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Center Parc Stadium (also commonly referred to as Georgia State University or GSU Stadium) is an outdoor stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. The stadium is the home of the Georgia State Panthers football team as of the 2017 season , replacing the Georgia Dome which had served as their home stadium from the program's inception in 2010 until 2016 .
Georgia State officially announced that it would join the Sun Belt Conference on April 9, 2012, during a press conference at the Georgia Dome. The school began full membership on July 1, 2013. Georgia State was a founding member of the Sun Belt Conference in 1976. [18] The Sun Belt participates in Division I FBS, as opposed to FCS.
The Georgia State Panthers are the intercollegiate athletics teams that represent Georgia State University, located in Atlanta, Georgia. All GSU teams compete at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I FBS level as members of the Sun Belt Conference , a conference of which they were a charter member.
Appalachian State defeated Georgia State 37-3 in Atlanta on Oct. 10. The university has invested millions of dollars into football, with much of the money coming from student fees, but so far has little to show for it. Game attendance rarely exceeds 10,000 fans in a stadium that seats 80,000, and the team has lost most of its games.
The arena supersedes the Georgia State Sports Arena, which was constructed in 1972 and has a maximum capacity of 3,854 seats. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The convocation center's ribbon cutting was held on September 15, 2022, while its first scheduled event, the investiture of the university's eighth president M. Brian Blake , was held the following day.
The 2020 Georgia State Panthers football team represented Georgia State University (GSU) in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Panthers were led by fourth-year head coach Shawn Elliott. This was the Panthers' eighth season in the Sun Belt Conference, third within the East Division, and 11th since starting college football.
A 17-year-old Georgia boy has died after a brain injury brought on by drinking too much water. On August 5th, Zyrees Oliver was suffering from cramps due to dehydration after football practice.
The season was the Panthers' fifth in the Sun Belt Conference and eighth since starting football. The Panthers finished the season 7–5, 5–3 in Sun Belt play to finish in fourth place. They received an invite to the Cure Bowl, where Georgia State defeated Western Kentucky for the Panthers' first bowl win in program history.