With just a few weeks until the official release of its highly anticipated video game, College Football 25, EA Sports has announced that it will be releasing its own rankings for the sport ahead of the game’s release on July 19. The first of these announcements is a prediction for the toughest stadiums in the country.
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Ben Hill Griffin Stadium has been the home of the Gators since it opened in 1930 and seats more than 88,500. The attendance record was set in 2015 when Florida hosted rival Florida State in front of 90,916 fans.
Doak Campbell Stadium, named after a former FSU president, has a capacity of 79,560 and is the 49th largest stadium in the world and the 15th largest in college football. The Seminoles hosted Notre Dame in 2014, where they lost, but the stadium’s attendance was a record high of 84,431.
Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium has been home to the Sooners since 1923 and celebrated its 100th anniversary of football last season. The stadium has a capacity of 86,112, ranking 22nd in the world and 13th in college football. OU’s record capacity is 88,388, set in 2017 against TCU.
The Badgers, who play on the grounds of their Civil War-era training camp, Camp Randall, have played there since 1895, and the original stadium was built in 1917, making it the oldest stadium in the Big Ten Conference. Wisconsin set a record by drawing 83,184 fans to a game against Iowa in 2005, and the sight of fans dancing inside the stadium as part of the “jump around” tradition has been one of the most well-known features of college football Saturdays since the 1990s.
Beaver Stadium, built in 1959, remains one of the loudest and rowdiest environments in college football. Penn State seats 106,572, making it the second-largest stadium in college football and the fourth-largest venue on the planet. The famous “White Out” game, played in Happy Valley, home to one of the loudest student sections in the nation, is one of the toughest matches on any schedule.
Sanford Stadium is the proud home field of up-and-coming University of Georgia, which has hosted two national championship teams in the last three seasons. The stadium has a capacity of 92,746, making it the 9th largest college football venue and the 17th largest in the world. The first game was against Yale in 1929, widely regarded as a seminal moment when Southern football defeated championship-favorite Northeastern and rose to national prominence. Georgia is 22-0 at Samford since 2020.
Breaking ground in 1921 and opening in 1922, Ohio Stadium (aka the Horseshoe) has an official capacity of 102,780, making it the third-largest stadium in college football. But Buckeye diehards set a record with 110,045 fans in 2016 against (who else?) arch-rival Michigan. Ohio State won in double overtime by three points. The Red and Gray are 22-2 at home since the 2020 season.
Ask most college football fans, inside or outside the SEC, and they’ll tell you there’s nowhere else in the country that’s as raw and raucous as Tiger Stadium on a Saturday night. Death Valley seats 102,321 fans, making it the fifth-largest stadium in college football and the seventh-largest in the world. One of the stadium’s most famous games is the 1988 “Earthquake Game,” when a late touchdown to beat Auburn University sparked such an intense crowd reaction that it was recorded as an earthquake on local seismographs.
Boasting a home team winning percentage of .827 since opening in 1929, Bryant-Denny Stadium is one of the most formidable venues in college football. With a capacity of 100,077 fans, the home of Alabama football is the eighth-largest in the country and 10th-largest in the world, and the first stadium in the SEC to top 100,000 fans for a single game. Alabama is a dominant 25-1 record in Titletown since the 2020 season.
Kyle Field, home of the 12th Man, currently holds the record as the largest football venue in the SEC, with a capacity of 102,733. It is also the fourth-largest stadium in college football and in the country. Texas A&M drew a crowd of 110,633 in 2014 against Ole Miss, which was the largest attendance for an SEC game and any Texas game at the time. Quite a feat.
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