By Jonah Broos, Cronkite PR Lab
On September 26, 2026, Sun Devil Football will play the Kansas Jayhawks in London.
This long-anticipated matchup, featuring two of the Big 12’s finest athletic programs, will be played at Wembley Stadium, marking the first time a regular-season college football game has been played at the venue.
Sun Devil fans are already jumping at the opportunity to experience life across the pond and to support the Sun Devils overseas. What can these excited supporters expect from their time in England and specifically, in the city of London?
Sun Devil Soccer Head Coach Graham Winkworth hails from Berkshire, a county just fifty miles west of London. Having lived in the States for 24 years, Winkworth is a self-described “southern boy with an English accent.”
He shared that one of the biggest adjustments he made when coming over was the social aspect of a more spread-out city.
“My biggest challenge was the social scene, and the fact that you need a car to go anywhere in America,” Winkworth explained. “In England, you walk downtown on a Friday, you spend some time with your friends in the pub, and you just hang out. Socially, it’s very different in America than in England.”
Sun Devil golfer Patience Rhodes, of Bath, England, says she believes one of the biggest differences for most fans would be the food.
“Definitely the food,” Rhodes said. “They’d be a bit shocked by seeing things like beans with breakfast. They’d be like, ‘what’s going on here?’”
Sun Devil swimmer Reece Grady, of Macclesfield, England, also noted a difference in food. Grady urges all fans to step out of their comfort zone and attend at least one English dinner.
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“The food is a lot different here than over there. Here it’s more like hamburgers and such. Most Americans have never had a real, traditional English dinner,” Grady said. “Try the roast, the shepherd’s Pie, the Yorkshire pudding, try all of it. That’s a big part of English culture.”
Rhodes, like Grady and Winkworth, emphasized that fans should try need to try an English dinner and traditional English foods.
“You definitely have to have a roast dinner on a Sunday in a pub. You need to have a roast dinner where you’ve got your Yorkshire pudding, gravy,…
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