So, How Much Mileage Is You Squad Gonna Log This Season?

[ursus arctos horribilis]

The Grizzlies average this year is 724 miles for away games.

[NoDak 4 Ever]

NDSU will average about 600 miles over 5 away games this season. The trip to Ft. Collins, CO is the farthest.

[fatmonarch]

1,153 Total mileage for ODU. Trip to gsu is half of the mileage.

[Redhawk2010]

SEMO will average 259 miles per trip. Longest one is to Central Michigan (598) and the shortest is to Southern Illinois (47).

[dbackjon]

1504 Miles for NAU average - 9024 total miles.


Conference games AVERAGE 2,052 total miles - trips to Missoula, Grand Forks, Pokie and Greeley.
OOC Road games average 408 miles R/T- Tempe and Vegas.

[asumike83]

Good thread! I like this, here are the distances for Appalachian's away games in chronological order:

East Carolina (Greenville, NC): 273 miles
UT-C (Chattanooga, TN): 270 miles
Samford (Birmingham, AL): 420 miles
Western Carolina (Cullowhee, NC): 135 miles
Georgia Southern (Statesboro, GA): 319 miles

Total: 1,417 miles
Average: 283.4 miles

Not bad at all, some relatively tidy road trips this year. Plus, our trip to PHP in Frisco will be a mere 885 miles! xthumbsupx

[dbackjon]

The Grizzlies average this year is 724 miles for away games.

That Boone trip ups the average

BTW - I got an average of 969 for Montana - ONE WAY

[darell1976]

UND:

San Diego State ( San Diego, CA) 1918
Sac St. (Sacramento, CA) 1757
EWU (Cheney, WA) 1239
Montana St (Bozeman, MT) 827
Northern Colorado (Greeley, CO) 902

Total 6643 or an average of 1328.6 miles

[ursus arctos horribilis]

That Boone trip ups the average

BTW - I got an average of 969 for Montana

It could be, I just saw it on a tweet and thought it'd be a good launch point to see how road weary some teams might want to say they are when they have to travel less than a BSC teams average.:D

[dbackjon]

It could be, I just saw it on a tweet and thought it'd be a good launch point to see how road weary some teams might want to say they are when they have to travel less than a BSC teams average.:D

Boone - 2256
Cheney - 215
Greeley - 853
Grand Forks - 1029
Ogden - 429

4,782 total miles. 956 average

The tweeter a Mensan?

Note - those are one way miles - so double them

[NoDak 4 Ever]

UND:

San Diego State ( San Diego, CA) 1918
Sac St. (Sacramento, CA) 1757
EWU (Cheney, WA) 1239
Montana St (Bozeman, MT) 827
Northern Colorado (Greeley, CO) 902

Total 6643 or an average of 1328.6 miles

Woo! Have fun in the BSC!

[ursus arctos horribilis]

Boone - 2256
Cheney - 215
Greeley - 853
Grand Forks - 1029
Ogden - 429

4,782 total miles. 956 average

The tweeter a Mensan?

Looks like they may have divided by 6.93 since that is the standard by which mensonian's are used to.

[bojeta]

Things are getting better!!
2010: S. Dakota = 1737, Fresno = 138, So Utah = 575, McNeese State = 1879, Texas State = 1579 and Old Dominion = 2845 (each way) ......Round trip Grand Total = 17506 ..........Avg = 2918
2011: San Diego Stae = 309, Montana = 1264, N. Illinois = 2102, N. Dakota = 2012, UC Davis = 286, South Alabama = 2162 (each way) ......Round trip Grand Total = 16270 ...........Avg = 2712
2012: Wyoming = 1207, N. Dakota = 2204, Sacramento = 275, Weber State = 856, E. Washington = 1074, N. Arizona = 492 (each way) ......Round trip Grand Total = 12216 ............Avg = 2036

After rechecking Google Maps, the Wyoming trip is actually 1207 miles. New figures applied above.

[whitey]

JMU:

West Virginia (at Fedex Field): 151 mi
Rhode Island: 510 mi
Richmond: 124 mi
Maine: 808 mi
Villanova: 277 mi

Total 1870 miles. Average 374 miles.

