I know this may sound a little biased coming from a Tennessee fan, but you can’t tell me Neyland isn’t way louder than auburn, Ohio state, or even Bama when it’s rocking. It’s been a while but I’ve been to lots of SEC stadiums and Neyland is ridiculously loud.
@@Cse0008 and I never hear anyone talking about the noise coming from auburn, Ohio state, etc. does that mean they’re not loud? Neyland is one of the loudest stadiums in the country, can’t argue against that.
@@tylerfredericksen6111 yeah... and that’s why I commented saying that you can’t tell me Neyland isn’t louder than the vast majority of those. Of course Bama players aren’t going to think Neyland is that loud, it’s been a drubbing for the better part of 2 decades. That goes for most players. When Tennessee is good it blows places like auburn, Ohio state, etc. out of the water. At the very least top 10 in terms of noise
@@sylvain3633 spelling errors should upset you. Also, Oregon and the rest of the Pacific NW need to get their crap together. Thank goodness I don’t live anywhere near there.
I’ve been to big games at LSU, Bama, Auburn, Georgia, Florida, A&M, Ole Miss, MS State, and Tennessee. All were great, but LSU gets violently loud compared to the rest. Night games there start right when the whole crowd is entering into a solid buzz from drinking all day. Sat down low behind the team benches and it is deafening at field level.
@@hiitsmorgan5431 when I went to LSU I was new to SEC football and I QUICKLY began to hate MS for those damn cowbells, they are a menace to society lol
I’ll preface this with my dad and I have been to over 35 different college football stadiums. We were at LSU in 2003 when Florida came there (3:30 game). For whatever reason the place was absolutely insane. I’ll never forget it. They actually lost but the crowd was nuts. Wildest tailgating we’ve ever seen. Skyler Green, with their only td, had a punt return into the student section and the place seemed like it was going to explode. Loudest stadium we’ve experienced, by far.
Ive been on the field in Death Valley and you couldn’t hear another man if he was yelling in your ear. Your sense of hearing literally doesn’t work when the crowd is fired up.
I saw Saqoun Barkley play at IOWA in 2017. The crowd was absolutely nuts. So loud and intense I’ll never forget it. We still won on a last last second TD
A&M fan here. Was at the utsa game last year. It got so loud couldn't hear my brother who was sitting right next to me and we were playing utsa. A essentially D-II school.
Gotta love kinnick getting some love. I don't think we're particularly nasty fans, but I've been to plenty of home games and seen plenty of top dogs fall to the hawks. The atmosphere is so amazing, and the fans are pretty damn close to the field.
Abe Lincoln: My parents would disagree but every fanbase has at least some jerks. Iowa definitely has to be up there although they aren't consistent. They have beaten quite a few top teams and had really close losses other times to top teams, but then they've had some games where they lose to a North Dakota State or Northwestern. Not trash talking but just feels like they don't always have a strong home field edge except in big games.
I grew up a Penn State fan and I hated to watch them play Iowa especially at Iowa. For awhile there you guys had our number even when PSU was highly ranked and Iowa was unranked. Iowa definitely has an underrated crowd in my opinion.
@@williamdesmet2942 Both teams have tremendous defenses that can pretty much stack up to any team in the country, but both teams offenses seemed to stutter. With that said, assuming Sean Clifford didn't leave due to injury, I think Penn State would've won. Now obviously that didn't happen, and it's obvious now that Penn State's chances of reaching the B1G championship game hang on whether Clifford can come back soon; if he can they have a chance to run the table, especially if their defenders that have also been lost to injury return in a timely manner as well. Iowa has one hell of a team, but I don't think that a #2 ranking is justifiable: they're easily a top ten team, but they barely beat a PSU team that has been banged up to say the least and that has been struggling to run the ball. On the other hand, I don't even know if PSU should be ranked as high as they are. Being banged up is one thing, but you need to have players that can show up when their number's called and I don't think they're there yet.
I know we suck right now but when FSU is good and Doak Campbell is packed, that place can be tough for opposing teams to play at. I’d also definitely say that Carter-Finley is a house of horrors. Neyland Stadium is also rowdy as well. If Tennessee ever returns back to form, that place will be absolutely horrid to play in.
I’m not trying to be biased here, but Clemson’s stadium noise is insane. We played Auburn a few years ago at home, and there were several Auburn fans around us. They all said it was the loudest stadium they had ever been to. When we played Louisville in 2016, before every Louisville play, the crowd noise got up to 105db. Clemson held the record for the loudest stadium for almost a decade without the stadium being sonically engineered to do so. Also, the cause of the crowd noise violation penalty in the 1980s was Clemson.
it's hard to come off as neutral because you don't know how bias you are until you type it out but death valley does get rowdy and loud as hell. kids have to plug their ears before the game starts. and if there's a false start on the first play the db level goes up immensely
I’m surprised no one said The Swamp. Built in a sinkhole in a literal swamp, largest capacity in Florida, loudest in the state, and highest humidity levels in the country.
