Beaver Stadium's total renovation will be over $3 billion over 5 years probably. The current $700M is to winterize the stadium for playoff and hockey games and redo the seating on the west side. The second phase will be the east side. The third phase will finally address the exterior.
@@A_Realist I'm calling it $3B factoring inflation since it sounds like a 10 year process. The money doesn't exist to do everything right now. If the previous president actually supported the football team, this would've been done when the construction costs were less.
I agree that a rebuild would probably be better (brand new NFL stadiums--excluding SOFI--typically run $1-2B). That is what they need to do at Ohio State is completely rebuild. They will never do it for the nostalgia purpose; however, the stadium is garbage, run down, tons of obstructed seats, and just generally unpleasant... and this is coming from a big OSU fan/alumni.
@@mbstrongs I'm a PSU fan and believe Beaver Stadium is a dump. I also don't believe a rebuild is necessary. Countless historic stadiums like Lambeau Field and Bucs Stadium have demonstrated you can upgrade an existing decades-old facility to modern standards. I think these modern stadiums like SoFi are great for casual fan bases like Vegas and LA where they're year-round event facilities and not authentic football stadiums. I think the main point people are missing with PSU is that it's not about looks. There was just deferred maintenance due to budgetary constraints imposed by previous leadership that felt like the football program should not be priority #1 like it was under Paterno. It's taken Franklin 10 years to convince them that football is the front porch to the rest of the university so for every dollar invested there will be an ROI for other sports programs and academics. PSU isn't OSU or Northwestern where we can raise a quick billion on a capital call. Though we should since we have the largest alumni network, they're terrible at activating it to fundraise for the athletic programs. So the money doesn't exist to approve and start a $3 billion rebuild that wouldn't necessitate tax or academic dollars to support. So it has to be done in phases, unfortunately. And they're focusing on the things that will immediately drive revenue and a better gameday experience so it pays for itself. Exterior cosmetic changes won't do anything to drive revenue. Winterizing it so playoff games and NHL hockey can be played there is a revenue driver. So is adding more box seats and suites to sell higher ticket prices. That's why they're starting with the indoor bowl first which will reduce the 110K seating capacity but boost the average ticket sales price. And of course more concessions, more bathrooms, better Wi-Fi, etc.
Covered Army bowl game at Cotton Bowl very historic place to visit. Thought of all the great Giant - Cowboy games watched growing up, many photos of those games in media room.
Fielding Yost designed Michigan Stadium with footings to add an entire upper deck and expand the stadium to 150,000 if needed. Bottom line is although the attendance marks are close, as long as Michigan wants to be the largest stadium in the country, it will be.
This Toledo/Buckeyes fan was first in The Big House in 1964... first viewed from an upper edge, I thought I was looking at The Grand Canyon! It's an old spread out wide design rather than raised up quickly. Bring your binoculars! A big hole in the ground as the video says.
I've been to Michigan Stadium once back in the early 90s and back then it did not look impressive at all walking towards it from the outside. It just looked like a one story wall. But once you got inside you saw the huge bowl. There was no bad seat at all in there, great view of the field from every seat.
Yes the seat,s are for people that have small back End,s , to all season ticket holder’s MAINTAINING YOUR BUTT WIDTH IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO KEEPING YOUR SEAT!!!
Having been to everyone of these, I regret to say I like the Big House the best! At one level, it really gives you an inclusive feeling and its not violently angled! While putting you further away than some, it allows for everyone the same experience not being trapped under another level. Also being halfway buried seems to give you a more secure feeling when the crowd gets rowdy! The rectangle with rounded corners just seems a more thought out design and not some patched together expansion ideas over the years. I hope they simply renovate but never expand it. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should! Its great the way it is!
Stadiums don't need wifi, air conditioned/cushioned seats, and assorted charcuterie boards. The Cotton Bowl is filled with metal bleachers and the experience is still unmatched for Red River.
