Big Ten Craft Beverage Guide
College football Saturdays are not just about what happens on the field. They are about the 48 hours around the game — the Friday night arrival, the Saturday morning warm-up, the postgame debrief that stretches into dinner. The Big Ten now stretches from Piscataway, New Jersey to Los Angeles, California — 18 universities, 18 very different cities, and 18 distinct craft beverage scenes that reward exploration as much as the game itself. Whether you’re an alumni making a pilgrimage, a parent visiting for Family Weekend, or a fan following your team on the road, here is where to drink, eat, and spend your time near every Big Ten stadium. We’ve calibrated depth to the market — Columbus gets the treatment Columbus deserves; Evanston gets the honest, specific guide it needs. And we’ve included the stadium stories worth knowing, because sometimes what happened before the game — or a century before the game — is the real reason you’re there.
The 18 Big Ten Cities
Ann Arbor, MI — Michigan ·
Columbus, OH — Ohio State ·
Madison, WI — Wisconsin ·
State College, PA — Penn State ·
Minneapolis, MN — Minnesota ·
Lincoln, NE — Nebraska ·
Evanston, IL — Northwestern ·
College Park, MD — Maryland ·
Piscataway, NJ — Rutgers ·
Champaign, IL — Illinois ·
Bloomington, IN — Indiana ·
West Lafayette, IN — Purdue ·
Eugene, OR — Oregon ·
Seattle, WA — Washington ·
Los Angeles, CA — USC & UCLA ·
Iowa City, IA — Iowa ·
East Lansing, MI — Michigan State
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN — Michigan Wolverines
Michigan Stadium — The Big House (107,601) · Largest stadium in the Western Hemisphere
The Stadium Story: Michigan Stadium opened in 1927 and has been expanded so many times that it now holds more fans than any stadium in the Western Hemisphere. The record attendance is 115,109 — set against Notre Dame in 2013. When it fills for a night game, the sea of maize and blue is one of the great spectacles in American sport.
A genuine college town with a sophisticated drinking culture that punches well above its size. Beyond the campus bars, Ann Arbor has a craft beer scene anchored by serious brewpubs and a bar scene that rewards people who know where to look.
🍺 Drink: Jolly Pumpkin Café & Brewery — artisan sour and Belgian-style ales brewed on site with food to match; one of the better brewpubs in the Midwest. Homes Brewery earns raves for hazy IPAs and sours in a beautiful space with a patio. HopCat brings 100 craft beers on tap for maximum selection with solid pub food.
🍽️ Eat: Zingerman’s Delicatessen on Detroit Street is a national institution — extraordinary sandwiches, artisan breads, and provisions that alumni travel back specifically to visit. Go early on game day; the lines are real.
🎯 Fun: Bill’s Beer Garden on Washington Street is the open-air gathering spot that captures Ann Arbor at its best on a fall Saturday. Walk the Main Street bar corridor — the concentration of quality within three blocks is legitimately impressive.
COLUMBUS, OHIO — Ohio State Buckeyes
Ohio Stadium — The Horseshoe (102,780)
The Stadium Story: Ohio Stadium opened in 1922 and the horseshoe shape that gives it its nickname was deliberate — one end open to the Olentangy River. The Ohio State Marching Band’s Script Ohio, in which a sousaphone player dots the “i,” is one of the most recognized traditions in college football and has been performed since 1936. Night games at the Horseshoe are among the loudest environments in the Big Ten.
Columbus has transformed into one of the Midwest’s most vibrant food, drink, and arts destinations. The Short North Arts District along High Street is the heart of it — walkable, dense with quality, and active from noon to midnight on a football Saturday.
🍺 Drink: Seventh Son Brewing — excellent IPAs, sours, and cocktails in a stunning space with a rooftop patio. Gemüt Biergarten, housed in a restored 1890s firehouse, brings genuine German biergarten culture with exceptional food. Short North Pint House offers 75+ rotating taps in an open-air biergarten format ideal for game day crowds.
🍽️ Eat: The Short North has concentrated more quality dining per block than most American cities three times its size. The Eagle Short North for the best fried chicken sandwich in the district.
🎯 Fun: Walk the Short North — north from the Arena District, 10 blocks of galleries, bars, and restaurants. The Gallery Hop runs the first Saturday of every month; game Saturdays have the same energy.
