Loudest Moment in the History of Notre Dame Stadium

[GATTACA!]

Someone on the college football subreddit started a thread today asking what the loudest moment was for each program.

The four I've seen mentioned by Notre Dame fans are:

1988 ND vs Michigan


2005 Zibby TD return against USC


2012 Goal line stand against Stanford


2014 Elijah Shumate's INT against Michigan to make it 37-0


What do we think? 2014 Michigan is the loudest game I've ever been to. I remember being light headed after that INT by Shumate. Also side note, try to watch any of these and not get chills.

 

[notredomer23]

Love’s touchdown against IU was the biggest eruption I’ve heard in person. 2018 Michigan was solid too in terms of sustained crowd energy but idk if the overall loudest.

 

[Fbolt]

1993 FSU-I was about 10 rows up in the endzone. Unfortunately, on the opposite side. But loud AF.

Hard to believe Ward played CFB at that level yet played in the NBA. Damn!

 

[slick7410]

I was sitting in the end zone where Zibby scored - it remains the loudest I can remember.

Was also at the Mich. / Stanford games listed + IU. Those are all good ones.

 

[GrangerIrish24]

I have 2.
The 2012 Stanford game. It went from dead silence to a massive eruption.

The 2011 USC game when I was arguing with USC fans as I was being escorted to the ND “jail cell”.

 

[rtrn2glory]

I was present for the 2006 UCLA game.

Younger brother was with me and is a die hard Ohio St fan. He'll never admit it now but he said when Shark scored at the end that's the loudest he'd ever heard a stadium

 

[LifelongFan]

I think the Love TD against IU and 37-0 were louder than 06 UCLA and the Stanford goal line stand

 

[GATTACA!]

I was present for the 2006 UCLA game.

Younger brother was with me and is a die hard Ohio St fan. He'll never admit it now but he said when Shark scored at the end that's the loudest he'd ever heard a stadium

That's a good one too.

 

[irishu]

2012 Stanford was awesome. Was raining hard all day and throughout the game. Fans wanted the win. Only thing that could’ve made it louder was if more fans didn’t leave early due to the weather, but I get it with wives and all that

 

[TracyGraham]

Gotta assume 88 miami was up there

 

[MacIrish75]

Almost got me for a second, thought this was a @saturdaysarebetter post…

 

[DCK_1981]

I lived about a mile and a half from the stadium in 2012 and when the goal line stand happened I remember going out to celebrate with our neighbors and you could hear the roar from the stadium.

 

[rikkitikki08]

I have 2.
The 2012 Stanford game. It went from dead silence to a massive eruption.

The 2011 USC game when I was arguing with USC fans as I was being escorted to the ND “jail cell”.

Is that the night you got your tear drop tattoo?

 

[GrangerIrish24]

Is that the night you got your tear drop tattoo?

The bonds I formed that night created a brotherhood that will last forever

 

[NorthDakota]

When I saw the thread title i assumed that old Michigan game was...but my dad had told me that noise penalties used to be a thing, albeit uncommon.

NBC does ND no favors with microphones. Notre Dame is not particularly loud but on TV it often sounds like a church.

 

[ozzman]

Zibby TD wasn't even the loudest moment of the game. The loudest was on the leinert play before the bush push. ND stopped him short and the clock ran down to 00. The eruption was the loudest I had ever heard the stadium at the time, and then after the Bush push it was the quietest I've ever heard the stadium.

The Love run against IU was louder than when the clock hit 00 against usc

 

[Irish2155]

1993 FSU-I was about 10 rows up in the endzone. Unfortunately, on the opposite side. But loud AF.

Hard to believe Ward played CFB at that level yet played in the NBA. Damn!

My G’pa was a huge FSU fan and his favorite player ever was Ward. They’re both natives of this little town in southern GA called Thomasville which is about 35 minutes or so north of Tallahassee.

G’pa was telling me about Ward when he was like 14. We debated that ‘93 Championship all the time.

