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re: EA Sports College Football 26 Toughest Places to Play

Posted on 6/24/25 at 3:31 pm to gamecockman12

Posted by lewis and herschel

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Posted on 6/24/25 at 3:31 pm to gamecockman12

Georgia for the UT game in Sanford hit 135 dbs and TN false started 6-7 times ..... Could not even operate their offense.

Sanford may not always be loud but when it needs to, it can break teams.

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Posted by SummerOfGeorge

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Posted on 6/24/25 at 3:32 pm to GamecockUltimate

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but is that because of the crowd noise or your talent level? I think there needs to be a separation there.

It's one of the 20 or so toughest places to play in college football in a big game because it's big and gets pretty loud.

What effect does that truly have on a game? Who knows really. There have certainly been times in big games where it was clearly difficult for the opponent to audible or get calls in, but was it a cauldron of noise for 4 hours like some places? Probably not (for a bunch of reasons noted above).

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Posted by SidewalkTiger

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Posted on 6/24/25 at 3:32 pm to SummerOfGeorge

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Tiger Stadium has started trending the same way post-Miles.

Orgeron struggled a bit at home for some reason, 7 of his 20 losses were at home.

So far, 2 of Kelly's 11 losses have been at home, so he's been a bit better.

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Posted by 3down10

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Posted on 6/24/25 at 3:33 pm to RollTide1987

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The same is true for virtually every football team in every home stadium in the country. The mystique of the Swamp was created in the 90s when Steve Spurrier and the Florida Gators were the class of the conference. Tiger Stadium was not that daunting of a place to play for teams in the 90s because LSU sucked, but it's definitely been a graveyard for a lot of teams over the last 25 years. Auburn, when you discount the Iron Bowl, hasn't been that difficult of a place to come out of with a win either over the last 10 years or so.

I don't doubt that hype happens, and all home game records are padded with rent-a-wins.

But if you want to accurately rate a stadiums effect, you have to remove other factors. In particular, team strength. So it's not about how good or bad Auburn or Alabama is, it's about how they perform at home, vs how they perform elsewhere. If you have a homefield advantage, it should show in those records.

Even in the math I did, it still showed a slight Alabama homefield advantage. Just not a large one.

I'm not doing the math for other teams, they lose too much and it would take too long.

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Posted by SummerOfGeorge

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Posted on 6/24/25 at 3:34 pm to SidewalkTiger

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Orgeron struggled a bit at home for some reason, 7 of his 20 losses were at home.

So far, 2 of Kelly's 11 losses have been at home, so he's been a bit better.

Honestly - they out to send questionaries out and get current/former coaches/assistants/players to rank how hard different stadiums made their jobs and piece together something with that. A huge sample - 500+ responses, even if it was segregated by conference or something.

Alabama has traditionally won in Baton Rouge a whole helluvalot. On the flip side, every Alabama player or coach since Bryant would immediately tell you it is damn hard to play a huge night game against LSU in Baton Rouge and that the environment makes performing at a high level hard. How does all of that mesh together? I have no idea

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Posted by Tornado Alley

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Posted on 6/24/25 at 3:38 pm to gamecockman12

Not-SEC related, but Carter Finley (NC State) at #22 just seems thrown in there.

They put Carter Finley in over Nebraska (Memorial Stadium), Notre Dame Stadium, DW Reynolds Razorback Stadium (Arkansas), Lane Stadium (Virginia Tech), LaVell Edwards Stadium (BYU), Mountaineer Stadium (West Virginia), etc.

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Posted by paperwasp

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Posted on 6/24/25 at 3:38 pm to TT9

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Not for us

Alabama is 30–10 against LSU in Tiger Stadium.

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Posted by Errerrerrwere

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Posted on 6/24/25 at 3:39 pm to 3down10

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3down10

In a thread about how great LSU is.

Water is wet.

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Posted by SidewalkTiger

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Posted on 6/24/25 at 3:39 pm to SummerOfGeorge

It's very odd in our series how it is almost better to be the visitor

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Posted by RollTide1987

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Posted on 6/24/25 at 3:40 pm to 3down10

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If you have a homefield advantage, it should show in those records.