MADISON, WISCONSIN — Wisconsin Badgers
Camp Randall Stadium (80,321) · Oldest stadium in the Big Ten (1917)
The Stadium Story: Camp Randall is the oldest stadium in the Big Ten, built in 1917 on the site of an actual Civil War Union Army training camp named for Wisconsin Governor Alexander Randall. The camp trained over 70,000 soldiers for the Civil War before becoming one of the largest prisoner of war camps in the North. The Jump Around tradition — House of Pain’s song blasting while 80,000 fans jump simultaneously at the start of the fourth quarter — began in 1998 and shakes the stadium in a way that has to be experienced to be believed. Multiple opposing coaches have named Camp Randall the loudest venue in the Big Ten.
Madison has more than 20 breweries in the metro area and a craft beer history as old as the state itself. The food scene has genuine James Beard recognition.
🍺 Drink: The Great Dane Pub & Brewing Company near the Capitol is the landmark brewpub. Young Blood Beer is the current critical favorite for creative small-batch brewing. Public Parking, named by Bon Appétit and Punch as one of the best new bars in the country, brings creative cocktails and tiki-inspired drinks to a 2024 opening Madison is still talking about.
🍽️ Eat: Mint Mark on Washington Avenue is a 2026 James Beard semifinalist. Worth planning the trip around.
🎯 Fun: The State Capitol square on a football Saturday morning — farmers market, outdoor bars, Badger red everywhere. Stay for Jump Around. It is the tradition that most visiting fans mention first.
STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA — Penn State Nittany Lions
Beaver Stadium (106,572) · Happy Valley · Voted loudest Big Ten stadium by coaches
The Stadium Story: Beaver Stadium is named for James A. Beaver, a Civil War general and Pennsylvania governor who was an early Penn State trustee. The White Out — when the entire crowd wears white for a night game — is the most visually spectacular tradition in the Big Ten. In a 2025 poll of Big Ten head coaches, more than a third named Beaver Stadium the loudest and most intimidating away venue in the conference. The record attendance is 111,030, set in 2024 against Ohio State.
Tucked into the Allegheny Mountains of central Pennsylvania, State College is a college town that exists almost entirely around Penn State. Game day energy here is total and completely genuine.
🍺 Drink: Happy Valley Brewing Company on Elmwood Street — a renovated 200-year-old barn with serious craft beer and an excellent restaurant. Zeno’s Tavern on Allen Street is the legendary local bar with an extraordinary beer list and an underground college-town atmosphere. Otto’s Pub & Brewery is the brewpub most Penn Staters call their favorite.
🍽️ Eat: The Diner on Calder Alley has been serving Penn State students and game day visitors since 1932. A genuine institution.
🎯 Fun: Make it the White Out game. The entire stadium in white under the lights is unlike anything else in college football. Check the schedule and plan accordingly.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA — Minnesota Golden Gophers
Huntington Bank Stadium (50,805) · Newest Big Ten stadium (2009)
The Stadium Story: Huntington Bank Stadium opened in 2009, making it the newest stadium in the Big Ten, and sits on the Minneapolis campus putting visitors in the heart of a real city. Minnesota was the first state to allow taproom sales directly to consumers — a 2011 law change that launched one of the country’s great craft beer scenes. Fulton Brewing, which helped lobby for that law, was the first brewery to open under it.
The Twin Cities have a craft beer scene that rivals any major metro in the country — dozens of breweries, a James Beard-recognized food scene, and a genuinely great city that makes every Big Ten road trip to Minneapolis worthwhile.
🍺 Drink: Fulton Brewing — Minnesota’s first legal taproom; Sweet Child of Vine IPA is the flagship. Indeed Brewing in Northeast Minneapolis is the arts district anchor with eclectic flagships and adventurous specialty releases. Town Hall Brewery near campus is the game-day local with 20+ house beers.
🍽️ Eat: Matt’s Bar — inventor of the Jucy Lucy, the cheese-stuffed burger — is the non-negotiable Minneapolis pilgrimage. The Northeast Minneapolis Arts District has the best concentration of quality dining alongside the craft breweries.
