Taylor Swift Watching College Football With Travis Kelce Led to So Many Jokes

Taylor Swift out in public for the first time since her engagement with Travis Kelce at a Nebraska-Cincinnati football game on a typical Thursday night was probably not on anyone's bingo card.

The Eras Tour pop star was shown on the ESPN broadcast pretty early in the game, seated next to Kelce as well as Patrick Mahomes and his wife, Brittany, in a suite at Arrowhead Stadium. It was a surprising sight given that the 2025 NFL season doesn't start for another week, but Swift decided to tag along to watch her fiancé's alma mater, Cincinnati, kick off their season-opener.

Watching a college football game is very different from an NFL game in many ways, and lots of Chads, Brads and dads weren't happy about Swift infiltrating at the college level.

Still, fans had lots of jokes on seeing Swift presumably add more facts to her "ball" knowledge:

We now live in a world where Taylor Swift likely knows who Dana Holgorsen is. pic.twitter.com/E8UyS7urBD
— Ben Stevens (@BenScottStevens) August 29, 2025

We now live in a timeline where Taylor Swift could raise the money to fire Scott Satterfield. https://t.co/RK7aKGMMLZ
— Tom Fornelli (@TomFornelli) August 29, 2025

“So there’s this QB on Nebraska. His names Dylan. Everything he does, from the way he walks, throws, cuts his hair and dresses is so he can be like Patrick Mahomes. Weird stuff. He’s #15 down there on Nebraska”pic.twitter.com/D8AknOUjDK
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) August 29, 2025

The face of someone who did not realize promising to marry Travis Kelce meant being forced to watch Big Ten offenses https://t.co/t0W1LvaIXN
— Kassidy Hill (@KassidyGHill) August 29, 2025