re: Which schools have the worst college game day atmosphere?

You can't boom your own post brozart

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The way most SEC stadiums and stadium areas are set up, there are large swaths of land to tailgate on and it’s not hard to jump from one group to another, or have tailgating groups of over 100 people

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Mizzou’s tailgate arena is more of an archipelago of small parking lots with little to no centralization at all and almost no major tailgating center to speak of

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Then there’s the tailgating atmosphere itself. Most groups tend to be smaller and either localized Columbians, students and faculty, or people driving in for the game from St. Louis or Kansas City. They tend to keep more to smaller groups

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While the fans are nice and passionate, they seem much less approachable.

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While the Missouri fan knows their team and in my experience knew the Big 12 fairly well, the actual logistics of the game are not imbued the way they are in the rest of the South

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Sure the average conversations I’ve had range from “We’re in the SEC now, all our players just got faster” to “I think they had to make classes easier now,” but the down the line football talk is not there yet.

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Where are the sundresses?

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UAB

Thanks for rehashing the article from almost a year ago. I'm sure the AD is working on it.

If you'd like I'd be happy to email you progress reports on how that's developing. Go ahead and include your email in the next post and I'll get right on it.

Also, I didn't read, but I'm pretty sure the same article put the Mizzou women pretty high up on the SEC ladder even without the sundresses, but I may be thinking of one of the thirty other articles about Mizzou's positive gameday experience last year.

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but have you really been to a UAB game?

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Actually yes

I went to the UAB Memphis game once. It was pretty awful. There's like 10,000 (being generous) there, all silent except for that one guy in the section that gets unnecessarily emotional over everything. It's quite an experience

Maryland

vanderbuilt is terrible. NO tailgaiting, "fans" arrive in time to be seated right after kickoff and basically clap when their team makes a good play. ok, i haven't been to one of their games in about 10 years, but i went to several when i lived in nashville and it was really, really boring. plus their stadium looks like a juco or div 11 stadium.

Not Ole Miss

Probably the most interesting games that I have been to are at Rice. They don't really take themselves very seriously, so it makes up for the lack of a large crowd. Plus the band is hysterical. (Not many marching bands have cellos.)

The last time I went, they allowed anyone to run on the field and line up with the band on either side of where the team ran in. After the game they allowed everyone to bring their footballs and play on the field.

If it makes you feel better, I've also been to an Arkansas game at Little Rock. Pretty dinky place to play. I'm not sure why they ever play there.