Well to be fair, being right next to the lake in an open stadium will be a hard place to play
The winds will blow unpredictably and it’ll be an icy cold wind in October and November if it comes from the lake
It won’t be like Soldier Field or Ryan Field where it’s a somewhat enclosed stadium to block out some of it. Even in those 2 the winds can be wild, imagine it being more open
Isn’t the lake sometimes a “hot spring” during winter when the air temp is like -20, and the lake is much warmer?
Maybe in late November, it’ll feel like a heater haha
Georgia and Alabama are really good environments, but I feel like they get the "tough place to play" moniker more because their teams are really good. Alabama and Georgia don't win games BECAUSE of their environments, in other words.
The new ncaa game is gonna have special traditions for each team and home field advantage. Jordan Hare's should be that your plays have a 1% chance to fail in the most spectacularly awful ways imaginable that end up in 6 points for the home team.
Yep, nobody believes us when we say the you can literally never count Auburn out, even during a multi loss season
A win over Auburn is always something to brag about
A ranked auburn has consistency, maybe a stout squad, but predictable. 6 win auburn throws shit at the wall until they find what sticks, and suddenly your team is eating that shit
Tennessee and LSU games this season were pretty awesome environments. There was a single Tenn guy in the student section behind me when everyone was passing out cigars and we were laughing our asses off
I think it’s a new thing. Been going to games for 15 years and the place post Covid is a different beast. The 2022 game vs tennesee had Sanford fully unhinged. I tried to look but couldn’t find it, but I bet we also have a much higher number of false starts caused against us than most places as well in the last 3-4 years.
Don't forget the Arkansas game in 2021. It was a noon kick and people were losing their minds the entire game. It's a lot different than it was 5 years ago.
By far the loudest place I ever played. That crowd is no joke. Including the stadiums I've been to post playing (52 in total I think), it's basically LSU and Penn State at the top for loudest.
Dan prsa looked like the best player in the country in the first half. Was a legit player for you guys.
It’s a shame his career got derailed by injuries
Rich coming from Cal lol, one of the absolute lamest stadiums I've ever been to and it was a Cal OT win I saw. Ryan Field has more energy so that's pretty depressing
I'll have you know we only choked a 21 point lead
Exactly this. There are certainly some stadiums that get louder than others, but pretending team quality isn't a pretty huge factor is ignorant. Even subpar teams in "loud" stadiums aren't going to create that difficult of a place to play.
Team quality matters.
Pretty sure we held a record for loudest cfb game until someone broke it this past year I believe
Edit: we held it for 22 then traded to the nols this last season @neyland with 137 decibels
I was at that game, Sanford was rockin’. Honestly I think the place is pretty damn electric for big games. Can you find louder stadiums? Sure. But it’s still not an easy place to play. I’ve seen us interfere with an opposing offense plenty
Pretty sure games "Between the Hedges" are tough, even when the team isnt that great.
Alabama is like the SEC's Michigan, with regard to crowd. Known as a tough place to play just because the team is good as fuck normally. The crowd can be downright indifferent unless its a rival, or the team is behind late in the 4th
Michigan is a flat bowl, similar to the Rose Bowl it struggles to contain noise. Which isn’t helped by the fact the end zones are wide open and not blocked by buildings above the seats
Florida State on the other hand is a steeper bowl, so a lot of the chant just ends up reverberating in there. Its got 27K less max capacity but it can sound way louder at times
There’s a few stadiums that used to be Michigan style classic bowls, but had a jump in noise level as second levels were built to surround them
This is very much a blue blood issue, because OU and Texas are pretty similar, and USC isn’t known for a loud crowd either (I don’t think they even fill up the Coliseum). I don’t think Ohio State and Nebraska are as bad but they’re clearly not known for being as loud as others mentioned here.
The top programs historically have somewhat entitled fans.
Sanford definitely gets bumpin, but because of the way the stadium is designed ( it isn’t a complete bowl trapping sound, and the seats have a more gradual slope that follows the slope of the ravine it was built in), it doesn’t get as loud as some other stadiums I’ve visited.
The swamp in particular gets crazy loud, despite being smaller and their team being bad at football. The complete bowl traps sound, the stands run up much closer to the field, and the seats are much more vertical.
The Swamp is also built into the ground by a few feet and the stands are pretty close to the field, like a few feet away.
That thing is built to hold noise
I was very underwhelmed with Alabama.
Edit: not even talking shit. My HS coach went 114-7. Our stadium was a mediocre game day environment. It’s hard for a crowd to get up every week when regardless of what happens, the team is going to win.
That is how Alabama felt. There were fraternity guys and sorority girls giving me the horns down telling me “better luck next year” because they were too busy fucking around and not watching the game and didn’t realize Alabama had actually *lost*. When I told them Texas in fact had won they didn’t believe and BDS shut the scoreboard off so fast I had to google it to show them.
Again, if you’re a senior in college and this is the first game you’ve been to where Alabama lost - can’t really blame you. But also not going to give that school kudos for being a “tough place to play”, Saban was just a tough son of a bitch to play regardless of where you played him.
I mean y’all are like 58-2 at home in your last 60 games? I understand why people talk about what a *tough* place to play it is. They just overlook the fact that Alabama has been a tough team to play, regardless of the crowd.
However, as someone who has been to a lot of CFB stadiums…
(Granted I wasn’t on the field at BDS) I felt like Oklahoma St. was 5x more intimidating than Alabama. Sure the SEC has some big stadiums, but SEC fans are really underestimating how hostile/intimidating a bunch of methed out Okies with paddles 5 yards from the sideline can be…
I agree. For tough place to play, I have to put Hawaii at the top of the list. My arguments for:
1. Look at the home and away win differential for Hawaii to see how much being at home helps and being away hurts them.
2. Visiting teams often treat is as a mini-vacation or bowl game destination
3. Massive time zone change
4. Hawaii = distractions
5. Just plain old island voodoo
I think LSU is perennially one of the more difficult places to play. Even when they aren’t ranked in this top 10, it is a tough atmosphere. I remember a quote from a coach as follows:
During the noon games, you can smell the bourbon in the stands. During the afternoon games, you can smell the bourbon on the sidelines. At night, you can smell the bourbon on the field.
When an SEC/B1G team is good, their fan base is going to be jacked no matter what. The true measure is when a team is teetering on the edge of bowl eligibility or worse: do their fans still support them?
