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

Mountain America Stadium

Tempe, AZ

Capacity

65,870

Open venue

Oldest Stadium

Nippert Stadium

Cincinnati, OH

Opened

1915

Open venue

Highest Elevation

Folsom Field

Boulder, CO

Elevation

1,634 ft

Open venue

Most Games Hosted

Memorial Stadium

Lawrence, KS

Games Hosted

686

Open venue

Capacity Distribution

How the current result set breaks across venue size bands.

16 venues

<30,0000

30,000-49,9996

50,000-79,99910

80,000-99,9990

100,000+0

Surface Split

Grass6

Turf10

Unknown0

Roof Types

Open16

Dome0

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
Memorial Stadium Kansas	Lawrence, KS	Big 12	Turf	Open	275 ft	47,000	686
Jack Trice Stadium Iowa State	Ames, IA	Big 12	Grass	Open	275 ft	61,500	665
Milan Puskar Stadium West Virginia	Morgantown, WV	Big 12	Turf	Open	327 ft	60,000	652
McLane Stadium Baylor	Waco, TX	Big 12	Turf	Open	117 ft	45,140	649
Folsom Field Colorado	Boulder, CO	Big 12	Grass	Open	1,634 ft	50,183	642
Rice-Eccles Stadium Utah	Salt Lake City, UT	Big 12	Turf	Open	1,412 ft	51,444	631
Bill Snyder Family Stadium Kansas State	Manhattan, KS	Big 12	Turf	Open	328 ft	50,000	625
Amon G. Carter Stadium TCU	Fort Worth, TX	Big 12	Grass	Open	185 ft	46,000	606
Boone Pickens Stadium Oklahoma State	Stillwater, OK	Big 12	Turf	Open	276 ft	55,509	594
Arizona Stadium Arizona	Tucson, AZ	Big 12	Turf	Open	742 ft	50,782	579
Mountain America Stadium Arizona State	Tempe, AZ	Big 12	Grass	Open	360 ft	65,870	578
Jones AT&T Stadium Texas Tech	Lubbock, TX	Big 12	Turf	Open	981 ft	60,454	564
LaVell Edwards Stadium BYU	Provo, UT	Big 12	Grass	Open	1,412 ft	63,470	536
Nippert Stadium Cincinnati	Cincinnati, OH	Big 12	Turf	Open	230 ft	40,000	476
TDECU Stadium Houston	Houston, TX	Big 12	Turf	Open	10 ft	40,000	430
FBC Mortgage Stadium UCF	Orlando, FL	Big 12	Grass	Open	21 ft	44,206	189

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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.