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Clemson Football: Will the Boo Birds return to Death Valley?

Death Valley needs to see some consistency from it’s Clemson Tigers or the Boo Birds will fly.

The season’s first two weeks haven’t been pleasant for the Clemson Tigers.

Before they got things together in the second half, Clemson was in a little dogfight with the mid-tier FCS program, Charleston Southern. The Tigers held a slight seven-point lead. At one point, the Buccaneers held a 14-7 lead after Cade Klubnik threw a pick-six. And that’s when the boo birds started flying.

Klubnik and the rest of the Tigers were not startled; instead, it woke them up.

“I had to come back and refocus,” Klubnik said after the game. “I had a decision to make. I can chin it and keep rolling and play like me, or let the external factors, the fans, and what people are saying come to my soul.”

The 66-17 win silenced the fans in the stadium, but have they been silenced for good? Clemson’s offense has shown us three different sides.

Against Duke, we saw terrible playcalling and an unpreparred passing game.

In the first half against Charleston Southern, they were a turnover machine, and they were an unstoppable force in the second half.

That type of inconsistency is what makes the boo birds fly.

It’s the third week of the season, and whether or not Garrett Riley has figured out how to make this offense run smoothly is still in question. Florida Atlantic isn’t the team that will determine that, but the Tigers proved last game that fans in Death Valley can not take these games for granted.

What needs to happen is Klubnik and the Tigers need to have a clean game, and the amount of points scored doesn’t matter.

Dropping 66 points doesn’t show that this offense is ready to take on the country’s best. Clemson has to build trust on the offensive side of the ball and trust in the stands.

Ranking the 14 best gameday environments in the SEC

Ranking the SEC schools based on the best game day experiences.

The SEC is home to some of the coolest game day traditions and toughest environments in all of college football. Whether you find yourself in Death Valley for a night game or at the Grove trying to pass the hours, traditions run deep in the south. I would recommend any person reading this article to go to an SEC game, even if you’re not a fan of any of the schools, but to just soak up the experience as each place has something very unique about it.

The things that make this conference so great are the vast differences in experiences that you will have at each respective University. The conference plays host to some of the most amazing game-day experiences in all of college football.

The list I have comprised includes everything from the tailgating scene to the actual environment of the game, but with nothing to do with the quality of teams. Below, Roll Tide Wire ranks the 14 best game-day environments in the SEC:

Death Valley National Park cleans up illegal cannabis grow site

Jail Canyon has reopened to visitors.

When most people visit a national park, they expect to enjoy a day of hiking and sightseeing. One thing the average visitor doesn’t anticipate seeing is a secret cannabis grow site. Nevertheless, this is exactly what Death Valley National Park rangers found in Jail Canyon. Here are the details on what happened and how the National Park Service (NPS) cleaned up the area.

Death Valley National Park announced the grow site discovery on April 30, 2021. The find was reported after a fly-over of Jail Canyon. Located to the west of the Panamint Mountains, Jail Canyon is a little-visited part of Death Valley National Park.

Aerial view of a cannabis grow site in a canyon.
An aerial photo of part of the grow site. / Photo via the NPS

In addition to identifying cannabis plants in the region, rangers also reported trash, damage to the landscape, and hazardous chemicals such as carbofuran. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), carbofuran can cause blurred vision, abdominal cramps, convulsions, and several other symptoms in humans. The chemical can also affect wildlife.

“We are deeply saddened and concerned with the damage that these illegal activities cause,” Barbara Durham, Traditional Historic Preservation Officer for the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, said in a Death Valley National Park news release. “The natural and cultural resources in these areas are irreplaceable and invaluable, damaging them for profit shows incredible disrespect to our homeland.”

On May 16, 2023, a follow-up news release shared that a team had finished cleaning up the Jail Canyon grow site. This team included park rangers, American Conservation Experience members, and the California Air National Guard.

The clean-up removed 10,000 plants and 35 cubic yards of trash from the area. According to the NPS, the plants removed from the site had an estimated sale value of over $7 million.

In response to this incident, the NPS has increased surveillance throughout the park. Park visitors are encouraged to report unusual sightings to the NPS via visitor centers or the NPS tip line at 888-653-0009.

Death Valley, where opponents’ dreams come to die

Tiger Stadium is truly one of the most feared venues in all of college football.

Tiger Stadium is one of the most intimidating venues in college football. As former coach Ed Orgeron stated, “Death Valley is where opponents’ dreams come to die.” What is it about Saturday nights in Death Valley that strikes fear into the heart of opponents?

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It’s the History

Since LSU started playing in Tiger Stadium in 1924, the Tigers have an overall record of 433-153-18. Since 2003, LSU is 117-20 when they play at home. (including perfect home records in ’04, ’06, ’10, ’11, ’13, and ’19). Think of the great names that have come through the program over the years, [autotag]Joe Burrow[/autotag], [autotag]Patrick Peterson[/autotag], [autotag]Tyrann Mathieu[/autotag], [autotag]Leonard Fournette[/autotag], [autotag]Justin Jefferson[/autotag], [autotag]Ja’Marr Chase[/autotag] — the list goes on and on. When you step foot into Tiger Stadium, you know that you are stepping onto hallowed ground.

