Vote for the Five Best College Sports Traditions!
 

These are great! Vote for Toomer's Corner at Auburn!!!!!!!:D

http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/sports...?event_id=2492

methinks this is a little biased towards southerners.

Getting drunk before the game!

Already voted for the greatest tradition...






















The Grove at Ole Miss! Hotty Toddy!

Script Ohio..gives me chills thinking about it:D

Its not biased towards southerners...we just have the best traditions.

I refuse to even consider a list that is missing both Jump Around and The Fifth Quarter.

They got Howard's Rock, but no 2001 (one of the best entrances in all of college football)? :confused:

BOOOOOO to ESPN!!! :mad:

2001 is a cool entrance, but its not that classic of a tradition.

Write in vote for The Eyes of Texas, Texas Fight, Hook Em Horns, and Bevo

I'm surprised LSU's infamous male on male kiss cam didn't make the list.

In my eyes it is! :p

I have a right to be biased.

I protest the exclusion of the Old Oaken Bucket!

http://www.youtube.com/v/PahHn2WxUlI

Watch this, then thank God you get to tailgate in the South.

Michigan-OSU pregame

I'm boycotting. I can't believe our post-third-quarter 'We Are The Boys' didn't make the list.

You guys posting traditions need to let people know what schools these are...The bucket is a cool trophy i guess, but its indiana-purdue...Also, UF is not a school that comes to mind when I think "tradition."

That looks absolutely miserable. Nice of everyone to dress up for the game.

It isn't tradition to dress up at OSU for those games or really any games, unless you count wearing all of your team regalia dressing up.:D Our traditions are different then yours. And no, it is not miserable..well...maybe miserably cold by then (OSU vs. M!ch%gan. ) Tailgating up here is obviously different then in the South. We do it our way, you do it your way.

Well, I mean if you like it your way than by all means go for it. Just looks kind of dreary to me, and I view tailgating as more than 5 people around a case of beer. Different strokes.

That video showed mostly how things used to look on Lane Avenue on campus. Once you get closer to the 'Shoe, it is more than the cases of beer (and since there is a campus/city law in place now that restricts open cases and such, you don't see much of the empty cases of beer) and more about the football. On game day, especially this year, you can barely walk there are so many people!! I would like to experience tailgating in the South. It sounds like it is totally different then up here.

It is quite different, you are right. I always viewed dressing up for games in the South as a sign of respect towards the team that you are playing, whether it is a home or away game. Obvously, Texas is a little different than the deep South in that we don't generally wear ties and such, but khakis/boots and jeans with a button down is pretty standard. Sportcoat or Blazer when it starts getting cold.
Our actualy tailgating is usually at the fraternity houses. All of the parents and prominent alumni are there with plenty of open bars and excellent food.

I never thought of the dressing up part from the point of view you explained it as. I thought you dressed up to dress up. Interesting stuff!:)

I think sometimes it has to do with bringing dates as well...you obviously dress in coat and tie if you're a pledge, and unless I went without a date I generally wore a tie to games. For some people I realize that'd be weird, but I'm generally as comfortable with a shirt and tie on as I am in jeans and a tshirt. Granted, I blow out about 3-4 brooks brothers ties in a season, but thats the price you pay for wearing them while drinking all day.

Just like you would think it was weird seeing how many strands of poisonous nuts (buckeyes) one can wear around their neck? :p lol.

AMEN!

We have the poll wrapped up. The 12th man IS the greatest tradition of all time :).

Thank goodness for that 12th man last week, eh aggie?

Calling the hogs


oooooooooh pig sooooooie

Yeah, it's neat. Especially when they spell it correctly.
(Spoken by a Columbus native and die-hard Ohio University Bobcat and original announcer for the O.U. Marching 110)

It all kind of depends on how you want (and how old you are) to consider "traditions."

If they are things you have experienced at school, they may be pretty recent -- depending, of course upon when you were an undergraduate.

When I was in school, most students -- but especially Greeks -- dressed for football games. That generally included at least sweaters and ties for the men, but more often sport coats, etc. and at least sweaters and skirts for the women. Most fraternal organizations sat together as a group with their dates, pinmates, etc. with a banner of some sort displayed in the stadium.

It was that way at Ohio and certainly was the same at Ohio State and other schools in the region.

That's a tradition I hated to see change.

If you're going to rank the top traditions in college football, you're going to have to list all of the top traditions. Those happen to be mostly in the South.

I agree. I LOVED tailgating at Clemson. There would be all types of people set up with all kinds of things... hamburgers, hotdogs, ribs, deer meat, steak... we even tailgated with some of my friends parents one year that had a whole table of oysters!... and of course I can't forget the Crown, Beam, SoCo, Jack Daniels, and some good ole Budlight!

Dressing up or not dressing up you can still act like a civilized person. Don't get me wrong I go out and tailgate, real tailgating. That involves good food, drinking, and socializing. I couldn't imagine trashing my campus like that either, just appalling. Also, the way they were acting towards the other fans. :eek: I guess different types of scenes.

The Grove at Ole Miss was ahead for a while. I heard that a bunch of Miss. State fans started voting for Texas A&M just so Ole Miss wouldn't win.