Michigan season tickets are so in demand that to start you get only 2 end zone tickets if you donate enough to the university and your points are above the minimum cut off. Then if you maintain your season tickets each year by meeting the threshold donations and buying season tickets over decades you can move to the more prestigious mid-field seats. Unless you have deep pockets and decades the only way to get good tickets is to buy them in the secondary market. There is a reason Michigan is alway in the top five in football revenue.
Wow, these could hold my entire county...can you imagine if your county is about this many or less and could actually all meet and gather in one place?
Can you do one of EVERY FBS College Stadium and some Honorable mention FBS stadiums in a 5 to 6 second intervals with capacity? Would almost be like an omnibus of all your college stadium content into one video now that I think about it. It's possible i'm late to the party and you've done this already lol.
They just added suites on the south end of Kyle Field in the spring of this year. Not sure how that affected capacity. My son is the guy making sure the field is ready to play on every week.
I been there at lest 100 times, it's the first home of the Dallas Cowboys . I was lucky to see Danny Don Meredith play there, and also to see the 2020 Winter Classic. Go Stars!
The SEC leads in attendance overall, they have 4 stadiums that hold over 100k, Alabama, Lsu, Texas A&M, and Tennessee, and in 2024 they'll have another 100k stadium with Texas joining, + the SEC has a few with 90k seating capacity stadiums, the big 10 does have the 3 biggest seating capacities with Mich, OSU and Penn state, but overall the SEC leads in attendance overall
@davemiller9570 if you read my entire comment, I did mention the big 10 has the top 3, but after that its dominated by the SEC we have 4 stadiums that hold over 100k and lead in overall attendance + next season we'll have 5 stadiums with 100k +, but right now and for years the SEC leads in attendance cause we have overall bigger crowds the big 10 ain't much after Mich, Penn state and OSU
It is also worth mentioning that with the move that Oklahoma stadium is around 80 K so they will be adding that as well (though i could see that grow as the amount of money they will get in the SEC will grow as well.) Also this means the SEC will get the iconic Cotton Bowl as well which is super iconic and still gets a ton of love and the only reason why it doesn't have the Cotton Bowl played there anymore is because Jerry Jones as he got the game moved to Jerry World in 2010. But for picking up 2 Schools the SEC picks up about 181K seats for the whole of the season but they also get the 92K cotton bowl that is sold out every year for the Texas Oklahoma game.
Have to say Beaver stadium is a legend, and energetic gameday atmosphere like no other, especially the chants We Are Penn State We Are Penn State sometimes after a big play. their last whiteout they shutout Iowa 31-0 which was Iowa's first shutout loss since early 2000s
I'm not sure where the creator of this video obtain the information about Kyle Field / Texas A&M. We recently played Alabama, in the 2023 season with an announced attendance of 108, 500. Maybe the Creator could update his information. Even with that being said Michigan still has the largest capacity.
Disagree. When you get into the upper rows, you're way too far from the field. Ohio Stadium's seats are much closer to the center of the field. Yeah, I'm a Buckeye and I'm biased but I've seen games in both places and you feel much more engaged in Columbus. I think I was in section 11 in Michigan Stadium and a play at the far goal line was just a rumor without the video screens. I will concede a great game day atmosphere though.
@carseye1219 Take a screenshot from Google satellite of both stadiums. Zoom to make both fields the same size then make a side by side pic collage. The seating distance of the outermost rows is roughly the same. Michigan has no pillars blocking views though. There really is no bad seat anywhere in Michigan stadium.
I know lots of Michigan alums who have told me that Ohio Stadium has a lot more good seats than Michigan's. Without using elevation the rows in AA just keep getting further away from the field and the sound escapes the bowl. The 2010 renovation was an attempt, with the press box and luxury boxes, to try and keep some of the sound in but with only moderate success. The game day experience in Columbus is much more electric. The place reverberates. Give me Ohio Stadium every time. Just to bring in a third structure, even though it's not as gargantuan, Spartan Stadium is underrated. The players say it's like the fans are right on top of you. @@DubLubb
Regarding DKR: "And now they've finally gotten over the 100,000 benchmark". That was in 2009. 14 years ago. Texas was one of the first to surpass that benchmark and DKR used to be one of the 2 or 3 largest stadiums in the world.
