Ford, a receiver whom Tennessee defensive coordinator Bob Shoop called “one of the best in the ACC”, will need to have another big game for Virginia Tech if they want to beat the Volunteers. The crowd will approach 160,000 which will shatter the record for the largest attendance ever for a college football game. Even though the building was about half-full for the game, Barnes said those who came out had a good time and were into it.
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Warren’s friend, Erroll Doss, said, “That’s why we are here”. Appalachian State had a potential game-winning drive in progress as the clock went under a minute in the fourth quarter, but Cam Sutton showed why he was voted as a permanent captain and provided a huge tackle-for-loss to keep the Mountaineers out of field goal range. “It’s who we are, but we really think this will open us up to new opportunities, other football games, possibly other sports or other entertainment events”.
Well it’s safe to say that the stars have aligned with kickoff set for at 8:00 p.m. ET, under the bright lights of a racetrack which has dubbed itself “The Last Great Colosseum”. “So we have to be locked into the game plan and locked in from the first snap”.
The speedway is hosting the football game less than three weeks after a Sprint Cup race. Nearly immediately the track hired some football-related experts to help get a jump start on “small” things, like setting up coaches’ boxes and replay booths, as well as finding ideal locations for play clocks.
Check out this video of the stadium, from Michael Patrick of the Knoxville News Sentinel.
It measures 30 feet tall and 63 feet wide, and according to Caldwell doesn’t block a single spectator’s sightline.
The thought of putting a football field in the middle of the BMS was merely a thought in the late 90s. Panasonic will also oversee the complete clock and statistical data paths and act as a liaison between Bristol Motor Speedway and ABC/ESPN TV, ensuring that all broadcast requirements and needs are met.
College fans it’s time to start your engines for the largest football game in college history.
The No. 1 priority? The track has also sold 5,000 premium seats in the infield. “This is what the race used to be like a long time ago”. Signage had to be altered.
A drivers’ meeting room was reconfigured into a locker room for Tennessee. It’s still one football game and the stage shouldn’t determine our behavior. At halftime, we all met up there, and had a few cigarettes and then went on and finished the game. While there will be 150,000 fans inside the stadium, hundreds of thousands more — yes, six figures — had to be turned away.
“It’s a bit surreal”, Caldwell said.
“Expect a fun, festive environment”, Caldwell said.
FILE – In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 29, 2016, file photo, workers install the second goal post as the transformation of Bristol Motor Speedway from a NASCAR track to a football stadium continues in Bristol, Tenn.
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“This will be an event people will be talking about for the rest of their lives”.