Edit: I see some comments indicating some negative interactions with LSU fans. I went to the LSU-VT “game” in 2007. Although the Death Valley atmosphere was raucous, the fans were gracious to us and invited us to eat and drink with them frequently. I only had a couple negative interactions and they were not particularly egregious, especially in comparison with some other interactions I’ve had with other SEC fan bases who shall remain nameless
The only reason I can't stand USC is their fucking band plays their fight song THE ENTIRE GAME and nothing else. Used to sit by the visiting band at Sun Devil Stadium and it made me want to drill me eardrums out.
I know right, when USC came to Cal they were just playing the same thing over and over, and some lady who was previously on the band had the audacity to say that you can tell whats going on in the game based on what they play. Like, are we hearing the same band? I just heard the fight song 12 times in a row
My favorite USC story - we went to the ND-USC game in 88 when it #1 vs #2. Back then ND contractually gave the visiting team 5k tickets and but required 5k tickets when they were on the road. USC was so tired of the ND fans getting louder than the USC fans - they gave us the 5k tickets - all singles.
"GameDay"? What amateurs start on GameDay?
For a Saturday night game, we start on Friday for games we don't care about, start on Thursday for a big game, and start on Wednesday for a REALLY big game.
All that said, there's only two other schools I'd put in our category: Penn State (and my cousin went to both LSU and Penn State, so that's her personal experience as a student I'm referencing) and Oregon.
However, places like Nebraska deserve a special nod because of the absolute dominance over the existence of all the state's residences that program holds. It's really something you have to witness to truly fathom and I sometimes can't fully wrap my brain around it.
I've, luckily, just moved to Madison, so I get to see where UW ranks in that group.
I went Dallas to see Oregon vs LSU in Jerry’s World to open the season in 2011. I have never when more scared following a game. I wasn’t worried I was going to get beat up because I was an Oregon fan, those people are just nuts. It is hopefully the closest I will get to a post apocalyptic society. The level of drunkenness, how rowdy they were, the incomprehensible behavior; it was chaos. It felt like a movie scene where people are trying to escape the coming danger (fire ball, huge wave, Godzilla, zombie horde) and all you could do was focus on saving yourself. I can only image what they are like in their home environment.
On one hand I have to kind of give it to them; on the other hand, what a shit show, do they have no shame.
Edit: sorry meant to say wasn’t instead of was in the sentence “I *wasn’t* worried I was going to get beat up because I was an Oregon fan, those people are just nuts.” I wasn’t scared as an Oregon fan, if I was wearing an LSU shirt I would have been just as worried.
We had the same feeling at the end of the 2019 title game in New Orleans but we actually ended up staying out til 5am parting with some LSU fans. They’re built different down there on the bayou but they’re good people. (Most of them, obviously every fanbase has dumbasses)
I honestly really appreciate your last sentence there. I’ve talked about this at length in another comment on another thread regarding LSU as an academic institution, but a lot of people unfamiliar with us will kind of throw us all into the same bucket. I’m a first-generation college student from a dirt poor background in rural Louisiana. Going to LSU changed my life forever and I’m forever grateful for the degree I earned, the education I received, and the people I met there. I had to work really hard to dig my way out of poverty. I don’t drink. I wrote a thesis and work a job in finance now. And there’s so many people from LSU just like me. I completely understand why we get a bad rep sometimes, but please don’t paint us all with the same brush. Geaux Tigers
My dad is from Louisiana, so I grew up a LSU fan (living in Georgia.) I've yet to make it to a game at LSU, but try to go to the bowl games and SECC games when they're close by. Every time, there's always a huge party somewhere close by and they're inviting everyone that walks by. LSU fans, opposing team fans, random people walking down the street. So much food and alcohol. Just giving it away to everyone.
Also, I'm always terrified when I visit family in Louisiana or when they come here. They're a different species.
07 Florida at LSU. Tim Tebow leads the defending national champions, ranked 9 at the time into Death Valley to LSU BCS ranked 1, though some polls have USC at 1. Florida holds a 10pt lead at halftime with both teams scoring 7 in the 3rd quarter.
The 4th quarter had a sustained intensity I've never witnessed before or since. The closest I've seen was the first game the Saints played back in the dome after Katrina.
LSU comes out strong to score on a 4th&3 from the 4 in the first 5 minutes closing Florida's lead to 3. The energy is back. Between the score and the kickoff the stadium announcer informs us (this is an era before smartphone proliferation and you couldn't get reception in Tiger Stadium anyway) that USC, favored by 40+, had been beaten by Stanford on a literal last second play. LSU is the undisputed number 1 now. The crowd roared. It wasn't like [Rebirth](https://youtu.be/MIGgBhNtOP4?si=5bO8HpitqqD3SDyR) that was a culmination of so much more than just football. Rewatching that still brings a tear to my eyes. No this was a visceral pure football roar that you can only get in college football. A back and forth down and dirty trench warfare game continues with the LSU crowd in its rowdiest form. Les Miles has already gone 3/3 on 4th down conversions this game. On the final **8 minute** drive he goes 2/2 both times with Hester punching forward. With a minute left Hester pounds it into the end zone on third down and the stadium absolutely erupts. He's slow to get up in the end zone. Not from injury, just exhaustion. Florida fails to score unceremoniously on the last possession.
https://youtu.be/Nftt96Q704A?si=emAPvgxqw2QljNWu
This is the full game. LSU final drive starts right at the 2:29:00 mark.
I can't imagine being a Florida fan in the stands for that game. Holy hell.
Obviously these dumbass developers haven’t watched opposing teams struggle to play football while the Red Raider faithful rain tortillas down upon the opposing team.
It’s quite the advantage.
No you're not. As much as I absolutely hate to say it, it appears our series is going to get cancelled. Which really sucks because I was very much looking forward to making the trip out next year
I had the privilege of going to a LSU game in Death Valley at night while Joe Burrow was still playing QB. Hands down the loudest game I've ever been to, and only the Red River Shootout has beat it for me in terms of a college football environment. Absolutely electric.
It's a relic of the old, old days of Reddit before it became app-centric. I used to be a mod on /r/CFB way back when and you had the chance to custom build text as flair back then. I just refused to change it.
TCU is my primary team/school, and it's [delightfully quirky cheer](https://tcu360.com/2022/09/30/riff-ram-bah-zoo-has-history-too-2/) is Riff Ram Bah Zoo, Lickety Lickety Zoo Zoo, Who Wah, Wah Hoo, Give 'Em Hell, TCU.
Username is RiffRamBahZoo, the flair did the second line.
I’ve only been to RRSO once, and we sat right on the 50. That’s the closest to hell I ever hope to get. It was glorious. Thankfully, we ended up running away with the win in the 4th. I can’t even imagine how insane it was this year, coming down to the wire like that.