🎯 Fun: The Northeast Minneapolis Arts District — galleries, studios, and the highest concentration of craft breweries in the city all within walking distance of each other. Minneapolis earns the extended stay.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA — Nebraska Cornhuskers
Memorial Stadium (85,458) · Sea of Red
The Stadium Story: On game day, Memorial Stadium becomes the third largest city in Nebraska — the stadium holds more people than any city in the state except Omaha and Lincoln itself. Nebraska has sold out every home game since 1962 — a streak of over 380 consecutive sellouts that is the longest in college football history. The Sea of Red transformation of Lincoln on a football Saturday has to be seen to be understood.
Lincoln’s passion for football is total. The craft beer scene has grown meaningfully in recent years to match it.
🍺 Drink: Zipline Brewing — Lincoln’s most celebrated craft brewery, award-winning lagers and IPAs distributed across the Midwest. Empyrean Brewing has anchored Lincoln’s craft beer scene since 1990. Boiler Brewing Company earns consistent top marks for creative small-batch releases.
🍽️ Eat: Lazlo’s Brewery & Grill combines the brewery visit with a full restaurant — the onion rings have a dedicated following.
🎯 Fun: The pregame walk toward Memorial Stadium with every surface painted red is one of the quintessential Big Ten game day experiences. Get there by 10am. The sellout streak alone makes this a pilgrimage game for any serious college football fan.
EVANSTON, ILLINOIS — Northwestern Wildcats
Ryan Field (47,130) · Smallest Big Ten stadium · 12 miles north of Chicago
The Stadium Story: Evanston banned alcohol sales until 1972 — a legacy of the city’s deep temperance movement roots and its proximity to the national headquarters of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, which was founded here in 1874. Ryan Field is the smallest stadium in the Big Ten at 47,130. The city’s more interesting story is its access to Chicago, 12 miles south on the Purple Line.
Evanston’s craft beer scene has quietly grown into something worth seeking out — and Chicago is always the evening option.
🍺 Drink: Sketchbook Brewing — a neighborhood taproom brewing on site since 2013 with live Irish music on Tuesdays. The pick for craft beer without a college bar soundtrack. Saint Errant recently opened in the former Temperance Beer Co space — hazy IPAs, imperial stouts, and fruited sours from a dog-friendly patio. The most exciting new option in Evanston.
🍽️ Eat: Peckish Pig — gastropub-quality food alongside a thoughtful beer list.
🎯 Fun: Take the Purple Line into Chicago for the evening. The L drops you at the center of one of the world’s great cities in 40 minutes. Evanston is where you sleep; Chicago is where the night goes.
COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND — Maryland Terrapins
SECU Stadium (51,802) · 10 miles northeast of Washington DC
The Stadium Story: Maryland’s stadium is one of the newer and more functional in the Big Ten, without the deep historical narrative of Camp Randall or Beaver Stadium. The Terrapins’ great advantage as a Big Ten school is exactly this proximity — College Park is 10 miles from Washington DC, served directly by Metro’s Green Line, which puts the full range of a world-class capital city within a 20-minute train ride of the stadium.
The craft beer scene right around campus is growing, with the full range of DC’s excellent brewery and restaurant scene accessible in under half an hour.
🍺 Drink: Streetcar 82 Brewing Co. is College Park’s own craft brewery — consistently the top-rated local option. Denizens Brewing in nearby Silver Spring has earned national recognition for creative beers. Right Proper Brewing in DC’s Shaw neighborhood (20 minutes via Metro) is worth the trip for some of the Mid-Atlantic’s best craft beer.
🍽️ Eat: Looney’s Pub is the game day institution near campus.
🎯 Fun: Washington DC is the real draw — the National Mall, Georgetown, and DC’s own excellent craft brewery scene (Bluejacket, DC Brau, Other Half DC) are all Metro-accessible from College Park without a car.
PISCATAWAY, NEW JERSEY — Rutgers Scarlet Knights
SHI Stadium (52,454) · Site of the first college football game (1869) · 35 miles from NYC
The Stadium Story: Rutgers holds a unique place in football history — on November 6, 1869, Rutgers hosted Princeton on a field in New Brunswick for the first intercollegiate football game ever played. The sport was born here. SHI Stadium sits near that original ground and carries that historical weight even if the team’s current Big Ten results don’t always match the founding prestige.
