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Ranking the top 10 tailgating spots in college football

ByPhil Poling|
OXFORD, MS - OCTOBER 21: Mississippi Rebels players greet fans as they walk down the Walk of Champions in the Grove on the Ole Miss Campus before the start of a college college football game against the LSU Tigers on October 21, 2017, at Vaught-Hemmingway Stadium in Oxford, MS. LSU won 40-24. (Photo by Austin McAfee/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
OXFORD, MS - OCTOBER 21: Mississippi Rebels players greet fans as they walk down the Walk of Champions in the Grove on the Ole Miss Campus before the start of a college college football game against the LSU Tigers on October 21, 2017, at Vaught-Hemmingway Stadium in Oxford, MS. LSU won 40-24. (Photo by Austin McAfee/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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IOWA CITY, IA – NOVEMBER 10: Iowa fans wave to the Iowa Children’s Hospital at the end of the first quarter during a Big Ten Conference football game between the Northwestern Wildcats and the Iowa Hawkeyes on November 10, 2018, Kinnick Stadium, Iowa City, IA. (Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
IOWA CITY, IA – NOVEMBER 10: Iowa fans wave to the Iowa Children’s Hospital at the end of the first quarter during a Big Ten Conference football game between the Northwestern Wildcats and the Iowa Hawkeyes on November 10, 2018, Kinnick Stadium, Iowa City, IA. (Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz has built a solid program during his 20-year coaching career for the Hawkeyes, but the fans have cultivated their own unique reputation in Iowa City.

Although it’s a recent tradition, following every first quarter the fans turn away from the field and wave. What are they waving at? Patients at the Stead Family Children’s Hospital. It’s not necessarily part of the tailgate, but it adds to the allure of attending a game at Kinnick Stadium.

In addition to the wave, certain Hawkeye fans know just how to prep for a tailgate. One, in particular, transformed a combine into one of college football’s most envious tailgating scene.

Iowa hosts Miami (OH), Rutgers, Middle Tennessee State, Penn State, Purdue, Minnesota and Illinois at Kinnick Stadium this season. Their road slate is much tougher, though, with Iowa State, Michigan, Northwestern, Wisconsin and Nebraska on the schedule.

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