re: Penn State at Michigan State moved to Ford Field on Black Friday

The only thing keeping college football from being a minor league sport is the campus traditions and the idea (even if false) that the players are unpaid college kids playing for love of the game. Once that is all gone, the sport will die a slow death much like what has happened to fan interest on the West Coast.

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This doesn’t matter. I would much rather drive 4 hours to see Alabama in Tuscaloosa than see them in the big metro area I live.

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Very much this. I live in Dallas but IDGAF that it's easier for me to see A&M play Pig b/c of the deal at JerryWorld. I want that game back in College Station and Fayetteville.

Part of what makes CFB great is going back to campus hitting up places you used to go to back when you were in school and often seeing people you went to school with you'd otherwise never see again. A game at a pro stadium flat out cannot recreate that kind of experience. The campus will likely have something that I don't know how to describe other than a "vibe" you simply cannot get at the typical pro field. Stuff like the specific weather, smells, trees, small town atmosphere etc etc that add up to give the feel of the place.

Pro stadiums are usually centered in a sea of concrete parking w/frick all to do other than go straight into a sterile place that might not even have any of your schools signage up other than a logo on the jumbotron. When you lose the campus experience factor the blatant and relentless drive towards separating your money from your wallet becomes quite a bit more obnoxious.

Really the only neutral site game I've seen that can kind of keep that sense of fun you get from a campus game is Texas/OU and that's purely b/c the Texas State Fair is going on at the same time. If it was just a game at the Cotton Bowl w/no fair happening it would instantly be an awful location for their game.

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Michigan State's home schedule now consists of Central Michigan, Richmond, Washington, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska.

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Wow that is dreadful

Do you think MSU is trying to push this 'rivalry'?

Stupid move to try to make a few extra bucks. This isn't Northwestern-Illinois at Wrigley; it's two decent teams with good fan bases playing at a nondescript NFL dome.

BTW, Spartan Stadium is less than an hour's drive farther (than Ford Field) from State College.

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College ADs who shift games to bland cooperatized NFL neutral site games should face a firing squad. Non-lethal. I'm not a monster. Bean bag or paintball to punish them for what they've done.

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At least it’s still in Michigan…

LSU moving games to Texas and Atlanta was a travesty

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Even in 2023 Michigan, Nebraska, and Washington coming to your place is pretty decent even if they aren’t who they used to be

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Why are you including Michigan with the other two?

They have won the B1G the last two years. Punked OSU twice. Made the playoffs both years.

Yeah, they didn't play great in the playoffs. If the only metric of success is winning a natty... there is only one team that gets it per year.

Remember when bowl games actually used to mean something? It was exciting if your team made it to a BCS bowl.

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CMU and Richmond are trash

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CMU is trash? They have beat msu thrice.

Some of you baws seem to forget that Alabama used to play in some years half of its "home" games in Legion Field in Birmingham. They would play three games a year and for some goofy reason refused to play Auburn home and home until in recent college football history.