It’s no longer a fantasy or a daydream - it’s a dream he’s living day-to-day, week-to-week, truck stop-to-truck stop, podcast-to-podcast. “I was always planning on it sort of as a fantasy in my head,” he said.Ī few months ago, Sherman told his colleagues he was quitting to embark on a four-month road trip across America to watch college football the way it should be digested: in person, with the wafting scent of tailgates and spilled beer and a collective belief that on any given day, something absolutely wild might take place.

He used to map out hypothetical road trips from one college football game to another on Google Maps just for fun. Why did he quit? How could he? The magnetism of the ultimate college football road trip was something he’d always daydreamed about.