Some BCS facts for your SEC friends

[Wingate1217]

The article was not talking about the most intimidating places to play, but the scariest (i.e. taking into account the quality of the home team). By the way Cal came in #10 in the poll, but look at the nugent regarding oregon's stadium.....

At #10-Cal, Memorial Stadium
Autzen Stadium is probably noisier than Cal's Memorial Stadium, but there is a little magic to this quirky place.

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Yawn.

[Wingate1217]

Talks about home field advantage......

Top Ten College Home Fields : Fanblogs College Football Blog


Home field advantage: some teams have it, some teams don't. When Oklahoma at Baylor, there's more red in the stands than green. On the other hand, few visiting teams survive a trip to LSU, Ohio State and Oregon - often because of the advantage home teams can have with their fans.
Rivals.com has a run down of the teams with the biggest home field advantage:

1) Lane Stadium (Virginia Tech)
2) LSU
3) Ohio State
4) Florida
5) Penn State
6) Oregon
7) Texas A&M
8) Wisconsin
9) Florida State
10) Auburn

[Lockup]

Originally Posted by Wingate1217

Talks about home field advantage......

Top Ten College Home Fields : Fanblogs College Football Blog


Home field advantage: some teams have it, some teams don't. When Oklahoma at Baylor, there's more red in the stands than green. On the other hand, few visiting teams survive a trip to LSU, Ohio State and Oregon - often because of the advantage home teams can have with their fans.
Rivals.com has a run down of the teams with the biggest home field advantage:

1) Lane Stadium (Virginia Tech)
2) LSU
3) Ohio State
4) Florida
5) Penn State
6) Oregon
7) Texas A&M
8) Wisconsin
9) Florida State
10) Auburn

I wish when they did these they would include Home records say for the last 20-30 years. Lane Stadium maybe load but at 66,000 I find it hard to believe it is that hard to play in. Wonder what their home record is.

[Wingate1217]

Originally Posted by Lockup

I wish when they did these they would include Home records say for the last 20-30 years. Lane Stadium maybe load but at 66,000 I find it hard to believe it is that hard to play in. Wonder what their home record is.

They are 46-9 since 2000......

[JohnLSU]

Originally Posted by Wingate1217

Talks about home field advantage......

Top Ten College Home Fields : Fanblogs College Football Blog


Home field advantage: some teams have it, some teams don't. When Oklahoma at Baylor, there's more red in the stands than green. On the other hand, few visiting teams survive a trip to LSU, Ohio State and Oregon - often because of the advantage home teams can have with their fans.
Rivals.com has a run down of the teams with the biggest home field advantage:

1) Lane Stadium (Virginia Tech)
2) LSU
3) Ohio State
4) Florida
5) Penn State
6) Oregon
7) Texas A&M
8) Wisconsin
9) Florida State
10) Auburn

Wow! Ohio Stadium made two lists!!! That's awesome! Seriously, you guys should remember to remind SEC people about that. I've read this list before, as well as the list I posted above and many other lists of most intimidating stadiums. I didn't remember Ohio Stadium being on any of them, apparently I was wrong. From what I've seen most Buckeyes even admit that Penn State has the most intimidating stadium in the Big Ten. Right?

Also, that Rivals list right there is just trying to be original by creating a list with VT as #1. Seriously, do you think 66,000 fans at Lane Stadium can do better than 92,000 fans in Tiger Stadium? Even the article admits that the only reason VT did better than LSU is because one of the criteria for their ranking was "How hard is it for opponents to infiltrate your stadium in mass?" Since Baton Rouge, LA has a large airport less than 10 minutes away from Tiger Stadium, and since our SEC opponents have fans that travel well, that allowed VT to jump LSU. As the article talks about with VT's "isolation factor" -- "With the nearest major airport nearly 45 minutes away, opponents' fans are never out in force at Lane Stadium." You also have to consider that ACC fans are known for not traveling well. Look at the aerial shots of recent ACC Championship games and you will see the stadium is not even half full. The reason Boston College got stuck playing Michigan State this year is because they got rejected by the Peach and Gator Bowls because their fans are so bad at traveling.

[Lockup]

Originally Posted by Wingate1217

They are 46-9 since 2000......

Cool got the home records for all thoe listed?

[JohnLSU]

Here's another list. But to be fair, the list is by a random sports fan, not a professional journalist:

No Place Like Home: The 10 Toughest Venues in the World

1) La Bombonera (Estadio Alberto J. Armando) (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

2) Ali Sami Yen Stadium (Istanbul, Turkey)

3) Tiger Stadium (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)

4) Eden Gardens (Bengal, Kolkata, India)

5) Estadio do Maracana (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

6) Centenario Stadium (Montevideo, Uruguay)

7) Maksimir Stadium (Zagreb, Croatia)

8) Ibrox Stadium (Glasgow, Scotland)

9) Lambeau Field (Green Bay, Wisconsin)

10) Yankee Stadium (New York, New York)

No Place Like Home: The 10 Toughest Venues in the World - Bleacher Report

[MajesticTurkey]

Originally Posted by Lockup

Cool got the home records for all thoe listed?

