When EA Sports released College Football 25 over the summer, it made a fairly controversial choice when it came to the toughest place to play in the sport.
Texas A&M’s Kyle Field claimed the top spot, with Tiger Stadium coming it at No. 3. That’s a mistake that has since been rectified, with LSU jumping up to No. 1 while the Aggies fell out of the top 10. But it drew the ire of Tigers quarterback [autotag]Garrett Nussmeier[/autotag] at the time.
“Don’t even get me started, first off,” Nussmeier said in June. “There’s no place like Death Valley at night, first off, it’s not even close. Kyle Field is loud, it’s not Death Valley. The Swamp is loud, it’s not Death Valley.”
Those comments made the rounds with Aggies fans this week ahead of Saturday night’s top-15 matchup in College Station, and Aggies coach Mike Elko addressed them on Wednesday.
“I’m gonna leave the first part of that question for about 10 o’clock Saturday night,” Elko said when asked about Nussmeier’s comments and what made Kyle Field special, per On3. “The second part of that question, what makes it special, and I joked about this because I couldn’t believe in the spring there was conversations about the 12th Man showing up at the spring game. And I addressed it in the spring, there’s a lot of things I worry about, the one thing I never worry about is where the 12th Man will be when Texas A&M football is playing on Saturday,” Elko added. “They will be in Kyle, they will be loud and proud, and they will give us an unbelievable home-field advantage.”
Ahead of Saturday’s game, Nussmeier acknowledged that Kyle Field is a tough place to play and is “going to be loud.”
Both stadiums are among the toughest places to play in the country and seat more than 100,000 people. But there’s nothing quite like a night game in Death Valley, and LSU will look to prove that by claiming first place in the SEC with a win on Saturday night.
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