NCAA Division 1-A football stadiums (bandwidth warning)

Simmo79 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:55 pm

#13 Gaylord Family – Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma)
Capacity: 82,112

The University of Oklahoma, often called OU or Oklahoma is an institution of higher learning located in Oklahoma. The university was founded in 1890. It currently enrolls 31,134 students (27,807 at its largest Campus in Norman, Oklahoma not far from Oklahoma City).

OU plays is a prominent member of the Big 12 conference, playing in the South division with Oklohoma State, Texas, Baylor, Texas Tech and Texas A&M. Oklahoma is considered by many to be a top five all-time football program. The Sooners possess seven poll-determined national championships in football, with the 1950, 1955, 1956, 1974, 1975, 1985, and 2000 seasons featuring the top team in the Associated Press final poll, along with the 2000 Bowl Championship Series National Championship. They have also won 39 conference championships making them the most decorated college in the Big 12.

The University of Oklahoma has had a long and bitter rivalry with the University of Texas known as the Red River Shootout or Red River Rivalry. This is often thought of as a contest of state pride along with school pride. The match is one of the last remaining regular season neutral-site games. It is played at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas at the same time and place as the Texas State Fair. Dallas is roughly halfway between Norman, OK and Austin, TX. The stadium is split down the middle, one half burnt orange for Texas and the other crimson for Oklahoma.

Texas leads the all-time series 56-39-5, with a 44-35-4 edge in Dallas, but Oklahoma had won 5 consecutive years before Texas won the 2005 game. Four of the last six showings featured one of the participants in the BCS National Championship Game.

Oklahoma also has had a longstanding rivalry with Oklahoma State University called the Bedlam Series that encompasses all the athletic contests between the two universities, the winner receiving the Bedlam Bell. The football rivalry, while intense, remains lopsided, being 77-16 in favor of the Sooners. OU's other major historic rival is the University of Nebraska, who were part of the Big 8 Conference with OU, and who joined with OU and other schools in the formation of the Big 12 Conference in 1996.

Memorial Stadium has been the home of the Oklahoma Sooners for more than eight decades. In the early 1920’s a group of students formed a committee to look at a new stadium for the football stadium. Support increased, and by 1921 construction began on a new facility. Completed in two years, Memorial Stadium was named in honor of University personnel who died in World War I. The Sooners played their first game at Memorial Stadium on October 20, 1923. Built at a cost of $293,000 the stadium originally had a seating capacity of roughly 16,000 on the west side of the field. As support for the team grew, so did the stadium.

In 1929 an additional 16,000 seats were added to the east side of Memorial Stadium. By 1949, the playing field was lowered and the running track was removed. New seating areas along the field and in the north end zone increased the capacity to 55,000.

Two years later bleachers were added in the south end of the stadium. Prior to the start of the 1970 season, the Sooners decided to replace the grass field with Astroturf. The upper deck on the west side and press box were constructed in 1975 boosting the capacity to 70,000.

By 1980 the temporary bleachers that had been in the south endzone since 1957 were removed and replaced with permanent ones, giving Memorial Stadium a seating capacity of 75,000. The artificial surface was removed before the 1994 season and replaced with natural grass. In 1995, nine suites were constructed on the west side, a new video/scoreboard was installed along with lights.

The latest renovation has occurred during the past couple of years. Prior to the 2003 season, 8,000 seats and 27 luxury suites were added on the east side.

The Stadium was renamed to The Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. The Gaylords gave $50 million dollars towards the expansion/renovation in exchange for the name change.

West Side:

A new brick exterior was also added to Memorial Stadium with the 2003 expansion.

Today, the stadium has a seating capacity of 81,207 and is the largest sporting arena in the state. The record attendance for the stadium was set during a 2005 contest against Texas A&M with 84,943 attending.

In 2005, the Sooners finished the regular season with an adequate 7-4 record which scored them to an invitation to the Holiday Bowl in San Diego. They beat Oregon 17-14. At home, they averaged 84,331 fans to their 6 home games making them the 9th most popular team in college football (and ahead of a lot of NFL franchises).

