What is the largest college football stadium?

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

Venue Atlas

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.

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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

A fast read on the venue dataset before you drop into the explorer.

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.

Record Book

Top Venues

Fast entry points into the most recognizable venue benchmarks in the dataset.

Largest Stadium

Memorial Stadium (Clemson, SC)

Clemson, SC

Capacity

81,500

Open venue

Oldest Stadium

Bobby Dodd Stadium

Atlanta, GA

Opened

1913

Open venue

Highest Elevation

Lane Stadium

Blacksburg, VA

Elevation

632 ft

Open venue

Most Games Hosted

Bobby Dodd Stadium

Atlanta, GA

Games Hosted

812

Open venue

Capacity Distribution

How the current result set breaks across venue size bands.

17 venues

<30,0000

30,000-49,9995

50,000-79,99911

80,000-99,9991

100,000+0

Surface Split

Grass8

Turf9

Unknown0

Roof Types

Open16

Dome1

Unknown0

Working Surface

College Football Stadium Explorer

Filter, sort, and compare stadiums by location, capacity, elevation, roof, surface, and game history. The explorer is the primary operating surface on this page, so the controls stay utility-first and the venue table stays scan-friendly.

Power Conference Venues 100K+ Stadiums Dome Stadiums

none	none	none	none	none	none	none	descending
Bobby Dodd Stadium Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA	ACC	Turf	Open	279 ft	55,000	812
Acrisure Stadium Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, PA	ACC	Grass	Open	221 ft	68,400	757
JMA Wireless Dome Syracuse	Syracuse, NY	ACC	Turf	Dome	163 ft	49,057	733
Scott Stadium Virginia	Charlottesville, VA	ACC	Grass	Open	170 ft	61,500	727
California Memorial Stadium California	Berkeley, CA	ACC	Turf	Open	125 ft	62,467	698
Lane Stadium Virginia Tech	Blacksburg, VA	ACC	Grass	Open	632 ft	65,632	697
Kenan Stadium North Carolina	Chapel Hill, NC	ACC	Turf	Open	128 ft	50,500	669
Carter-Finley Stadium NC State	Raleigh, NC	ACC	Grass	Open	117 ft	58,000	656
Stanford Stadium Stanford	Stanford, CA	ACC	Grass	Open	18 ft	50,424	636
Gerald J. Ford Stadium SMU	University Park, TX	ACC	Turf	Open	169 ft	32,000	628
Memorial Stadium (Clemson, SC) Clemson	Clemson, SC	ACC	Grass	Open	206 ft	81,500	621
Hard Rock Stadium Miami	Miami Gardens, FL	ACC	Turf	Open	3 ft	64,767	598
Alumni Stadium (Chestnut Hill, MA) Boston College	Chestnut Hill, MA	ACC	Turf	Open	40 ft	44,500	580
Allegacy Federal Credit Union Stadium Wake Forest	Winston-Salem, NC	ACC	Turf	Open	284 ft	31,500	566
Wallace Wade Stadium Duke	Durham, NC	ACC	Grass	Open	103 ft	40,004	566
Doak Campbell Stadium Florida State	Tallahassee, FL	ACC	Grass	Open	20 ft	67,277	460
L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium Louisville	Louisville, KY	ACC	Turf	Open	139 ft	60,000	408

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Field Notes

Did You Know?

A quick briefing on the biggest capacity, elevation, surface, and dome takeaways in the venue set.

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.