Really incorrect on this. The top 2 are in India and North Korea and third is Michigan Stadium which got it's first crowd of over 100,000 in 1956. And of the 6 stadiums ahead of DKR in capacity (Michigan Stadium, Beaver Stadium, Ohio Stadium, Kyle Field, Tiger Stadium and Neyland Stadium), only 2 (Kyle Field in 2013 and Tiger Stadium in 2014) surpassed 100,000 after DKR. And there are only 8 total stadiums (Alabama included in 2010)with a capacity over 100,000. So it was the fifth of eight in college stadiums, not really "one of the first" and it was never even in the top five in the world.
@@realmenhavelittledogs2661I mean I get India, but does North Korea really count? While it technically is the largest stadium, I highly doubt they’ve ever even filled a 5th of it
Memorial Stadium in Lincoln Nebraska / University of Nebraska is doing major renovations as I type this and might not make a top ten list of biggest but its definitely in the top 5 for pure college Football Atmosphere! You are right about the Cotton Bowl it could be and should be up dated because of its history alone.....sad to see it get out of date and run down.
yep thats why i say they get a free pass to the cfp every year. ohio state and penn state and michigan all play the same garbage teams. while being meh most of the season. the ohio state notre dame game told me the irish sucks.
Ok, so these are the biggest....with tens of thousands of bad seats that are too far away from the field. The stadium with the best seats is Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon. Every one of the 54,000 seats allows you to really see the action.
@@vsky6880 Give it a week when Harbaugh is suspended and then give it until the NCAA hands down what could be the death penalty and players enter the portal
@@vsky6880 Being a scUM fan I would imagine you’re an expert when it comes to coping. Decades of mediocrity have served you well. BCS era Michigan did nothing, since 2014 they make it to the playoff and lose to TCU and think they’re CF royalty. You’ve been living in ancient history. Enjoy the suspension and penalties to follow, Michigan Man.
I know one place that will never have a stadium like these, Hawaii. They're so pathetic they don't even have a stadium right now for any games and they can't even fix it or build a new one.
@@zoomout4390On the school premises, Its Clarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex which seats around 15k w/ 2k more being added next year. At present as long as they sell out each game they stay in the FBS division. Currently the plan is to build a new entertainment facility along with 35k stadium on the Aloha Bowl site.
My Nittany Lions are the second largest stadium 🏟 to Michigan, but we have put over 110 thousand many times, and it supposedly holds 107, which means if in our renovation we made it 130 thousand, we would still fill it!!!!! WE ARE 🏈 Unrivaled
Michigan had 109,000 yrs ago and they put in handicapped ♿️ seating to knock it down and they constantly 90% are over 110,000 and largest ever was 114,000 ND nite gm yrs ago its called the BIGHOUSE FOR A REASON NO 1 WILL EVER HAVE MORE SEATS WELL NOT FOR LONG CAUSE THEY WILL RENOVATE
The issue with “Their listed capacity” is that they don’t account for people of girth. They put numbers on the seats(bleachers if you will) that are too close together when you have a larger person. The last game at The Ohio State University stadium, aka The Shoe, I attended with my son, I left at halftime and have never attended another game. He was 12, he is now 25. I am an average sized male. 5’10, 190 lbs. the problem was the 2 women to our right were very obese. Both very close to 300lbs. When one sat down, she covered seat number 12( her seat number), number 11 and number 10. 11 and 10 were mine and my son’s seats. Ditto for the other woman. I’m not fat shaming but my son and I had to sit with our shoulders kinda folded in front of us. Not an enjoyable experience. Listed capacity does mean that that’s how many people should be in attendance
Bryant-Denny looks like an old generic NFL stadium where they just keep adding seats for the sake of capacity, not caring about aesthetics. Kyle looks like a giant tackle box.