Next: back to Florida to look at the Gators’ arch-rival, the Florida State Seminoles. I thought the ‘Noles might be further up the capacity list than the Sooners but their stated capacity of 82,300 is only approximate as far as I’m concerned. And I just did all this work on Oklahoma!

alabakiwi · **Joined:** Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:03 pm **Posts:** 108

Here's an (aerial) update of the Bryant-Denny Stadium north end zone stand. The second tier is very steep (ABSA Stadium steep). And sitting up there would give you a Madden-esque feel to the game I would imagine.

Notice the fraternity house getting dug around. It's about to get bulldozed to make way for a legends of football type park with statues of famous football players and coaches. They're pretty good at finding creative ways of spending money when it comes to football here.

Simmo79 · **Posted:** Mon May 01, 2006 7:07 pm

not strictly a college football article but it does touch on the LA Colliseum and the Rose Bowl.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-lanfl1may01,1,4787510.story?coll=la-headlines-sports&ctrack=1&cset=true

Quote:

Cities Vie to Be Ushers for New NFL Audience
By Alan Abrahamson, Times Staff Writer LA Times
May 1, 2006

Nicholas Garcia is 8 years old. He lives in Moorpark, in Ventura County. Unlike boys — and girls — in other places in the United States, he has lived his entire life without having a professional football team around to root for.

His dad, Alonzo Garcia, grew up in Texas. When he was a boy, Alonzo, who's now 48, grew to be a big fan of the Dallas Cowboys.

Nicholas? He said last week during a pause in a visit to Disneyland, "I don't even watch football."

For nearly a dozen years, the Los Angeles area has been without an NFL team. Now there is reason to suspect the long pause may be nearing an end, motivated in part by the NFL's recognition that the time has come to lure California youngsters such as Nicholas Garcia into the fold.

"We've let a whole generation of kids grow up for the past decade without NFL football," said influential New England Patriot owner Robert Kraft in a telephone interview. "That's not good for us, and I don't think it's good for the community."

At a meeting in Dallas on Tuesday, an 11-member NFL owners committee will hear presentations from boosters of the Coliseum and Anaheim, the two sites in the running for an NFL return. The league may also hear a presentation from Pasadena, considered a longshot.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will be in Dallas. "We really are open for business and, in particular, NFL business," he said.

Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle is due in Dallas too. "It may very well boil down to a discussion of … looking to the past or looking to the future," he said, suggesting the Coliseum represents "the storied past," Anaheim the "future vision."

The Dallas meeting, for all its import, is but the warmup act. Three weeks later, all 32 NFL owners are scheduled to meet in Denver. There, NFL officials have said, a decision is due. The plan is to pick a site, or sites, then later identify a team, through relocation or expansion, and an owner or owners.

Of course, it's possible the Dallas and Denver meetings will lead nowhere.

The L.A. area has been without NFL football since after the 1994 season, when the Rams moved to St. Louis and the Raiders returned to Oakland. The years since, with plan after plan dashed, have engendered among many in Southern California a skepticism, if not cynicism, about the NFL's return to the nation's No. 2 television market.

Moreover, spiraling construction costs could threaten today's prospects. At a March meeting in Orlando, Fla., NFL staffers suggested the cost of doing business in Anaheim or at the Coliseum might reach $800 million. NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue said last week the league is seeking to lower those estimates to perhaps $650 million.

"The one thing that concerns me is if people think the leadership of the NFL will recommend having a franchise [in the Los Angeles area] at any cost," Kraft said. "Because they can't do that."

Whether in Anaheim or at the Coliseum, the NFL would build the stadium. Then it would turn over the project to an owner or owners, who would be on the hook to pay back the project's debt.

The Coliseum would be reworked around the famed peristyle end. The 92,000-seat bowl would be refashioned into a stadium with 200 luxury boxes and seating for 68,000 for NFL games, 80,000 for events such as a Super Bowl or USC games. The NFL would enter into a 25-year lease extendable to 55 years. Other deal points have not been disclosed.

In a version of the public-private partnership the league likes to see, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2004 signed a measure that would benefit the Coliseum. It calls for increases in tax revenue in the surrounding area that are sparked by renovation to be put back into nearby roads and utilities. The money, perhaps $25 million, is not for stadium building.

The NFL has not decided between relocation or expansion. Tagliabue last week said expansion deserves to be "seriously evaluated."

The Anaheim plan centers on a 50-acre parcel in the Angel Stadium parking lot. The city has offered to sell the land to the NFL under market value, but it has also given the league a May 31 deadline to cut a deal before it explores other options. Full details of the Anaheim plan have not been made public.

There is no such deadline involving the Coliseum. But, Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard Parks said, "The energy is not there to sustain this for months and months without a due date."

The NFL would seem to be in prime position to strike a deal. New television contracts mean billions in revenue. A new agreement with NFL players has bought labor peace through 2011. Plus, Tagliabue has announced he intends to retire in July.

That confluence of events means two things.

First, assuming the economics can be met, there is considerable sentiment within the league to get back to Los Angeles as a parting nod to Tagliabue. He has long advocated Southern California as a first-rate Super Bowl locale.

"I think the commissioner would like it to be on his watch that there's movement, momentum and some real traction," said New York Giant chairman and executive vice president Steve Tisch, who probably will play a key role in the process. Tisch is the only figure among NFL ownership who lives full time in the Los Angeles area.

Moreover, with the TV and union deals done, the NFL can afford to think big-picture — about markets and means by which it can sustain its growth.

That means looking to Europe, Latin America and Asia — and, back home, at California.

The oldest stadium in the league, Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis., dates to 1957; it was renovated, however, only three years ago. The next three oldest: Oakland, San Diego and San Francisco.

By 2020, meanwhile, the California Department of Finance projects a population base of nearly 11 million people in Los Angeles County as well as 3.5 million in Orange County — plus 2.68 million more in Riverside County, 2.47 million in San Bernardino County, nearly 925,000 in Ventura County.

In all, by 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, California figures to hold 42.2 million people.

That's simply too many souls, could-be football fans such as Nicholas Garcia, for the league to ignore. Across the state, that's enough for at least five NFL teams: two in the Bay Area, one in San Diego and two in Greater Los Angeles.

The first next step: Tuesday in Dallas. Tisch said: "The way it's teed up, the timing certainly could be very, very favorable."

sandyhill · **Posted:** Tue May 02, 2006 6:49 pm

When it comes to showing and describing stadiums, with a fair bit of historical stuff thrown in as well, this IMO has been about the best stadium thread. Hope it keeps going for a while longer. Thanks Simmo and co. -

Quote:

Cities Vie to Be Ushers for New NFL Audience
By Alan Abrahamson, Times Staff Writer LA Times
May 1, 2006

... the California Department of Finance projects a population base of nearly 11 million people in Los Angeles County as well as 3.5 million in Orange County — plus 2.68 million more in Riverside County, 2.47 million in San Bernardino County, nearly 925,000 in Ventura County.

So that will mean about 20.5 million in the greater LA precinct and hinterland!

Quote:

In all, by 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, California figures to hold 42.2 million people. ... that's enough for at least five NFL teams: ..."

Compared to Australia - 31 (soon to be 32) AFL/NRL clubs between 20 million (plus the A-League). Sorta explains the different level of $$$$ that the NFL generates compared to here.

Simmo79 · **Posted:** Wed May 03, 2006 2:53 pm

#14 Doak Campbell Stadium, Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida).
Capacity: 82,300

Florida State University, also commonly referred to as FSU or Florida State, is a comprehensive, graduate-national research university founded in 1851 and located in Tallahassee, the state capital of Florida. The city is located in the Florida Panhandle not far from the Georgia border. The university has a student body of about 40,000.

All of the school's athletic teams are called the Seminoles and are represented by the symbols Chief Osceola and Renegade. This Native American name is used with official sanction of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc. FSU participates in the Division I-A for football and in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Traditional rivals include the University of Florida Gators and the University of Miami Hurricanes.

From 1905 until 1947, FSU was Florida’s women’s University with the University of Florida being the men’s uni. As soon as that structure was abolished, both university systems became coeducational and FSU started up its football program. Florida State played at Centennial Field during their inaugural 1947 season until 1949. Since that late beginning the ‘Noles have gone on to become one of the great college football programs. They have won 2 National Championships (1993 and 1999) as well as numerous conference championships including 12 of the ACC's last 14.

From a maximum capacity of 15,000 in 1953 to a record crowd of 84,336 in 2003 against Miami, Doak S. Campbell Stadium has risen along with the Florida State football program to the top of the college football ladder

In 1954, the stadium grew to a capacity of 19,000. Six thousand more seats were added in 1961.
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Between 1960 and 1970, the stadium was expanded to 40,500 seats, and it remained at that capacity for the next 14 years.

The current capacity of 82,300 reflects an increase of 28,281 since the end of the 1991 season.

The south endzone houses the Florida State school of hospitality education where students in the program receive hands-on experience in various aspects of the food and beverage industry. The multi-level facility includes a food court, a restaurant and a sports grill on the top floor that gives a panoramic view of Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium. Apparently putting in classrooms was a sneaky way to receive state funding for the stadium expansions.

The north endzone is topped by the offices of the football coaches. The offices are just part of the Daisy Parker Flory wing of the Moore Athletic Center which include a number of amenities for the football staff.

Towering above college football action from the east side are skyboxes, which stretch from goal line to goal line. New skyboxes are located above the west stands on the eighth floor. The west addition also houses the president's level on the seventh floor (which includes an open air terrace in the northwest corner) and one of the largest press boxes in college football with seating for over 250 members of the media.

A brick facade surrounds the stadium, matching the architectural design of most of the buildings on the Florida State campus. The University Center surrounds Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium and houses numerous offices that were located on the interior of the FSU campus.

taking the field:

Brunettes pwn blondes:

In its last 104 home games, FSU is 96-7-1. Bobby Bowden's Florida State teams have lost only 21 games at home in 29 years, giving the coach an impressive 147-21-2 record and an .871 winning percent-age in Tallahassee. All-time, Florida State is 237-74-4 in 315 home games for a winning percentage of .758.

In 2005, FSU averaged 82,724 fans to their 6 home games. On the field the ‘Noles had a fairly ordinary end to the regular season, losing to North Carolina State, Clemson and arch-rivals Florida in their last 3 games. However, their 7-4 record got them into the ACC championship game against Virginia Tech. They beat the Hokies 27-22, thus bagging the ACC’s automatic spot at the Orange Bowl. The 2006 Orange Bowl was a fantastic game. The Penn State Nittany Lions and FSU battled through triple-overtime before Penn State clinched the game at 1am at a packed Dolphins Stadium in Miami.

Jeffles · **Posted:** Wed May 03, 2006 5:28 pm

Simmo 79 wrote:

All stadia should look like this!

Alley · **Posted:** Sat May 20, 2006 1:37 pm

Cool thread!

I'm a Tennessee fan...the Tennessee Volunteers...our main rival is Bama and then Florida. Last season was our worst and first losing season since 1988 as we went 5-6. Here's hoping that we get back on track this year.

Our unofficial fight song ~ Rocky Top: http://www.utk.edu/athletics/rockytop.au

This song is played after our victories and is the last song played of the night as the stadium is draining ~ Tennessee Waltz: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~bigger/sounds/tnwaltz.au

One of our sayings before every home game right before kickoff ~ "It's Football Time In Tennessee!": http://members.aol.com/ke4sdj/iftintn.wav

Here is a 73 MB 11 minute highlight video of the 1995 Alabama vs Tennessee (The Third Saturday in October) game: http://rapidshare.de/files/20402369/Vols_Bama_1995.wmv.html

Lastly, Neyland Stadium is currently going through some much needed renovations: http://68.156.229.10/~phillipfulmer/neyland2/renderings.html

Let me know if y'all have any questions about college football or stadiums.

alabakiwi · **Joined:** Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:03 pm **Posts:** 108

Why don't you show the highlights from last year's game?

Alley · **Posted:** Sun May 21, 2006 4:21 am

LOL...there were no highlights from last year's game...we should have won that one though...we were on our way to the game winning TD when y'alls DB made a perfect hit on our FB...of course knocking the ball out and through the endzone.

Don't worry...we'll have plenty of highlights after we take care of Bama this year in Neyland.

Simmo79 · **Posted:** Fri Jun 02, 2006 1:54 pm

#15 Memorial Stadium, Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina)
Capacity: 81,000

Clemson University located in Clemson, South Carolina, was founded in 1889, a legacy of Thomas Green Clemson, who willed his Fort Hill plantation home, its surrounding farmlands and forest, and other property to the State of South Carolina to establish a technical and scientific institution for South Carolina

Clemson's athletic teams play under the nickname "Fighting Tigers". They participate in the NCAA's Division I (I-A for football) and in the Atlantic Coast Conference (Atlantic Division). One of Clemson's rivalries is the in-state University of South Carolina Gamecocks. The two institutions compete against each other in many sports, with the annual football game receiving the most attention.