[UAalum72]

Albany travels 2171 miles each way over six games, average 362

Orono, Maine - 416
Youngstown, Ohio - 467
Robert Morris, near Pittsburgh Airport - 493
Duquesne, downtown Pittsburgh - 495
Bryant, Smithfield RI - 159
Sacred Heart, Fairfield CT - 141

[melloware13]

UD (one-way totals):

William & Mary (Williamsburg, VA): 250 mi
New Hampshire (Durham, NH): 403 mi
Old Dominion (Norfolk, VA): 240 mi
Richmond (Richmond, VA): 205 mi

Total: 1098 mi (274.5 mi average)

[HailSzczur]

Villanova 2012
Temple: 16.1 mi
Penn: 10.5 mi
Maine: 560 mi
ODU: 277 mi
Georgia St: 775 mi
UDel: 43.5mi

Total Round Trip Distance traveled: 3364 mi
Average Round Trip Distance traveled: 561 mi/game

[heath]

What fan logged the most miles? Say last season?????.Many fans travel to home games and also attend away games. 121 hours in a car to watch college football last season,and loved every minutexsmileyclapx

[ursus arctos horribilis]

What fan logged the most miles? Say last season?????.Many fans travel to home games and also attend away games. 121 hours in a car to watch college football last season,and loved every minutexsmileyclapx

Hmm, that's a good idea heath. We need to keep a running total of the "Road Warriors". That's a pretty good total you have there.

[asumike83]

What fan logged the most miles? Say last season?????.Many fans travel to home games and also attend away games. 121 hours in a car to watch college football last season,and loved every minutexsmileyclapx

Good question, I will try to estimate mine. I live right outside of Charlotte and last year I went to:

Boone 7X (210 miles, 4 hours round-trip)
VT - Blacksburg, VA (370 miles, 5.5 hours round-trip)
The Citadel - Charleston, SC (400 miles, 6 hours round-trip)
Furman - Greenville, SC (260 miles, 4 hours round-trip)
Elon - Elon, NC (260 miles, 4 hours round-trip)

That puts me at 47.5 hours, barely 1/3 of your total. I tip my cap to you, sir.

[NoDak 4 Ever]

What fan logged the most miles? Say last season?????.Many fans travel to home games and also attend away games. 121 hours in a car to watch college football last season,and loved every minutexsmileyclapx

I know there's at least 1 Bison fan, I think they call him RoadWarrior. He went to every Bison game last year including road trips. For the regular season that's about 6600 miles round trip. with the national championship game, that's about 8600 miles. That's probably close.

For my part, I saw 3 Bison games last year. Minnesota, ISUb, and the NC. Not bad considering I live in Ohio.

[813Jag]

Southern:

University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, N.M.) - 1087 miles
Jackson St (Jackson, Ms) - 174 miles
FAMU (Atlanta, Ga) - 524 miles
Alcorn St (Alcorn, Ms) - 132 miles
Prairie View A&M (Shreveport, La) - 266 miles
AAMU (Huntsville, Al) - 498 miles
Grambling (New Orleans, La) - 76 miles

total - 2757 miles
avg - 394 miles

[TheRevSFA]

SFA

@ SMU - 169 Mi
@ Monty State - 1,740
@ Texas State - 254 MI
@ Sam (reliant) - 142 MI
@ SELA - 326 MI
@ McNeese - 167 MI

2798 Miles / 6 = 466.3 mile average

[R3TRO]

UNH: There and back.

Holy Cross: 100mi x 2
Minnesota: 1475mi x 2
ODU: 630mi x 2
Georgia Sate: 1154mi x 2
Maine: 207mi x 2
URI: 146mi x 2

Total: 7424mi
Avg: 1237mi

[GATA_Eagles]

GSU:
@ The Citadel - 143 miles
@ Western Carolina - 264 miles
@ Furman - 198 miles
@ Chattanooga - 326 miles
@ Georgia - 166 miles

Total - 1097
Average - 219.4

[Apphole]

What fan logged the most miles? Say last season?????.Many fans travel to home games and also attend away games. 121 hours in a car to watch college football last season,and loved every minutexsmileyclapx

I went to every game home and away last year, but the SoCon is concise, Blacksburg isn't far and I live 2 miles from The Rock, so I'm not even in the same ball park as you. Props. xbowx

[Sammy94]

Sam:

@ Baylor (Waco) 142 mi.
@ Central Arky (Conway Ar.) 411 mi.
@ TSU , Compass Stadium (Houston) 71 mi.
@ Reliant Stadium, SFA (Houston) 78 mi.
@ Nicholls St. (Thibodaux La.) 358 mi.
@ Lamar (Beaumont) 130 mi.
@ Northwestern St. (Natchitoches La.) 201 mi.
@ Texas A&M (College Station) 55 mi.

