Anthony Chiusano | NCAA.com | September 1, 2021

The 25 biggest college football stadiums in the country

These are the biggest stadiums in college football

When the first-ever college football game was played in 1869, just about 100 spectators showed up on Rutgers' campus. Fast forward 147 years to Sept. 10, 2016 and Bristol Motor Speedway played host for a special Tennessee-Virginia Tech neutral site game that drew an NCAA-record 156,990 paid.

Crowds of 100,000-plus have become commonplace in college football thanks to extraordinary renovations and multimillion-dollar projects. In 2021, seven schools boast home stadiums that hold a six-figure capacity.

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Here are the 25 largest capacity stadiums that serve as primary homes for college football teams entering the 2021 season. Updated capacity numbers were taken from each school's athletics site.

**The 25 largest college football stadiums in the United States:**
RANK	SCHOOL	STADIUM	CAPACITY
1	Michigan	Michigan Stadium (Ann Arbor, Mich.)	107,601
2	Penn State	Beaver Stadium (University Park, Pa.)	106,572
3	Ohio State	Ohio Stadium (Columbus, Ohio)	102,780
4	Texas A&M	Kyle Field (College Station, Texas)	102,733
5	Tennessee	Neyland Stadium (Knoxville, Tenn.)	102,455
6	LSU	Tiger Stadium (Baton Rouge, La.)	102,321
7	Alabama	Bryant-Denny Stadium (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)	101,821
8	Texas	Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium (Austin, Texas)	95,594
9	Georgia	Sanford Stadium (Athens, Ga.)	92,746
10	UCLA	Rose Bowl (Pasadena, Calif.)	91,136
11	Florida	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium (Gainesville, Fla.)	88,548
12	Auburn	Jordan-Hare Stadium (Auburn, Ala.)	87,451
13	Oklahoma	Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium (Norman, Okla.)	86,112
14	Nebraska	Memorial Stadium (Lincoln, Neb.)	85,458
15	Clemson	Clemson Memorial Stadium (Clemson, S.C.)	81,500
16	Notre Dame	Notre Dame Stadium (South Bend, Ind.)	80,795
17	Wisconsin	Camp Randall Stadium (Madison, Wisc.)	80,321
18	South Carolina	Williams-Brice Stadium (Columbia, S.C.)	80,250
19	Florida State	Doak Campbell Stadium (Tallahassee, Fla.)	79,560
20	Southern Cal.	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles)	77,500
21	Arkansas	Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium (Fayetteville, Ark.)	76,000
22	Michigan State	Spartan Stadium (East Lansing, Mich.)	75,005
23	UAB	Legion Field (Birmingham, Ala.)	71,594
24	San Diego State	SDCCU Stadium (San Diego, Calif.)	70,561
25	Iowa	Kinnick Stadium (Iowa City, Iowa)	69,250

Notes:

Here is a breakdown by conference of the schools who appear in the top 25:

ACC	BIG TEN	BIG 12	C-USA	PAC-12	MWC	SEC	INDEPENDENT
2	7	2	1	2	1	9	1

Before that 2016 Battle at Bristol meeting between Tennessee and Virginia Tech, Michigan Stadium owned the modern-day college football attendance record. In 2013, Notre Dame visited Michigan and played in front of a crowd of 115,109. Michigan won 41-30.
While the Rose Bowl's capacity for UCLA home games stands at 91,136, its all-time attendance record is 106,869. That was set in 1973 at the 59th Rose Bowl Game, which saw USC defeat Ohio State 42-17. The Trojans were then unanimously voted the No. 1 team in the nation in both the final AP poll and coaches' poll.

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