The Tigers football program is currently the leader among ACC schools for conference championships at 13, in addition to 2 Southern Conference titles. The program has also participated in 28 bowl games over the years, winning 15. The 1981 squad also became the first athletic team in school history to win a National Championship, going 12-0 and finishing the year ranked #1 in the Associated Press and Coaches polls. Tommy Bowden is the current head coach for the Tigers.

Memorial Stadium, in Clemson, South Carolina, USA, popularly known as "Death Valley" is home to the Clemson University Tigers NCAA Division I-A football team. Capacity is officially just over 81,000, though the record attendance was set in 1999 at 86,026. The stadium is one of the ten largest on-campus stadiums in the United States and is the second largest in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Throughout their history at Memorial Stadium, the Tigers have had a 70% winning percentage.

Before the Tigers played in Memorial Stadium, games were originally played on Bowman Field and later moved to Riggs Field. In 1940, officials decided to build a new stadium on the west side of Clemson’s campus. Land was cleared and a 20,000 seat stadium was erected.

By the start of the 1958 season 18,000 seats were added along the sidelines. Two years later, an additional 5,600 seats were constructed at the west end zone. Both of these additions increased the capacity at Memorial Stadium to 53,000. With continuing success and growing fan support upper decks were added in 1978 and 1983 bringing the capacity to over 80,000. The main lower grandstand is in a horseshoe shape with suites and luxury areas between the lower decks on the upper decks on the north and south stands.

West Zone addition.

The Tigers are currently renovating the small stand opposite the hill End

Among the most interesting features of the stadium are the grassy hill on the east side of the stadium, a popular sitting area for Clemson students. At the top of the hill lies "Howard's Rock", which is an imported rock from Death Valley, California that was presented to legendary Clemson coach Frank Howard in 1967. The Tigers' traditional team entrance involves each player rubbing the rock for magical powers and then running down the hill, a procession that has been termed "the most exciting 25 seconds in college football."

Derbies are the best matches – Clemson v South Carolina

The term "Death Valley" comes from the fact that the field is physically situated in a valley. Two additional facts add to the mystique. First, the university cemetery sits on a hill that once overlooked the field before the upper decks were constructed. The other reference comes from a former Presbyterian College coach who complained that playing his teams in Clemson would be similar to entering Death Valley (California).

Memorial Stadium was also the original home field for the Carolina Panthers of the NFL. When the Panthers played their inaugural season in 1995, their permanent stadium in Charlotte was still under construction; the team played its entire home schedule in Clemson.

The noise level that is reached in Death Valley is part of the stadium's appeal. In Clemson's 2005 game against the Miami Hurricanes, the crowd noise reached 126 decibals. Commentators commented that they could barely hear themselves speak, and even said they felt the stadium "move."

In 2005, Clemson finished the regular season with a 7-4 record and beat Colorado in the Champ Sports Bowl in Orlando (yeah it’s not an important game, but still). At home they averaged 78,232 fans to their 6 home games (ranked #18 in the country for average attendances).

Simmo79 · **Posted:** Fri Jun 02, 2006 2:25 pm

Okay - a couple of things to finish off before I go to Germany. I’ve just added Clemson to the thread and I’ve updated Michigan and Ohio State on page 1. They just weren’t up to more recent standards. Hope you enjoy a few more views of those mammoth palaces of the football gods.

FSU – if you interest was, er, piqued, by the Florida State Cowgirls, you can find more here:
http://www.maximonline.com/girls_of_maxim/pictures_and_bio/1177/FSUCowgirls.girl

And if you’re more generally interested in college football here’s an awesome site with photo essays of away games – Fudball Kulchaaaa!!
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/ajilling/

Simmo will return after 28 June with Camp Randall Stadium, home of the Wisconsin Badgers

IanRitchie · **Posted:** Fri Jun 02, 2006 7:20 pm

Enjoy Germany.

Don't mention the war.

Alley · **Posted:** Sat Jun 03, 2006 4:43 am

The Clemson/South Carolina fight was a black eye (pardon the pun) to college football. As a result of the fight both teams did not play in a bowl game that year.

