Kyle Field is not an intimidating place to play

There was a time.

I know. I was there.

1985 Texas game.

Did we Fran up again?

Auburn took the crowd out early. Their freshman QB didn’t do anything special. Gus asks very very little of him.

Hasn't been since the 90s, honestly.

Truth hurts. We have not protected our house.

Chin up and a stiff upper lip Boys. He is retiring with 75 million . More than he had before. The what has he done without Mr. Crab legs is valid. And warranted.

It will be interesting to see how good they turn out to be.

CFB live Kyle field discussion

Bumping this to the top as this has made the rounds the last couple of days on the other sites but I haven’t seen any discussion here.

To me it reinforces my initial thoughts but curious to see if any of y’all can defend it and provide a reason why I or any of the CFB hosts are wrong. Or if they are right, what can we do to fix it???

Losing doesn't mean it's not a tough play to play. The team not being good enough is the cause of that.

Franchione was awful. Sherman wasn't much better. Sumlin teams were seemingly better on the road for whatever reason.

The crowd is loud and rowdy when we play well. It tappers off when we stink. It's like that everywhere. There isn't a single stadium in the country that is "intimidating" when your team is losing all the time. Not one. Tennessee's stadium doesn't scare anyone right now but if they ever got rolling again it would. Jordan Hare was quiet as a mouse in 2012 when they were getting rocked all over the field. Was anyone scared to go play at LSU when they bottomed out in the 90s? What about Alabama under Mike DuBose?

I know y'all get mad at my Jimbo L train but I'll give the man credit on the fact that last year he was 3-1 vs P5 schools at home. We had a 2 point loss to Clemson who won the title, a 14 point win over Ole Miss the week after a devastating loss to Auburn, an OT win against a then undefeated Kentucky who won 10 games and ended up #12 in the rankings, and an OT win over LSU that also won 10 games and finished at #6. The loss vs Auburn this year sucked but that was the offense playing horrible and not b/c they wrecked our defense.

Also, you have to remember, in the SWC the only schools we played with a stadium anywhere near the size of Kyle who also had the ability to fill the stands were Texas and Arkansas. Once we got the Big 12 our opponents stadiums were bigger overall but for the most part topped out around 50-60k. Now we are in the SEC where only Vandy is below 60k and only 4 other schools are below 70k.

It's not that so much that Kyle isn't as loud or is less intimidating than it used to be. It's that everyone we play already goes to massive stadiums for all their conference games and are used to loud arse crowds in big arse stadiums.

My senior year was the last time A&M went undefeated at home.

That season included a stretch in which the Aggies went 10 straight quarters without scoring an offensive touchdown, going 2-1 in those games.