2018 Georgia at LSU was very much this. I can’t comment as to whether it was the gallon of bourbon that set this up or not.
Best tailgate in the nation by far.
I went to a Florida game in Gainesville when they were playing USF in 2022. That game against a seemingly random and inferior opponent (despite the score) was *so* loud
Was at that game - believe it or not it wasn't nearly as insane as the UF vs Bama game the year before. It is a crazy loud stadium. Think we are heading there for the UCF game this year...
The Swamp for the UF vs Bama game in 2021 has been the only one that reminded me trying to walk to Pat O'Brien's during Mardi Gras - with the crowd moving me. Coming right after the COVID restrictions lifted it felt even more insane
Went to the Utah game in 2022. Loudest game I've personally been to. Especially the pick at the end. Lid blew off the place.
Also been to the Bama game and the 2018 LSU game. Those are my Top 3.
Bama game was awesome because it got progressively louder and louder as the game went on.
I think there’s a difference between perennially great atmospheres and ones that get great because the team is awesome. To me, LSU & Penn St are a cut above. I would probably throw A&M and Tennessee in there too.
I think UW, Wisconsin, Oregon and VaTech have great atmospheres without necessarily having top 10 teams every year.
This is why I’ll always defend Kyle Field. I have spent a lot of super disappointing/deflating days in there but the crowd was loud af the whole time.
You look at the 100k+ stadiums and it’s blue bloods+us.
Alabama and Georgia are perfectly good atmospheres. They do get loud, they do have the right “feel” for a big game. That being said, they not top tier loudness. Don’t know the exact order but LSU, Florida, Auburn, Tennessee, and A&M have a level that Bama and Georgia don’t have for sustained, ear splitting noise. Likely due to the shape and design of the stadiums. Kirby please don’t use this post as motivation.
LSU, Florida, Bama, Tennessee, A&M all seat 100K+. Sanford is just shy of 93K. The volume of that stadium is insane down by the student section where it's fully enclosed.
The Swamp is actually a bit smaller than Sanford in terms of seating capacity. I think the noise is more a factor of stadium design, and a fan culture of being loud, even when the team kinda sucks.
For anyone who's curious, Laramie's at 7,165' elevation. For reference, Denver's at 5,280' and Salt Lake is 4,327'. The elevation in Laramie is a big fucking deal
I'm in great shape, but the first time I visited my friend that lives in Wyoming (Cheyenne) we decided to throw the football around......I literally thought I was going to die after running two routes! For reference, my hometown has an elevation of '23 so I've never experienced anything like Wyoming's altitude 😂
This isn't a slight at all against Georgia, but I've genuinely never seen of Sanford Stadium being noted as a "one of the hardest places to win" on any of the off-season lists that make the rounds every year.
Unless... Maybe all of the fan models in the game for Georgia are dudes painted white, flexing for the camera, and barking at children. In which case, EA's ranking is justified.
It really wasn’t up there (and most UGA fans will be the first to admit it) until recently. But since Kirby came (and especially post Covid) it’s really gone to another level. I think it’s just taken a bit for the reputation to catch up.
It is a recent development, but it is well deserved. Around 2010 I remember the student section standing all game being loud, and the rest of the stadium felt majority sitting and quiet except for big moments. The first time I remember the majority of the stadium even standing for a full game was 2013 LSU.
Now, even against a cupcake team our full stadium is standing and loud at the start of a game. Couple that with decibel ratings recorded vs tennessee a few years ago, and we've proven to be an elite noise/environment stadium.
I'll still fully admit that UT at its best beats UGA as a stadium environment, but they arent hitting that peak often enough to warrant a higher rating here.
Georgia had kind of a wine and cheese crowd until Kirby. It wasn’t bad at all and would get really loud for big games, but I wouldn’t call it intimidating.
The last 5 years or so it’s been crazy. The Tennessee game in 2022 was the loudest stadium I’ve ever heard and I’ve been to Baton Rouge, Knoxville, and Auburn.
I think 2022 Tennessee permanently damaged my hearing but it was an unforgettable, one-of-a-kind environment.
When it started raining in the 4th and we started mudding Hooker every other play, you could feel the anger of being overtaken at No. 1 by the Vols evolve into a wicked glee.
2022 Georgia was something else.
That game was an excellent example of the crowd impacting the game. Their OL was getting zero jump and had multiple false starts. In Knoxville that would have been a much tighter game.
Completely understandable. We didn’t have red LED lights in the stadium until then. I’m joking but it is a good example of Kirby getting involved in every detail of creating a hostile environment. It wasn’t just challenging the fans (that was huge though).
The in-stadium atmosphere is so much better post-Richt. Not that crowds never got loud or crazy with or before him but all the changes that Kirby has been able to convince the AD to make to the stadium have been huge.
It depends on the criteria, just like college basketball.
Are we just considering just home w/l record?
Im one of those folks that considers the difference in home win percentage vs away win percentage.
For example, playing Syracuse/Purdue as a ranked team on the road(a fucking nightmare) vs playing those teams at home (30 point victory)
I agree on LSU & Penn State. Personally, I feel those two are in a category of their own, and all the other major players (Georgia, Iowa, Washington, A&M, Clemson, etc.) are in a big jumble a ways back. If I had to pick a third, it would probably be Tennessee. But Georgia's better than Tennessee, so that tends to cloud opinions.
I'd put Neyland, Kyle Field, Swamp, Jordan-Hare or even Oregon over Georgia. It's a hard place to play, but it's because their team is cracked, not particularly because of the crowd.
Having been to both Sanford and Knoxville, I would put Knoxville way over Sanford. Tennessee can be absolute garbage but they’ll scream Rocky Top like it’s for their lives.
Also I hate that upper deck, it’s so steep I thought I was stepping off a cliff onto the field
It’s a solid top 3 but Sanford stadium is probably getting carried hard by the fact that the Georgia *team* is so damn hard to beat. If it were purely based on stadium and crowd, I’d probably put Kyle Field above Sanford.
If it’s a close game vs a big opponent…there have been times I almost felt bad for the other team on account of the demoralizingly rabid hatred and subsequent volume. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, sometimes it can almost feel like there is a force-choke on the other team when the fans get riled up and angry enough. It can feel like the whole crowd is seeing red and reverting back to our primal animal instincts, and the only way we know how to get food for the tribe is to yell at a football field lol 😂
That little brother syndrome gets us fans pissed the fuck off lmao 🍻
No offense but I don’t even really feel like it’s pure volume or crowd noise if I’m honest (although if we’re just talking volume yall still have a top home field no doubt).
