Trips to Lane Stadium aren't easy. It's the third-largest football stadium in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and each of the 66,233 fans in attendance are angled such that their sound envelopes a playing surface in its cavernous eruption. It boxes opponents into their sideline, and its remote location makes it impossible to escape during even the smallest, most mundane pregame ritual. Now nearly 60 years old, it still stands as a fortress in Blacksburg and a citadel on the New River Valley.
The environment itself is a once-in-a-career experience, but COVID-19's interruptions now mean that almost no members of the Boston College football program actually remember playing at Lane Stadium.