Total= 1446 mi.
Avg. 181 mi.

[bojeta]

Cal Poly logs a ton of miles, but I'm sure, if someone from San Diego will chime in, the Toreros log the most miles each year. Without all the details I admit, why don't they just start offering the scholarships and join the Big Sky? The travel savings would have to go a long way toward covering the scholarship expenses. Any Torero fans think this idea has merit? It would give us four Cali teams in the Big Sky.

[AmsterBison]

Things are getting better!!
2012: Wyoming = 741, N. Dakota = 2204, Sacramento = 275, Weber State = 856, E. Washington = 1074, N. Arizona = 492 (each way) Round trip Grand Total = 11284 Avg = 1881

This post got me wondering how people were calculating distances.

741 seems pretty short for San Luis Obispo to Cheyenne, WY (shorter than a flight distance) while the trip to North Dakota looks like driving distance.

One thing is certain: Cal Poly definitely racks up some miles, no matter how you count them.

[Professor Chaos]

I know there's at least 1 Bison fan, I think they call him RoadWarrior. He went to every Bison game last year including road trips. For the regular season that's about 6600 miles round trip. with the national championship game, that's about 8600 miles. That's probably close.
Road has been to 357 straight Bison games according to his signature on Bisonville. That's every Bison football game, home or away, for about the last 30 years... pretty damn impressive. I couldn't even imagine all the miles he's racked up for road games in that stretch.

[bojeta]

This post got me wondering how people were calculating distances.

741 seems pretty short for San Luis Obispo to Cheyenne, WY (shorter than a flight distance) while the trip to North Dakota looks like driving distance.

One thing is certain: Cal Poly definitely racks up some miles, no matter how you count them.

I just plugged those destinations into Google Maps. I wouldn't be surprised if they're not accurate. In fact, I just plugged it in again and this time it came back as 1207 miles. I made the change to the original post.

[UNH_Alum_In_CT]

What fan logged the most miles? Say last season?????.Many fans travel to home games and also attend away games. 121 hours in a car to watch college football last season,and loved every minutexsmileyclapx

Attended every regular season game last season. It's 165 miles one way to the home games and I drove to Toledo, Williamsburg, Richmond, Towson, Bethlehem and Foxboro for the road games. Put over 7K miles on the car for these treks. Already have purchased plane tickets to Minneapolis, Atlanta and Norfolk for this season and plan to make the 342 mile drive up to Orono. York County will believe that when he sees me in Orono. :D

[813Jag]

What fan logged the most miles? Say last season?????.Many fans travel to home games and also attend away games. 121 hours in a car to watch college football last season,and loved every minutexsmileyclapx
for me it's 700 miles one way for a home game now, so I would rack up big mileage if I went to more games in Baton Rouge. I usually go to homecoming, the Bayou Classic, and whatever road games close to me. Before I moved to Florida, I only missed about 5 Southern games from 1977-2003.

[dgreco]

1,376 total miles for Bryant.

[chattownmocs]

South Florida- 573 miles
Jacksonville State- 115 miles
The Citadel- 435 miles
Furman- 213 miles
Western Carolina- 162 miles
Wofford- 262 miles

Total- 1,760 miles

Avg.- 293

[bojeta]

Here's what 2012 looks like on a map for Cal Poly
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v455/bojeta/CalPoly2012roadweb.jpg

[FCS_pwns_FBS]

Much less than most teams.