New Jersey’s craft beer scene has grown substantially, with excellent local options in the immediate area and New York City 35 miles away.
🍺 Drink: Lions Roar Brewing is the standout local craft brewery — consistently the highest-rated option near campus. Flying Fish Brewing in Somerdale is New Jersey’s most decorated and sustainable craft brewery — a destination for serious beer drinkers.
🍽️ Eat: New Brunswick’s George Street restaurant corridor has grown significantly — explore the blocks around Rutgers’ main campus for variety at every price point.
🎯 Fun: New York City is 35 miles and about an hour by train on the Northeast Corridor — Penn Station to New Brunswick runs frequently and opens the full range of NYC’s extraordinary bar and restaurant scene.
CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS — Illinois Fighting Illini
Memorial Stadium (60,670) · Dedicated to WWI veterans
The Stadium Story: Illinois Memorial Stadium was built in 1923 and dedicated to the 183 University of Illinois students who died in World War I. The colonnades along the exterior each bear the names of the fallen. The stadium has seen some of the sport’s most famous moments — Red Grange, “The Galloping Ghost,” played here and electrified the nation in the 1920s.
Champaign-Urbana is a classic Midwest college town. The craft beer scene has grown meaningfully in recent years.
🍺 Drink: Triptych Brewing — Champaign’s most celebrated craft brewery. Blind Pig Brewpub is the game day institution packed with Illini fans. Riggs Beer Company is the newer player earning attention for quality small-batch production.
🍽️ Eat: Seven Saints on Green Street brings genuine gastropub quality to a college town setting.
🎯 Fun: The Campustown bar strip on Green Street is the game day congregation point. Not sophisticated, but completely committed to Illini football on Saturdays.
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA — Indiana Hoosiers
Memorial Stadium (52,929) · Breaking through in 2024
The Stadium Story: Indiana Memorial Stadium sits in a wooded setting that gives it a distinct character from the concrete-and-steel big houses of the Big Ten. Indiana football had its best season in decades in 2024, winning 11 games and earning national attention for the first time in a generation. The buzz around the program going into 2025 is genuine.
Bloomington is one of the Big Ten’s most underrated college towns — artistic, eclectic, with a food and drink scene that overdelivers for its size.
🍺 Drink: Upland Brewing — Indiana’s most celebrated craft brewery; the Teddy Bear Kisses sour series has a national following. Bloomington Brewing Company has been the campus anchor for decades. Big Woods Bloomington brings Indiana’s most popular craft brewery chain to a college town setting with a full food program.
🍽️ Eat: Mother Bear’s Pizza on East Third — the pizza that IU students and alumni talk about for decades after graduation. Non-negotiable.
🎯 Fun: Kirkwood Avenue between campus and downtown is the pedestrian hub. The Indiana University Art Museum on campus is legitimately world-class.
WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA — Purdue Boilermakers
Ross-Ade Stadium (57,236) · Home of the Boilermaker Special
The Stadium Story: Ross-Ade Stadium is named for David E. Ross and George Ade — a former board trustee and a playwright who together bought the 65-acre site and donated it to Purdue. The Boilermaker Special — a full-size locomotive mascot that circles the stadium on game day — is one of the most distinctive mascot traditions in college football. Purdue also holds the patent on “The Giant Killers” — the program that has historically upended national title contenders including Ohio State, Michigan, and Iowa State at key moments.
West Lafayette and Lafayette across the Wabash River form a genuinely good craft beer destination for their size. The Purdue fan base is intensely loyal.
🍺 Drink: People’s Brewing Company in Lafayette — a neighborhood brewery earning national attention; the Boiler Gold Ale is the local signature. The Tap brings the brewpub experience with craft beers and solid food. Brokerage Brewing from a brother-sister duo who built a genuine community gathering spot.
🍽️ Eat: Harry’s Chocolate Shop is the Purdue institution — a bar since 1919 that alumni return to specifically. Not for the food, for the ritual.
🎯 Fun: Arrive early and watch the Boilermaker Special locomotive circle the stadium before kickoff. One of college football’s best mascot traditions.
