Obviously never been to Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame or (my Alma Mater) Penn State...please. There are some awesome football schools in the ACC and SEC but Real football is played in the cold.
It can also be played in the heat. USC Trojan fans may recall the 1998 Purdue game, the 1981 Oklahoma game, or the 1944 UCLA game, when the mercury in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum soared into the triple digits. By the way, the Trojans won all of those games.
Or even driven through those states on a Friday night in fall ... drive through pitch black on back roads, see a glow way off in the distance, and after a few minutes drive through a little town with a pretty sizeable football stadium packed to the gills. Repeat every half hour or so.