Athens - 172 miles
Cullowhee - 264 miles
Chattanooga - 326 miles
Greenville - 198 miles
Charleston -143 miles

1,103 miles tota.
~220 average

[dgtw]

Good thread! I like this, here are the distances for Appalachian's away games in chronological order:

East Carolina (Greenville, NC): 273 miles
UT-C (Chattanooga, TN): 270 miles
Samford (Birmingham, AL): 420 miles
Western Carolina (Cullowhee, NC): 135 miles
Georgia Southern (Statesboro, GA): 319 miles

Total: 1,417 miles
Average: 283.4 miles

Not bad at all, some relatively tidy road trips this year. Plus, our trip to PHP in Frisco will be a mere 885 miles! xthumbsupx

A minor notpick, but Samford is actually in Homewood.

[IaaScribe]

Since I travel to all of the road games for the team I cover:

Liberty's is:
Wake Forest -- 150 miles
Montana -- 2,297 miles
Presbyterian -- 316 miles
Coastal Carolina -- 304 miles
VMI -- 43 miles

Total -- 3,110 miles, obviously skewed toward the Missoula jaunt, which I can't freaking wait for. Haven't been out that way since I covered NAU. Is the Rhino still around?

[clenz]

UNI (Cedar Falls, IA) Distance is from UNIDome to address of opposing stadium

Sept 1 @ Wisconsin (Madison, WI) 189.3 miles (378.4 round trip)
Sept 15 @ Iowa (Iowa City, IA) 89.1 miles (178.2 round trip) shortest trip of season
Sept 22 @ Youngstown State (Youngstown, OH) 695.7 miles (1,391.4 round trip) longest trip of season
Oct 13 @ Southern Illinois (Carbondale, IL) 441.3 miles (882.6 round trip)
Nov 3 @ Western Illinois (Macomb, IL) 211.7 miles (423.4 round trip)
Nov 10 @ South Dakota (Vermillion, SD) 248.8 (497.6 round trip)

Total distance of 1,875.9 miles (3,751 miles round trip)
Average distance of 321.65 miles (625.3 round trip)

[clenz]

Further proof YSU has no business in the MVFC....

http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q340/unipanthers10/asdfasdfasdfasd.jpg

[Grizo406]

Since I travel to all of the road games for the team I cover:

Liberty's is:
Wake Forest -- 150 miles
Montana -- 2,297 miles
Presbyterian -- 316 miles
Coastal Carolina -- 304 miles
VMI -- 43 miles

Total -- 3,110 miles, obviously skewed toward the Missoula jaunt, which I can't freaking wait for. Haven't been out that way since I covered NAU. Is the Rhino still around?


Not even close to what I traveled last season to see Griz games. Before the Playoffs, my odometer was @ 41.3.

The Rhino, (home of the best Bloody Mary's on our Planet), is STILL goin' strong!xthumbsupx

[Grizalltheway]

Not even close to what I traveled last season to see Griz games. Before the Playoffs, my odometer was @ 41.3.

The Rhino, (home of the best Bloody Mary's on our Planet), is STILL goin' strong!xthumbsupx

I know it's a little too far from Missoula for you to venture, but the Snowbowl bar has them beat...and that's a fact. xnodx xcoffeex

[darell1976]

Further proof YSU has no business in the MVFC....

http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q340/unipanthers10/asdfasdfasdfasd.jpg

If the MVFC would have added both USD and UND the trip from Cedar Falls to Grand Forks would've saved UNI 165 miles or 330 miles round trip. But with all the conference switching and teams moving up or possibly moving down (Idaho) it may not be too long that YSU stays in the MVFC.

[Redhawk2010]

Further proof YSU has no business in the MVFC....

http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q340/unipanthers10/asdfasdfasdfasd.jpg

Your graphic is a little misleading. With that particular graphic it makes it appear that YSU is REALLY far away from anyone else in the conference. I'm sure that's exactly what you were going for. But it doesn't look as bad when you put Illlinois State and Indiana State onto the map. Yeah, they are still a pretty good trip but not as bad as this graphic would make it appear.

[bojeta]

Yes, showing the whole conference gives better perspective. In fact, it would be cool if we had one of those interactive maps showing all FCS teams identified with their helmet or logo. Clicking on the image might take you to either their home page or an image of their stadium. Any chance of that happening? Here's the whole Big Sky Conference.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v455/bojeta/College%20Sports/Big-Sky-Mapweb.jpg

[darell1976]

Yes, showing the whole conference gives better perspective. In fact, it would be cool if we had one of those interactive maps showing all FCS teams identified with their helmet or logo. Clicking on the image might take you to either their home page or an image of their stadium. Any chance of that happening? Here's the whole Big Sky Conference.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v455/bojeta/College%20Sports/Big-Sky-Mapweb.jpg

I feel like we are a little isolated.

