Where is the best college football environment?

Each week during the season, the USA TODAY Sports college staff will provide their answers to on an intriguing question from college football.

There are many great home fields across the country in college football. Which school has the best environment?

Jace Evans

It’s hard not to put LSU’s Tiger Stadium back at No. 1. The Tigers were virtually unbeatable at home during the peak of Les Miles’ tenure – there’s a reason he once said that Death Valley is the place where “dreams come to die” – but as the team had fallen off over the course of this decade, so too did the luster of this vaunted stadium. But LSU is back in the top five, and its home demolition over then-No. 2 Georgia this past weekend reminded everyone just how hard it can be to play in Baton Rouge.

Paul Myerberg

In terms of pure intimidation, it’s hard to pick against Alabama’s BryantDenny Stadium. The Tide have lost just four games at home this decade: Ole Miss in 2015, Texas A&M in 2012, LSU in 2011 and Auburn in 2010. But that might not be the same as the “best” environment, which is a little more subjective. I’m partial to older stadiums with history and charm, so my pick for the top homefield environment goes to Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium – especially during the rare combination of a night game in the snow.

George Schroeder

College football is filled with tremendous homefield environs, but a handful of places stand above the others for their consistency. Most of them are huge, nearing or topping 100,000 in attendance. But I’ll take a bowl half that size, nestled in the Willamette Valley of the Pacific Northwest and filled with fans wearing bright green or yellow (or black or anthracite or …).

Autzen Stadium in Oregon.