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College football meets NASCAR: Inside the spectacle of the Battle at Bristol

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Week 2 Preview: No. 17 Tennessee vs Virginia Tech

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BRISTOL, Tenn. -- The sign hanging over the garage entrance to Bristol Motor Speedway is -- like everything else around here -- oversized.

WELCOME TO THE LAST GREAT COLOSSEUM, it all but screams in four-foot-tall type.

You find yourself looking around for horse-drawn chariots.

They have decided to play an oversized college football game here basically because they can. Sure, everyone is making oversized money from Tennessee-Virginia Tech, a Woodstock-on-Wheels, NASCAR-on-roids spectacle.