[TheValleyRaider]

Colgate

Distances are one-way/round-trip
Albany - 100/200 (shortest)
South Dakota - 1,269/2,538 (longest)
Stony Brook - 253/506
Yale - 233/466
Bucknell - 214/428
Lehigh - 193/386
Fordham - 209/418

Total: 2,471
Average: 353
Average minus SD: 200

[NDB]

Road has been to 357 straight Bison games according to his signature on Bisonville. That's every Bison football game, home or away, for about the last 30 years... pretty damn impressive. I couldn't even imagine all the miles he's racked up for road games in that stretch.

Even more crazy when you learn that he made every one of those trips by boxcar!

[NDB]

Further proof YSU has no business in the MVFC....

http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q340/unipanthers10/asdfasdfasdfasd.jpg

That map is hilarious. That's an angry little penguin looking west to his conference mates.

[NoDak 4 Ever]

Your graphic is a little misleading. With that particular graphic it makes it appear that YSU is REALLY far away from anyone else in the conference. I'm sure that's exactly what you were going for. But it doesn't look as bad when you put Illlinois State and Indiana State onto the map. Yeah, they are still a pretty good trip but not as bad as this graphic would make it appear.

He's right. YSU is technically an outlier but no more so than NDSU is to ISUb

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/MissouriValleyFootballLocations.png

[SDFS]

He's right. YSU is technically an outlier but no more so than NDSU is to ISUb

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/MissouriValleyFootballLocations.png

You forgot - USD - Vermillion, SD

[Tribe4SF]

W&M one-way trips.

Maryland- 165 mi.
Towson- 213 mi.
Penn- 291 mi.
JMU- 185 mi.
UNH- 652 mi.
ODU- 45 mi.

Average 258.5 mi. / Take out UNH and it's 180 mi. for the other five.

[NoDak 4 Ever]

You forgot - USD - Vermillion, SD

I was lazy, that's actually from the MVFC Wikipedia article.

[skeeveu2]

I traveled, from my home in Atlanta to all Jacksonville State games,a total of 5,692 miles to see our son play!!

[Squealofthepig]

I just plugged those destinations into Google Maps. I wouldn't be surprised if they're not accurate. In fact, I just plugged it in again and this time it came back as 1207 miles. I made the change to the original post.

Might be interesting to peg the middle of the 50 yard line in each stadium and calculating from there. I'll do that for the Griz when I have some energy (GPS coords of Wa-Griz are roughly 46 degrees, 51 minutes 50.54 seconds north, 113 degrees, 58 minutes and 53.38 seconds west).

Even with the App game, it looks like the NAU 'jacks have easily got the Griz beat thanks to their road warrior mileage this year. Does anyone know if there's an FBS equivalent just for comparison? I'm sure Hawaii kicks everyone else in the teeth, but would still be interesting to see.

[BisonBacker]

Amazing how different it looks when you add in all the schools. NDSU doesn't look like such an outlier as opposed to YSU now.

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t114/bri4878/MVFCMAP.jpg

[Redhawk2010]

Amazing how different it looks when you add in all the schools. NDSU doesn't look like such an outlier as opposed to YSU now.



But for 5 of the schools, it is still farther to travel to NDSU than it is to travel to YSU..

[NoDak 4 Ever]

But for 5 of the schools, it is still farther to travel to NDSU than it is to travel to YSU..

It appears that the MVFC has decided on a distinctly North-South Footprint. Tot that end, YSU seems isolated. If you take Springfield, MO to Youngstown, OH it's a little over 800 miles. Springfield to Fargo is about 760.

It's actually quite geographically compact for teams like UNI who are in the middle.

[clenz]

FWIW to those thy feel I'm singling YSU out as well O have long said that due to the travel I don't like NDSU either

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[NoDak 4 Ever]

FWIW to those thy feel I'm singling YSU out as well O have long said that due to the travel I don't like NDSU either

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Well with WKU gone, somebody had to come in and win a NC and give this conference some cred. xrolleyesx