Seen 'em all – 136 FBS teams in action! In 2025, we added both the CFP Championship game, Indiana 27 Miami 21 and the FCS Championship, Montana State 35 Illinois State 34. We've now attended 740 games since 1979. Please order and review our book on Amazon.com: Fifty Years of Tailgate Tales: The Good, the Fun and the Ugly to enjoy this great, unique lifetime adventure. We look forward to the 2026 season!
Lebanon, TN – Sports Illustrated publishes an annual Swimsuit edition every Spring, so we offer sports fans our 2025 Spring Cheerleader Edition? SI anticipates long awaited summer months to celebrate glorified sunshine to admire women enjoying warm beaches in the latest fashions. With college football pre-season analysis fast approaching, we figure we’d conjure up some pictorials of our favorite college cheerleaders. They’e all clad in their cherished school colors. We’ll be admiring them along sidelines when late summer turns from simmering heat to the cooler climes of fall followed by the pending wintery late season rivalries, playoff games and bowl season. These women don’t go into hibernation after summer ends. We can still enjoy their presence before and during the games at any college football stadium. Bring on college football! It starts for us on August 23, 2025: Sam Houston State visits Western Kentucky!
Let’s get our 2025 Cheerleader edition started!
Last season, New Mexico cheerleaders entertained us in our season opener when their Lobos hosted the Montana State Bobcats. Baylor cheerleaders should have much to cheer about in 2025 as their Bears look to challenge in the Big XII.Boomer Sooner! Expectations run high in Norman to start showing improvement in the SEC after their 6-7 record in 2024. Maybe we’ll see them when they visit Knoxville. Otherwise, we may make a MACtion Run!We include Twirlers in our 2025 Cheerleader edition. We hope to get to Neyland in 2025 as mentioned previously to see the Tennessee Vols in action. However, tickets are difficult to attain. You can understand why we’d be disappointed.Among Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), we’ve seen the Delaware State Hornets perform at home and on the road. This season, we will see Tennessee State bring on their halftime performance in Nissan Stadium. The TSU Tigers host FCS power North Dakota State.
Much to cheer about again this season!
We always feel welcome when we return to State College. We’ll be watching the Nittany Lions host the Oregon Ducks on September 27. A crucial Big Ten showdown comes for both teams. In addition, we’ll be seeing the Ducks in Autzen Stadium for our first time hosting Montana State in early August.We don’t miss going to Rutgers games in dear old NJ, but we do miss our Jersey Girls. Our best opportunity this season to see them is if the Scarlet Knights eek out a 7-5 record and come down to play in The Music City Bowl as the Big Ten rep against an SEC opponent.Though we haven’t seen Syracuse compete recently, we include the Orange Girls in our 2025 Cheerleader edition. We may fly to Syracuse this year enroute to a D3 game in Vermont to add the Pine Tree State as a state we will notch as a first into our travel history. I vowed not to go to another game in South Bend after the seating fiasco we had there in 2016. However, with tickets in the Navy section for this year’s game, it’s the only way to return. Maybe we’ll also get to meet this year’s ND Dance team again as well.South Florida remains one of our favorite cheerleading squads ever, so we have to include them in our 2025 Cheerleader Edition. If Navy can get to the AAC championship, maybe we can see them play USF for the title on December 6 – in Annapolis or in Tampa. Or wherever!
More Fond memories to share in our 2025 Cheerleader edition
Pitt Panthers at the New Era Pinstripe Bowl brightened up a cold, cloudy December day at Yankee Stadium.The Nebraska Cornhusker cheerleaders also brightened up the Music City Bowl in their loss that day to Tennessee. There’s one in every photo – pom-poms down please!One of many beautiful weekends once again enjoyed in Happy Valley to see the Nittany Lions play!
2025 Cheerleader Edition Tribute to the late Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys who recently passed. Always appreciated his songs.
“Well East Coast Girls (Temple Owl Cheerleaders) are ‘hip,’ we really dig the styles they wear.”“And the Southern Girls (Texas State Strutters) with the way they talk, they knock me out when I’m down there.”“The Midwest Farmers’ daughters (Purdue cheerleaders) really make you feel alright.”“And the Northern Girls (Maine Black Bears) with the way the kiss, the keep their boyfriends warm at night.”“I wish they all could be California (UCLA) Girls. The West Coast has the sunshine, and the Girls all get so tan.”“But I couldn’t wait to get back to the states , back to the cutest Girls in the World… I wish they all could be California Girls.” But from we’ve seen, we’re thankful they are all American Girls!
More 2025 Cheerleader Action ahead of us this season
Among our 2025 Cheerleader squads to see once again, Wake Forest looms when they take on North Carolina under their new HC Bill Belichick.With the Vanderbilt football program on the rise with QB Diego Paiva’s return, we’ll see the Commodores at home against Kentucky in November.Well, we’re back in the fold with three Navy games this year: home vs. Air Force in October; at Notre Dame in November: and thankfully, we’ll be in Baltimore on December 13 to cheer the Mids battle against Army!Among other 2025 Cheerleader squads, we look forward to another great tailgate on “The Plain” where the Tigers of Auburn tangle with the Tigers of Missouri. Well, the Houston Cougar 2025 Cheerleader squad isn’t on our football slate this season, but we did see their basketball team in San Antonio at our first NCAA Final Four ever in 2025. So, we include them here! And we did see the game in a football stadium – the Alamo Dome.And here’s a long shot: the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers in the 2025 Myrtle Beach Bowl? It’s possible. Like Chauncy here, we’ll be gearing up for Christmas on December 19. If we don’t find a convenient CFP game that weekend, maybe we’ll hit the Beach instead! Sun Belt (CCU included) plays a MAC or a CUSA team.
Edited, photographed and captioned by Steve Koreivo, member of Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) and Author of Fifty Years of Tailgate Tales: The Good, the Fun and the Ugly. Click on the title to enjoy this life-long tale of attending over 700 college football fans to date and about his inputs and solutions regarding pending changes to this great American sports tradition.