Re: the loudest the stadium has been.. I was at that Stanford game and it erupted louder than I’ve ever heard it. I’m sure the others were loud too, though.

 

[FWIrish4]

When I saw the thread title i assumed that old Michigan game was...but my dad had told me that noise penalties used to be a thing, albeit uncommon.

NBC does ND no favors with microphones. Notre Dame is not particularly loud but on TV it often sounds like a church.

This will forever be the hill I die on and irks me like crazy. Just go watch the IU game again with an ESPN broadcast. Night and day difference with crowd noise. You can even hear the band when we score!

Loudest I’ve personally experienced the stadium for a full game is easily the 2023 Ohio Stare game. For a single play, probably the Love 98 yard TD against IU

 

[Irish2155]

I have 2.
The 2012 Stanford game. It went from dead silence to a massive eruption.

The 2011 USC game when I was arguing with USC fans as I was being escorted to the ND “jail cell”.

Louisville’s “jail cell” came with big titted bartenders along with Irish fans buying rounds of shots. I was fucked up that night.

 

[Fbolt]

Jail cell, cousin to the

 

[DCK_1981]

When I saw the thread title i assumed that old Michigan game was...but my dad had told me that noise penalties used to be a thing, albeit uncommon.

NBC does ND no favors with microphones. Notre Dame is not particularly loud but on TV it often sounds like a church.

I agree with this. The IU game was probably on another level but with ESPN doing the broadcast it didn’t even sound like the same stadium

 

[Te'o4Heisman]

The IU game was definitely the loudest i have heard Nd stadium. Sadly it still was not on the same level as the ‘17 game in Miami.

 

[Bluto]

Someone on the college football subreddit started a thread today asking what the loudest moment was for each program.

The four I've seen mentioned by Notre Dame fans are:

1988 ND vs Michigan


2005 Zibby TD return against USC


2012 Goal line stand against Stanford


2014 Elijah Shumate's INT against Michigan to make it 37-0


What do we think? 2014 Michigan is the loudest game I've ever been to. I remember being light headed after that INT by Shumate. Also side note, try to watch any of these and not get chills.

37-0 was the all time best moment ever irregardless of the noise level because of the combo pick six and the bullshit roughing penalty on Redfield for blasting Gardner. It was “fuck Michigan” personified.

 

[Bluto]

2012 when Pitt missed the field goal was pretty loud.

 

[ulukinatme]

Someone on the college football subreddit started a thread today asking what the loudest moment was for each program.

The four I've seen mentioned by Notre Dame fans are:

1988 ND vs Michigan


2005 Zibby TD return against USC


2012 Goal line stand against Stanford


2014 Elijah Shumate's INT against Michigan to make it 37-0


What do we think? 2014 Michigan is the loudest game I've ever been to. I remember being light headed after that INT by Shumate. Also side note, try to watch any of these and not get chills.

'05 USC is without a doubt the loudest game I've ever been to. I was sitting close to the upper bowl for that one which was unusual, so a lot of sound traveled upward, but it was intense. There were times I couldn't really hear the person next to me. The closest game I've seen come to that level of crowd noise was the '23 OSU game, the crowd was rowdy at times but maybe not as sustained all game as USC was.

I honestly don't remember 2014 Michigan being super loud. I may have been intoxicated for part of that game, don't recall. I do remember it being loud in the beginning, but at some point when we were up big the crowd was just kind of chill and enjoying the game, and then toward the end it got loud again in hopes of preserving the shutout. The "Na na na na, hey hey, goodbye" chant was decent, but most of the energy came from the student section.

I wasn't there for the '88 UM game nor the 2012 Stanford game. I was there for 2012 Pitt, which was pretty cool as the comeback mounted toward the end and the crowd got back into it. I remember they played the Rudy theme late in the 4th, the crowd really got into it and that's when the comeback really began. We were dead for much of the 2nd and 3rd quarters as the offense struggled, lots of flu going around that week among the players.