This past weekend I went to a Tulane vs. University of Central Florida football game in New Orleans with some friends that went to Tulane. Both teams are terrible—Tulane is 2-2 and lost to Georgia Tech by 55 points and UCF has not won a football game this year.

Despite, the lack of talent on the field it was still a solid experience for my first collegiate football game south of the Mason-Dixon Line.

The game kicked off at 11 a.m., so people were out tailgating by 8 a.m. grilling and playing music. We headed into Yulman Stadium right before kickoff. Yulman Stadium is not the biggest stadium, it seats about 30,000—the stadium was not even close to filled.

Although the crowd wasn’t a big factor, Yulman is a brand new stadium and it is really a nice place. It opened last year and is still in pristine condition.

The field has a cool checkered design in the end zone and has alternating shades of greens every five yards, which makes for a very intriguing football field to look at.

One aspect that Yulman could have improved upon is that they make it very hard to use a debit or credit card. The machines they have don’t work consistently my friend and I both tried to buy something using separate cards and neither of them worked—the lady said it hardly works.

The game was entertaining strictly because there was a lot of scoring. Tulane won 45-31.

I’m going to the LSU versus Florida game in two weekends and I expect that experience to be significantly better.