About Collegefootballfan.com

For those of you visiting Collegefootballfan.com for the first time, this website follows a life-long, ongoing commitment to continue to see at least one college football game every week of every college football season. Collegefootballfan.com has attended games played by every Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) football team in person at least once since 1979. In 2026, a new challenge looms to add our 137th FBS team, North Dakota State. They joined the Mountain West Conference. In the past, we attended Bison games at the FCS level including this past season.

The powerful North Dakota State Bison trampled the Tennessee State Tiger in 2025. Collegefootballfan.com hope to see them play at home this seaon against some new FBS competition as they move into the Mountain /West Conference in 2025. — The powerful North Dakota State Bison trampled the Tennessee State Tigers in 2025. Collegefootballfan.com hopes to see NDSU play at home this season against some new FBS competition as they move into the Mountain West Conference in 2026.

Every season, we plan on attending as many games as possible played within all four divisions of NCAA football. Collegefootballfan.com focuses on traveling to and tailgating at competitive games wherever we find them. Basically, every Fall Saturday and some weekdays now, too, we attend a game somewhere. Growing up watching college football on TV in the 1960’s, ABC Sports’ Chris Schenkel’s message struck a chord for a lifetime, “College football! What better way to spend an autumn afternoon?”

Read about our collegefootballfan.com travels and adventures for over 50 years!

And wait until your read about the many autumn afternoons we found so many “better ways!” Click on our book cover below to buy and enjoy our unique story of how collegefootballfan.com ventured out over 50 years and across the country to see all 136 FBS teams play for our first time and beyond. In 2025, we added three new teams more to our history – Sam Houston State, Delaware and Missouri State. Now, we hope to venture to Fargo, N.D to add the Bison, their stadium, and the great state of North Dakota to pursue some other goals!

Published in 2023 and now available on Amazon.com – please buy my book: Fifty Years of Tailgate Tales: The Good, the Fun and the Ugly. Click on the book cover below to learn more.

2026 marks collegefootballfan.com’s 48th season of this fun, unique history!

Of course, 2020 posed obstacles never imagined before. During the Covid-19 sanctions, we attended only three games. Of course, Collegefootballfan.com started to make up for all of that in 2021. We got back to our old ways “on the road again.” We attended 21 games in 2022. In addition, retirement from the “real work world” and our relocation to the Nashville, Tennessee area from New Jersey in 2021 provided us with new options. We found new opportunities to expand our college football travels to new campuses never visited before. Heading into 2026, we’ve already attended games at 102 (of 137) different FBS venues, but also 203 stadia overall when counting FCS, D-2, D-3, and neutral sites for all college football games attended.

The last time Collegefootballfan.com saw the Nebraska Cornhuskers in a tussle, they fell to Tennessee in the 2016 Music City Bowl, 38-24. This year, we plan to see them play in Scarlet jerseys at home at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln for the first time. Ten years too long! Date TBA. — The last time Collegefootballfan.com saw the Nebraska Cornhuskers in a tussle, they fell to Tennessee in the 2016 Music City Bowl, 38-24. This year, we plan to see them play in scarlet jerseys at home at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln for the first time. Ten years too long! Date and opponent TBA.

Quality as well as Quantity

The 2025 season came to a glorious ending for us. Among the 27 games attended, they included Indiana’s 27-21 CFP championship win over Miami at Hard Rock Stadium and Montana State’s 35-34 triumph over Illinois State at First Bank Stadium in Nashville for the FCS Championship. However, our fun doesn’t end after we wrap up our season. Our fun continues in the offseason putting together our 2026 schedule! It’s always a challenge to put together the best plan possible, but every season we finish up with a plan we can’t wait to start!

We select our games primarily based on seeking out as many competitive games as possible every week (not that they all turn out that way, regrettably). Within our slate, we look for opportunities to see games in venues not yet visited; we figure in several teams we enjoy visiting with great friends we traditionally tailgate with every season; we look for local games at different levels to keep travel costs low; and we’ve learned to focus on fewer but better post-season action now where teams show up playing to win and not opting out (that basically starts with Army-Navy at the end of most regular seasons).

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Soon, we’ll be updating our 2026 schedule as we wait for some key conferences to announce dates. Until then, Click here to see results on our 2025 slate as you will eventually see it “morph” into our 2026 Tentative schedule. We enjoy planning our schedules this time of year. Also in the offseason, check out our NFL Draft pictorials of players we’ve “scouted” before entering the upcoming draft in April every year.

Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza (15) played on our scheudle thre times this season with win over Illinois, Oregon and Miami. He's already touted as the first pick in April's NFL draft. — 2025 Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza (15) played on our schedule three times this season with wins over Illinois, Oregon and Miami. He’s already touted as the first pick in April’s NFL draft.

In June, we don’t offer a “swimsuit edition,” be we like rolling out our Collegefootballfan.com annual Cheerleader Edition to get ready for the action on the field and along the sideline for the upcoming season! Along the way, we’ll also offer previews of games and teams we plan to see on our schedule. Check us out when you crave to find out about some great college football action ahead in 2026.

The Collegefootballfan.com goal

Click here on our History Page. You will find out we’re focused not only on the FBS level. We enjoy games played by the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) teams, D-2, and D-3, more for the love of the game. We are still committed to this unique, fun, life-long adventure! Both our kids have moved on, respectively to Florida and Virginia. However, that provides us new game travel opportunities.

Sometimes my wife, “Saint Laurie,” attends, but mostly for times meeting up with friends and acquaintances despite her football apathy. During these many years, the journey continues. Our move from our native New Jersey to the Nashville, Tennessee area gives us more opportunities to travel to and attend games on campuses never traveled to in the past. However, we’ll still venture back to some favorite sites enjoyed along the way.