EA Sports ranks LSU's Tiger Stadium as No. 3 in Toughest Places to Play rankings

EA Sports College Football 25 ranked LSU’s Tiger Stadium as the No. 3 toughest place to play in the new game set for release this summer.

Death Valley is iconic, especially when playing a night game in Baton Rouge. EA College Football 25‘s ranking of the toughest places to play factors in historical stats such as home winning percentage, home game attendance, active home winning streaks, team prestige, and more.

One of the most intimidating venues in all of college football, over 100,000 fans scream and yell to throw off the visitors.

“LSU (entered) the 2022 season having won 128 of its 151 games in Tiger Stadium over the past 22 seasons,” a description read. “That stretch dates back to the start of the 2000 season and includes wins over 32 Top 25 teams. The Tigers established the school record for consecutive home victories with 22 from Oct. 24, 2009, to Oct. 13, 2012.

“LSU is 128-23 at home since the 2000 season — including perfect home records of 7-0 in 2004, 8-0 in 2006, 7-0 in 2010, 6-0 in 2011, 7-0 in 2013 and 7-0 in 2019. Only six times since 2000 have the Tigers lost more than one home game.”

The LSU marching band is pretty intense at Tiger Stadium. Not only do they play the official fight song “Fight for LSU,” there’s a pregame salute, “Hey Fightin’ Tigers,” which contains the T-I-G-E-R-S chant and “Tiger Rag.”

While playing the game, you’ll probably hear the first, second and third down songs as well.

Remember how cool you thought Joe Burrow was running onto the field on senior night at Tiger Stadium? Well, you’ll get to immerse yourself in that atmosphere when you play the game.

Heck, you might even see Mike the Tiger in his habitat when you load up a game at Tiger Stadium.

But if you want to play at Tiger Stadium as a player in “Road to Glory Mode,” you better study for your exams. No seriously.

“And you’re gonna have to decide how you spend your time in the offseason and it’s not just do I party, do I work out? It’s, do I workout? Do I party? Do I try to build my brand to get better in NIL deals? Do I study the playbook? Do I study my actual books,” On3’s Andy Staples said on his show in May, detailing features about the game play. 

“Because yes, you can be academically ineligible in this game. And if you get academically ineligible, you’re screwed. So you have to be very careful. There is a mode like it’ll tell you, you got a test coming up in two weeks in this class. You are clueless about this subject. It doesn’t mean you’re an idiot, you’re gonna fail no matter what.”