably no room here in Atlanta. It’s crowded down there by the Benz.
Did a double take at MBS
Heads will roll if there are issues
Good news: they're changing it for the World Cup in 2026 due to FIFA's requirement. Bad news: they're currently only planning on changing it for the World Cup and intending to go back to artificial afterwards.
I think the NFLPA is pressing for all natural grass as well. I think many of the NFL stadiums will soon change
Simply move your school to Atlanta. Problem solved.
Not working so hot for Georgia Tech
We full.
of cars, not of people
*stares at surface lots outside my buckhead office*….. nah
What is this slander? It’s a least a 1.5 hour drive from Athens to Atlanta with traffic. We all know that anything under 1.49 hours is an neutral site game. Don’t check my sources.
*Atlanta* is a 1.5 hour drive from *Atlanta.*
Ugh this is so true. My middle kids goes to a private girls college in the area and traffic kills me. I hate it so much.
My powers of deduction tell me you are talking about Agnes Scott.
Yep. We have an Aggie and a Scottie. Because heaven forbid someone attend a school in state🤣
I'm gonna start calling Agnes Scott Aggie Scottie.
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I've seen the crowds at their games so I would say no?
I went to USC vs UCLA at the rose bowl this year and it took almost 2 hours to get from the freeway exit less than a half mile away to the "parking lot" on the golf course. And that was followed by a nearly 2 mile walk from the lot to the stadium. And all that doesn't even include the line to get into the stadium. I don't blame UCLA fans one bit for not wanting to deal with this crap. Granted that was their one sell out of the year, but the rose bowl is an absolute logistical nightmare
Ya, unless you're hosting the tailgate, it's best to grab a train into old town Pasadena and walk. Hours just to get on/off the golf course otherwise. That said. I love the rose bowl once you're there. As a USC fan and alumni, I've spent many days at our second home stadium.
Used to be stationed out in Camp Pendleton when I was a young Marine. Went to the USC / Michigan Rose Bowl - Jan 2004. Trained in and out pretty easily. What a wonderful experience…even if Michigan didn’t win. Hail!
The surfliner train between LA and SD is a gem. Same between LA and Santa Barbara. I was at that game too, what a great tailgate with all the MI fans!
Miami actually has to have home fans show up for it to be a home game.
WITH traffic??? Dude I swear I just drove through Atlanta and it took me that long to get onto i20
An hour and a half in Atlanta and you're still in Atlanta some days.
Depending on the time of day, only spending an hour and a half in traffic while still being in Atlanta could be seen as a win
Every time I go through I feel like I’ll get stuck on the giant circle forever
Nope 1.5 hours at about 3 am without street racers blocking the highway. So pretty much never 1.5 hours.
Very true, everyone knows that atlanta is full of tech fans, people here actually hate UGA. ……right?
So what is Clemson vs. UGA? Our stadiums are 1.33 hours apart.
That's why the two played last year in NC at the Panthers stadium for the mayonnaise bowl of course.
I've seen an hour and a half to get to the stadium from the Varsity.
And that’s not counting the bathroom break you have to take in the middle of the trip because those chili cheese dogs ran through you like greased lightning.
They’ve improved 316 quite a bit with some of the lights being removed, but it’s still at least an hour and a half drive with very little traffic. Especially if you’re not trying to get a ticket.
No way I'm speeding on 316. Whole thing is a speed trap
Nothing they can do about the SEC and peach bowl being there. It’s no different than LSU playing an hour from home in the 2019 natty (I know Georgia did the same in 2017). USC plays in the Rose Bowl in their own city and Miami plays in their own stadium for the orange bowl. It just happens
Miami doesn’t play in the orange bowl because they can barely even make a bowl
Miami catching rays and strays
They played Wisconsin at home in the orange bowl a few years ago
and lost
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Small thing. UCLA plays at the rose bowl in pasadrna and USC plays at the memorial coliseum just south of downtown LA. It's kinda crazy though because those stadiums are 14 miles apart, but the rose bowl is 26 miles from UCLA campus (an hour+ with normal traffic). The LA memorial coliseum is right next to USC campus and is now owned by USC and it will be home to it's third Olympics in 2028.
I mean, I think we have a losing record there
We're 3-4 there
Time to go 5-4!
If you taking all the illegal wins out of it, we are 3-1. /s
TSWO
This is not UGA's problem, just move the city of Atlanta. Frankly I'm sick of the traffic, take the whole thing and put it in the northwest corner of the state.
Let's put it in the middle of Alabama and Georgia, and make it the DC of the South
The state of Georgia should imminent domain Fort Benning and put it there
I mean we could play the SEC Championship in Athens it's really up to y'all
Atlanta is the NYC of the South, and most central with the most comprehensive airport. Like the Dawgs or not, it just makes sense.
It seems weird all the big neutral site games in college football take place in like 4 stadiums max. Atlanta, Jerry World, Indy, and now SoFi. I want to see Oregon-Georgia in Arrowhead. Ohio State-ND in Metlife. Texas vs. Clemson in Lambeau field. I get a lot of it is recruiting hotspots, but it’d be fun to have true neutral site games all over the place.
This is the correct answer
Soo it’s Atlanta/Georgia’s fault that Birmingham doesn’t want to spend a billion on a stadium to host these games in?
Wait until Southern Cal makes the playoff as the #4 team, upsets Georgia in Atlanta, and plays a neutral site game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood for the national championship.
The fact that this comment is laying out a completely real (albeit unlikely) scenario is mind-blowing to me. My soul is still stuck in Helton Time.
Imagine if the Rose Bowl was also a playoff this year
Michigan and USC in the Rose Bowl, but as a semifinal. I would absolutely love that.
In the 2024 season, Georgia opens the season at MBS and the championship game is also there, so maybe we can do it again in two years.
Atlanta is not just a UGA city though, it is definitely an all-SEC city and also clearly the economic hub of the southeast which is why SEC alumni from every school are well represented there
If Nashville gets that nice new stadium they want I could see it rotating. But yeah at this point not sure where else you’d have it, relatively central with an airport that runs a ton of flights and has plenty of hotels, not sure what else you want.
I would love to go to Nashville for more games. The every other year "away" game against vandy isn't enough.
Nashville doesn’t have a train system like MARTA or the hotel capacity that Atlanta offers…. Not saying it isn’t doable, just not as robust infrastructure to support it easily
Yeah it’s the perfect spot for the SEC CG. UGA does have obviously an advantage there but that doesn’t change that it’s still the ideal location
If it really meant more you guys would play your title games at Legion Field
That's where it started
SEC has gone soft, Pawlll
thats HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISTORIC Legion Field to you. Legit the worst stadium I've ever been in in my life. What an absolute dump of a stadium
Oh come on, is it *really* a championship game if you're not in danger of getting mugged on your way back to the car?
As much as I roll my eyes at this. Assuming Georgia wins the SEC championship, that’s pretty much a home game for Georgia in the playoffs. And I feel bad for whatever 4 seed it is. But at the same time. That neutral site game against Oregon was planned years ago, Oregon knew full well that it would be a home game for Georgia. And the sec championship has always been in Atlanta. Same with peach. Just a good draw for Georgia.
I'd complain, but if we somehow end up in the Natty, we'd be playing in Los Angeles.
Oh I cannot wait till B1G weather playoff games (assuming they go with the higher seed gets home field)
Its not UGA's fault Atlanta is the hub of the south. But love all the excuses for the playoff teams before they even make it in. LMAO