Now the carping has started. Alabama fears A&M is rising.
Ohio State Star Caleb Downs Accuses Texas A&M of Manufacturing An Unfair Advantage
Caleb Downs Accused A&M of "Pumping Noise" into Kyle Field
In his Downs 2 Business podcast with his brother, Josh, Ohio State Buckeyes safety Caleb Downs put in his two cents on the debate when it came to stadium volume on Saturdays, and to say the Buckeye was skeptical about the 12th Man would be an understatement.
"Playing at Texas A&M my freshman year, that game was the loudest that I had ever been at," Downs reminisced, calling back to a 2023 road trip to Aggieland while he was with the Alabama Crimson Tide. "And Auburn, that kind of reminded me of Oregon last year, I will say that it was very similar, but that Texas A&M game, they were pumping noise into the stadium."
Even when his brother tried to counter by giving the six-digit crowd their due and saying it really is "just that loud," Caleb wasn't having any of it, and likened them to the Penn State game last year in Happy Valley.
"I was literally sitting on the sideline, and I could feel noise coming from under the stadium," Caleb said. "Penn State's environment was okay. I mean, it got lit for one minute because they had that pick six, but the rest of the game I was on the sideline just like, 'ehh.'"
It is possible for noise to be so loud from the roar of a stadium that it can register seismic activity, which is likely what the All-American was feeling during that game in October 2023, where the Tide held off a late charge from A&M to win 26-20 and included Downs intercepting then-A&M quarterback Max Johnson.
Kyle Field has long been hailed as one of the most intimidating environments to play at in college football, with the stadium turning in a crowd of over 100,000 on the regular, similar to Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, where Downs spends most of his Saturdays during the fall.
Ohio State Star Caleb Downs Accuses Texas A&M of Manufacturing An Unfair Advantage
Caleb Downs Accused A&M of "Pumping Noise" into Kyle Field
In his Downs 2 Business podcast with his brother, Josh, Ohio State Buckeyes safety Caleb Downs put in his two cents on the debate when it came to stadium volume on Saturdays, and to say the Buckeye was skeptical about the 12th Man would be an understatement.
"Playing at Texas A&M my freshman year, that game was the loudest that I had ever been at," Downs reminisced, calling back to a 2023 road trip to Aggieland while he was with the Alabama Crimson Tide. "And Auburn, that kind of reminded me of Oregon last year, I will say that it was very similar, but that Texas A&M game, they were pumping noise into the stadium."
Even when his brother tried to counter by giving the six-digit crowd their due and saying it really is "just that loud," Caleb wasn't having any of it, and likened them to the Penn State game last year in Happy Valley.
"I was literally sitting on the sideline, and I could feel noise coming from under the stadium," Caleb said. "Penn State's environment was okay. I mean, it got lit for one minute because they had that pick six, but the rest of the game I was on the sideline just like, 'ehh.'"
It is possible for noise to be so loud from the roar of a stadium that it can register seismic activity, which is likely what the All-American was feeling during that game in October 2023, where the Tide held off a late charge from A&M to win 26-20 and included Downs intercepting then-A&M quarterback Max Johnson.
Kyle Field has long been hailed as one of the most intimidating environments to play at in college football, with the stadium turning in a crowd of over 100,000 on the regular, similar to Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, where Downs spends most of his Saturdays during the fall.
