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With more than 159 million fans tuning in each season, college football has quickly become much more than just about the game on the field – it’s a Saturday tradition. Watch parties bring us together every Saturday, and tailgates can even have us cheering together with total strangers in body paint to celebrate the teams we love most. All that good food and drink is certainly a big part of it, too.

But if you’re hosting a big crew for kickoff at your own pad, or heading off to campus, you’re going to want to be stocked up on the essentials (you don’t want to be the one person who just brought their winning personality to the tailgate). From ho

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