Michigan has sold out every game since 1975. The stadium is 107,999 capacity but usually has over 110,000 every game. I don't know where you are getting this information that they are struggling to fill the stadium every game?!?!?
So it would help if you said something like; "Kyle Field, home of Texas A & M" For a few of these I didn't really know who the home team was bc you really didn't say. When I Googled it the 1st one was a Kyle Field in Ohio.
Texas has 3 in the top 10. Texas loves football lmfaoo. You can tell bc like majority of professional players are either from or have ties to Texas. Its wild.
Texas is also in the top 3 for most populated states, so let's not get too crazy. It's easy to have a bunch of folks in the NFL is you have more people than 47 states
College football has grown very close to my heart over the past few weeks, I just like the sport. College football is more important to me than the NFL . This is a game of heart and soul , unlike most overpaid professionals . But I do not have a fixed team, how did you find your team ? Best regards from a German who lives in Uruguay
Most people pick either the school geographically closest to them, or their parent’s Alma mater, until they go to school themselves, and then they normally root for that school. If you’re looking for a team, I would highly caution avoiding your ohio states, georgias, and alabamas. There’s just not enough good competition to get excited about a blowout every week. Plus Ohio state fans have a reputation for being jerks, although that might just be in Wisconsin.
@@connerroth3416 Thank you for your answer, that sounds interesting - the system College Sport is not as widespread as in the USA, which I personally find very regrettable. Who will watch the other games and hopefully find a team in the new season that suits me, but apart from that. College football is just very refreshing
Yeah actually it's high water mark was 104,250 but with adding suites, clubs and other renovations the last decade plus have taken it down to it's current mark. One thing is for sure, nothing like Neyland when it gets loud.
One thing FSU WILL NOT be apart of! FSU is making DOAK CAMPBELL STADIUM smaller. By next year, DOAK CAMPBELL will be down from 79k to 60k. FSU is not into expansion 😢at all. The WARCHANT is becoming smaller and more conservative 🙄 for some reason. They are making more closed in seating with more amenities and restaurants that takes away seating capacity but adds premium indoor seating 💺. It still cuts down the capacity by 20k.
“100K seating is a the magic number for a stadium to be a blue blood” Texas A&M fans: see we are a blue blood Rest of America: no not you, you eternal red headed step child of college football. Your a problem.
Michigan stadium is built to have a double deck... People from Michigan know this about the stadium... If you go to the games you can see the pillars to put into the stadium to build a double deck..
It’s funny how so many southerners walk around, bragging how “football just matters more” down there. If that’s the case, why do the top 3 largest stadiums all belong to the B1G?
Well for starters, because Ohio and Pennsylvania have twice the population of Alabama and Lousiana. Also, there are many more elite level football programs in the South, so it splits the fan base quite a bit more in states that already have fewer people. Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio all essentially have one dominant team that the majority of people cheer for. On the other hand, Alabama has both Bama and Auburn. Lousiana has LSU and Tulane. Georgia has UGA and Georgia Tech. Mississippi has Ole Miss and Miss. St. Must be the quality of the football, there have been so many national championship programs come out of the Big 10 in the last 20 years, I mean it's up to an astonishing TWO! Probably never see those kind of numbers from a school in the south, like ever. Definitely not back to back championships, that's for sure
No it just means when they announce attendance figures they are counting everyone in the building from fans, to the band, to ushers, to medical, to concession workers or whoever is just standing on the sidelines for example. It's no different than how when Neyland had 104,250 actual seats in the building we had an announced attendance of 109+ against UF 20 years ago. They are just counting or "estimating" or "scanning" the attendance of everyone. Remember there is two numbers, actual physical seats and actual attendance.
