The 22 Biggest Stadiums in College Football RANKED Worst to First (From Above)
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Twenty-two college football stadiums hold more than seventy thousand people. This ranks all of them from worst to first, from above.
THE ORDER IS OURS, AND SO IS THE AXIS. We ranked the buildings and the places they sit in - the bowl, the setting, and what the architecture actually does. Not the crowd, not the noise, not the program, not the trophies. Size decides who is on the list; it does not decide the order. That is why the largest stadium in the United States finishes eleventh and the smallest stadium here finishes first.
THE SET is every FBS home stadium listed at 70,000 or more - 22 of them. The boundary is the data's, not ours: there is a natural gap at seventy thousand (Husky Stadium 70,083, then Kinnick Stadium 69,250), and nothing sits between them.
CHAPTERS
0:00 The biggest is not the best - and we say so up front
0:18 22. Spartan Stadium - marooned in its own parking
0:57 21. Razorback Stadium - a hillside and a very large screen
1:32 20. Williams-Brice - the only one that is not on its campus
2:14 19. Memorial Stadium, Nebraska - 400 straight sellouts, no shape
2:52 18. Oklahoma Memorial - the lawsuit that created football on TV
3:33 17. Camp Randall - the oldest in the Big Ten, on a Civil War camp
4:11 16. Jordan-Hare - named for a coach who was still coaching
4:54 15. Bryant-Denny - 100,000 seats and almost a perfect rectangle
5:34 14. The Swamp - they built it in a sinkhole, and it shows
6:16 13. Darrell K Royal - the Austin skyline is the best thing in frame
7:00 12. Kyle Field - not a bowl, a canyon with a field at the bottom
7:39 11. Michigan Stadium - the largest in America is a dish in a field
8:19 10. Beaver Stadium - they dismantled it and moved it half a mile
9:04 9. Tiger Stadium - people lived inside it
9:46 8. Sanford Stadium - a hedge kept alive in a nursery
10:23 7. Notre Dame - the only stadium here that chose to get smaller
11:08 6. The Coliseum - a war memorial that is still an Olympic stadium
11:47 5. Death Valley - the landscape is doing half the work
12:26 4. Neyland - a hundred thousand seats and a navy moored outside
13:06 3. Ohio Stadium - the Horseshoe, with its field below the water table
13:44 2. The Rose Bowl - a white oval on the floor of a canyon
14:25 1. Husky Stadium - the smallest on the list, and you arrive by boat
15:09 The order is ours - tell us the one we got wrong
THE FIGURES (capacity from the FBS stadium list; record crowds and dates as shown on each card)
1 Husky Stadium - Seattle, Washington - 70,083 - opened 1920
2 Rose Bowl Stadium - Pasadena, California - 89,702 - opened 1922
3 Ohio Stadium - Columbus, Ohio - 102,780 - opened 1922
4 Neyland Stadium - Knoxville, Tennessee - 101,915 - opened 1921
5 Clemson Memorial Stadium - Clemson, South Carolina - 81,500 - opened 1942
6 Los Angeles Coliseum - Los Angeles, California - 77,500 - opened 1923
7 Notre Dame Stadium - Notre Dame, Indiana - 77,622 - opened 1930
8 Sanford Stadium - Athens, Georgia - 93,033 - opened 1929
9 Tiger Stadium - Baton Rouge, Louisiana - 102,321 - opened 1924
10 Beaver Stadium - State College, Pennsylvania - 106,572 - opened 1960
11 Michigan Stadium - Ann Arbor, Michigan - 107,601 - opened 1927
12 Kyle Field - College Station, Texas - 102,733 - opened 1904
13 Darrell K Royal Stadium - Austin, Texas - 100,119 - opened 1924
14 Ben Hill Griffin Stadium - Gainesville, Florida - 88,548 - opened 1930
15 Bryant-Denny Stadium - Tuscaloosa, Alabama - 100,077 - opened 1929
16 Jordan-Hare Stadium - Auburn, Alabama - 88,043 - opened 1939
17 Camp Randall Stadium - Madison, Wisconsin - 76,057 - opened 1917
18 Oklahoma Memorial Stadium - Norman, Oklahoma - 80,126 - opened 1923
19 Memorial Stadium - Lincoln, Nebraska - 85,458 - opened 1923
20 Williams-Brice Stadium - Columbia, South Carolina - 77,559 - opened 1934
21 Razorback Stadium - Fayetteville, Arkansas - 76,212 - opened 1938
22 Spartan Stadium - East Lansing, Michigan - 74,866 - opened 1923
Where a superlative belongs to someone else it is attributed: the "hardest places to play" rankings are EA SPORTS College Football 26's, and the decibel readings are the On3 compilation of official stadium readings. Neither is ours.
