re: What’s the loudest you’ve heard Death Valley?

1979 USC for sure.

most underrated noise game in tiger stadium is 2012 south carolina.

we were just coming off the ugly 14-6 loss at florida, and their d-line was ridiculously talented and intimidating. you could tell the crowd knew the team needed everything they had that night. the thing that made the crowd so great that night is that it wasn't a nervous crowd like it was for the 2012 bama game. the crowd believed we were going to win from the opening kick, despite the fact that a lot of people were unsure of that fact before the game started.

USC

2008 when we blocked Bamas field goal.

2007 Florida

2014 Yeldon fumble

2012 Mettenburger to Landry

Wild card: 2011 Arkansas at the beginning of the game. Crowd was defining on that 1st drive.

'97 UF. Ears rang for the entire next day. Never had that happen before or after.

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LSU vs Auburn 1995

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That is my pick, because I wasn’t at the others. There was a timeout before the last play, which was the INT to seal the win. It just ratcheted up to a fever pitch. There was 6+ years of frustration poured into that moment. I remember me and others in the drumline pounding our instruments in the mahem after the last play before we had to start playing. It was really fricking loud. I’m sure there have been louder moments, but that one sticks out for me.

The other one is a game no one remembers and for good reason. It was the Bama game in 1996. It was GameDay’s first trip to BR. It was to decide the West. LSU has the better team. All they had to do was go out and prove it.

I was not a section leader, but I was a senior and one of the section leaders let me count off the drumline to start pregame. Because of how big the game was, the house was packed and it got really loud before I started counting off. If you ever watch the drumline right before Pregame starts, you can see them all moving in time before the first note. There’s a reason for that, even for a normal game. You can’t hear yourself think down there. It’s hard to describe. You can literally FEEL the sound down on the field. I yelled “1, 2, 3, 4” louder than I ever have created sound from my mouth in my life and the guys on either side of me never heard it. That gave me a new appreciation for what QBs have to go through on the field. It’s an experience I’ll never forget.

If only the game lived up to that. An opening drive TD called back. A missed FG. Herb Tyler gets hurt. Damn. What could have been. I’m still glad I got to count off Pregame that one time, though.

2011 tyrann Matthieu punt return against arky hands down. I was there for most of the others listed as well. LINK

I was also 12 at the time and my brother 9. I’ll never forget the madness in the stadium and out, or the look my mother gave my father before saying absolutely not when my brother and I pleaded with him to let us run onto the field. We were already at the fence and my dad looked back at her with a smirk before the three of us jumped to the dismay of my mother

Notre Dame 1971

95 Auburn game
97 UF
2012 Bama game