re: top 5 loudest stadiums in the sec?

sorry i have a life, i can't sit around and rack up my post total.

Death Valley is one loud arse stadium

Only way to quite that place is a good hard dose of Darren McFadden, Felix Jones, and Peyton Hillis.

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BTW, Bama's will be loudest next year with the stadium being enclosed and 101,000 fans

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Have they begun that construction? Will it really be done for next year? If so, holy shite....that is awesome. BD has come a LONG way - good looking stadium now.

In terms of the original question, I am an Auburn alum, yet grew up with season tix going to every LSU game in TS, and go back every 2 years for the AU game. In my opinion, Tiger Stadium is the benchmark for loudness and energy. The students, the band, the other fans....just the best. I love Jordan Hare.....and it has gotten nuts there at many big games. But more often than not I look around at JH games and find that the student section is not as wild, and the rest of the fans include a lot of older people who sit a lot.

Just an observation. I know when Byrd caught that fricking ball 2 years ago, the stadium shook. I was at the Eddie Fuller game in 88 as well and it had nothing on the Byrd catch.

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Have they begun that construction? Will it really be done for next year? If so, holy shite....that is awesome. BD has come a LONG way - good looking stadium now.

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Yes they've begun it and are have made some pretty decent progress. Kinda sucks this year because the Jumbotron from that end is gone, but it is going to be badass next season. It will be done in time, and the endzone under construction will look just like the opposite one does now. Second game next year is Penn St, and then the first SEC game with over 101,000 is against Florida. Going to be tight. As for the loudest stadiums:

1. Florida
2. LSU
3. Auburn
4. Alabama
5. Tennessee

tiger stadium (07 vs. UF was ridiculous, as are other big games.
UF-definitely a loud place.
BDS-loud but didn't impress me.
VHS-2003, i was probably louder than anyone they had.
neyland-very unimpressed. was in the end zone seats for the game in 2006 between LSU-UT, both top 10 teams, didn't find it loud at all.


These are the only stadiums i've been to.

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5. georgia. had to put them here.

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I was at the UGA game in Athens last time we played there and it was loud...don't know if it's the same as Tiger Stadium or the Swamp.

I'd but Death Valley and The Swamp on top

then Auburn and UGA next

then Bama and Tennessee after that.

The rest are all the same...

Tiger Stadium Oct 10, 2009 is the loudest

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The stadium is a fricking dump, but War Memorial in Little Rock can get loud. Miracle on Markham was probably as loud as I've ever heard a stadium get, and I've been to all SEC venue as well as ND,Mich,Blohio St, Texas, etc etc. It doesn't stay at that level the entire game of course, but when those fans erupted it was LOUD. RRS on the other had is probably one of the 3 quietest stadiums in the conference. Not only are most of the fans not loud, they don't even understand the correct times to get loud. Can't tell you how many times the place has erupted when our own offense is trying to convert a 3rd down meanwhile you can almost hear the opposing team's QB audibling from the stands. Have no idea what that's about.

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Can we keep the GSD on our on message boards. There isn't a fan in the conference that would rather trade RRS for WMS as their home stadium. It is a shite hole full of people that are trashed drunk and loud because they only go to one good game a year. They can also be quiet as hell when behind. Notice the Alabama fan up top that said that he wished all the blue hairs would get the hell out of the stadium? RRS isn't the only one with them, they are even at WMS.

Every LSU fan on this boards wishes we would move their game to RRS, and not because they would have less of a home field advantage but so they can see our real stadium not the "away game" for both sides we play now.

I have only been to JHS, BD, and War Memorial. None were especially loud. To be fair, UW in Seattle was louder than all of them. FWIW, they were ALL "big" games too except the UW one. I sure would like to hit up the swamp though.

I have been to several, but I think a lot of this is relative to how good the team is and how big the game is. For instance, I recall seeing Tiger Stadium on tv and the cameras shaking from the noise, but my only trip there, this past season, it was loud in spells, but I would put JHS ahead of it.

Another relative point is the time of day of the game. Extra hours for fans to drink themselves silly seems to lend a few extra decibels. The original blackout game against Auburn was ridiculously loud for UGA (loudest I have ever heard, but once you get to a deafening level, hard to really tell the difference), but I wouldnt consider that to be the norm. I would need to go see these teams multiple times before really being able to make a ruling.