The 25 largest college football stadiums by capacity
When it comes to crowd sizes and fan support, nothing comes close to college football. Eight stadiums across the sport currently can hold more than 100,000 fans. For comparison, the largest stadium in the NFL is Met Life Stadium, home of the New York Giants and Jets, which holds 82,500 people. That capacity would place the facility 14th in all of college football.
The record for the largest single-game attendance for an NCAA football game is 156,990 people. On September 10, 2016, Tennesse played Virginia Tech at the Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee, in the “Battle at Bristol.” Tennessee would win that game by a score of 45-24. A record that isn’t likely to be broken any time soon.
If you break down the Top 25 stadiums by capacity, the SEC leads all conferences with nine entries. The remainder of the list has the Big Ten with seven teams, the ACC and Pac-12 with three teams each, two Big 12 schools, and an independent.
Below is the ranking of the 25 largest stadiums by capacity. These figures come directly from the NCAA. Scroll down and take a look and let us know what you think.
Pittsburgh Acrisure Stadium (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 68,400
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Iowa Kinnick Stadium (Iowa City, Iowa) 69,250
Kinnick Stadium
Washington Husky Stadium (Seattle, Wash.) 70,138
Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports
Arkansas Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium (Fayetteville, Ark.) 72,000
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Michigan State Spartan Stadium (East Lansing, Mich.) 74,866
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Wisconsin Camp Randall Stadium (Madison, Wisc.) 76,621
Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wis.
Southern Cal. Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles) 77,500
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South Carolina Williams-Brice Stadium (Columbia, S.C.) 77,559
Jeff Blake-USA TODAY Sports
Florida State Doak Campbell Stadium (Tallahassee, Fla.) 79,560
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Oklahoma Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium (Norman, Okla.) 80,126
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Notre Dame Notre Dame Stadium (South Bend, Ind.) 80,795
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Clemson Clemson Memorial Stadium (Clemson, S.C.) 81,500
Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina
Nebraska Memorial Stadium (Lincoln, Neb.) 85,458
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Auburn Jordan-Hare Stadium (Auburn, Ala.) 87,451
Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala.
Florida Ben Hill Griffin Stadium (Gainesville, Fla.) 88,548
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UCLA Rose Bowl (Pasadena, Calif.) 91,136
Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports
Georgia Sanford Stadium (Athens, Ga.) 92,746
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Texas Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium (Austin, Texas) 100,119
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Alabama Bryant-Denny Stadium (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 101,821
Bryant-Denny Stadium Saturday
Tennessee Neyland Stadium (Knoxville, Tenn.) 101,915
Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tenn.
LSU Tiger Stadium (Baton Rouge, La.) 102,321
Texas A&M Kyle Field (College Station, Texas) 102,733
John Glaser-USA TODAY Sports
Ohio State Ohio Stadium (Columbus, Ohio) 102,780
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Penn State Beaver Stadium (University Park, Pa.) 106,572
Rich Barnes-USA TODAY Sports
Michigan Michigan Stadium (Ann Arbor, Mich.) 107,601
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