College football possesses by far the most raucous crowds in mainstream American sports. The largest stadiums in the United States are all college football stadiums. When drunk college students, alumni and other loud fans pack these venues, they create deafening forms of entertainment that cannot be duplicated.
In the craziest college football environments, the stadium is ROCKING from the second the players come out. The noise levels can far exceed 100 decibels. To put that in perspective, any sound above 70 decibels can damage hearing over time.
At the loudest parts of the game, players often cannot hear anything. This causes false starts, delay of game penalties and timeouts that would otherwise not be called. The deafening crowd has such a big impact on games that EA Sports applies a “stadium pulse” feature in its college football game to simulate the effects.
Of course, fanbases across the country can make the opposing team’s life ******* . But these five stand out when it comes to stressing out opposing players:
Tennessee’s Neyland Stadium has produced the loudest college football moment on record to date. During the Vols’ loss to the Georgia Bulldogs on November 18, 2023, the crowd got to 137 decibels.