Re: Further proof we are the REAL DEATH VALLEY

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Oct 12, 2022, 12:52 PM

Actual SEC stadium is experience for a great deal of them is kinda meh. I can speak from experience. I saw ECU @ Florida in 2015. The Swamp is overrated. They had entire sections still empty and their students didn't participate in any of their chants or gameday traditions. As the resident Gator in our group said, "We suck and the team we're playing sucks" neither of which turned out to be true. ECU kept the game close until the end, and Florida ended up in the SEC Championship. It was Will Grier's coming out party, as he was put in and won the game for UF. Still a disappointing and underwhelming game day experience, for a primetime matchup.

You have a lot of "wine and cheese" crowd types at SEC schools - Ole Miss @ the Grove, Alabama, Georgia, and Vandy come to mind. They're actually relatively quiet as stadiums and student sections go, save for a select couple of games like the Katy Perry one @ Ole Miss in 2014. The rest are kinda meh - Missouri is alright if they're playing well, but they're the literal middle of BF nowhere. A&M too. I've heard LSU is fun and deserves to be up there, so no issues with them being in the top. I've heard Auburn can be fun, but the last time we played there (2016), they did that BS orange game to disguise how many Clemson fans traveled there. My mom's told my horror stories about Starkville (although I do want to face a Mike Leach-coached team sometime in my lifetime), and Kentucky is a basketball school. I've been to SCar and the old garbage dump isn't that great, either. W-B definitely hit its peak in 2012 in the game against Georgia. They haven't been back to that level since.

The biggest shocker for me is how everyone has said Alabama has kind of a disappointment. It's not as loud as it should be, and everyone has said the students are so used to winning that they don't get as much into the games anymore because they expect to win most, if not all, games at home. Everyone I've talked to says Auburn is more fun on Gameday than Alabama. If I had to rank them based on my own experience and those whose opinions I value, I'd say it goes:

1. LSU
2. Auburn
3. Ole Miss
4. Tennessee
5. Georgia

It's a pretty big fall off after those, and even then I'd say LSU is leagues ahead of the rest.

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Auburn in 2011 had to come close, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXPoe0jmWho - field level when Sensabaugh picked off Auburn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vuehz0UxB0 - TV Broadcast

The loudest single moment I've ever been witness to was that, and the 2015 Notre Dame hurricane game.

https://youtu.be/FIrpS94viiM?t=131

Brian Kelly crapping his pants when he came out of the tunnel to see a packed stadium is one of my favorite moments as a Clemson fan. ND had no idea what they were in for. I remember that game being incredibly loud - not sure if the rain had an amplifying effect or something. But that was insane.

I wasn't at the 2016 Louisville game which I've heard most say is up there for some of the loudest, too.

Further proof we are the REAL DEATH VALLEY