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University of Michigan's Best Bets, Part IV: Road Football Games

Posted by AHor 06/30/2008 1:24 PM

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University of Michigan's Best Bets, Part IV: Road Football Games

You can still hear the band playing the "you suck" song through the TV, don't let a few hundred miles keep you from joining in

News that’s in any way appealing comes rarely from Ann Arbor during Summer Term, so to spare you all from the reaching Ripe Produce stories that get a good deal of complaints, I’m opening up a Michigan OTR edition of The University of Michigan’s Best Bets. The best bets will ask and hopefully answer some questions that incoming freshman may have as they get ready to make their first impressions on campus. There will be a new topic to be voted on every day until I run out of ideas and get desperate like new seasons of Family Guy, running the earlier success into the ground. Get over it.

Post an answer in the comments if you don’t like the options and if others agree, it will be added to the options. If you guys have your own best bet questions you want to see put up feel free to send them in to the tip line and if they don’t suck I may use a few.

Part IV:

An excellent question came in through the tip-line the other day and I’m bumping it up ahead of a few other ideas I had in line. As everyone knows, Michigan Football is closer to a religion than an obsession in the lives of many students and alumni. Even the students that come in from overseas and have never seen a football in their lives know to order their season tickets once they enroll at U of M (though many probably sell). But on those Saturdays in the fall when the Big House is empty, other measures must be taken to see the Maize and Blue take the field. During my freshman year it seemed the dorms were the right spot to watch, but the Big Ten Network may have stirred things up a bit this past year. Is the BTN available in the dorms? Anyway, the fourth question for Michigan’s Best Bets is: Where is the best place to watch Michigan Football games when they’re playing on the road?

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Anonymous says,

Traveling to away games is usually the most reluctant thing you would do, but always turns out to be one of the most memorable/fun things you can do at college. I had the most drunken fun time going to Wisconsin last year and right now couldn't tell you which class I had a midterm in the Monday after. Going to away games is great, especially when the only responsibility that you have for the weekend is not getting arrested. Posted 06/30/2008 2:25 PMReply

Anonymous says,

going to PSU,Wisconsin, and Ohio State is a must before you graduate. PSU and Wisconsin have argueably the two best student sections in the nation. its rly impressive, i must say. Posted 06/30/2008 8:14 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Illinois also has a newly redone stadium and a student section that would make you think they've been good forever. They're tailgate/pregame is a bit lacking though. Posted 07/01/2008 06:06 AMReply

Anonymous says,

the best place to watch any game is... at the game... note: going to every michigan vs osu game thats at osu might be a bad choice unless you enjoy drunk ****s informing you that you're gay, or you're team is gay, etc Posted 07/02/2008 12:58 PMReply

Anonymous says,

The 'you suck song' [sic] is called Temptation.

Watching the game is best, but if you're poor, anywhere where there is a keg and a big TV will do. Posted 07/03/2008 7:57 PMReply