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The 22 Biggest Stadiums in College Football RANKED Worst to First (From Above)
Aerial Pulse
437 views
Twenty-two college football stadiums hold more than seventy thousand people. This ranks all of them from worst to first, from above.
THE ORDER IS OURS, AND SO IS THE AXIS. We ranked the buildings and the places they sit in - the bowl, the setting, and what the architecture actually does. Not the crowd, not the noise, not the program, not the trophies. Size decides who is on the list; it does not decide the order. That is why the largest stadium in the United States finishes eleventh and the smallest stadium here finishes first.
THE SET is every FBS home stadium listed at 70,000 or more - 22 of them. The boundary is the data's, not ours: there is a natural gap at seventy thousand (Husky Stadium 70,083, then Kinnick Stadium 69,250), and nothing sits between them.
CHAPTERS
0:00 The biggest is not the best - and we say so up front
0:18 22. Spartan Stadium - marooned in its own parking
0:57 21. Razorback Stadium - a hillside and a very large screen
1:32 20. Williams-Brice - the only one that is not on its campus
2:14 19. Memorial Stadium, Nebraska - 400 straight sellouts, no shape
2:52 18. Oklahoma Memorial - the lawsuit that created football on TV
3:33 17. Camp Randall - the oldest in the Big Ten, on a Civil War camp
4:11 16. Jordan-Hare - named for a coach who was still coaching
4:54 15. Bryant-Denny - 100,000 seats and almost a perfect rectangle
5:34 14. The Swamp - they built it in a sinkhole, and it shows
6:16 13. Darrell K Royal - the Austin skyline is the best thing in frame
7:00 12. Kyle Field - not a bowl, a canyon with a field at the bottom
7:39 11. Michigan Stadium - the largest in America is a dish in a field
8:19 10. Beaver Stadium - they dismantled it and moved it half a mile
9:04 9. Tiger Stadium - people lived inside it
9:46 8. Sanford Stadium - a hedge kept alive in a nursery
10:23 7. Notre Dame - the only stadium here that chose to get smaller
11:08 6. The Coliseum - a war memorial that is still an Olympic stadium
11:47 5. Death Valley - the landscape is doing half the work
12:26 4. Neyland - a hundred thousand seats and a navy moored outside
13:06 3. Ohio Stadium - the Horseshoe, with its field below the water table
13:44 2. The Rose Bowl - a white oval on the floor of a canyon
14:25 1. Husky Stadium - the smallest on the list, and you arrive by boat
15:09 The order is ours - tell us the one we got wrong
THE FIGURES (capacity from the FBS stadium list; record crowds and dates as shown on each card)
1 Husky Stadium - Seattle, Washington - 70,083 - opened 1920
2 Rose Bowl Stadium - Pasadena, California - 89,702 - opened 1922
3 Ohio Stadium - Columbus, Ohio - 102,780 - opened 1922
4 Neyland Stadium - Knoxville, Tennessee - 101,915 - opened 1921
5 Clemson Memorial Stadium - Clemson, South Carolina - 81,500 - opened 1942
6 Los Angeles Coliseum - Los Angeles, California - 77,500 - opened 1923
7 Notre Dame Stadium - Notre Dame, Indiana - 77,622 - opened 1930
8 Sanford Stadium - Athens, Georgia - 93,033 - opened 1929
9 Tiger Stadium - Baton Rouge, Louisiana - 102,321 - opened 1924
10 Beaver Stadium - State College, Pennsylvania - 106,572 - opened 1960
11 Michigan Stadium - Ann Arbor, Michigan - 107,601 - opened 1927
12 Kyle Field - College Station, Texas - 102,733 - opened 1904
13 Darrell K Royal Stadium - Austin, Texas - 100,119 - opened 1924
14 Ben Hill Griffin Stadium - Gainesville, Florida - 88,548 - opened 1930
15 Bryant-Denny Stadium - Tuscaloosa, Alabama - 100,077 - opened 1929
16 Jordan-Hare Stadium - Auburn, Alabama - 88,043 - opened 1939
17 Camp Randall Stadium - Madison, Wisconsin - 76,057 - opened 1917
18 Oklahoma Memorial Stadium - Norman, Oklahoma - 80,126 - opened 1923
19 Memorial Stadium - Lincoln, Nebraska - 85,458 - opened 1923
20 Williams-Brice Stadium - Columbia, South Carolina - 77,559 - opened 1934
21 Razorback Stadium - Fayetteville, Arkansas - 76,212 - opened 1938
22 Spartan Stadium - East Lansing, Michigan - 74,866 - opened 1923
Where a superlative belongs to someone else it is attributed: the "hardest places to play" rankings are EA SPORTS College Football 26's, and the decibel readings are the On3 compilation of official stadium readings. Neither is ours.
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#collegefootball #cfb #stadiums #googleearth #fromabove