Gets me every single time the national media talks about SEC stadium environments? They always mention the usual places and completely sleep on what happens here on a Friday night in Jordan-Hare. I saw that ESPN is doing their preseason stuff and talking about the ACC and the Big Ten crowds and I just laugh. Because there is nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing. It is a completely different animal when you are on the Plains for a night game. We have been stacking talent in the 2026 class and the 2027 class is looking solid too but none of. That is what separrates the great home fields from the good ones. The noise here is not just loud it is relentless. I have watched opposing offensive lines false start three times in a single drive because they could not hear the cadence. I have seen quarterbacks completely short-circuit and throw the ball straight to our secondary because the crowd got in their head. That is not luck. That is tradition. That is what happens when you have generations of families packing the same seats and screaming their lungs out for four quarters. And look I know the roster turnover is wild right now with the portal and the draft and everything else. But that is exactly why the home field advantage matters more than ever. You cannot buy chemistry in the portal. You cannot simulate playing in an actual SEC environment during spring practice. When we bring in these new faces through recruiting and the portal, they have to learn what it means to defend this field. The opposing teams coming in here for that Friday night game this fall? They have no idea what is waiting for them. They can watch all the film they want. They will not understand until they are standing in that tunnel hearing the band hit the fight song and seeing 87,000 people lose their minds. That is the Auburn difference.