College Football 2022

Remember too that there will be drink available in the stadium. The US visitors for the ND/Navy game were so surprised at this. In the US, all college games are dry in the stadium, hence the nature of the tailgates as they will have 4+ hours after without booze.

Not all college games, in north Texas we were always able to get beer in the stadium. Smaller team and not a huge crowd at matches (was a lovely atmosphere though!) so probably a factor, but far as I know you can get beer at University of Texas games as well.

ND is farcical, no beer at all in the stadium but just a few meters away people are hammered in the car park.

I'd enjoy this one, wouldn't surprise me if it's the last.

Tickets sales have been poor, they've had to do some amount of marketing spend on it.

The sponsors spending money handover fist.

Pity really, but ticket prices and hotels probably not a great combination.

I believe the commitment is a few years, can't remember top of my head.

But this isn't making money, the only real benefit is it's essentially similar to Patrick's day for business people, doing trade deals over dinner in the days before.

Aer Lingus putting in a massive effort with it.

I think it's a lot to do with the teams.

NCAA football is super niche in Ireland.

Northwestern doesn't have the same name recognition as Notre Dame or BC for example.

Nebraska may have slightly better name recognition I'd guess, but not much.

But a lot of people have heard of ND and also "The fighting Irish" so that will be a bigger draw

Personally I'd prefer this game to a ND v Navy matchup.

This is a conference matchup in a Power Five conference, albeit that the two teams are pretty low in the Big 10 rankings.

I personally think it has more "authenticity" as a game than one between an independent and a AAC opponent, which always strikes me as one of those Week 1 games that are glorified preseason games.

All depends on the teams. Notre dame brought about 40k last time didn't they. Penn state brought huge numbers too and a decent whack from Georgia

Maybe less travelling post covid? I'm guessing the same amount of Irish will go just less travelling fans.

The nature of the game with people walking around/at bars/huge areas of seats reserved for bands ect it never really fells like a full house anyway.

Galway is seemingly flooded with Nebraskans. Went to a bar last night and met a family who were in for the game. Plenty of Husker gear on in the city.

Videos going around of the team arriving had the place mobbed with Husker fans getting flights into Ireland at a similar time. Father in law landed last week and saw a good number of Husker fans. The family we met last night said they were out and about and met one Northerwestern fan, who said he hadn't met any N'western fans yet.

I don't think any of them have been televised here. I've been lucky enough to be able to find a download of them previously (& rewatch from time to time, they make the country look great)

Is there YouTube highlights for college games like the NFL?