Road Trip Idea: College Football Tour In Jersey This Weekend
What’s up, Rat Rock Nation?! If you’re looking to do something this weekend…how about a fun college football game in Jersey? The weather is supposed to be great (crisp and clear) and you can have a nice little Autumn road trip of the Garden State!
ASBURY PARK, NJ – Asbury Park, New Jersey. (Photo by Kena Betancur/Getty Images)
First…you can drive down to Princeton on Friday to watch the Princeton Tigers as they play Columbia at in an Ivy League battle. The Tigers are coming in to the game at 1 and 1. So enjoy some football…and walk around the same campus that Albert Einstein roamed when he came to America.
1950: Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) mathematical atomic physicist and Nobel prizewinner at home in Princeton. (Photo by Doreen Spooner/Keystone Features/Getty Images)
Then…the next day…head to West Long Branch as Monmouth University takes on Lehigh on Saturday at 1 PM (EST). The Hawks come into the game at 1 and 3 while Lehigh is also 1 and 3 thus far. Monmouth is coming off a difficult loss to Lafayette in which the Hawks committed ten penalties while turning the ball over twice. The Monmouth campus is gorgeous this time of year…and that’s the same location where they filmed the movie Annie! BAM!
The Monmouth Hawks band perform (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)
And if you have time after the Monmouth game…quickly head up to New Brunswick as Rutgers goes against Wagner at home on Saturday at 3:30 PM (EST). The Scarlet Knights are 3 and 1 and looking to get back in the win column after last week’s loss to Michigan. Fans can also watch the game on television if you have the Big Ten Network on your cable package. One cool thing that will happen at the game is that the 1976 team will be honored at half-time. The ’76 Scarlet Knights went 11 and 0 that year under coach Frank Burns.
PISCATAWAY, NEW JERSEY – SEPTEMBER 16: Quarterback Gavin Wimsatt #2 of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights scores a rushing touchdown against the Virginia Tech Hokies during the second quarter of a college football game at SHI Stadium on September 16, 2023 in Piscataway, New Jersey. (Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images)
(Fairleigh Dickinson has a bye this weekend otherwise we’d include them. They next play on October 7th).
JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY – JUNE 8: The sun rises behind the One World Trade Center in New York as a playground looks empty, while the smoke from Canada wildfires covers the Manhattan borough as it is seen from Liberty State Park on June 8, 2023 in New Jersey. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)
Enjoy the football this weekend in the great Garden State!!