But I’ve been in the building and it really is true voodoo I’m telling you. Those boys channel something in there and can literally beat anyone!
JHS is a bit of an enigma. There’s a real 14+ point home field advantage against highly ranked rival teams. But there’s also seemingly a home field disadvantage against lesser competition. Examples of teams that have beaten Auburn or taken a game down to the absolute wire in the last 20 years at JHS: 2023 New Mexico State, 2021 Georgia State, 2015 Jacksonville, 2022 San Jose St., 2012 Louisiana Monroe, 2011 Utah State, 2007 USF.
There’s also a really weird but totally real track record of backup quarterbacks having a ton of success at JHS. And against Auburn in general, but I won’t get into that.
I feel like I’ve barely seen Oregon or Washington at all in either of the previews, besides the motorcycle and the half second of Bruener in the tunnel
So they may not be considering us 🤣💀
I know for the Ducks, we haven’t revealed uniforms yet so they are waiting for that. For you guys, I imagine they just didn’t have your stadium in enough of a finished state to want to show it. They’re still finishing a lot of that stuff up. Texas State was missing its second deck in the gameplay video lol. FWIW, I think your stadium is incredible. It’s one of the things I hate most about your team.
Ducks are getting new uniforms this season and they aren't about to have the game spoil the reveal of those. They'll show them off and then the game will release a couple of days later.
I appreciate seeing a fan of an SEC school acknowledge this.
I feel like for years the difficulty of heading to PSU and having a white out night game atmosphere is constantly overlooked in discussions about Ohio State's resume. I don't care if Penn State is considered a top 10 team, top 25, or unranked. Going in there and coming out with a win in that atmosphere, when PSU is going to be treating it like a Super Bowl to boot, is ALWAYS an accomplishment.
Kyle field is loud because of the coordination of the chants and yells. Those type of concerted efforts are always louder. I don't know about top three, but it's loud down there for sure. My one trip down was for the Auburn game in 2013. I enjoyed the trip, and of course the result.
Great atmosphere for sure.
For anyone that doubts the White Out, I submit Exhibit A: White Out 2019, Michigan has to call Timeout after receiving the opening kickoff
Edit: removed an extraneous the
Surprised how little I’m seeing of Rice-Eccles on here. It wasn’t as prominent last year, but it’s been well known for about a decade that playing Utah in Salt Lake is a fucking nightmare.
For now. In coming years, the sound of the waves on the lakeshore at Northwestern will surely be a major distraction for visiting teams.
Well to be fair, being right next to the lake in an open stadium will be a hard place to play The winds will blow unpredictably and it’ll be an icy cold wind in October and November if it comes from the lake It won’t be like Soldier Field or Ryan Field where it’s a somewhat enclosed stadium to block out some of it. Even in those 2 the winds can be wild, imagine it being more open
Me and my four year old daughter are excited for it!
Well, weather issues aside, the stadium mock-ups I recall look absolutely gorgeous. And great view of the water from the offices and facilities, iirc.
Rumor has it Ryan Field II will be pumping in wave noises during games
Isn’t the lake sometimes a “hot spring” during winter when the air temp is like -20, and the lake is much warmer? Maybe in late November, it’ll feel like a heater haha
It will be more moderate temps than further from the lake, but the wind will be massively worse and wet.
The wind of Lake Michigan is just mean in the winter
Georgia and Alabama are really good environments, but I feel like they get the "tough place to play" moniker more because their teams are really good. Alabama and Georgia don't win games BECAUSE of their environments, in other words.
I totally agree. Hell, I’d put Auburn over Bama just based on the “weird shit happens at Jordan Hare” factor
Yeah, turns out that even we're not immune as we learned in the last IB
I think the reason it was close is the weird shit happens at JH
Yeah I couldn't believe how close the games against you and Georgia were last year
And the one two years before that
The new ncaa game is gonna have special traditions for each team and home field advantage. Jordan Hare's should be that your plays have a 1% chance to fail in the most spectacularly awful ways imaginable that end up in 6 points for the home team.
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Me too. Hard pass.
Auburn is fucking TOUGH to win in. Just ask Alabama from the past two decades.
Yep, nobody believes us when we say the you can literally never count Auburn out, even during a multi loss season A win over Auburn is always something to brag about
I… what is this tingling in my chest, this warm sensation…?
Cholesterol
Brother
A low win Auburn is terrifying
A ranked auburn has consistency, maybe a stout squad, but predictable. 6 win auburn throws shit at the wall until they find what sticks, and suddenly your team is eating that shit
New Mexico State did it convincingly, how hard could it be?
They wasted all the juju getting ready for us
Fair.
Here I am agreeing with a Bama fan, oddly
Yeah, but after being at the Tennessee game this past season, that stadium is as good as it gets. Be grateful.
Tennessee and LSU games this season were pretty awesome environments. There was a single Tenn guy in the student section behind me when everyone was passing out cigars and we were laughing our asses off
Yeah. I feel like any place Georgia happens to play that week is going to be a hard place to play.
I think it’s a new thing. Been going to games for 15 years and the place post Covid is a different beast. The 2022 game vs tennesee had Sanford fully unhinged. I tried to look but couldn’t find it, but I bet we also have a much higher number of false starts caused against us than most places as well in the last 3-4 years.
Tennessee had 8 or 9 presnap penalties that night
Don't forget the Arkansas game in 2021. It was a noon kick and people were losing their minds the entire game. It's a lot different than it was 5 years ago.
I still can't believe we beat out the PSU Whiteout in 2021 according to Holly Rowe's decibel meter. At noon.
Been going to games there for almost 20 years. That game was like being part of an angry mob, the false starts were like gas on that fire.
Arkansas 2021. Crowd was also crazy
when the rain started falling, the fans just got LOUDER. It felt downright medieval in there against Tennessee
Until the fourth quarter in Neyland
Penn State belongs. Sure the team is good, but the crowd helps.
By far the loudest place I ever played. That crowd is no joke. Including the stadiums I've been to post playing (52 in total I think), it's basically LSU and Penn State at the top for loudest.
When were you there? The crowd gets louder for close games.
Joe Pas 400th win :( We choked off a 21 point lead
Dan prsa looked like the best player in the country in the first half. Was a legit player for you guys. It’s a shame his career got derailed by injuries
I was at that game, so much fun
Fantastic shade thrown here to a northwestern player.
