{"id":1712214,"date":"2022-10-26T15:18:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T19:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1712214"},"modified":"2022-10-26T15:18:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T19:18:41","slug":"no-more-neutral-site-college-football-games-college-towns-are-built-for-college-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-more-neutral-site-college-football-games-college-towns-are-built-for-college-football\/","title":{"rendered":"No More \u2018Neutral Site\u2019 College Football Games: College Towns Are Built For College Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fno-more-neutral-site-college-football-games-college-towns-are-built-for-college-football%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1712214&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>One of the things that makes the college game different from the NFL is that most of the college teams are located in smaller towns or cities and there\u2019s a more local feel to the program.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why, when I see teams like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-169-how-can-florida-upset-georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Florida and The Georgia Bulldogs<\/a> playing in Jacksonville, or the University of Texas playing Oklahoma in Dallas at the Cotton Bowl\u2014 or even these openers that get played in Atlanta at Mercedes-Benz Stadium \u2014 I just don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n<p>I think it goes against what the college game is all about. Why do you think we are all so pumped that some of the expanded playoff games are going to be played on campus?<\/p>\n<p>The bigger cities have enough going on, college football is really a big slice for the little guy when it comes to hometown teams in aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of these towns depend on the home team doing well to put butts in seats and people in hotels and restaurants when there\u2019s a big home game.<\/p>\n<p>We already know the atmosphere for this kind of game in Athens, GA, or Gainesville, FL, would absolutely be bananas. The rivalries would lose absolutely nothing, in fact they may gain something.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, it gives each school another huge recruiting weekend to host, which are worth their weight in gold when done right.<\/p>\n<p>Listen, if you\u2019re a happily married couple you don\u2019t need to go outside and skip in front of everyone to prove it. In other words, you don\u2019t need to play in the big city in order to prove something.<\/p>\n<p>I am not saying that the Jacksonville atmosphere isn\u2019t great \u2014 it\u2019s the world\u2019s largest outdoor cocktail party \u2014 but I don\u2019t want to watch college football in Detroit, or in Dallas or in Jacksonville. I know Jacksonville can throw a great party, but guess what Jacksonville already has? The Jaguars.<\/p>\n<p>And let me ask you, who benefits from playing in Jacksonville? Florida or Georgia? Some of these so-called \u2018neutral site games\u2019 are really de facto home games in disguise.<\/p>\n<p>Listen, when it comes to college football, I\u2019m good with bowl games being played at a neutral site. I get it, it\u2019s a nice reward for both teams and you don\u2019t want one team to have an advantage over the other.<\/p>\n<p>But when it comes to regular season games, especially season openers, let them play home-and-homes, man.<\/p>\n<p>It also doesn\u2019t benefit one school more than the other, you each get to host a game at some point, so nobody is the odd man out. That goes for season openers as well.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the whole point of college football isn\u2019t it? You get to go to places like Knoxville, Tuscaloosa, and Corvallis and soak in that college town feel.<\/p>\n<p>In general, as an amalgamation \u2014 one of my favorite words \u2014 college football is all about these smaller towns getting a big moment on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>There is an old saying, \u201cIf you are good at making hamburgers, make hamburgers\u201d and the college home game atmospheres are ruckus around the country and some would say makes it better than the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>So while you may make more money for the fat cats in the big cities, these small hometowns want you to keep making hamburgers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jake Crain is co-host of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/crain-and-company\">\u201cCrain &#038; Company.\u201d<\/a> the Daily Wire\u2019s sports show hosted by former athletes and coaches Jake Crain, Blain Crain, and David Cone. Follow him at: @JakeCrain_<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that makes the college game different from the NFL is that most of the college teams are located in smaller towns or cities and there\u2019s a more local feel to the program. That\u2019s why, when I see teams like the University of Florida and The Georgia Bulldogs playing in Jacksonville, or &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1712217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}