Help Shape NCAA Football: Band Locations

cdj

Published on 01-21-2011 09:24 AM

400 Comments

The NCAA Football team is reaching out to the community and wants your help in gathering team reference details for possible inclusion in the years to come. After asking for info on Cheerleader Chants several months ago, they now want your help in learning where each college football marching band sits in their home stadium, as well as bowl, conference championship and neutral site locations.

Share your team - or any team you know - info in this thread with a photo reference/circling the section on a seating chart image. A written description would also work, but obviously a photo reference would be more beneficial.

UPDATE - Band seating sections have been gathered for ALL venues in NCAA Football. Great work by the community! Feel free to double check the list and make sure the info for your favorite program is correct.

Tags: ncaa football 11, ncaa football 12

400 Comments

JeffHCross - 01-21-2011, 08:04 PM
Originally Posted by Paakaa10

Wife being called into work + being unemployed + major snowstorm = tons of downtime and thus productivity in searching out this information.

All fair points. I'd actually forgotten about the snowstorm since we lucked out here. Good job with this man ... ton of info!

Coachdenz - 01-21-2011, 08:06 PM
Alabama - Bryant Denny Stadium

Section: Upper Area of DD

Paakaa10 - 01-21-2011, 08:09 PM
West Virginia - Milan Pusker Stadium

Section: Front Section, North Stadium

Little bit of conjecture here; nothing on the official WVU site says where the band sits, but the picture from before a game below:

Leads me to believe that the band sits in front of the purple section on that seating chart; if you look closely at the chart, there's a small grey section in front of it which is not identified. And, in the live picture, there is a platform for a band leader to stand in front of that section.

EDIT-

southernmiss - 01-21-2011, 08:15 PM
Southern Miss - MM Roberts Stadium

Section: 114

The Southern Miss band sits in the lower endzone seating, section 114.

Paakaa10 - 01-21-2011, 08:34 PM
I'm not going to lie; this has actually been a pretty fun "scavenger hunt" type game to play today. Who knows when EA will actually get around to putting these specific sections in the game, but it's still cool that they're working on getting the information in place so that they have it ready when they decide to go in that direction. Pretty crazy to think that just a few years ago in NCAA Football 10 it was a big deal to just have bands marching on the field before the game and it was considered a presentation improvement.

I imagine the hardest band sections to figure out will be the Bowl Games and neutral field Rivalry Games; not like there are any seating charts just sitting around for those match-ups.

Maybe we'll get some "Special Thanks" acknowledgment in the game credits when it finally does go in! :-p

cdj - 01-21-2011, 08:53 PM
2010 Holiday Bowl - Qualcomm Stadium

Away Band: Appears to be Section 56

Home Band: Appears to be Section 45

cdj - 01-21-2011, 09:03 PM
Orange Bowl - Sun Life Stadium

Home Band: Front of Section 101

Away Band: Front of Section 129

Paakaa10 - 01-21-2011, 09:12 PM
Syracuse - Carrier Dome

Section: Front of 108 & 109

Based on the image below--which has empty space just behind the "SYRACUSE" endzone and a ladder for the bandleader directly in front of it--I believe that the band sits between Sections 108 and 109:

(Add http:// in new window.)

cdj - 01-21-2011, 09:14 PM
Texas - DKR Memorial Stadium

Section: 36

Paakaa10 - 01-21-2011, 09:23 PM
North Carolina - Kenan Memorial Stadium

Sections: Middle of 115 & 116

With help from Vandermint at TraditionFootball.com:

Vandermint's image edit:

He also linked a video for proof:

EDIT -

cdj - 01-21-2011, 09:30 PM
Wyoming - War Memorial Stadium

Section: Front of 6

Front of Section 6

Paakaa10 - 01-21-2011, 09:32 PM
Northern Illinois - Huskie Stadium

Section: Front of Section O

With help from Cheez at TraditionFootball.com:

Based on the next picture, looks like the band sits in the bottom part of Section O on the east side of the field:

Paakaa10 - 01-21-2011, 09:41 PM
Virginia Tech - Lane Stadium

THE MARCHING VIRGINIANS

Section: DD-GG

THE HIGHTIE-TIGHTIES

Section: Front of 101

With help from vaeath at OperationSports.com & NDCOLTS1979 from TraditionFootball:

Virginia Tech has two bands.

The Marching Virginians in Sections DD through GG and a regimental band called the Hightie-Tighties in Section 101.

Marching Virginians - Section DD-GG:

Highty-Tighties on left, Away Band on right

cdj - 01-21-2011, 09:58 PM
Fiesta Bowl

Seating Chart (PDF)

Home Band: Front of Section 138

Away Band: Front of Section 144

*Used photos from 2008 & 2011 to confirm.*

Paakaa10 - 01-21-2011, 10:01 PM
Notre Dame - Notre Dame Stadium

Section: Field Seating, North Stadium

With help from Bcolt93 at the EASPORTS.com forums:

Looks like the student section runs from Section 29 to 35 or so, and the band has limited seating on the field just behind the north endzone opposite the student section corner.

Here are some better live pictures:

cdj - 01-21-2011, 10:04 PM
Akron - InfoCision Stadium

Section: Front of 119

Paakaa10 - 01-21-2011, 10:15 PM
Hawaii - Aloha Stadium

Section: Back part of Section N-RR

Per Facts at OperationSports.com, the Hawaii band section is N-RR on the north side of the field:

Image of the band section from close:

And looking at the band from across the stadium:

From baseballplyrmvp:

following up on this, i got a responce from Tombo Ahi, who runs the Hawaii football fan blog. he said that the student section sits in the orange section of PP and QQ.
the UH band sits in the upper half of the orange section RR
if the away team band comes to hawaii games, they usually sit in orange section R or S.

for bowl games at aloha stadium, hawaii is usually the visiting team and so they sit in the away team band section, orange section R.

cdj - 01-21-2011, 10:17 PM
Arizona - Arizona Stadium

Section: Front (most) of 10

JBHuskers - 01-21-2011, 10:20 PM
Originally Posted by Paakaa10

I'm not going to lie; this has actually been a pretty fun "scavenger hunt" type game to play today. Who knows when EA will actually get around to putting these specific sections in the game, but it's still cool that they're working on getting the information in place so that they have it ready when they decide to go in that direction. Pretty crazy to think that just a few years ago in NCAA Football 10 it was a big deal to just have bands marching on the field before the game and it was considered a presentation improvement.

I imagine the hardest band sections to figure out will be the Bowl Games and neutral field Rivalry Games; not like there are any seating charts just sitting around for those match-ups.

Maybe we'll get some "Special Thanks" acknowledgment in the game credits when it finally does go in! :-p

We here at TGT give you a HUGE thanks for the effort today....you helped out a TON!

Paakaa10 - 01-21-2011, 10:22 PM
Iowa State - Jack Trice Stadium

Section: Portable Bleachers in front of JAC

Per huntt26 at OperationSports.com:

Apparently the white squares in front of the Jacobson Athletic Center behind the endzone in the stadium are bleachers for the band to play on during the game. A picture was included:

I also found this image to support it:

The bleachers would be on the top-left in front of the building behind the endzone.

And the best image: