What is the largest college football stadium?

Bristol Motor Speedway is the largest stadium in the current dataset at 162,000.

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Venue Intelligence

Explore Every College Football Stadium in America

Q: Which college football stadiums are domes?

25 tracked college football venues are marked as domes, and you can jump directly into the dome preset to compare them.

Q: Which stadiums are at the highest elevation?

War Memorial Stadium (2,200 ft), Walkup Skydome (2,098 ft), Falcon Stadium (2,025 ft) lead the current elevation rankings.

Q: Which college football stadiums use grass or turf?

The current split is 80 grass, 760 turf, and 0 unknown.

Compare college football venues by capacity, elevation, playing surface, roof type, location, and game history. Built for fans, travel planning, betting prep, and research.

Browse Venues Open Map View

Largest Stadiums Oldest Stadiums Highest Elevation Most Games Hosted Domes Grass Fields

840
Venues Tracked
FBS home venues plus neutral-site locations with game history
162,000
Largest Capacity
Largest college football stadium currently in the dataset
100%
Surface Coverage
Venues with known grass vs turf data
100%
Roof Coverage
Venues with known open-air vs dome data

Stadium Intelligence Snapshot

Largest StadiumBristol Motor Speedway — 162,000
Highest ElevationWar Memorial Stadium — 2,200 ft
Most Common SurfaceTurf
Oldest Active VenueCroke Park Stadium — opened 1884

Data refreshed weekly during the season.

Top Venues

Instant discovery paths into the biggest venue stories in the dataset.

Largest Stadium

UB Stadium

Amherst, NY

Capacity

30,270

Open venue

Oldest Stadium

Peden Stadium

Athens, OH

Opened

1929

Open venue

Highest Elevation

Dix Stadium

Kent, OH

Elevation

321 ft

Open venue

Most Games Hosted

Glass Bowl

Toledo, OH

Games Hosted

362

Open venue

Capacity Distribution

<30,0008

30,000-49,9995

50,000-79,9990

80,000-99,9990

100,000+0

Surface Split

Grass0

Turf13

Unknown0

Roof Types

Open13

Dome0

Unknown0

College Football Stadium Explorer

Filter, sort, and compare stadiums by location, capacity, elevation, roof, surface, and game history.

Power Conference Venues 100K+ Stadiums Dome Stadiums

none	none	none	none	none	none	none	descending
Glass Bowl Toledo	Toledo, OH	Mid-American	Turf	Open	181 ft	26,038	362
Waldo Stadium Western Michigan	Kalamazoo, MI	Mid-American	Turf	Open	244 ft	30,200	350
Peden Stadium Ohio	Athens, OH	Mid-American	Turf	Open	194 ft	24,000	335
Doyt L. Perry Stadium Bowling Green	Bowling Green, OH	Mid-American	Turf	Open	206 ft	24,000	334
Dix Stadium Kent State	Kent, OH	Mid-American	Turf	Open	321 ft	25,319	331
Yager Stadium Miami (OH)	Oxford, OH	Mid-American	Turf	Open	242 ft	24,286	327
Huskie Stadium Northern Illinois	DeKalb, IL	Mid-American	Turf	Open	267 ft	23,595	312
Kelly/Shorts Stadium Central Michigan	Mount Pleasant, MI	Mid-American	Turf	Open	241 ft	30,255	284
Scheumann Stadium Ball State	Muncie, IN	Mid-American	Turf	Open	285 ft	22,500	277
Rynearson Stadium Eastern Michigan	Ypsilanti, MI	Mid-American	Turf	Open	241 ft	30,200	274
InfoCision Stadium Akron	Akron, OH	Mid-American	Turf	Open	321 ft	30,000	230
UB Stadium Buffalo	Amherst, NY	Mid-American	Turf	Open	182 ft	30,270	210
Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium Massachusetts	Hadley, MA	Mid-American	Turf	Open	47 ft	17,000	170

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Did You Know?

Big House benchmark

Bristol Motor Speedway leads the current dataset at 162,000.

Altitude edge

War Memorial Stadium (2,200 ft), Walkup Skydome (2,098 ft), Falcon Stadium (2,025 ft) lead the current elevation rankings.

Surface split

The current split is 80 grass, 760 turf, and 0 unknown.

Dome inventory

25 tracked college football venues are marked as domes, and you can jump directly into the dome preset to compare them.

Searchable College Football Stadium Database

This page is a searchable database of college football stadiums and venues, including capacity, location, playing surface, roof type, elevation, and game history where available.

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