If you're going to tout this video as a 2023 assessment of comparative stadium sizes, get current pics! Texas just completed a major overhaul of the south endzone--none of your pics showed this
Because college football's a better game with more rabid fan bases. I used to think the NFL was great too but, growing up in Cleveland, the team picked up and left. So eff those mercenaries. Ohio State isn't ever leaving Columbus.
@@carseye1219you don’t speak for me. I’d sell Ohio state for a browns Super Bowl. Heck i give you the Cavs and Guardians too. Cleveland is Browns town baby. Best Fans in the world.
Hey! We were the best fans in the world (I practically grew up in old Cleveland Stadium) and it meant NOTHING to the "NFL". Even though all the other owners knew it was a kick in the groin to the league's best fans, they let it happen anyway. Then they just kept shoving a sh*t product in front of us for like 18 years afer 1999, yet kept raising ticket (and seat license) prices. The Indians put some good winning teams in front of you and disappeared from the news because Browns training camp openend. Pathetic. You "fans" were your own worst enemy. When they were 0-16 that stadium should have been EMPTY! It's one thing to be a fan but another to be a chump. Saying all of that, I hope they win but it hasn't been the same for me since '95. That year ripped my heart out. I won't put it out there for it to happen again. @@takforce06
I like tiger stadium and I don't mind the suite additions even tho it's the wine and cheese crowd. My only gripe is that when they started selling booze in the stadium they removed jambalaya shoppe brand jambalaya. I never needed to buy beer I bring a little bottle of whiskey in my boot. But that jambalaya was the best stadium food I've ever encountered. I've been to a lot of stadiums and eaten some good food. But jambalaya shoppe jambalaya was the best, they gave you a GIANT clamshell plate and it was good. Now they sell the same kinda zatarains jambalaya they sell in the SuperDome which is spicy rice and a lil smokey weenie, it's pathetic
Ive been to the cotton bowl it was for texas jam 84 and 86 crappy stadium. I went to stanford stadium and it was awesome. A sea of red unless they black out.
Sanford Stadium is not the biggest but who cares. It is a beautiful Stadium and most of the seats have good views on the field. 92,000 is plenty of noise to an opposing team. 😂
I have been in the South end zone, they are high and closer to the field then you think. The corners you get a great view of the game. I been going down to the games since the 60's, so I been in every part of that Kyle Field.
Visit The Big House and look down into it from the top edge, looks like The Grand Canyon it's so HUGE! It's an old spread out wide design instead of raised up... and easily increased to 150,000 seats...
@@buzzwaldron6195 Kyle field is fully enclosed and is the tallest thing for a hundred miles. It is so physically imposing. The thing about the big house is there is no gaps between any sections but that would make the stadium much smaller than Kyle field
Pretty SAD that universities spend money left and right to accommodate 12-15 weeks long. I would rather spend that money elsewhere. By the way, 80% of these stadium are located in states where professional teams are perhaps the worst of the NFL. They suck
Michigan stadium is the most uncomfortable place to see a football game ever. The seats are a slab of metal where you are given maybe 12 inches to sit. It’s no wonder they fit that many people in there. Very old and decrepit, pitiful excuse for an entertainment venue. It’s a joke.
I don’t like going to stadiums that are just a big bowl. If you have the cheap seats and are at the top you are miles away from the action as opposed to the stadiums that have tiered seating that goes up. Just my opinion.
Just How Big is "The Big House?" The Big House boasts a seating capacity of 107,601, but it has hosted crowds in excess of 115,000. The Big House's largest attendance record was 115,109, set on Sept. 7, 2013 in Michigan's 41-30 night-game victory over Notre Dame.
the reason they have a higher attendance than what they say is the actual capacity. they sit in the steps between sections to where you can't even walk up to your seat or to go get food or the bathroom. it's a hazard to people if they have to depart in a hurry.