EUGENE, OREGON — Oregon Ducks
Autzen Stadium (54,000) · Big Ten Champions 2024 · One of the nation’s loudest stadiums
The Stadium Story: Autzen Stadium seats 54,000 — modest by Big Ten standards — but consistently ranks among the loudest stadiums in college football due to its design, which channels crowd noise toward the field. Oregon joined the Big Ten in 2024 and won the conference championship in their first season, going 13-0 before losing to Ohio State in the College Football Playoff. The Duck Walk from the team hotel through campus to the stadium is one of college football’s great pregame rituals.
Eugene brings Pacific Northwest craft beer culture to the Big Ten — a city where craft brewing is a way of life, anchored by nationally recognized producers and a Whiteaker neighborhood bar scene that is genuinely distinctive.
🍺 Drink: Ninkasi Brewing — Eugene’s flagship, named after the Sumerian goddess of beer. The essential Eugene brewery visit. Oakshire Brewing Public House earns the highest local marks for quality and food. ColdFire Brewing is earning consistent praise for clean, well-crafted beers in a modern space.
🍽️ Eat: The Whiteaker neighborhood has the best concentration of quality food alongside the craft breweries. The Bier Stein on Willamette Street for the most serious bottle selection in the city.
🎯 Fun: Watch the Duck Walk pregame. The uniform combinations Oregon wears — the most creative in college football — have made the program nationally recognizable beyond their results. Count the combinations on game day.
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON — Washington Huskies
Husky Stadium (70,138) · Best view in college football
The Stadium Story: Husky Stadium has the most dramatic setting in college football. The opposing end zone opens to a view of Lake Washington, with the Cascade Mountains and Mount Rainier visible on a clear day — a backdrop that no other stadium in the country can match. The boat tailgate on Lake Washington, where fans arrive by private boat and anchor to watch the game, is one of the most distinctive game day traditions in the sport. Washington joined the Big Ten in 2024 and brought one of the great venues to the conference.
Seattle is the Big Ten’s best city for craft beverage exploration — world-class food and drink, dozens of excellent breweries, and a wine bar culture anchored by Washington State’s extraordinary wine industry.
🍺 Drink: The Pike Brewing Company at Pike Place Market — brewing since 1989 in one of the world’s most iconic market settings. Old Stove Brewing at Pike Place is the newer entrant earning raves for quality and setting. The Pine Box in Capitol Hill brings one of Seattle’s best craft beer selections to a converted 1920s mortuary.
🍽️ Eat: Pike Place Market before the game — the chowder, the fresh seafood, the first Starbucks. The Walrus and the Carpenter in Ballard for the best oysters on the West Coast.
🎯 Fun: The boat tailgate on Lake Washington. Fans arrive by private boat and anchor offshore to watch the game. It is the most uniquely Seattle experience in college football and completely worth engineering if you have any connection to a boat.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — USC Trojans & UCLA Bruins
LA Memorial Coliseum — USC (77,500) · Rose Bowl — UCLA (92,542) · Pasadena
The Stadium Stories: The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum opened in 1923 and has hosted two Olympic Games (1932 and 1984), two Super Bowls, and a World Series. It is the only venue in the world to have hosted all three events. The Rose Bowl in Pasadena opened in 1922 and is one of the most storied venues in American sport — home of the Rose Bowl Game since 1923 and a venue whose name is synonymous with New Year’s Day college football. Both are historic beyond anything else in the Big Ten.
Los Angeles is the biggest market in college football. USC plays near downtown; UCLA plays at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, 10 miles northeast. Both teams share one of the world’s great cities.
🍺 Drink near USC/Downtown: Arts District Brewing Company — the anchor of LA’s brewery scene in a converted industrial space. Angel City Brewery in the Arts District brings LA craft beer culture to one of its best-designed taproom spaces.
🍺 Drink near UCLA/Pasadena: Craftsman Brewing Company in Pasadena — LA’s oldest independently operated craft brewery, serious and thoughtful beers distributed only on draft. Boneyard Bistro in Sherman Oaks for excellent barbecue alongside one of the best craft beer selections in the Valley.
🍽️ Eat: Philippe The Original near the Coliseum — the French dip sandwich, invented here in 1908. Fair Oaks Pharmacy in South Pasadena for the pre-Rose Bowl milkshake tradition dating to 1915.
