Mississippi State’s Davis Wade Stadium is far from the largest stadium in college football, but what it lacks in overall capacity, it makes up for in atmosphere.
Bulldogs fans know how to get loud, especially when they’re taking advantage of their trademark cowbells, and it can make things very difficult for an opponent.
[autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag], who will be making his first trip to Starkville as LSU’s coach this weekend, joked that the team has “all our managers working on a cowbell” during the SEC Coaches Teleconference on Wednesday.
Kelly went on to elaborate how the team is preparing for a potentially noisy environment, even for a morning kick. The team has used cowbells at practice, and Kelly said the Tigers could look to implement silent counts and other workarounds.
“If you get used to it during the week of practice, it then becomes your job to make sure that they’re not as active in the game by playing well,” Kelly said, per On3. “So, certainly, early in the game we expect a really enthusiastic crowd. And it’ll be up to our play to manage that. But, again, I think you have to prepare for the eventuality of silent counts and things of that nature. But now, it’s the first time that I’ve gone into an environment with the cowbell.
“We had them out at practice yesterday and they are — they create a different environment, that is certain.”
LSU will hope to control the game early and take the crowd out of it when the Tigers open SEC play against the Bulldogs on Saturday at 11 a.m. CT.
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