I just wish our home field "advantage" meant something. Too many times it hasn't.
I'm still optimistic about this season though.
Boy did it used to. Go look at the Youtube videos from 1988 against Michigan. The crowd was so crazy that they hit them with a delay of game penalty because the Mich QB (who was a little bitch IMO) couldn't communicate to his players the snapcount.
We're a long way from that since teams like S. Fla., Tulsa and Northwestern have come in and were not intimidated by the atmosphere.