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{{short description|Notable college football game}}
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{{Infobox NCAA football single game▼
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|Name=Earthquake Game▼
▲{{Infobox NCAAcollege football single game
|Date=October 8, 1988▼
▲ |Name name = Earthquake Game
|image=File:Nightgame.jpg
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|caption=Tiger Stadium▼
| image = Tiger stadium.jpg
|Year=1988
| image_size = 250
|Visitor School=Auburn University
▲ | caption = Tiger Stadium, venue
|Visitor Name Short=Auburn
| football_season = 1988
|Visitor Nickname=Tigers
| visitor_name_short = Auburn
|Visitor Record=4–0
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| visitor_school = Auburn University
|Visitor Coaches=4
| home_name_short = LSU
|Visitor Coach=[[Pat Dye]]
| home_nickname = Tigers
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|Home Schoolhome_school = Louisiana State University▼
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|Visitor3=0
| home_record = 2–2
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| visitor_coach = [[Pat Dye]]
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|Home Coachhome_coach = [[Mike Archer (American football coach)|Mike Archer]]▼
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▲ |Home Coach=[[Mike Archer (American football coach)|Mike Archer]]
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▲ |Date date = October 8, 1988
|Home Total=7
|Stadium stadium = [[Tiger Stadium (LSU)|Tiger Stadium]]▼
|Type=Regular Season [[Southeastern Conference]] Game
|City city = [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]]▼
▲ |Stadium=[[Tiger Stadium (LSU)|Tiger Stadium]]
| MVP =
▲ |City=[[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]]
|US Networkus_network = ESPN
|US Announcersus_announcers = [[Mike Patrick]] and [[Kevin Kiley (sportscaster)|Kevin Kiley]]
}}
The '''Earthquake Game''' was a [[college football]] game wherein which the crowd reaction after an important play is believed to have 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 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|publisherlast=theadvocate.comCalongne|urlfirst=http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLIDKristine|date=164367September 17, 2008|accessdatewebsite=2014-05[[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"|publisherwebsite=wbrz.com[[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-/|accessdatearchive-date=20142016-0503-1504}}</ref>▼
 
▲The '''Earthquake Game''' was a [[college football]] game where the crowd reaction after an important play is believed to have registered on a [[seismograph]]. 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| title=LSU-Auburn Game Still An Earthshaking Experience|publisher=theadvocate.com|url=http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=164367|accessdate=2014-05-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=25 years later, former Tigers relive "Earthquake Game"|publisher=wbrz.com|url=http://www.wbrz.com/news/25-years-later-former-tigers-relive-earthquake-game-/|accessdate=2014-05-15}}</ref>
 
==Background==
The game pitted [[Southeastern Conference]] rivals [[1988 Auburn Tigers football team|Auburn]] and [[1988 LSU Tigers football team|LSU]] and was one of the more notable games in the [[Auburn–LSU football rivalry]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://theadvocate.com/sports/7104469-32/1988-lsu-auburn-game-shook-earth|title=The day the Earth trembled in Tiger Stadium's temblor|publisherwebsite=lsusports.net[[The Advocate (Louisiana)|The Advocate]]|access-date=May 15, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112752/http://theadvocate.com/sports/7104469-32/1988-lsu-auburn-game-shook-earth|accessdatearchive-date=2014March 4, 2016|url-05-15status=dead}}</ref> Along with national rankings, the game also proved to be of great significance to that season's eventual SEC title. The stadium was filled to capacity and the game was being broadcast on [[ESPN]].
 
==The game==
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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. According to legend, itwhich registered as anground earthquakemotion 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, whowhich werewas 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>{{cite web|titlename=Footneauxts":0" of ’88|publisher=The War Eagle Reader|url=https://thewareaglereader.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/footneauxts-of-88/|accessdate=2014-05-15}}</ref>
 
==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]].
 
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* [[Beast Quake|2011 NFL playoff game]] between the Seattle Seahawks and the New Orleans Saints
* [[Kick Six|2013 Iron Bowl]] between Auburn and Alabama
* ThreeSeven times at Virginia Tech's [[Lane Stadium]] at Virginia Tech: first in 2011 against Miami, in 2015 against Ohio State, andagainst againMiami in 2016, against Clemson in 2017, against Notre Dame in 2018, against Miami in 20162018, 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==
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