@@jbrudert even gator players have water cooled padding. 95-100 degree with 85% humidity opening season games in the direct sun of the student section are real fun
There is no place in this country, especially at night, more humid and muggy than Death Valley and Tiger Stadium at LSU, Period! I'm from Florida. Our whole family is UF fans. Games at the swamp are so fun. I used to save all my tickets as a kid. I stopped the year I went to college, but I must've had 40+ tickets up on my board display back in 2007.. But I actually went to school @ LSU! It was decent, not great actually... and I certainly wouldn't recommend attending LSU if you're not from Louisiana. Football games I really enjoyed. I CAN CONFIRM there is nothing like that humidity anywhere in the country! Yeah the swamp is humid, but not on a South Louisiana level. Its a different animal there. For example: I had my tie bleed its purple and gold color into my white dress shirt every single home game @ LSU as a freshman in the stands at Tiger Stadium. My extreme sweat would make the tie's color run. After a while I was consciously trying not to stop sweating. I could actually take my tie off and still have an outline of a full tie on my white shirt. After every home game, I had to buy a new dress shirt. I also went through four different ties that season. we had to wear a shirt and tie for Fraternity freshman crap. I was constantly drenched in sweat.. I was not out of shape, nor overweight. I remember nights on campus @ LSU walking to the library with friends and sweating so badly while thinking to myself " What in the hell kind of sauna am I in here?..."😂 My friends were from New Orleans. They would be sweating also but were used to it. Now FL is humid yes. South Ga is Extremely humid, but none of them compare to the miserable sweaty, muggy air in Baton Rouge and New Orleans.. My gosh am I glad I'm out of that horrid sticky air in Baton Rouge! Good Riddance! it's unlike any other humidity I've ever felt it's just so extreme
When University if Tennessee was still good, Knoxville Tennessee at night in a rivarly game was the loudest period. The swamp and LSU are really good too.
Penn State white out by far. There are usually 3+ false starts by the visiting team until they get used to the sound. I've seen a team even use a timeout to try to disrupt the crowd noise.
As a Georgia fan, half the reason we beat Norte dame last year is because we were so fucking loud you couldn’t hear your own voice screaming it was just deafening loud.
I was at Arkansas when we went to Florida in 2004 and it was loud, but it was the early game so it wasn’t anything near the other late games around the SEC. Vandy was the quietest of course.
@@codyhughes148 Early games (noon) in Gainesville are not much fun. I hated going so early and now that I live away from Florida I hate watching them at noon. It just sucks. 3:30 CBS games were always awesome but if we get a night game it's insane.
I would have to imagine K-State would be hard to play at only 50,000 but you have their student section right over top of the opposite sideline. In 2014 Auburn players told Tyler Lockett how the K-State fans were just crazy.
my dad has worked in the athletic department at LSU Virginia tech and texas a&m and i can confirm that the environment at virginia tech isn’t half as loud or fun as it is at LSU
I don’t think any of them played at Penn State. The one guy who said Penn State only played at Penn State once and it was probably his freshman or sophomore year and still picked Penn State.
Went to see my cousin play a game at Iowa. It hits you once you start looking around and seeing 100,000 fans you realize man This is Iowa. Loudest place I ever heard in my life
ive been to most stadiums during big games and i can confidently say the Penn State white outs are 1 and LSU night game 2.. Ohio state and the Swamp in gainesville right up there too..
Ik we talking about current teams, but FSU in the early 2010's was absolutely ludicrous. You can hear that stadium from the other side of Tallahassee. And don't even get me started on the war chant
@@audellaroque4730 its been nearly a decade since then it is no longer relevant specially to this video dont know why they(the person you responded to) brought it up lol
mike leach said this year when they played lsu if he stood on the hash line and yelled as loud as he could his qb still wouldnt be able to hear him and that was with 25,000 fans.
camp Randall is underrated for sure just bc the big ten has so many good historic ones. it’s not better than the Big House Kinnick or happy valley. i got it 4th w the horseshoe as a close 5th
Clemson v. Louisville was the loudest game I’ve ever heard at Clemson. I was on the sideline and was screaming in the ear of the person beside me and still couldn’t hear.
I would usually be biased and pick my Oregon Ducks at Autzen Stadium (do not call it the house of loud), but I would probably say Beaver Stadium for Penn State
As a Penn State fan I appreciate it I think last year our white out game was like 110,000 people but I guess size isn’t everything when it comes to an environment but I would pick Penn State to have a top five hardest places to play.
