Legendary CBS Sports announcer Verne Lundquist to this day says it is the loudest he has ever heard a stadium during a broadcast. The season saw Tiger Stadium play host to its first Monday night game as LSU dropped an overtime thriller to Tennessee after the game was postponed two days due to Hurricane Rita. Part of the lore of Tiger Stadium is the tradition of playing games at night, an idea that was introduced in against Spring Hill a LSU victory.
Since that first night game in , LSU has played the majority of its games at night and the Tigers have fared much better under the lights than during the day. Since , LSU is It has caused coaches to lose their coaching minds.
It only happens at a special space at a special time. The Tigers have drawn 28,, fans since LSU passed the 25,,mark in all-time attendance in Tiger Stadium first opened its gates to fans in the fall of as LSU hosted Tulane in the season finale.
Tiger Stadium tradition and lore has seen its share of national publicity as one of the most talked about venues in all of sports. Those surveys supported the previous polls by Gannett News Service in , The Sporting News in and the College Football Association in , that depict Tiger Stadium as the most difficult place for a visiting team to play. There are very few stadiums in America worth a touchdown, but the Bayou Bengals certainly have that advantage in Tiger Stadium.
When Death Valley is rocking, it seems as if it might actually take flight. That same year, the Associated Press named Tiger Stadium as the top place to tailgate in college football. LSU rallied from deficits of at halftime and with three minutes left in the contest to capture the electrifying win.
The Tigers closed out the home slate with a win over Arkansas before what was then the second-largest crowd in school history 92, After the contest, thousands of Tiger fans spilled onto the stadium floor to celebrate the victory.
The Auburn game was traditionally played earlier in the season, but the attacks of September 11 postponed the contest until the final week of the regular season. In , the goal posts came down twice. Immediately after the Tigers upset then-No. Hundreds of students lined the sidelines and the back of the north end zone as the Tigers held the Vols scoreless in overtime for the victory.
The goal posts came down again in the final home game of the season as the Tigers posted a win over Alabama, their first victory over the Crimson Tide in Tiger Stadium since The goal posts fell for the first time in as all of America witnessed one of the most explosive nights in the history of the grand stadium when the Tigers upended No.
A sea of Tiger fans swamped the floor of Tiger Stadium as both goal posts came crashing down — a scene that was replayed countless times on college football highlight shows. Then there was the night the Tigers nearly upset No. The Tigers came up short, but the crowd roared from kickoff to final gun in a game many ardent LSU followers rank as the loudest in stadium history.
And, of course, there was Halloween night , when Billy Cannon made his famous yard punt return to lead No. Legend has it that families living near the campus lakes came running out of their homes in fear of the noise erupting around them. Those are the highlights, some of which have shaped the character of this great stadium.
But week in and week out each fall, a new chapter unfolds in the history of Death Valley. Renovations and expansions have brought the stadium's current seating capacity to 92,, making it the ninth-largest stadium in the NCAA today.
When filled to capacity, Tiger Stadium ranks as the sixth largest "city" by population in the state of Louisiana. Fans also commonly taunt opposing players and fans by yelling "Tiger bait!
Ohio Stadium Ohio St. University in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio Stadium also provided a home to the Columbus Crew of the MLS from the league's inception in until soccer-specific Columbus Crew stadium opened in With a capacity of ,, it is fourth-largest stadium in the NCAA and the seventh-largest non-racing stadium in the world.
Ohio Stadium is also a concert venue. The stadium does not have field lights. When night events do occur, special lighting must be temporarily installed, usually by Musco Lighting as in the game against Texas and the nationally televised game with Michigan.
The stadium opened in , and was originally named Denny Stadium, in honor of former Alabama president George Hutchenson Denny. It is the second largest stadium in the SEC, the fifth-largest stadium in the nation and the eighth-largest non-racing stadium by seating in the world. Since the football season, the university has sold out every game played at the stadium. Beaver Stadium Penn St.
The stadium is named for James A. Beaver Stadium has an official seating capacity of ,, making it currently the second-largest stadium in the Western Hemisphere and the fourth-largest in the world.
Beaver Stadium is widely known as one of the toughest venues for opposing teams in collegiate athletics. However, like in our other events, we really needed to do a better job on minimizing our mistakes. We made a lot of big numbers this weekend and over the course of the fall season. The team and I are going to use this as great motivation as we work in the winter and get a game plan together for the spring season. We are going to work our butts off.
There is no better way to get motivated then to come away with that bitter feeling after the way some things went this fall. I know they are ready to work hard and they have a lot of potential. We are just excited to get to work. On the closing tournament play of Grace Choi and her fall season She is really starting to feel comfortable.
It's great for her to start feeling that and great for us as well. As a freshman making that transition she is starting to feel more comfortable with her golf game, golf swing, living in Ann Arbor and being a student at Michigan.
It was a great way for her to finish the fall. On getting ready for the winter training program There have been four of them that have shot some really good rounds for us.
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