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Editor’s note: This article is part of our College Football Stadium Rankings series, highlighting the most interesting venues across the country.

By Seth Emerson, Mitch Light, Stewart Mandel and Joe Rexrode

They called it the Earthquake Game: Midway through the 1988 season, LSU beat Auburn on a fourth-down pass, and the reaction inside Tiger Stadium was so thunderous that the next morning an LSU seismologist and student worker discovered that it registered Richter-scale movement on a seismograph installed in a nearby building.

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That story alone may symbolize the majesty and passion of SEC stadiums. But plenty of others abound in the conference where … well, you know the four-word motto.

By seating capacity, the SEC is home to five of the 10 biggest stadiums in the world, and eight of the top 25. In overall quality — as voted on by The Athletic staff — it landed seven of the top 20, with four others receiving votes. Here, four of our writers weigh in on their favorite SEC stadiums, as well as their most underrated and overrated, and favorite aspects — and least favorite — of certain places.

What is your favorite SEC stadium?

Emerson: It's Tennessee's Neyland Stadium, so much so that I wrote the blurb for our national rankings. But rather than repeat myself, let me extol the virtues of Georgia's Sanford Stadium, where I’ve covered many a game. It’s not just the famous hedges.