Matt Ruhle said the loud stadiums at Minnesota and Colorado to start last season basically took him a bit by surprise.

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They can be.

Rhule brought an 0-5 team to T Boone Pickens stadium and lost by 40. Guessing it wasn’t that loud

Brought a 3-3 team to Morgantown and lost 58-14 guessing it was loud for about a quarter until the game was over

Won by 18 at OK state his third year. Ok state was 4-2
Probably the loudest one. Was a close game entering the third quarter.


I also disagree that crowd size equals noise but I think crowd size, intensity of the game, design of the stadium, and the percent of capacity filled all greatly contribute to noise.




Boone Pickens stadium is hard to play in when they’re good. They’re currently on a 10 game home losing streak vs FBS opponents

Just trying to defend my beloved Baylor Bears. If you look at 2018 and 2019 he definitely played in "Big Games". I think Rhule's comment is meant to be that Minnesota surprised him with the intensity because we're not viewed on the same level as a lot of the other big 10 schools when it comes to atmosphere.

OSU's 10 game losing streak is irrelevant if we're discussing Rhule's tenure. Gophers fans weren't showing up pre-Fleck either. Their student section is directly behind the away sideline that is potentially the smallest sideline in CFB. I think more schools should adopt this cause it makes it a lot more tense for away teams.

Baylor 2018:
Was 3-1 playing at 6th Oklahoma with 86K fans.
Lost by 6 at 9 #Texas with 93K fans.
Lost by 14 at #23 Iowa State (another underrated game day atmosphere if anyone gets the chance to go)

Baylor 2019:
Won at TCU (which is a place where both schools very much hate each other)
Won at Oklahoma State
Lost an OT Big 12 championship against OU at AT&T with a majority OU crowd.
Lost Sugar Bowl vs #5 Georgia

 

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Just trying to defend my beloved Baylor Bears. If you look at 2018 and 2019 he definitely played in "Big Games". I think Rhule's comment is meant to be that Minnesota surprised him with the intensity because we're not viewed on the same level as a lot of the other big 10 schools when it comes to atmosphere.

OSU's 10 game losing streak is irrelevant if we're discussing Rhule's tenure. Gophers fans weren't showing up pre-Fleck either. Their student section is directly behind the away sideline that is potentially the smallest sideline in CFB. I think more schools should adopt this cause it makes it a lot more tense for away teams.

Baylor 2018:
Was 3-1 playing at 6th Oklahoma with 86K fans.
Lost by 6 at 9 #Texas with 93K fans.
Lost by 14 at #23 Iowa State (another underrated game day atmosphere if anyone gets the chance to go)

a 6-6 Baylor team is probably about the 4-5th most intense game at those 3 stadiums that year. But yes.

Baylor 2019:
Won at TCU (which is a place where both schools very much hate each other)
Won at Oklahoma State
Lost an OT Big 12 championship against OU at AT&T with a majority OU crowd.
Lost Sugar Bowl vs #5 Georgia

He was talking about road environments so those two neutral don’t really mean much to the conversation.





You don’t have to defend Baylor. I’m just saying he hasn’t played very many big time road games. In all of his road games one or both teams had losses. And that’s true for the nfl level too.