Let’s get the criticisms out the way. Neutral-site college football games—like Ole Miss’ game against Texas Tech in Houston this Saturday—are not a perfect substitute for a traditional home-and-home series. They’re more trendy than they are traditional, and their gameday atmospheres are stale and corporate. College football, when crammed in a parking lot-surrounded NFL stadium, is robbed of the on-campus football experience that is so unique to the sport, and feels somewhat like a sort of a sellout, catering to the needs of television networks and corporate sponsors in a transparently shameless money grab by all involved.
Neutral-site games like Ole Miss-Texas Tech are shameless money grabs. They’re also a lot of fun.
