Current Toughest Places to Play: NCAA Night Games
As #1 Ohio State travels to Beaver Stadium Saturday night to face PSU and #2 Boston College travels to Lane Stadium to met VaTech on Thursday Night, we'll take a look the current most difficult places to play at night.
1. LSU - Tiger Stadium, last night game attendance: 92,630
The Tigers have already beat Virginia Tech, Florida, South Carolina, & Aurburn this year in night games at Tiger Stadium, not to mention 18 straight home wins the most in the country.
#2 PSU - Beaver Stadium, last night game attendance: 110,078
Famous for it's White Outs
#3 Rugters - Rutgers Stadium, last night game attendance: 44,267
R.I.P. South Florida 2007, Loiusville 2006, their road to a BCS title game ended in the New Jersey moonlight.
#4 Virginia Tech - Lane Stadium, last night game attendance: 66,233
Tech, always seems to win the big game at night here, plus they have an 8 game home streak.
#5 Wisconsin - Camp Randall, last night game attendance: 82,630
Sorry Florida, you might be #6, but as of now, UW has 12 straight at home.
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You forgot the Swamp.
Where only Gators - and Auburn - get out alive.
What about the Swamp, Autzen, Neyland -- I'd even throw Bronco Stadium in there. This list seems to be "venues where teams have won night games in 2007," more than anything.
the orange bowl at night is right up there with them. its a shame they have decided to make almost every game this year there for noon
the orange bowl at night is up there with any stadium. it's just a shame that almost every game there this year was at noon in the heat and the empty seats
And LSU...
Current = If you were a top team right now, where wouldn't you want to play today, plus you have to host night games, some schools don't have night games very often.
South Carolina did not play in Tiger Stadium at night.
Any Big 10 stadium is a joke.
Neyland is extremely difficult at night.
Autzen is extremely difficult at any time.
Lane Stadium at night is legit.
South Florida belongs no where near this list. Neither does Miami.
The OB at night is unlike anywhere else (except for maybe LSU). I've been to Lane Stadium at night, and while its loud... the Orange Bowl at night just feels haunted.
Miami's record at nite in the Orange Bowl is probably better than any other team's over the past 20-25 years.
Anon...or obvious SEC fan
"Any Big10 Stadium is a Joke"
On behalf of fans in Madison, State College, and Columbus, we would love to see an SEC team come up to our "joke" stadiums and try and come out alive..let alone with a win...
However, it is obvious that any SEC team thinks that Kentucky is north enough..or dont even leave Florida for an OOC game...sissies.
We'll even let you come in September to give you a fighting chance...Ask Pac-10 fans how easy it is to win in Big10 stadiums (Hint: It doesnt happen often)
Im a huge buckeye fan and though i hate to say it, Penn State is incredibly loud and scary. It is scarier than any big 12 school! I dont believe any of your stadiums hold 110,000! Yea thats what i thought. Heck even Ohio Stadium is louder than any big 12 school.
If you think any Big Ten stadium at night is a joke, you must be one of those SEC artards who think they don't play football anywhere else but Dixie.
Beaver Stadium is ridiculous. The crowd for the OSU/PSU game in 2005 was unbelievable. I don't think I've ever seen a crowd to match it before or since. Even the announcers seemed amazed by it.
when was the last time the Mountaineers lost a home night game? are you kidding me? Mountaineer Field needs to be on this list
How could you not put West Virginia on this list?
I figured the Big 10 would of learned it's lesson in Arizona, there is nothing like SEC football. The tradition, passion, and the fans all help add to the already dominant SEC, Virginia Tech-LSU? Ohio State-Florida? The only reason there is not an SEC team in the national championship every year is because their conference schedule is stacked with solid teams week after week. They aren't highlighted with the one year wonder that all other conferences put up every year. Rutgers? South Florida? Any Pac-10, Big 12 10 or East team outside of USC, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Louisville, and Texas? Basically if you have any common sense you would realize how your conference really has no chance to ever compete with the SEC on a regular basis.
I don't buy into Rutgers being on this list. They lost to Cincinnati this year at night.
whoever said any b10 stadium is a joke...you've gotta be kidding and have no idea what you are talking about. Ohio State 105000-110000, PSU same thing, Michigan same thing, and I hear Wisconsin is pretty insane also. If your SEC schools DARE to come up to a b10 school at night, good luck...that is all I am going to say. Ask Texas, oh yea the national champs from a couple years ago, how hard it is to go to Columbus for a night game...they couldnt hear and had a TON of false starts trying to use a silent count. I was at the game, and I hear PSU maybe even worse when it comes to night games. Bring LSU, Florida, Auburn whoever...it wont matter! Come to our places, I Dare You!
The only reason the Orange Bowl is scary at night is because everyone's afraid something's going to fall on their head or they're going to get mugged on their way to the car.
A half-empty rusted shell of a stadium scares no one, particularly when the stadium announcer plays the opposition's "fire-up" song right before they take the field.
I don't see any of the big time teams running to play Boise St. on the blue turf.
Big bad bullies from the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 10 never step near the place.
Beaver Stadium is one of the toughest places to play. How many other stadiums are trying to play songs less and less because the students are breaking the bleachers? The Horseshoe, Autzen, Neyland, Tiger Stadium, Camp Randal
Ask Pac-10 fans how easy it is to win in Big10 stadiums (Hint: It doesnt happen often)
You're right..Oregon really struggled at Michigan this year................
Toughest places I've been for night games are #1 Miami, #2 Swamp. Jordan Hare is ear numbing also, but I have to imagine that Va. Tech is tough too, or it could just be that they always win on that night and it just sounds loud. I'm thinking BC will beat them tonight though.
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