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Ranking all 16 SEC stadiums by capacity: Where does Texas land?
The Southeastern Conference has nine of the country's 15 largest college football stadiums . Two of those stadiums belong to Oklahoma and Texas, who joined the league in 2024.
SEC football stadium capacities range from 40,350 (Vanderbilt) to 102,733 (Texas A&M) seats. Five conference programs have stadiums with a capacity over 100,000.
The first SEC game was played at McLean Stadium in Lexington, Kentucky on September 30, 1933 between the Wildcats and the Sewanee Purple Tigers. The game had just 8,000 fans in attendance.
The highest attendance for an SEC college football game, or college football for that matter, was 156,990 for the neutral-site "Battle at Bristol" between Tennessee and Virginia Tech on September 10, 2016.
The biggest on-campus crowd in history was 110,633 at Kyle Field on Oct. 11, 2014 between the Aggies and Ole Miss .
Here's the seating capacity of all 16 SEC football stadiums:
Historical fact : Opened 104 years ago in 1922 as the first stadium in the South to be used exclusively for college football.
15. Davis Wade Stadium - Mississippi State Bulldogs (Starkville, Mississippi)
Seating Capacity : 60,311
Record Crowd : 61,337
Opened : 1914
Historical fact : Originally constructed in 1914 as New Athletic Field, it is the second-oldest stadium in the Football Bowl Subdivision behind Georgia Tech 's Bobby Dodd Stadium.
14. Kroger Field - Kentucky Wildcats (Lexington, Kentucky)
Seating Capacity : 61,000
Record Crowd : 71,024
Opened : 1973
Historical fact : Built in 1973, it is the newest football stadium in the Southeastern Conference, as measured by date of original construction.
13. Memorial Stadium - Missouri Tigers (Columbia, Missouri)
Seating Capacity : 61,620
Record Crowd : 75,298
Opened : 1926
Historical fact : The third-largest sports facility by seating capacity in the state of Missouri, behind The Dome at America's Center in St. Louis and Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.
12. Vaught-Hemingway Stadium - Ole Miss Rebels (Oxford, Mississippi)
Seating Capacity : 64,038
Record Crowd : 68,251
Opened : 1915
Historical fact : Before expansions in the 1990s, Ole Miss played many of its big rivalry games at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in the state capital of Jackson and the Liberty Bowl in Memphis.
11. Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium - Arkansas Razorbacks (Fayetteville, Arkansas)
Seating Capacity : 72,000
Record Crowd : 76,808
Opened : 1934
Historical fact : Arkansas used to split its home games between Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville and War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock. Now, they just play FCS teams in Little Rock.
10. Williams-Brice Stadium - South Carolina Gamecocks (Columbia, South Carolina)
Seating Capacity : 80,250
Record Crowd : 85,199
Opened : 1934
Historical fact : In 1993, the stadium was the setting for film The Program , starring James Caan, Halle Berry, Omar Epps, Craig Sheffer, and Kristy Swanson. The stadium was also featured in overhead footage for the final scene in the 1998 football comedy, The Waterboy .
9. Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium - Oklahoma Sooners (Norman, Oklahoma)
Seating Capacity : 80,126
Record Crowd : 88,308
Opened : 1923
Historical fact : Each year, the Sooners play the Red River Shootout against rival Texas at the 92,100-seat Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas.
Historical fact : Jordan-Hare Stadium is the home of the War Eagle tradition that features a live eagle soaring untethered around prior to kickoff, accompanied by the famous "War Eagle" crowd chant.
7. Ben Hill Griffin Stadium - Florida Gators (Gainesville, Florida)
Seating Capacity : 88,548
Record Crowd : 90,916
Opened : 1930
Historical fact : Opened 104 years ago in 1922 as the first stadium in the South to be used exclusively for college football.
Historical fact : Inspired by the Rose Bowl, Georgia planted hedges around the field. The program used Chinese privet instead of rose bushes because of the warm climate. Games at Sanford Stadium are often referred to as "Between the Hedges."
Historical fact : In 1975, the Alabama state legislature added longtime head coach and alumnus Paul "Bear" Bryant to the stadium's name.
4. Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium - Texas Longhorns (Austin, Texas)
Seating Capacity : 100,119
Record Crowd : 105,215
Opened : 1924
Historical fact : DKR used to have a track. It was removed in 1999 and the field was lowerd to add more seats, bringing the capacity to 80,082 at the time.
Historical fact : In 1962, the stadium was renamed Neyland Stadium in honor of General Robert Neyland, the recently deceased former athletic director and coach.
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