Stadiums! Why Are the World's Largest Devoted Semi Professional Football (College) in Fairly Small Cities? Will Anyone Try to Overtake Michigan Stadium's Size? Is It Still Fun to Attend Live Sports? episode artwork

EPISODE · Jan 1, 2026 · 55 MIN

Stadiums! Why Are the World's Largest Devoted Semi Professional Football (College) in Fairly Small Cities? Will Anyone Try to Overtake Michigan Stadium's Size? Is It Still Fun to Attend Live Sports?

from The Best Paragraph I've Read... · host Zac & Don

The Best Paragraph I've Read comes from an article in The Athletic. The article is titled: "Looking for the world's biggest stadiums? Why American College Football has most of them." The author is Seth Emerson. You can read the full article here:https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6736868/2025/10/23/college-football-biggest-stadiums-world/Zac & Don are joined by their good friend Kevin Kopec. The three discuss why college football happens to claim most of the largest football stadiums in the world. They discuss some of their favorite stadiums and wonder why no other college has tried to build anything larger than Michigan Stadium.

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