Which road game are you going to between MSU, Iowa, and Ohio State?

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Next year we have a subpar home schedule but a great road slate. I'm not going to Rutgers because it's Rutgers and I only have enough money for one of these games. Seeing the maize and blue take over Spartan Stadium would be great and we should have the more talented roster for the first time since 2012. I've never been to the Horseshoe for a game and the big ten title could be up for grabs that week. Which ones are you guys thinking about doing?

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B-Nut-GoBlue

January 10th, 2016 at 4:07 AM ^

Come to Iowa kids. I'll bring some tasty beers (yes, I know Michigan has "lots more" good beer, but if you've never had Toppling Goliath, my treat!). Other than the dumbfuckery of people thinking "Ann Arbor is a whore" is funny, it's a good place to be on Gameday.

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mackbru

January 10th, 2016 at 1:31 AM ^

Iowa City is, by far, the best place to visit of the three. Great town, food, fans, stadium experience (except for the liberal shouting of loud gay slurs).  And the fans respect Michigan fans. Hate Michigan. But are fine to fans.

The other two places are toilets.

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g_reaper3

January 10th, 2016 at 7:58 AM ^

I have never been for football. Big stakes next year. Probably the first time we will be favored there since 2007. As for the fans, well I went to the Cold War (hockey) at Spartan Stadium and the fans were pretty bad. We had a group of about 15 and one of the guys in our group ended up in a fight although some other MSU fans did help break it up. That was a night game which probably isn't the best idea in East Lansing. I went to Columbus as a student and saw us win. Their fans are pretty bad. We didn't have a problem but saw a lot of issues. By comparison, I have been to Notre Dame 4x and Illinois once and never had an issue. Even went to the Texas-OU game once and that seemed civil although neutral site.

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LSAClassOf2000

January 10th, 2016 at 8:49 AM ^

This year is actually the year I plan to get back into road trips a little bit actually - now that the kids are older, it is part of my quest to have nice things again. I will probably do Columbus just because I haven't been down there in a bout a decade now (for a football game - I've been down there for other reasons) and it seems like a fun bit of the college experience (gratuitous abuse, that is) to revisit now that I am going to be significantly older than some of the people around me. 

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umbig11

January 10th, 2016 at 9:19 AM ^

But if you are asking if I had a choice between them it would be Iowa as far as experience goes. Now, if you are going for other reasons I would pick OSU because we haven't won there in a long time and we will beat them at their place this year. Same goes for MSU.

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lmgoblue1

January 10th, 2016 at 9:23 AM ^

because I've never been to Kinnick stadium , my cousin lives there so we have a place to stay and we have it all planned out. Going to love this one!

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maizenblue92

January 10th, 2016 at 9:32 AM ^

I was planning on hitting Iowa and MSU. I live in Grand Rapids so State is only an hour or so away so it wont be too difficult. Iowa is going to be the big road trip. 

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Ray

January 10th, 2016 at 11:39 AM ^

The other two places are just not worth going to. Some guy hit me on the back of the head with his open hand there after the 1986 Harbaugh "guarantee" game that we won, and I have no desire to go to E Landfill ever again. Plus, IA City is fairly easy for us to get to from where we are (couple hours if I fly myself), and it's a cool town.

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Wall

January 10th, 2016 at 12:44 PM ^

Spartan Stadium literally looks like they turned a concrete parking structure into a stadium. It's ugly, and as many have pointed out, the tailgaiting sucks. 

 

I sat in the student section wearing maize when we were held to negtive rushing yards a few years ago. I never feared for my life as I was with friends, but spartan fans are as classless as they come.

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jvocke

January 10th, 2016 at 2:37 PM ^

I always go to the OSU in Columbus.

Assuming I can score a ticket this year again, 2016 will be my 28th **consecutive** edition of seeing "The Game".

Getting old to have been to that many in a row!

Go Blue!

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MGoJeezy

January 10th, 2016 at 3:05 PM ^

Came down to OSU/MSU, planning on going to the MSU game because tickets are cheaper/closer distance (I live in A2). Would rather go to the OSU game is its a play in for the Title game. The. Again- would be nice to watch the reckoning in shit Lansing.

My question for y'all is this- I heard rumors and 2nd hand stories of the Columbus fans vandalizing your (UM Fan) car and ect.... Is this true?



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Veryoldschool

January 10th, 2016 at 4:07 PM ^

Been to all the venues except Nebraska and Rutgers,  the sizes of vary but the people are pretty much the same and I've never had a bad experience.  I ignore the hostile, drunk or rude fans and enjoy the rest.  I'm a low key, affable sort myself so I don't start or engage in trash talking, I just ignore rude people and have fun.

My advice go to any of them with the expectation you'll have a couple of knuckleheads mouth off at you but if ignored they go away so look past those fools and focus on and enjoy all the good around you at any of the Big Ten venues.  If you have a problem it's probably going to be because you had a hand in turning it into a problem.

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JTGoBlue

January 10th, 2016 at 7:03 PM ^

Definitely MSU; would love to make the trip to Iowa. Would be great to have a huge contingent in East Lansing; I can imagine a very loud Go! Blue! chant in the 4th quarter just like we do in our own stadium, up by 3 touchdowns, and find the favorite after the game bar to do the same!



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Jimmyisgod

January 11th, 2016 at 9:17 AM ^

Will probably head to the MSU game, attended the 2013 game there and went to my buddy's tailgate, it was a blast.  Didn't catch much crap from anyone before or after the game and the tailgate atmosphere was wild.  The game itself was a nightmare, but I had great seats and the Sparty fans around me were good people.

Got a friend who's a donor and his tailgate spot is like 200 feet from the stadium.  Much different tailgating atmosphere than we have, more end of the world sloppy drunkeness than we have.

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