Love Sanford stadium but on field level it’s not too loud because the fans are pretty far from the field compared to other stadiums like tiger stadium in Baton Rouge
Texas A&M - the crowds are respectful but the 12th man, were insanely loud. I’m a Baylor fan and you need ear plugs when you play at Kyle Field - The largest football stadium in the state of Texas.
I couldn’t hear out of my right ear in 2014 when LSU scored a last minute TD against #3 Ole Miss in Death Valley. Truly amazing experience, but not so much for my right ear.
Carter Finley on the black out in 2017 against Louisville. 24. Vs. 17. Upset win over the cardinals. That was the loudest I ever heard Carter-Finley Stadium.
Take the crowd out of the game early at MSU and it's no problem. We played there in 2006 (WVU) and we pounded them early and by the middle of the 3rd quarter the stadium was about half full. The final was 42-14, The worst parts of that trip was landing at that Golden Triangle Airport in the middle of cotton fields. We never saw the airport coming in and it made some nervous as it appeared we were going down in a field. Also, I had the flu and felt like death that weekend.
I was an Athletic Trainer for 6 years with 3 SEC schools before I moved into the Florida Public School System. So I’ve been to every SEC stadium except Missouri and Vanderbilt. And I have to say that LSU Tiger Stadium is by far the craziest place I’d ever been too. And I fought in Desert Storm. You have to experience it at least once in your lifetime.
Crazy how very few mentioned Clemson, it’s an incredibly hard place to play at yes my choice would be Kyle Field given how many people are there but Clemson is definitely not an easy place if you are a visiting team
Neyland Stadium set the world record for loudness at 118 decibels this year during the ole miss game. Look up what Ty darlington and baker mayfield and Brady Quinn said about playing at neyland stadium. Ty Darling wrote a article about it at Oklahoma.
Without a doubt it's (Death Valley) Tiger Stadium LSU. Clemson first laid claim to the Death Valley name until LSU beat them in the 1959 Sugar Bowl and won the National Championship that year. LSU staked it's claim to the name by saying Death Valley is where opposing teams go to die. The noise is deafening and the atmosphere is absolutely oppressive to the opposing teams. The fans are relentless and when the team takes the field it is almost other worldly. Florida and Texas A+M are noy exactly a picnic either.
So, there is an objective way to measure this. You measure the impact the stadium has on the teams actual performance. Your first thought would be to measure the difference in the winning percentage between the team when it's at home versus when it's on the road, but this underestimates the impact of home field advantage for programs like Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio State that win most of their games. (If you do measure it this way, the major programs with the biggest home field advantage are Air Force and Army, which shouldn't actually come as a big surprise if you think about it.) Alabama for example only does 6% better at home than away, but that's because it wins most of its games either way. However, what you can do is rate the teams performance against the spread. That is to say, does the team do better or worse than expected when playing at home versus playing away. That way, you are compensating for the fact that the good programs tend to win whether they are at home or away. And if you do that, the major program with the best performance against the spread at home is the Arkansas Razorbacks. So for my money, the best homefield advantage in football is Fayetteville, with those rowdy fans calling the hogs. However, either way you measure it, by far the biggest home field advantage in the country is in the SEC. The SEC has a 22% gap in winning percentage between home and away. Kentucky, Auburn and Tennesssee are actually up there with Army and Air Force in terms of the biggest change in winning percentage between playing at home and away. And The Swamp and Death Valley are legendarily hard places to go and play, and rest of the league is like a murderers row impending disaster for any team wanting a title playing on the road.
The Swamp is not that good. Holy crap. And your metric doesn't take into account that outside of a few non-conference rivals, SEC teams almost never play good OOC teams at home. Ole Miss played Central Arkansas, Troy, and Tulsa at home OOC this year. Alabama played Utah State, ULM, and Austin Peay OOC at home. Rarely is any SEC team going to schedule home games against tough OOC opponents. They're neutral site games now more often than not. The spread is less valid than a weather forecast. It's simply a prediction. Covering the spread means nothing other than you outperformed what most bettors and oddsmakers predicted. Fayetteville couldn't save Arkansas from Liberty this year. I'm curious where you're getting your data and what years you're using.
From what my relatives tell me, who're alumni, it doesn't have the same juice as it did say 10 years ago. To this generation of player it might not be the same
Tennessee? 102,000 people singing rocky top at once is pretty damn near hard to ignore. It’s not even their fight song, they just love them some rocky top.
I’ve been on memorial stadium turf (in Nebraska) in the middle of the summer and it gets about 15 degrees hotter down there. Also, Memorial stadium has a ton of sellouts
UW Camp Randal, that Jump Around the stadium and ground shakes and then the Mascot is taunting you doing the pushups one for each point scored that a person does at every game they use the Mascot including Basketball and Hockey.