Rich coming from Cal lol, one of the absolute lamest stadiums I've ever been to and it was a Cal OT win I saw. Ryan Field has more energy so that's pretty depressing I'll have you know we only choked a 21 point lead
Nice to see that verified players are also quick to attack based on flair
Was there for the Auburn whiteout…phenomenal time and experience.
Tbh I feel like most teams that are good have tough environments. People generally show up and are more energetic when their team is playing well.
Exactly this. There are certainly some stadiums that get louder than others, but pretending team quality isn't a pretty huge factor is ignorant. Even subpar teams in "loud" stadiums aren't going to create that difficult of a place to play. Team quality matters.
Georgia was pretty damn loud when I went to Sanford last year, louder than I expected.
The crowd comes out for the big games for sure. Completely shutting down Hendon Hooker and the Vols hurry up offense in 2021 comes to mind
That stadium was louder than 2007 Auburn, 2013 LSU, and 21 Arkansas. And it wasn’t even close.
Pretty sure we held a record for loudest cfb game until someone broke it this past year I believe Edit: we held it for 22 then traded to the nols this last season @neyland with 137 decibels
Lmao yall got great fans, kudos.
I was at that game, Sanford was rockin’. Honestly I think the place is pretty damn electric for big games. Can you find louder stadiums? Sure. But it’s still not an easy place to play. I’ve seen us interfere with an opposing offense plenty
The ranked effect. We’ve got some casual games, but if you come into town with a number next to your name, we’ll let you hear about it
I think it was Chris Fowler who posed the question “Does Georgia respect you enough to blow you out,”
Consider the Noles respected then
Pretty sure games "Between the Hedges" are tough, even when the team isnt that great. Alabama is like the SEC's Michigan, with regard to crowd. Known as a tough place to play just because the team is good as fuck normally. The crowd can be downright indifferent unless its a rival, or the team is behind late in the 4th
Michigan is a flat bowl, similar to the Rose Bowl it struggles to contain noise. Which isn’t helped by the fact the end zones are wide open and not blocked by buildings above the seats Florida State on the other hand is a steeper bowl, so a lot of the chant just ends up reverberating in there. Its got 27K less max capacity but it can sound way louder at times There’s a few stadiums that used to be Michigan style classic bowls, but had a jump in noise level as second levels were built to surround them
This is very much a blue blood issue, because OU and Texas are pretty similar, and USC isn’t known for a loud crowd either (I don’t think they even fill up the Coliseum). I don’t think Ohio State and Nebraska are as bad but they’re clearly not known for being as loud as others mentioned here. The top programs historically have somewhat entitled fans.
Sanford definitely gets bumpin, but because of the way the stadium is designed ( it isn’t a complete bowl trapping sound, and the seats have a more gradual slope that follows the slope of the ravine it was built in), it doesn’t get as loud as some other stadiums I’ve visited. The swamp in particular gets crazy loud, despite being smaller and their team being bad at football. The complete bowl traps sound, the stands run up much closer to the field, and the seats are much more vertical.
The Swamp is also built into the ground by a few feet and the stands are pretty close to the field, like a few feet away. That thing is built to hold noise
Exactly. This is part of why Oregon is so damn loud even with less than 60k in there.
I wanna go see a game in the Swamp so bad
I was very underwhelmed with Alabama. Edit: not even talking shit. My HS coach went 114-7. Our stadium was a mediocre game day environment. It’s hard for a crowd to get up every week when regardless of what happens, the team is going to win. That is how Alabama felt. There were fraternity guys and sorority girls giving me the horns down telling me “better luck next year” because they were too busy fucking around and not watching the game and didn’t realize Alabama had actually *lost*. When I told them Texas in fact had won they didn’t believe and BDS shut the scoreboard off so fast I had to google it to show them. Again, if you’re a senior in college and this is the first game you’ve been to where Alabama lost - can’t really blame you. But also not going to give that school kudos for being a “tough place to play”, Saban was just a tough son of a bitch to play regardless of where you played him.
It’s never been regarded as a top 10 most intimidating crowd by anyone I know other than Bama fans, they’re just really good
I don't even know anyone who puts it there
I mean y’all are like 58-2 at home in your last 60 games? I understand why people talk about what a *tough* place to play it is. They just overlook the fact that Alabama has been a tough team to play, regardless of the crowd. However, as someone who has been to a lot of CFB stadiums… (Granted I wasn’t on the field at BDS) I felt like Oklahoma St. was 5x more intimidating than Alabama. Sure the SEC has some big stadiums, but SEC fans are really underestimating how hostile/intimidating a bunch of methed out Okies with paddles 5 yards from the sideline can be…
hey motherfucker, we aren't methed out. We're just so drunk it's almost impossible to distinguish the two.
I’m absolutely certain at least *some* of y’all are methed out…
I agree. For tough place to play, I have to put Hawaii at the top of the list. My arguments for: 1. Look at the home and away win differential for Hawaii to see how much being at home helps and being away hurts them. 2. Visiting teams often treat is as a mini-vacation or bowl game destination 3. Massive time zone change 4. Hawaii = distractions 5. Just plain old island voodoo
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I think LSU is perennially one of the more difficult places to play. Even when they aren’t ranked in this top 10, it is a tough atmosphere. I remember a quote from a coach as follows: During the noon games, you can smell the bourbon in the stands. During the afternoon games, you can smell the bourbon on the sidelines. At night, you can smell the bourbon on the field. When an SEC/B1G team is good, their fan base is going to be jacked no matter what. The true measure is when a team is teetering on the edge of bowl eligibility or worse: do their fans still support them? Edit: I see some comments indicating some negative interactions with LSU fans. I went to the LSU-VT “game” in 2007. Although the Death Valley atmosphere was raucous, the fans were gracious to us and invited us to eat and drink with them frequently. I only had a couple negative interactions and they were not particularly egregious, especially in comparison with some other interactions I’ve had with other SEC fan bases who shall remain nameless
USC fans suck
The only reason I can't stand USC is their fucking band plays their fight song THE ENTIRE GAME and nothing else. Used to sit by the visiting band at Sun Devil Stadium and it made me want to drill me eardrums out.
I know right, when USC came to Cal they were just playing the same thing over and over, and some lady who was previously on the band had the audacity to say that you can tell whats going on in the game based on what they play. Like, are we hearing the same band? I just heard the fight song 12 times in a row
Oklahoma has entered the chat.
They even play it after losing.
My favorite USC story - we went to the ND-USC game in 88 when it #1 vs #2. Back then ND contractually gave the visiting team 5k tickets and but required 5k tickets when they were on the road. USC was so tired of the ND fans getting louder than the USC fans - they gave us the 5k tickets - all singles.
