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

Rose Bowl

Pasadena, CA

Capacity

88,565

Open venue

Oldest Stadium

Rose Bowl

Pasadena, CA

Opened

1922

Open venue

Highest Elevation

Rose Bowl

Pasadena, CA

Elevation

245 ft

Open venue

Most Games Hosted

California Memorial Stadium

Berkeley, CA

Games Hosted

698

Open venue

Capacity Distribution

How the current result set breaks across venue size bands.

27 venues

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30,000-49,9994

50,000-79,9996

80,000-99,9991

100,000+0

Surface Split

Grass7

Turf20

Unknown0

Roof Types

Open26

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
California Memorial Stadium California	Berkeley, CA	ACC	Turf	Open	125 ft	62,467	698
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum USC	Los Angeles, CA	Big Ten	Grass	Open	43 ft	77,500	661
Stanford Stadium Stanford	Stanford, CA	ACC	Grass	Open	18 ft	50,424	636
Rose Bowl UCLA	Pasadena, CA	Big Ten	Grass	Open	245 ft	88,565	591
Valley Children's Stadium Fresno State	Fresno, CA	Mountain West	Turf	Open	103 ft	41,031	385
CEFCU Stadium San José State	San Jose, CA	Mountain West	Turf	Open	28 ft	30,456	378
Snapdragon Stadium San Diego State	San Diego, CA	Mountain West	Grass	Open	62 ft	35,000	366
SoFi Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	Inglewood, CA	Unknown	Turf	Dome	—	71,500	1
Aggie Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	Davis, CA	Unknown	Turf	Open	11 ft	10,743	0
Alex G. Spanos Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	San Luis Obispo, CA	Unknown	Grass	Open	85 ft	11,075	0
Citrus Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	Azusa, CA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	10,000	0
Dignity Health Sports Park Historic or neutral-site venue	Carson, CA	Unknown	Grass	Open	39 ft	48,114	0
Ernie Chapman Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	Orange, CA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	2,000	0
Fritz B. Burns Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	Claremont, CA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	3,000	0
Hornet Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	Sacramento, CA	Unknown	Turf	Open	12 ft	21,195	0
Levi's Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	Santa Clara, CA	Unknown	Turf	Open	5 ft	68,500	0
Memorial Stadium (Whittier, CA) Historic or neutral-site venue	Whittier, CA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	7,000	0
Merritt Field Historic or neutral-site venue	Claremont, CA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	4,000	0
Ortmayer Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	La Verne, CA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	2,500	0
Patterson Field at Jack Kemp Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	Los Angeles, CA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	4,000	0
Petco Park Historic or neutral-site venue	San Diego, CA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	—	0
Qualcomm Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	San Diego, CA	Unknown	Turf	Open	16 ft	70,561	0
Redwood Bowl Historic or neutral-site venue	Aracata, CA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	—	0
StubHub Center Historic or neutral-site venue	Carson, CA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	27,000	0
Ted Runner Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	Redlands, CA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	6,750	0

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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.