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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.

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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Posted by TU Rob

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Posted on 6/16/23 at 1:28 pm to chalmetteowl

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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?

for some people, yeah. The SEC footprint makes it somewhat feasible. There are at least 2-3 schools within easy driving distance of every school, outside of maybe Florida and A&M. Alabama has Auburn/Vandy/MSU etc. UGA has UT, USC.

It was just a fun tradition we started once I was out of school. Once the schedules came out, we'd look at what home games we could make it to, and try to pick a road game.

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