Any Southeastern Conference stadium has loud and unique qualities about it, but Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville, Mississippi is different than the rest for one reason — cowbells.
According to Mississippi State’s website, cowbells have been a school tradition since before World War II. They have even endured years of Southeastern Conference bans on artificial noisemakers.
The clanging reverberates throughout the stadium, certainly working to aggravate any team who walks into the stadium and LSU is the unlucky one this coming Saturday. Nowadays, fans are prohibited from ringing the bells “from the time the offensive center is over the football until the play is whistled dead,” according to SEC rules, but that won’t stop them from the clanging at any possible time.