I'd like to say I'm in, Alan.
Also consider Colgate vs. Dartmouth Sep 16 or Colgate vs. Princeton Oct 7. Colgate's stadium is tiny compared to the dome in Syracuse, but on a nice day, classic small college football.

Hmm....Colgate has 15 buck tickets while Syracuse v. Wyoming tickets are 35 bucks. <p>Can you illuminate us as to the comparative hotel and libation facilities in Hamilton as we are well versed in the ways of the Beer Can and the Blue Tusk. <p>Plus, would I rather talk pos-game with fans from Princeton or WYOMING??? Certainly more bucking bronco imagery at the Wyoming site.

Well, for hotels there is always my parents' barn for free. If you saw the Colgate stadium, you would realize that the clever visitor can see the game for free by standing in one advantageous spot or another. Spent so far: zero, better used on beer.
(if you're serious, I can be a little more helpful)

I am seldom entirely that thing called "serious" but I do demand others go to a hell of a lot of effort nonetheless in response to these whims of mine. I suggest you govern yourself accordingly with equal measures of suspicion and hope.

http://www.colgateinn.com/

Good lodging and libations there. Make the reservation soon if serious. Here is a complete area listing
http://www.colgate.edu/DesktopDefault1.aspx?tabid=515&pgID=1430
Of course, then there is Ithaca College and Cornell here too, but I think you know how to plan that.

A person wonders, Alan, if Butternuts brewery will be open around that time, available for a tour. That canned magic was for SALE today at FLB and I filled the cupboard with Porkslap.
Let us not forget here late in August, Binghamton Mets host the Portland AA Red Sox affiliate....I am likely to go to at least one of those, weather depending....

Colgate has it all over Syracuse, more picturesque and much better (within their division) than the Orange. Plus, a Cortland High product is on their team, though how much playing time he'll get has yet to be determined. SU's game with Wyoming will probably be at noon.....it's certainly no prime-time thriller. Colgate starts 1 p.m. or 1:30 p.m. Try the Colgate Inn for accomodations, and if you're into sushi a place called Sushi Blues in downtown Hamilton (eclectic and funky) does it great.

I had hoped T-bo would show up. In my youth, the field at Colgate had only small wooden bleachers on each side, no real fences or gates. Anybody, including this kid and his dog, could wander in and out of the game. My dad still refuses to pay, and until recently drove up to the end zone to watch the game from the car. The team has had a couple of championship years lately, and therefore hotel rooms might be scarce. My link to Colgate above shows hotels all over, but the Colgate Inn is the best, hands down, with its own restaurant and pub and a different good one across the street, and maybe only 3/4 mile easy walk to the stadium. The campus is stunning, especially in fall. Alan, does St Lawrence or Clarkson play football?

I would just like to add that October 7 falls on a long weekend here in Canada. That is all.

I remember during my teen years going to a Colgate game with a former teacher, parking on a lawn behind the hospital and walking right in during the first quarter of a game with UConn. Another picturesque place is Hamilton College in Clinton, great stadium but generally crappy team, even for Division III. St. Lawrence has a (Division III) team, Clarkson does not.

If you want to go big-time, Brae Loch Inn in Cazenovia is a nice place to stay, about 15-20 miles away from Hamilton. Great restaurant, too.

Lest I forget, my old hometown squad, Morrisville State, is moving up from junior college to Division 3 this year. Their field is inside a track and has one large set of bleachers on the east side, topped by a press box. On the west side is a small fence, a tennis court, fields and an elementary school. True small-college, small-town ambiance. My dad helped coach the team back in the '50s before costs forced the program to be dropped. It was resurrected in 1996.

I know, cm, I am wondering if football games and open studio tours might work together that weekend? I hinted around to the parents that the 2 of them rattle around in 2 nearly empty houses (with 2 barns) and that if I had friends coming to town.....but they didn't rise to the bait and offer accomadations. They must think my friends are a bunch of glue-sniffing teenagers or something....
Here at casa gr we have some space, and a fridge full of Porkslap Ale, no problemo.
I might travel to St Lawrence for a game, Alan.

T-Bo-does Morrisville still have that diner? I worked at the BlueBird in Hamilton as a kid, washing dishes, now it is a fancy bar.

Such knowledge. I was away from any keyboard for 14 hours and I now know more than I did before. Colgate is sounding better and better. St. Lawrence or SLU (SL-ooooou) is great NCAA Div I for hockey, Gary. That is what I'd go there for. We already have the cowbell and hoodies. I am an unofficial sloooser at heart.

Alan, I wish that getting to SLU in the winter was a bit easier for hockey, but I imagine that roadway north is probably about the snowiest in the lower 48.

Nah, you just have to play the lake effect wisely. It is a narrow blizzard, not like a New England storm. It is all in the timing. And, unlike Cornell there are always tickets except for the Clarkson game. The Appleton Arena is a lovely place to watch hockey. And unlike Cornell, the tickets are modestly priced.

What was a restaurant and bowling alley burned in 1980 (I remember it well) in a rolling fire that started in the kitchen and was spread by the oil on the lanes. The coolest part was some friends and I were home from our jobs and were instructed by the fire department to climb a hill behind the place and throw rocks through the back windows to vent things out a bit. Aye aye, sir!
Colgate is a pretty good hockey place as well, and Oswego is opening a brand new campus center complete with rink this fall, replacing their old quonset-hut rink (Romney). I hope to hit both locations frequently.

Hey - I will do an Oswego game anytime. We love Oswego. Great brew pub, a good newer beer store and the Best Western is good value. We go a couple of times a year. I am usually half dressed in Oswego state green.

Two of my nieces are attending Oswego State this fall. And then there's the Oswego Sub Shop, which has the best subs anywhere as far as I know, serves beer by the can and is open for your post-game dining pleasure until 3 a.m.

I won one of their throwback jerseys, worn in honor of the last season in Romney, in an auction last spring, a white jersey with cool green and yellow stripes all down the sleeves. Plus, it's a goalie cut, so lots of room. That's a plus with the Sub Shop so close....

Oh man, with all that hockey in my future I gotta get a new all-wheel drive vehicle.