Boone Pickens Stadium, home of the Oklahoma State Cowboys, is the oldest stadium in the Big 12, and it is also the only stadium that goes east to west as almost every other stadium goes north to south. This change was made due to the strong winds that affected the play in the stadium.
Ohio Stadium, or “The Horseshoe” as it is affectionately called, does not have permanent lighting for their stadium and must bring in temporary lights whenever Ohio State plays a night game.
The Nebraska Cornhusker fan base is one of the most loyal in the country, which is why Memorial Stadium has the longest current streak of sell outs in the country.
At 90,000 people in the stadium during Saturdays in the fall, the population of Memorial Stadium during a game would qualify as the third largest city in the state of Nebraska.
The Carrier Dome, home to the Syracuse Orangemen, is the largest dome in the northeastern U.S. and it is named after an air conditioning company.
However, the dome is not air conditioned in any way.
Tucked away in Provo, Utah, Lavell Edwards Stadium houses the BYU Cougars but it also used to house some other interesting pieces. Until 2005, one of the largest collections of fossils in North America was kept under the stadium.
The fossils have since been moved to the BYU Museum of Paleontology.
Michigan Stadium is the largest college football stadium in the country with a capacity of 109,901.
Since 1955, the official capacity of the stadium has ended in “001” because that lone seat is left empty for former head coach “Fritz” Crisler.
The Yale Bowl is the original stadium to be built in a bowl shape. When it was opened in 1914, it was the largest stadium in the world (70,896) and it has since inspired other bowl shaped venues like Michigan Stadium.
Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin is known for it’s raucous student section that “jumps around” between quarters 3 and 4. It also sits on land that once served as a training ground for Union soldiers during the Civil War.
The University of Wyoming’s War Memorial Stadium sits at the highest altitude of any college football stadium at 7,220 feet.
Tiger Stadium is known to have some of the best tailgates and rowdiest games, especially when they play under the lights.
During a 1988 Auburn-LSU game, the roar of the crowd showed up as an earthquake on the richter scale. It recorded 15 to 20 minutes of ground shaking.
If you’re playing against the Georgia Bulldogs you’re lining up “Between the Hedges” at Sanford Stadium. The phrase comes from the fact that the playing field is lined with well trimmed bushes all around.
This might be one of the reasons why there has only been one field storming from students–that and the fact that they tore down the goalpost during that storming and temporarily ruined the hedges.
Stanford Stadium, home of the Cardinal, is the largest privately owned college football stadium in the country.
Autzen Stadium, the home of the Oregon Ducks, is a beautiful stadium tucked away in the woods next to the campus. The stadium is known to get extra loud due to the way it was designed to strategically keep the noise in the stadium.
But the weirdest thing about the stadium is that it’s named for an Oregon Sate alumnus, Oregon’s biggest rival.
Auburn University has the largest scoreboard in all of college football. It measures 190 feet by 57 and cost $13.9 million to build.
Bobby Dodd Stadium, home of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, is the oldest continuously used on-campus stadium in FBS. It has been used since 1913.
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