The logistics of visiting a college football town on game day are much trickier than going to a big city to see your favorite pro team. You’re not going to Manhattan. You’re going to Manhattan, Kansas.

While many college towns have disproportionately great culture and food, their quaint charm can be majorly inconvenient when out-of-town crowds test the limits of local infrastructure.

I should know: I spent the 2023 season road-tripping to as many college football games as I could. I made it to 62 games, passed through 43 states and put about 40,000 miles on a rental car odometer. I slept in Texarkana (I think Texas, but maybe Arkansas) on three separate occasions, got pulled over by the police officers four times and somehow got zero tickets. I went to games on every level of the sport f

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