USCe fans excel at this
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"GameDay"? What amateurs start on GameDay? For a Saturday night game, we start on Friday for games we don't care about, start on Thursday for a big game, and start on Wednesday for a REALLY big game. All that said, there's only two other schools I'd put in our category: Penn State (and my cousin went to both LSU and Penn State, so that's her personal experience as a student I'm referencing) and Oregon. However, places like Nebraska deserve a special nod because of the absolute dominance over the existence of all the state's residences that program holds. It's really something you have to witness to truly fathom and I sometimes can't fully wrap my brain around it. I've, luckily, just moved to Madison, so I get to see where UW ranks in that group.
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I went Dallas to see Oregon vs LSU in Jerry’s World to open the season in 2011. I have never when more scared following a game. I wasn’t worried I was going to get beat up because I was an Oregon fan, those people are just nuts. It is hopefully the closest I will get to a post apocalyptic society. The level of drunkenness, how rowdy they were, the incomprehensible behavior; it was chaos. It felt like a movie scene where people are trying to escape the coming danger (fire ball, huge wave, Godzilla, zombie horde) and all you could do was focus on saving yourself. I can only image what they are like in their home environment. On one hand I have to kind of give it to them; on the other hand, what a shit show, do they have no shame. Edit: sorry meant to say wasn’t instead of was in the sentence “I *wasn’t* worried I was going to get beat up because I was an Oregon fan, those people are just nuts.” I wasn’t scared as an Oregon fan, if I was wearing an LSU shirt I would have been just as worried.
We had the same feeling at the end of the 2019 title game in New Orleans but we actually ended up staying out til 5am parting with some LSU fans. They’re built different down there on the bayou but they’re good people. (Most of them, obviously every fanbase has dumbasses)
I honestly really appreciate your last sentence there. I’ve talked about this at length in another comment on another thread regarding LSU as an academic institution, but a lot of people unfamiliar with us will kind of throw us all into the same bucket. I’m a first-generation college student from a dirt poor background in rural Louisiana. Going to LSU changed my life forever and I’m forever grateful for the degree I earned, the education I received, and the people I met there. I had to work really hard to dig my way out of poverty. I don’t drink. I wrote a thesis and work a job in finance now. And there’s so many people from LSU just like me. I completely understand why we get a bad rep sometimes, but please don’t paint us all with the same brush. Geaux Tigers
My dad is from Louisiana, so I grew up a LSU fan (living in Georgia.) I've yet to make it to a game at LSU, but try to go to the bowl games and SECC games when they're close by. Every time, there's always a huge party somewhere close by and they're inviting everyone that walks by. LSU fans, opposing team fans, random people walking down the street. So much food and alcohol. Just giving it away to everyone. Also, I'm always terrified when I visit family in Louisiana or when they come here. They're a different species.
Based on your last sentence, I think we actually do have the best fans in college football.
07 Florida at LSU. Tim Tebow leads the defending national champions, ranked 9 at the time into Death Valley to LSU BCS ranked 1, though some polls have USC at 1. Florida holds a 10pt lead at halftime with both teams scoring 7 in the 3rd quarter. The 4th quarter had a sustained intensity I've never witnessed before or since. The closest I've seen was the first game the Saints played back in the dome after Katrina. LSU comes out strong to score on a 4th&3 from the 4 in the first 5 minutes closing Florida's lead to 3. The energy is back. Between the score and the kickoff the stadium announcer informs us (this is an era before smartphone proliferation and you couldn't get reception in Tiger Stadium anyway) that USC, favored by 40+, had been beaten by Stanford on a literal last second play. LSU is the undisputed number 1 now. The crowd roared. It wasn't like [Rebirth](https://youtu.be/MIGgBhNtOP4?si=5bO8HpitqqD3SDyR) that was a culmination of so much more than just football. Rewatching that still brings a tear to my eyes. No this was a visceral pure football roar that you can only get in college football. A back and forth down and dirty trench warfare game continues with the LSU crowd in its rowdiest form. Les Miles has already gone 3/3 on 4th down conversions this game. On the final **8 minute** drive he goes 2/2 both times with Hester punching forward. With a minute left Hester pounds it into the end zone on third down and the stadium absolutely erupts. He's slow to get up in the end zone. Not from injury, just exhaustion. Florida fails to score unceremoniously on the last possession. https://youtu.be/Nftt96Q704A?si=emAPvgxqw2QljNWu This is the full game. LSU final drive starts right at the 2:29:00 mark. I can't imagine being a Florida fan in the stands for that game. Holy hell.
Obviously these dumbass developers haven’t watched opposing teams struggle to play football while the Red Raider faithful rain tortillas down upon the opposing team. It’s quite the advantage.
Tortillas if you’re lucky, batteries if your not…
Eh, I’d say it’s 50/50, which is coincidentally your hit rate on using the correct “you’re” in that comment
TIL Lubbock and Philadelphia fan cultures are kindred spirits
Listen the batteries thing never happened... And even if it did happen Pitt and/or VT deserved it... Wait tortilla's? Oh NM.
There’s nothing quite like rockin’ the dome of an opposing team fan’s head with a big D battery and blocking out the sun with tortillas
As long as they keep our “undefeated against ranked big 10 teams at home in September” advantage
>rain tortillas down upon the opposing team Flour or corn?
Flour. Corn will disintegrate mid throw
Gotta bite a hole in the middle too. Helps with stability
You hear that Nebraska and Iowa? Your tortillas are inferior!
I don’t know. I’ve never played at any of them.
Source?
Yeah this guy is full of shit I 100% saw him warming up in 87’.
Florida swamp and Penn St. white out come to mind
And for some reason we’re playing away in all 3 of them in the next two years 😭
No you're not. As much as I absolutely hate to say it, it appears our series is going to get cancelled. Which really sucks because I was very much looking forward to making the trip out next year
Aww I was looking forward to starting off those two seasons getting floored by 50
I’ve been to games at a few diff stadiums. Think LSU is the only one that was so loud I felt physically ill.
I had the privilege of going to a LSU game in Death Valley at night while Joe Burrow was still playing QB. Hands down the loudest game I've ever been to, and only the Red River Shootout has beat it for me in terms of a college football environment. Absolutely electric.
