Why College Football Crowds are Storming the Field

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🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Storming the field: it’s a time-honored sports tradition where players, coaches, and fans in the stands descend upon the field after a victory. This year we’ve seen it in record numbers in college football, spawning countless Instagram posts and fuming turf managers. So, why are we seeing it happen so much more, and what’s the larger impact? ESPN’s Dave Wilson takes us inside this misunderstood ritual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	28-yard attempt by Seth Small is down, it is up, and the fight in Texas Aggies take down the top ranked tied 41 to 38.
0:17.0	Number one goes down, and the celebration is on at Kyle Field.
0:24.2	Look, let's be honest here.
0:26.2	There is only one place to go after your team wins the biggest upset of the year in college football.
0:33.0	Down to the field itself.
0:36.0	In fact, as it turns out,
0:40.1	storming the field is at an all-time high in college football in general this season.
0:43.0	So today, we explain why that is,
0:47.0	whether it's ruining a sacred tradition.
0:50.6	And we try not to, you know, face plant in the process.
0:56.3	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Tuesday, December 21st.
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1:41.3	Dave Wilson, we call on you because you are really good at what we call in the journalism
1:47.6	business off the field stories. Stuff that happens that is incidental to games, but this one is
1:55.7	arguably the most on the field story we have ever done here. What is the phenomenon that we've been watching over and over again at so many college
2:05.0	football games this year that you have been exhaustively reporting on?
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