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Line 3: {{Use American English\|date = September 2019}} {{Use mdy dates\|date = September 2019}} {{Infobox ~~NCAA~~college football ~~single~~ game \| name = Earthquake Game \| subheader = \|date=October 8, 1988▼ \| image = Tiger stadium.jpg \| image_size = 250 \| caption = Tiger Stadium, venue \| football_season = 1988 ~~\|year=1988~~ \|~~visitor_school~~ visitor_name_short = Auburn ~~University~~ \| visitor_nickname = Tigers▼ ~~\|visitor_name_short=Auburn~~ \| visitor_school = Auburn University ▲ \|visitor_nickname=Tigers \| home_name_short = LSU▼ \|visitor_record=4–0▼ \| home_nickname = Tigers▼ \|visitor_rank_AP=4▼ \| home_school = Louisiana State University▼ \|visitor_rank_coaches=4▼ ▲ \| visitor_record = 4–0 \|visitor_coach=[[Pat Dye]]▼ \| home_record = 2–2▼ \|visitor_1q=0▼ ▲ \| visitor_coach = [[Pat Dye]] \|visitor_2q=3▼ \| home_coach = [[Mike Archer (American football coach)\|Mike Archer]]▼ \|visitor_3q=0▼ ▲ \| visitor_rank_AP = 4 \|visitor_4q=3▼ ▲ \| visitor_rank_coaches = 4 ~~\|Visitor Total=6~~ ▲ \| visitor_1q = 0 ▲ \|home_school=Louisiana State University ▲ \| visitor_2q = 3 ▲ \|home_name_short=LSU ▲ \| visitor_3q = 0 ▲ \|home_nickname=Tigers ▲ \| visitor_4q = 3 ▲ \|home_record=2–2 \| home_1q = 0 ~~\|home_rank_AP=~~ \| home_2q = 0 ~~\|home_rank_coaches=~~ \| home_3q = 0 ▲ \|home_coach=[[Mike Archer (American football coach)\|Mike Archer]] \| home_4q = 7 ~~\|home_1q=0~~ ▲ \| date = October 8, 1988 ~~\|home_2q=0~~ \| stadium = [[Tiger Stadium (LSU)\|Tiger Stadium]]▼ ~~\|home_3q=0~~ \| city = [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]]▼ ~~\|home_4q=7~~ \| MVP = ~~\|Home Total=7~~ \| us_network = ESPN▼ ~~\|type=Regular Season [[Southeastern Conference]] Game~~ \| us_announcers = [[Mike Patrick]] and [[Kevin Kiley (sportscaster)\|Kevin Kiley]]▼ ▲ \|stadium=[[Tiger Stadium (LSU)\|Tiger Stadium]] ▲ \|city=[[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]] ▲ \|us_network= ESPN ▲ \|us_announcers= [[Mike Patrick]] and [[Kevin Kiley (sportscaster)\|Kevin Kiley]] }} The '''Earthquake Game''' was a [[college football]] game in which the crowd reaction after an important play registered on a [[seismograph]].<ref name=":0">{{cite web\|url=https://thewareaglereader.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/footneauxts-of-88/\|title=What really happened at the Auburn-LSU ~~‘Earthquake~~'Earthquake ~~Game’~~Game'?\|last=Henderson\|first=Jeremy\|date=September 17, 2012\|website=The War Eagle Reader\|access-date=September 4, 2019}}</ref> Played in front of a crowd of 79,431 at [[Louisiana State University]]'s [[Tiger Stadium (LSU)\|Tiger Stadium]] on October 8, 1988, the [[LSU Tigers football\|LSU Tigers]] upset No. 4 [[Auburn Tigers football\|Auburn]] 7–6.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=164367\|title=After 20 Years, LSU-Auburn Game Still An Earthshaking Experience\|last=Calongne\|first=Kristine\|date=September 17, 2008\|website=[[LSU Tigers]]\|access-date=May 15, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.wbrz.com/news/25-years-later-former-tigers-relive-earthquake-game-/\|title=25 years later, former Tigers relive "Earthquake Game"\|website=[[WBRZ-TV]]\|access-date=May 15, 2014 \|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083702/http://www.wbrz.com/news/25-years-later-former-tigers-relive-earthquake-game-/\|archive-date=2016-03-04}}</ref> ==Background== Line 51 ⟶ 48: Auburn led 6–0 with less than two minutes left in the 4th quarter. LSU's quarterback [[Tommy Hodson]] drove the team down the field before throwing an 11-yard touchdown pass to [[Eddie Fuller (football player)\|Eddie Fuller]] on 4th down. The game's name resulted from the reaction of the crowd after the final pass, which registered as anground ~~earthquake~~motion by a [[Seismometer\|seismograph]] located in LSU’s Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex around {{convert\|1000\|ft\|m\|0}} from the stadium. The seismograph reading was discovered the morning after the game by LSU seismologist Don Stevenson and student worker Riley Milner. Word of the seismograph reading reached ''[[The Daily Reveille]]'' and spread to the local media.<ref name="More to Earthquake Game">[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233100/http://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2013/09/theres_more_to_lsus_earthquake.html There's more to LSU's Earthquake Game than Hodson-to-Fuller]. ''[[The Times-Picayune]]''.</ref> Stevenson submitted the reading to the [[Louisiana Geological Survey]] to have it preserved. Stevenson displayed a copy of the reading on his office window on the LSU campus that was later observed by an ESPN news crew, which was on campus doing a story sometime prior to when Stevenson left LSU in the summer of 1991. The news crew decided to do a piece on what they dubbed "The Earthquake Game." This news story helped to add more attention to the event.<ref name=":0" /> ==Aftermath and legacy== [[File:Richter scale from LSU campus, Earthquake Game vs Auburn 1988.png\|thumb\|Richter scale from LSU's Campus during "The Earthquake Game" in 1988]] The win brought LSU's win–loss record to 3–2 on the season and a No. 19 ranking in the [[AP Poll]]. The team finished the regular season with an 8–3 record and lost to [[1988 Syracuse Orangemen football team\|Syracuse]] in the [[1989 Hall of Fame Bowl\|Hall of Fame Bowl]]. Auburn dropped to 4–1 and to No. 12 in the poll. The game was the only one Auburn lost in the regular season. The team was defeated by [[1988 Florida State Seminoles football team\|Florida State]] in the [[1989 Sugar Bowl\|Sugar Bowl]]. Line 64 ⟶ 61: * [[Kick Six\|2013 Iron Bowl]] between Auburn and Alabama * Seven times at Virginia Tech's [[Lane Stadium]]: first in 2011 against Miami, in 2015 against Ohio State, against Miami in 2016, against Clemson in 2017, against Notre Dame in 2018, against Miami in 2018, and against North Carolina in 2021. *Three times at LSU since then. "Garthquake" happened on April 30, 2022. [[Garth Brooks]] played [[Callin' Baton Rouge]] and the noise generated shook the Earth again. Then, on November 5, 2022, LSU fans generated two ground motion events back to back. First when [[Jayden Daniels]] scored a touchdown on a 25 yard run in [[Overtime (sports)\|overtime]]. Then another earthquake three minutes later when [[Mason Taylor]] caught the game-winning two-point conversion. ==References== Line 74 ⟶ 72: [[Category:1988 Southeastern Conference football season]] ~~[[Category:College football games]]~~ [[Category:Auburn Tigers football games]] [[Category:LSU Tigers football games]] [[Category:American college football incidents]] [[Category:October 1988 sports events in the United States]] [[Category:1988 in sports in Louisiana]]