re: UCLA football 2024 schedule, 26752 miles of air travel

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It isn’t so much the team having to travel, it is the fact that your common fan isn’t going to make it to road games across the country on a regular basis. I live in central Alabama and I’ve been to road games in Baton Rouge, Gainesville, Tallahassee, Miami, Atlanta, Starkville, etc. My dad and I used to pick one road game a year, either Troy or Alabama, and most of them were nice drives.

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I get traveling to big bowl games and championship games, but are a lot of people really just picking random (already televised) regular season road games one or two states away and traveling? Especially when the home teams damn near fill the stadium? That gets brought up a lot on this site but I don’t think the average fan is doing this.

Maybe it’s an SEC thing because it just means more?

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It isn’t so much the team having to travel, it is the fact that your common fan isn’t going to make it to road games across the country on a regular basis. I live in central Alabama and I’ve been to road games in Baton Rouge, Gainesville, Tallahassee, Miami, Atlanta, Starkville, etc. My dad and I used to pick one road game a year, either Troy or Alabama, and most of them were nice drives.

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I agree with you, but more than ever your average SEC cfb fan who makes road trips lives in a city with a big airport (Houston, Atlanta, Nashville, Dallas) and many fly to games, especially if the drive is longer than 4-5 hours.

Even in the old PAC-12, if I was a UCLA fan living in LA, the only road game I would drive to would be USC, flying everywhere else.