My Michigan experience would not be complete without having cheered alongside with a 100000-strong crowd in the Big House. Hence, although I’m not a very avid fan of football (still think that soccer beats it), I attended the Michigan-Oregon game, the 2nd game of our season.
The crowd was huge, and the people swarm into the stadium in all directions, particularly from the South State Street. The frats of course could not possibly give up this chance to be rowdy; shouts and cheers came incessantly from the frat houses along the street. Most of the students wore yellow, one of the official colors of our school.
That day we got in quite late, hence the stadium was already quite full. It was simply amazing to see one tenth of a million people all packed in the bowl. That’s about 90% of the population of Ann Arbor, if I’m not mistaken. Though we cheered and cheered, Michigan lost that day, and it was an ugly loss. We got trashed 39-7, and that was after what deemed to be the biggest upset in the history of college football, in which we lost to Appalachian State home a week earlier. As a side-note, Michigan did pretty well after that (not good enough though), and managed to get into the Capital Bowl for the post-season.
Walking to the stadium
Michigan Band playing
Final score. Embarassing...
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