I personally think homefield advantage is a myth for the most part. A good team will beat a bad team nine times out of 10 no matter where the game is played. And it also comes down to who you play in those home games versus who you play in away games so you can't look at just how a team does at home versus how they do away. Like Williams-Brice Stadium can seem like a nightmare to teams when you look at their record in a given year, but when you look at their schedule they may have played the likes of Vanderbilt, Kentucky, and Mississippi State at home while they played teams such as Tennessee and Georgia on the road.

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Posted by SummerOfGeorge

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Posted on 6/24/25 at 3:41 pm to Tornado Alley

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They put Carter Finley in over Nebraska (Memorial Stadium), Notre Dame Stadium, DW Reynolds Razorback Stadium (Arkansas), Lane Stadium (Virginia Tech), LaVell Edwards Stadium (BYU), Mountaineer Stadium (West Virginia), etc.

There was a period in the 1990s and early 2000s where Carter Finley was always identified as like the "stadium you don't know about that is really hard to play in". Kind of similar to Miss St, really.

I do remember people saying that it is definitely rowdier and more "SEC like" than Chapel Hill, UVA, Wake, Duke, etc..........but that's a pretty low bar to surpass.

I did just notice that Lane Stadium isn't on there. Again, they've stunk recently, but if we are puttting Michigan State and Iowa on there I think we can fit VT on the list.

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Posted by SidewalkTiger

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Posted on 6/24/25 at 3:43 pm to RollTide1987

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I personally think homefield advantage is a myth for the most part.

Now that's definitely a take.

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Posted by 3down10

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Posted on 6/24/25 at 3:45 pm to Errerrerrwere

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In a thread about how great LSU is.

Water is wet.
>

Your lack of self awareness here is quite amazing.

In a thread about college football stadiums, you want to focus on me. And I haven't even really said anything about LSU in this thread, I only talked Alabama being over-ranked.

I musta fricked you hard, and I don't even remember when.

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Posted by RollTide1987

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Posted on 6/24/25 at 3:48 pm to SidewalkTiger

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Now that's definitely a take.

When Auburn is good, Jordan-Hare is a difficult place to win at; When Tennessee is good, so too is Neyland Stadium. At the end of the day, the strength of a team more or less determines the strength of homefield advantage.

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Posted by Errerrerrwere

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Posted on 6/24/25 at 3:49 pm to 3down10

Got this sister fricker unhinged

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I musta fricked you hard, and I don't even remember when

Nm he gay af

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Posted by samson73103

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Posted on 6/24/25 at 4:08 pm to gamecockman12

Auburn is way too low. Easily Top 10 if not Top 5. Tiger Stadium is tough for everyone but Bama. They should probably pay property taxes there since they own the place

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Posted by Garl

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Posted on 6/24/25 at 4:10 pm to gamecockman12

They may not have just based it on last year alone, OP. That's a thought that occurred to me.

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Posted by borotiger

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Posted on 6/24/25 at 4:14 pm to RollTide1987

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Auburn, when you discount the Iron Bowl, hasn't been that difficult of a place to come out of with a win either over the last 10 years or so.

True, but you're missing his point. If almost 50% of your losses, regardless of the number of losses, is at home, that says there is no significant home field advantage.

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Posted by Knowshon5Dolla

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Posted on 6/24/25 at 4:16 pm to gamecockman12

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It's not a tough place to play.

It is for South Carolina. Georgia is 32-9 against USC in Athens.

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Posted by Arksulli

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Posted on 6/24/25 at 4:19 pm to gamecockman12

Little Rock has to be number one. Not because of the Central Arkansas fans, they'll attack you outside the stadium not in it, but because the field exists only to destroy football player's health. It is a malevolent entity, somehow conscious despite being astroturf and concrete, that lurks... waiting for Arkansas to drift away from the friendly confines of the Ozarks to prey upon its victims.

It has even become more devious as it has grown older and more potent. Now constant stadium clock malfunctions leave everyone in a state of stupor. Time and space mean nothing within the stadium. All that matters is the grim toll it takes on both teams.

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