re: Underrated "loudest game in TS" pick: 2000 Mississippi State

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2007 Florida was incredibly loud the whole game.

The crowd noise was cranked up to 11 when they announced #1 USC losing as both LSU and Florida fans went nuts.

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From a "pre-game until the final play" loud, this one remains tough to beat. And even more emphasized by how it would get inexplicably louder during the big plays - the noise never really died down. I couldn't hear my own voice, typically, unless we were on offense, timeout, quarter breaks and even then the buzz was something else. It started out well before the game - outside - that's as lively as I've ever seen the campus before a game. The most people ever lined up to see the Tiger walk and band go in and the only time I've been at a game where I felt my eyeballs vibrate from the noise for more than a second or two (sure, at the end of "Bring Back the Magic" - that game ended on a particularly dramatic play - a couple of seconds it felt like my insides were shaking) - I mean for 15 or 20 second bursts on those 4th downs and the Hester TD.


But then came that moment when the USC score was announced. As I described above, the stadium had been pretty much as loud as you can imagine and for several minutes at a time, and a very loud background buzz the entire game up to that point. But that announcement - the crowd collectively - I describe like this - it was not that it was even collectively possible for us to make that noise - it was like we invoked it from a nether plane of existence. Words fail me in describing, so that's the best I can do. Unearthly.