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It’s the Fans and the Band

It’s the 102,000+ people that pack out the stands no matter if the game kicks off at 11 a.m. or 7 p.m. Tiger fans are the best fans in college football. They show up early and tailgate for hours. They stay until the clock hits triple zeros in the fourth quarter and long after the game is over. If your team has a tough night in Baton Rouge, The Golden Band from Tigerland will let you know about it. Let the band play “Neck” as your team walks off the field with their heads hung low.

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IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT IN DEATH VALLEY!

It is a pantheon of concrete and steel. It is a city that rises defiantly in the delta alongside the father of waters. It is the humidity of Autumn evenings that drapes stately oaks and broad magnolias. It is haunted and it is loud. It is Halloween night and cannon blasts. It is a Louisiana gumbo of humanity that cheers its Tigers to victory and destroys the dreams of invading foes. The chance of rain is…never. It is the cathedral of college football and worship happens here. When the sun finds its home in the western sky, it is a field of glory, for sure. But much more than that, it is a sacred place. And it is Saturday Night in DEATH VALLEY. – Dan Borne

There is no better place to be in the world on a Saturday night in the fall. When the sun sets in the western sky and the lights shine the brightest, something magical happens. Is it cajun voodoo? Is it black magic? No, it’s LSU football, and it’s here to stay.

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Must-see sights on a road trip through Death Valley

Live it up in Death Valley.

Death Valley in eastern California holds records for being the lowest place in North America and the hottest place on earth. In July 2018, the national park reached highs of 127 degrees Fahrenheit four days in a row. So why would anybody visit such a hellish place? Despite its ominous name, Death Valley is full of beautiful landscapes, history, and fun things to do outdoors. But we recommend going in winter when the average temperatures are in the 60s and 70s with a low of around 40 degrees. Here are a few of the places you might want to stop on a Death Valley road trip.

5 reasons Clemson gets the win over Louisville

5 reasons why the Tigers should handle business against Louisville.

Dabo Swinney and the Clemson are back home this Saturday as the Tigers take on Malik Cunningham and the Louisville Cardinals.

The No.10 Tigers are coming off a rough road performance against Notre Dame and will look to bounce back at home this weekend. With the team struggling in their last two games, Swinney and the team will look to put together their first complete performance of the season against Louisville.

Louisville may have starter their season off slow, but Cunningham and the Cardinals have recovered nicely. It should be a great game in Death Valley this Saturday.

Here are five reasons why Clemson will walk away with a home win against Louisville:

 

Two moments in LSU’s win over Alabama registered on a seismograph

Death Valley shook on Saturday night.

Death Valley is known as one of the loudest venues in all of college football. And at the end of Saturday night’s upset win over the Crimson Tide, the valley shook.

Two moments during the game registered a 133-decibel reading that was picked up by a nearby seismograph in LSU’s geology department: First, when Jayden Daniels scored a 25-yard rushing touchdown on the Tigers’ first offensive play in overtime, and again three minutes later when LSU successfully went for two and the win following that score.

It was a chaotic scene in Tiger Stadium as the packed house of fans stormed the field following the conversion.

The team operating the device was able to use video from the game to corroborate the exact moments for the surge. It’s the second time Tiger Stadium’s noise has been picked up by the LSU seismograph this year, with the first coming at the Garth Brooks concert during the song “Callin’ Baton Rouge.”

Death Valley is universally regarded as one of the toughest places to play in college football, and it certainly lived up to its reputation on Saturday night, providing a home-field advantage that guided LSU to one of its biggest wins in years.

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Death Valley: Where opponents’ dreams come to die

Death Valley lived up to its reputation as LSU suffocated Alabama’s CFP hopes.

“That was Death Valley. That was the place where opponents’ dreams come to die.”

[autotag]Les Miles[/autotag] said that after beating Ole Miss at home in 2014, but the statement still holds true in 2022. Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide came into Tiger Stadium with dreams of winning the SEC West once again and getting a rematch with Georgia in the title game as well as having dreams of going to the playoffs once again.

Those dreams died under the lights in Baton Rouge as [autotag]Mason Taylor[/autotag] scored on a two-point conversion in overtime to win the biggest game of the year for LSU. Now the Tigers control their own destiny in the SEC. LSU could possibly clinch the SEC West next week with a win over Arkansas and an Alabama win over Ole Miss.

As our writer Will Rosenblatt wrote, the Tigers had everything to gain and nothing to lose on Saturday night. This is Brian Kelly’s first season at LSU, the Tigers were supposed to be rebuilding.

LSU was projected to be the seventh-best team in the SEC this year by Sports Illustrated, and it was projected to finish fifth in the SEC West in the preseason SEC media poll.

No one outside the LSU program believed this team would be as good as they are this year, but that doesn’t matter. When the Tigers leave their locker room and hit the WIN bar before heading out onto the field, all that matters is that they believe in themselves and their brothers that they go to war with.

Kelly knew these guys could win this game. There were 102,000 fans packed into Tiger Stadium last night and most of them were there because they believed LSU would win. Every time the Tigers play at home, the fans bring it. They come to the stadium early on gameday and stay even later after the game ends.

There isn’t an atmosphere in college football that can come close to Tiger Stadium on a Saturday Night. It is special. When Taylor stretched the ball over the goal line in overtime, the only people that were surprised it happened are people that haven’t been watching this team all season long.

These guys have worked hard to get better every week. [autotag]Jayden Daniels[/autotag] has become one of the best quarterbacks in the country. All of the transfers in the secondary are settling in on defense and playing great.

On Saturday night in Tiger Stadium, Alabama’s dreams died, but LSU’s dreams are just getting started.

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