College football is about a lot more than the three hours inside the stadium.
It’s the college town on Friday afternoon. The bar that’s been there for generations. The tailgate you stumble into. The traditions you’ve only seen on television. The rivalry that divides an entire state. And the meal you’re still thinking about years later.
Few people experience that side of the sport better than Josh Sims. @CFBTravelGuy.
Josh joins The Preferred Walk-On Show to talk about crisscrossing the country in search of the best college football experiences in America, and everything he’s learned along the way.
We get into:
- How Josh plans an entire fall of college football road trips
- Why Pullman, Starkville, Lubbock and Raleigh deserve more love
- Why Bloomington belongs among America’s elite college towns
- His bucket-list plans for MACtion and Big Sky Country
- Why Brawl of the Wild is a must-see rivalry
- What makes a Midwest tailgate different
- Why seeing Army–Navy in person changed his perspective on the rivalry
- How to pull off multi-game college football weekends
- The games and road trips he’s most excited about this season
- His favorite college-town breakfasts, barbecue, pizza, ice cream, breweries and late-night food
- And why, despite everything changing around the sport, the magic of a college football Saturday still wins
If you love the stadiums, traditions, food, rivalries, road trips and culture that make college football unlike anything else in American sports, this episode is for you.
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