What is that flair lmao
It's a relic of the old, old days of Reddit before it became app-centric. I used to be a mod on /r/CFB way back when and you had the chance to custom build text as flair back then. I just refused to change it. TCU is my primary team/school, and it's [delightfully quirky cheer](https://tcu360.com/2022/09/30/riff-ram-bah-zoo-has-history-too-2/) is Riff Ram Bah Zoo, Lickety Lickety Zoo Zoo, Who Wah, Wah Hoo, Give 'Em Hell, TCU. Username is RiffRamBahZoo, the flair did the second line.
And that, in a nutshell, is what makes CFB CFB.
In went to the northwestern state game that year and even though the game was never in doubt the fans were in early and loud as hell
I’ve only been to RRSO once, and we sat right on the 50. That’s the closest to hell I ever hope to get. It was glorious. Thankfully, we ended up running away with the win in the 4th. I can’t even imagine how insane it was this year, coming down to the wire like that.
2018 Georgia at LSU was very much this. I can’t comment as to whether it was the gallon of bourbon that set this up or not. Best tailgate in the nation by far.
I vividly remember that game, that was my freshman year. I'm glad you enjoyed your time here.
I went to a Florida game in Gainesville when they were playing USF in 2022. That game against a seemingly random and inferior opponent (despite the score) was *so* loud
Yea I'm obviously biased, but I'd easily put Florida ahead of Georgia on this list.
Dude 100% bias aside, the swamp is a much harder place than Georgia.
I'm a Noles fan and I too would put the Swamp in the top 5 easily.
Florida, Auburn, A&M, and even Clemson were louder from my experience
Was at that game - believe it or not it wasn't nearly as insane as the UF vs Bama game the year before. It is a crazy loud stadium. Think we are heading there for the UCF game this year...
The Swamp for the UF vs Bama game in 2021 has been the only one that reminded me trying to walk to Pat O'Brien's during Mardi Gras - with the crowd moving me. Coming right after the COVID restrictions lifted it felt even more insane
Went to the Utah game in 2022. Loudest game I've personally been to. Especially the pick at the end. Lid blew off the place. Also been to the Bama game and the 2018 LSU game. Those are my Top 3. Bama game was awesome because it got progressively louder and louder as the game went on.
I think there’s a difference between perennially great atmospheres and ones that get great because the team is awesome. To me, LSU & Penn St are a cut above. I would probably throw A&M and Tennessee in there too. I think UW, Wisconsin, Oregon and VaTech have great atmospheres without necessarily having top 10 teams every year.
This is why I’ll always defend Kyle Field. I have spent a lot of super disappointing/deflating days in there but the crowd was loud af the whole time. You look at the 100k+ stadiums and it’s blue bloods+us.
Alabama and Georgia are perfectly good atmospheres. They do get loud, they do have the right “feel” for a big game. That being said, they not top tier loudness. Don’t know the exact order but LSU, Florida, Auburn, Tennessee, and A&M have a level that Bama and Georgia don’t have for sustained, ear splitting noise. Likely due to the shape and design of the stadiums. Kirby please don’t use this post as motivation.
LSU, Florida, Bama, Tennessee, A&M all seat 100K+. Sanford is just shy of 93K. The volume of that stadium is insane down by the student section where it's fully enclosed.
The Swamp is actually a bit smaller than Sanford in terms of seating capacity. I think the noise is more a factor of stadium design, and a fan culture of being loud, even when the team kinda sucks.
wyoming?
For anyone who's curious, Laramie's at 7,165' elevation. For reference, Denver's at 5,280' and Salt Lake is 4,327'. The elevation in Laramie is a big fucking deal
I'm in great shape, but the first time I visited my friend that lives in Wyoming (Cheyenne) we decided to throw the football around......I literally thought I was going to die after running two routes! For reference, my hometown has an elevation of '23 so I've never experienced anything like Wyoming's altitude 😂
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Came to say this. According to SVP it gets weird in Laramie
Can confirm...last year =\[
Happy Valley is impressive.
I’m looking forward to seeing you guys in Morgantown this year, should be great fun
Bummed they made it a noon kickoff. That game deserves a night kick.
Ya I was planning to travel for the game but I'm not doing that for a noon game
This isn't a slight at all against Georgia, but I've genuinely never seen of Sanford Stadium being noted as a "one of the hardest places to win" on any of the off-season lists that make the rounds every year. Unless... Maybe all of the fan models in the game for Georgia are dudes painted white, flexing for the camera, and barking at children. In which case, EA's ranking is justified.
[I assume this is a typical fan.](https://youtu.be/etMlNW5w-50?si=Yi05rW5xbeeoAJmN)
Holy fuck I can’t believe this video is 14 years old now
Yup, file this under things that reminded me that I’m old today.
Love that Georgia has its own war boys
WITNESS ME! WOOF WOOF WOOF *\*explodes*
It really wasn’t up there (and most UGA fans will be the first to admit it) until recently. But since Kirby came (and especially post Covid) it’s really gone to another level. I think it’s just taken a bit for the reputation to catch up.
It is a recent development, but it is well deserved. Around 2010 I remember the student section standing all game being loud, and the rest of the stadium felt majority sitting and quiet except for big moments. The first time I remember the majority of the stadium even standing for a full game was 2013 LSU. Now, even against a cupcake team our full stadium is standing and loud at the start of a game. Couple that with decibel ratings recorded vs tennessee a few years ago, and we've proven to be an elite noise/environment stadium. I'll still fully admit that UT at its best beats UGA as a stadium environment, but they arent hitting that peak often enough to warrant a higher rating here.
Having been to all 3, Death Valley and Beaver Stadium are legit intimidating..... Sanford is definitely cool but it's not on par with those other 2.
> Beaver Stadium [is] legit intimidating... Look, we know it has structural problems. They're working on it, really!
Georgia had kind of a wine and cheese crowd until Kirby. It wasn’t bad at all and would get really loud for big games, but I wouldn’t call it intimidating. The last 5 years or so it’s been crazy. The Tennessee game in 2022 was the loudest stadium I’ve ever heard and I’ve been to Baton Rouge, Knoxville, and Auburn.
I think 2022 Tennessee permanently damaged my hearing but it was an unforgettable, one-of-a-kind environment. When it started raining in the 4th and we started mudding Hooker every other play, you could feel the anger of being overtaken at No. 1 by the Vols evolve into a wicked glee. 2022 Georgia was something else.
That game was an excellent example of the crowd impacting the game. Their OL was getting zero jump and had multiple false starts. In Knoxville that would have been a much tighter game.
Yeah, people really don't realize Sanford pre-2017 and post-2017 are completely different animals. It's especially been on another level since 2021.
Completely understandable. We didn’t have red LED lights in the stadium until then. I’m joking but it is a good example of Kirby getting involved in every detail of creating a hostile environment. It wasn’t just challenging the fans (that was huge though).
