Why Neyland Stadium Sits Atop College Football's Loudest Stadiums

Every program with a big stadium claims its crowd is the loudest in college football. A Yahoo Sports feature sets out to explain why Tennessee's claim, made on behalf of Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, carries more weight than most.

The piece walks through the reasons behind the stadium's reputation for extreme noise, the kind that disrupts visiting offenses and turns routine snaps into adventures. Neyland's place in these debates is nothing new, but the feature pulls the contributing factors together in one place and makes the case on the stadium's behalf.

However the rankings shake out, the practical point for Tennessee is the same: the noise in Knoxville is a genuine home-field advantage, one that opposing teams have to plan around long before they ever take the field.