Your Tailgate Party Planner

Only in the South is game day more celebrated than any other event–even weddings. Use our easy recipes and spirited gear finds to make sure your tailgate party measures up to the rest.

Southern Football Traditions

These seven things best embody the sublime psychosis that is college football in the South.

Photo: Courtesy University of Mississippi , Article: Austin Murphy

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Tailgating at Ole Miss

On home game days, Oxford’s storied, 10-acre greensward turns into a tableau of antebellum civility and manners: tables set with lace and fine china, chandeliers suspended from the boughs of the elms and magnolias. To see the cocktail dresses on display in The Grove is to be reminded that not all the talent is on the field.