College Football Team Uses Science for Victory

[RvLeshrac]

Surely this constitutes cheating, or at the very least unfair practice?

The only thing special that playing at home should give the home team is a sense of pride and a greater incentive to win.

I would call deliberately rigging the stadium to negatively effect the abilities of the other team utterly unsportsmanlike and reprehensible. Anyone with a spine would and should boycott playing them. Sport is supposed to be about the abilities of the team not their stadium.

This is what the "Home Field Advantage" *IS*. Keep in mind that everything from the amount of lighting to the specific turf composition is engineered to give the home team an advantage.

If you don't like it, you'd be better off watching a real sport, like Soccer or Rugby.

 

[Davrel]

Surely this constitutes cheating, or at the very least unfair practice?

The only thing special that playing at home should give the home team is a sense of pride and a greater incentive to win.

I would call deliberately rigging the stadium to negatively effect the abilities of the other team utterly unsportsmanlike and reprehensible. Anyone with a spine would and should boycott playing them. Sport is supposed to be about the abilities of the team not their stadium.

This is what the "Home Field Advantage" *IS*. Keep in mind that everything from the amount of lighting to the specific turf composition is engineered to give the home team an advantage.

If you don't like it, you'd be better off watching a real sport, like Soccer or Rugby.

Oh, don't worry I will continue to do so.

 

[Samurai Jim]

All the science in the world won't magically give them a competent QB. Have fun losing to OSU again >

 

[dragontiers]

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As for your question, they used science to figure out how to make it louder near their end zone, so that the closer their opponents are to scoring, the more disorienting the sound will be for them. I hope that answers your question. If not, feel free to ask again.