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It depends on the culture of the school a bit. For us, the homecoming dance was just one of several dances, and most people didn't bother going. I don't think it was even on the same night as the homecoming football game. Certainly no one except already-dating couples actually "went" to the dance together.
As far as the game, it's generally just like any other football game, except they usually try to pick a team that they're pretty sure they can beat so it'll be a happy ending for everyone. There's this weird tradition of making "mums" before the game which are like humongous fake corsages with 4-foot ribbons hanging off them. They hang them on doors, or on the lockers of the football players. This is usually done only by the cheerleaders, but again, the school culture may vary. Homecoming in general is a much bigger thing down south, so very little of this may apply to you.
The vote for homecoming king and queen was pretty intense at my school, but in the end it's nothing more than a popularity contest, and no one was surprised by the winners. The handful of finalists show up to the football game, stand together down on the field, and the winners are announced, usually at halftime I think. There's nothing more to it than that, they just get a little crown and then they get off the field and the game resumes. A lot of schools do the announcement of the king and queen at the dance instead, for us they knew that no one was going to the dance so they did it at the game instead.
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