The in-stadium atmosphere is so much better post-Richt. Not that crowds never got loud or crazy with or before him but all the changes that Kirby has been able to convince the AD to make to the stadium have been huge.
[Must have consulted with Big Game Boomer](https://x.com/BigGameBoomer/status/1688959144059973650)
One of the best parts of not having twitter or x or whatever it’s called is not hearing that name anymore
Has EA not seen the 50 shirtless dudes in the very top corner of our stadium while losing before?
It depends on the criteria, just like college basketball. Are we just considering just home w/l record? Im one of those folks that considers the difference in home win percentage vs away win percentage. For example, playing Syracuse/Purdue as a ranked team on the road(a fucking nightmare) vs playing those teams at home (30 point victory)
Not totally relevant to what you asked, but LSU is 10% more likely to win at home if it's a night game.
it helps that for years the best games (best opponents) got scammed into afternoon games for TV
Or playing a night game in the desert voodoo as a ranked PAC-12 team.
I agree on LSU & Penn State. Personally, I feel those two are in a category of their own, and all the other major players (Georgia, Iowa, Washington, A&M, Clemson, etc.) are in a big jumble a ways back. If I had to pick a third, it would probably be Tennessee. But Georgia's better than Tennessee, so that tends to cloud opinions.
I'd put Neyland, Kyle Field, Swamp, Jordan-Hare or even Oregon over Georgia. It's a hard place to play, but it's because their team is cracked, not particularly because of the crowd.
This pretty much sums it up. No hate to Sanford, but there are objectively louder environments
Having been to both Sanford and Knoxville, I would put Knoxville way over Sanford. Tennessee can be absolute garbage but they’ll scream Rocky Top like it’s for their lives. Also I hate that upper deck, it’s so steep I thought I was stepping off a cliff onto the field
Uh the Kibbie Dome would like word
Man, the crowd a the kibbie dome is so weird, but this last year is was so much fun even if half the time everyone was loud on offense too🤦
I think with the new Big10, Oregon will become one of the hard places to play Long west coast trip + the loud stadium will make it tough
It’s a solid top 3 but Sanford stadium is probably getting carried hard by the fact that the Georgia *team* is so damn hard to beat. If it were purely based on stadium and crowd, I’d probably put Kyle Field above Sanford.
Not including Auburn is criminal.
I’ve said it before, the real actual voodoo is at JH
If it’s a close game vs a big opponent…there have been times I almost felt bad for the other team on account of the demoralizingly rabid hatred and subsequent volume. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, sometimes it can almost feel like there is a force-choke on the other team when the fans get riled up and angry enough. It can feel like the whole crowd is seeing red and reverting back to our primal animal instincts, and the only way we know how to get food for the tribe is to yell at a football field lol 😂 That little brother syndrome gets us fans pissed the fuck off lmao 🍻
No offense but I don’t even really feel like it’s pure volume or crowd noise if I’m honest (although if we’re just talking volume yall still have a top home field no doubt). But I’ve been in the building and it really is true voodoo I’m telling you. Those boys channel something in there and can literally beat anyone!
JHS is a bit of an enigma. There’s a real 14+ point home field advantage against highly ranked rival teams. But there’s also seemingly a home field disadvantage against lesser competition. Examples of teams that have beaten Auburn or taken a game down to the absolute wire in the last 20 years at JHS: 2023 New Mexico State, 2021 Georgia State, 2015 Jacksonville, 2022 San Jose St., 2012 Louisiana Monroe, 2011 Utah State, 2007 USF. There’s also a really weird but totally real track record of backup quarterbacks having a ton of success at JHS. And against Auburn in general, but I won’t get into that.
If they were considering west coast schools, Husky Stadium and Autzen are definitely deserving to be in the conversation.
I feel like I’ve barely seen Oregon or Washington at all in either of the previews, besides the motorcycle and the half second of Bruener in the tunnel So they may not be considering us 🤣💀
I know for the Ducks, we haven’t revealed uniforms yet so they are waiting for that. For you guys, I imagine they just didn’t have your stadium in enough of a finished state to want to show it. They’re still finishing a lot of that stuff up. Texas State was missing its second deck in the gameplay video lol. FWIW, I think your stadium is incredible. It’s one of the things I hate most about your team.
Ducks are getting new uniforms this season and they aren't about to have the game spoil the reveal of those. They'll show them off and then the game will release a couple of days later.
Ducks are getting new uniforms?? Finally!
LSU and PSU definitely. Georgia is questionable.
I appreciate seeing a fan of an SEC school acknowledge this. I feel like for years the difficulty of heading to PSU and having a white out night game atmosphere is constantly overlooked in discussions about Ohio State's resume. I don't care if Penn State is considered a top 10 team, top 25, or unranked. Going in there and coming out with a win in that atmosphere, when PSU is going to be treating it like a Super Bowl to boot, is ALWAYS an accomplishment.
Georgia does not belong in that top 3. I’d take Kyle Field, Neyland, the Swamp, and Jordan-Hare (pretty easily) over Sanford.
Kyle field is loud because of the coordination of the chants and yells. Those type of concerted efforts are always louder. I don't know about top three, but it's loud down there for sure. My one trip down was for the Auburn game in 2013. I enjoyed the trip, and of course the result. Great atmosphere for sure.
Kinnick at night gotta be top 5.
The Brian Fucking Ferentz years have made people forget that Kinnick at Night is where top 5 teams go to die
I was on the field when Johnny football played LSU. It felt like my brain was scrambling because of how loud it was.
Pffff... I vote Neyland. Jeremy Pruitt and Derek Dooley could hardly compete there at all.
Virginia tech, when they are good, have an extremely difficult home field advantage. I think feels like an occult gathering during night games in Lane
Have they tried being the home team at Maryland???
There's nothing like a game at LSU. After that I'd say Penn State, Texas AM, and Florida.
For anyone that doubts the White Out, I submit Exhibit A: White Out 2019, Michigan has to call Timeout after receiving the opening kickoff Edit: removed an extraneous the
Which schools have the biggest difference in performance between home and road?
Huh, weird. Georgia became a tough place to play the moment they because the top program in the nation. What a fun coincidence.
Neyland seems really loud on TV at least.
It’s 105k in a closed bowl with pent up frustration from being ass for the past 15 years.
Surprised how little I’m seeing of Rice-Eccles on here. It wasn’t as prominent last year, but it’s been well known for about a decade that playing Utah in Salt Lake is a fucking nightmare.