Since 2000 (I did just the # of home losses)

1. VT - 9
2. LSU - 7
3. OSU - 7
4. Florida - 8
5. Penn State - 14
6. Oregon - 12
7. A&M - 17
8. Wisconsin - 14 (Bulemia has yet to lose at home)
9. FSU - 11
10. Auburn - 10

I'm doing some number crunching to figure out what % of each team's losses are at home.

[LSUTyga73]

Virginia Tech does get pretty loud for only 66,000. They are one of more intimidating stadiums in the ACC.
BTW LSU is 49-7 at home since 2000 as well. 19-2 at home under Les Miles, One loss in 1OT and the other in 3OT.

[MajesticTurkey]

The following are bowl exclusive for this current season (data from cfbdatawarehouse.com):

Auburn - 37%
FSU - 33%
Wisconsin - 42%
Texas A&M - 45%
Oregon - 38%
Penn State - 33%
Florida - 30%
Ohio State - 37%
LSU - 32%
VT - 38%

Some of my observations - Nick Saban and Barry Alvarez weren't very good at home compared to their successors. Tressel, however, is fairly outstanding (14 losses, 4 at home). Penn State's infamous "Jeckyll and Hyde" syndrome playing home and away is very evident, and really is skewed by a couple early-decade lousy teams. Texas A&M's 12th Man needs to get benched, apparently, because there is almost no home field advantage (10% difference between home and away losses, compared to Florida's 40%). The Swamp is in my mind the toughest place to play, and with only 30% of Florida's losses - including the Zook years - coming at home, that's evident. Zook at Illinois, half his losses are at home...so take that into consideration.

[JohnLSU]

Originally Posted by BengalsAndBucks

Most other conferences talk about the SEC because all we ever hear about is how great the SEC is. ... you rarely hear [other] conferences continuously having their greatness shouted from the mountaintops.

Sure, that's true, but there is nothing stopping you from being an SEC fan. In fact, many Buckeyes here love watching SEC football. Basically, it's like Notre Dame. Traditionally, they are the greatest football program in the universe -- and there have been many times in history where all you hear about is how great Notre Dame is. That's why a lot of people hate ND. But at the same time, that's also why ND has one of the largest fans bases in the U.S.

[JohnLSU]

Originally Posted by MajesticTurkey

The following are bowl exclusive for this current season (data from cfbdatawarehouse.com):

Auburn - 37%
FSU - 33%
Wisconsin - 42%
Texas A&M - 45%
Oregon - 38%
Penn State - 33%
Florida - 30%
Ohio State - 37%
LSU - 32%
VT - 38%

Some of my observations - Nick Saban and Barry Alvarez weren't very good at home compared to their successors. Tressel, however, is fairly outstanding (14 losses, 4 at home). Penn State's infamous "Jeckyll and Hyde" syndrome playing home and away is very evident, and really is skewed by a couple early-decade lousy teams. Texas A&M's 12th Man needs to get benched, apparently, because there is almost no home field advantage (10% difference between home and away losses, compared to Florida's 40%). The Swamp is in my mind the toughest place to play, and with only 30% of Florida's losses - including the Zook years - coming at home, that's evident. Zook at Illinois, half his losses are at home...so take that into consideration.

You should check out Tennessee. Their home field advantage would be very interesting to look at. I'm more afraid of playing at Tennessee than I am at Florida.

[t_BuckeyeScott]

Originally Posted by JohnLSU

Sure, that's true, but there is nothing stopping you from being an SEC fan. In fact, many Buckeyes here love watching SEC football. Basically, it's like Notre Dame. Traditionally, they are the greatest football program in the universe -- and there have been many times in history where all you hear about is how great Notre Dame is. That's why a lot of people hate ND. But at the same time, that's also why ND has one of the largest fans bases in the U.S.

ah but Notre Dame has sucked for like 15 years now, Notre Dame fans still dangle from Chuckie's pickle after a 3 - 9 season.

[JohnLSU]

Originally Posted by MajesticTurkey

The following are bowl exclusive for this current season (data from cfbdatawarehouse.com):

Auburn - 37%
FSU - 33%
Wisconsin - 42%
Texas A&M - 45%
Oregon - 38%
Penn State - 33%
Florida - 30%
Ohio State - 37%
LSU - 32%
VT - 38%

Some of my observations - Nick Saban and Barry Alvarez weren't very good at home compared to their successors. Tressel, however, is fairly outstanding (14 losses, 4 at home). Penn State's infamous "Jeckyll and Hyde" syndrome playing home and away is very evident, and really is skewed by a couple early-decade lousy teams. Texas A&M's 12th Man needs to get benched, apparently, because there is almost no home field advantage (10% difference between home and away losses, compared to Florida's 40%). The Swamp is in my mind the toughest place to play, and with only 30% of Florida's losses - including the Zook years - coming at home, that's evident. Zook at Illinois, half his losses are at home...so take that into consideration.

This statement confused me:

"The following are bowl exclusive for this current season."

So those percentages are the home winning percentages of those teams from 2000 to today, right? But shouldn't it alway be exclusive of bowls? I'm not sure why you said it was bowl exclusive for just this current season.