🎯 Fun: The Rose Bowl tailgate in Lot K is a UCLA tradition worth experiencing regardless of team allegiance. The Coliseum peristyle arches at sunset are one of the great architectural moments in American sport.
IOWA CITY, IOWA — Iowa Hawkeyes
Kinnick Stadium (69,250) · Named for a Heisman winner who died in WWII · Home of the Hawkeye Wave
The Stadium Story: Kinnick Stadium is named for Nile Kinnick — Iowa’s 1939 Heisman Trophy winner, a consensus All-American halfback known as “The Cornbelt Comet” who averaged 57 minutes per game in an era before substitutions. In his Heisman acceptance speech, two years before America entered World War II, Kinnick said he was grateful “to be warring on the gridirons of the Midwest and not on the battlefields of Europe.” He enlisted in the Navy after graduation, and on June 2, 1943, his F4F Wildcat developed an oil leak on a training mission from the aircraft carrier USS Lexington off the coast of Venezuela. He executed an emergency water landing and was killed in the process. He was 24 years old and had not yet turned 25. His body was never recovered. He was the first Heisman Trophy winner to die — and the only one to die in active military service. The University of Iowa renamed its football stadium in his honor in 1972. Excerpts from his Heisman speech are played on the stadium scoreboard before the national anthem at every home game.
The Hawkeye Wave: Since 2017, when the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital was built directly across the street from Kinnick Stadium with a 12th floor Press Box Café overlooking the field, Iowa fans have observed a new tradition. When the clock hits zero at the end of the first quarter, the entire stadium — fans, players, and coaches from both teams — turns to face the hospital and waves to the pediatric patients and their families watching from the floor-to-ceiling windows. The idea came from a Facebook post by an Iowa fan named Krista Young. The street leading to the hospital has since been renamed Hawkeye Wave Way. ESPN has called it the best tradition in college sports. It may be the most moving moment that happens on a regular basis in American athletics.
Iowa City is a UNESCO City of Literature with a craft beer and food scene that has grown well beyond what its size would suggest.
🍺 Drink: Backpocket Brewing is Iowa City’s flagship craft brewery — consistent, well-made beers from one of Iowa’s most established producers. Big Grove Brewery has earned recognition well beyond Iowa for quality and range. FilmScene on the Ped Mall combines an independent cinema with a thoughtful craft beer and cocktail program — unique to Iowa City.
🍽️ Eat: The Pedestrian Mall (Ped Mall) in downtown Iowa City has enough variety to satisfy any appetite. Iowa River Power Restaurant is the historic dining option alumni return to specifically.
🎯 Fun: Be in your seat for the Hawkeye Wave at the end of the first quarter. Do not leave early to beat traffic. The children in that hospital can see you from the 12th floor, and they are waving.
EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN — Michigan State Spartans
Spartan Stadium (75,005) · Home of the Giant Killers
The Stadium Story: Spartan Stadium opened in 1923 and has been the site of some of college football’s most celebrated upsets — Michigan State has a long tradition of knocking off top-ranked opponents at home that has earned the program the informal nickname “Giant Killers.” The MSU-Michigan rivalry, played annually for the Paul Bunyan Trophy (an actual 4-foot wooden trophy), is one of the most heated in-state rivalries in the Big Ten. The Spartan helmet with its distinctive design is one of the most recognizable in college football.
East Lansing and Lansing next door together form a college city with a genuine identity — the state capital adds civic energy and a more diverse food and drink scene than a pure college town provides.
🍺 Drink: Lansing Brewing Company in downtown Lansing — excellent craft beers in a beautiful historic building that anchors Lansing’s revitalized downtown. Sleepwalker Spirits brings craft distilling to the Lansing area. The Riv in East Lansing near campus is the game day bar institution — every seat filled with green and white on football Saturdays.
🍽️ Eat: Crunchy’s on Michigan Avenue in East Lansing is the Spartan institution alumni return to specifically. El Azteco is the other MSU must — Mexican food that has been feeding Spartans since 1968.
🎯 Fun: The MSU campus is one of the most beautiful in the country — the Red Cedar River, the gardens, the architecture. Walk it before the game. And if Michigan State is playing Michigan, get there early — the Paul Bunyan Trophy is on the line and the atmosphere in East Lansing for that game is as intense as anything in the Big Ten.