Also, LSU fans consider Tiger Stadium the real "Death Valley" as Clemson and LSU fans argue about this all the time.

sandyhill · **Posted:** Sat Jun 10, 2006 5:48 pm

This has been a brilliant thread, showing the real core of US Football support - and its not the NFL - and the history and organic growth of those massive stadiums! Awesome stuff.

I've noticed that in recent years, more corporate like facilities are starting to become a feature in the new additions to these stadiums. They used to be mostly free of these.

Anyway, thanks again, Simmo, enjoy the World Cup, don't get arrested, and I'll patiently await a further instalment here one day.

Simmo79 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 14, 2006 6:58 pm

[b]#16 Camp Randall Stadium, University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin)
Capcity: 82,500 [/b]
The University of Wisconsin is a public university located the Wisconsin state capital Madison. Madison is located about 150km West of Milwaukee.

Founded in 1848, UW is the largest university in the state with a total enrollment of over 41,000 students. This makes the university the tenth largest in the United States in terms of student population.

Among U.S. universities, the University of Wisconsin is frequently listed as one of the "public Ivies"—publicly-funded universities providing a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League. Wisconsin also holds the distinction as the nation's number one party school, according to the 2005 Princeton Review's annual survey and the May 2006 issue of Playboy. Respect.

The Wisconsin Badgers are very competitive in the Big Ten Conference. Their most notable rivalry is the annual college football game between the Wisconsin Badgers and the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers for Paul Bunyan's Axe, which is the longest-running rivalry in NCAA sports. The two universities also compete in the Border Battle, which is a year long athletic competition where the winner of each event is awarded a certain number of points (some sports are worth more than others). The long-standing rivalry between the University of Iowa and Wisconsin was finally recognized beginning in 2004; the winner of the annual football game between the schools is awarded the Heartland Trophy.

The Badgers have won 6 Big Ten championships, 3 Rose Bowls (including 1999 and 2000) and were voted as a joint National Champion in 1942

Camp Randall is located on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. It currently seats over 82,500 and is widely known as one of the premier American football venues in collegiate athletics. Due in large part to the raucous crowd, the stadium is recognized among the most difficult for opposing teams in all of college football. It is the oldest stadium and fourth largest in the Big Ten Conference.

The stadium received its name because it lies on the grounds of Camp Randall, a former Union Army base during the American Civil War that was eventually absorbed by the Wisconsin campus. The camp was named after Governor Alexander Randall.

aerial – full stadium

inside view from the south end zone

The home of the Wisconsin Badgers, Camp Randall Stadium was originally built in 1913. However in 1915 the wooden bleachers collapsed and the need for a safer structure was needed. A new 10,000 seat stadium built of steel and concrete was constructed. The Badgers played their first game at the new stadium on November 3, 1917 against Minnesota.

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1947

Like many other stadiums, Camp Randall has been expanded many times and could seat 51,000 fans by 1951. In 1958 the track around the playing field was removed and the playing field was lowered allowing fans to get closer to the action. A three level press box and second deck on the westside was completed by the 1966 season increasing the capacity to 77,745.

1967

Since 1966, the stadium capacity has been altered slightly and now seats 76,129 fans. In the early 1990’s, Astroturf was installed replacing the grass field and a new scoreboard was added in 1992.

[BTW, the big building behind the south end zone is the Field House which is the former home of UW’s basketball teams. It still hosts wrestling and so forth].

Between 2001 and the start of the 2005 season Camp Randall was modernised. The Renovations included nearly 1,000 club seats, 72 luxury suites, rebuilding the south end zone, and enclosing the south east and west corners with new seats. The Astroturf playing field has also been removed and replaced by Fieldturf. Today after these expansions Camp Randall Stadium has a seating capacity of approximately 80,300 Badger fans.

East Side prior to 2004 renovations

New Boxes on East Side

Wisconsin set a school record in 2004 when an average of 82,368 fans attended games at Camp Randall Stadium. The season was sold out in advance for the first time in 2004, and in 2005, a record 69,290 season tickets were sold. UW drew a single game attendance record of 83,069 against Minnesota on Nov. 6. Since 1972, Wisconsin has ranked among the top 16 in the nation in attendance.

In 2005, Wisconsin averaged 82,551 to their 6 home games. On the field they finished the season with a respectable 9-3 record and defeated the SEC’s Auburn 24-10 in the Capital One Bowl played in Orlando.

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