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An expansion to the south end zone, completed during the Summer of 2010, increased its capacity to over 101,000 to make it the 9th largest stadium in the world by seating. [2] All-time, Alabama has a record of 245 wins, 51 losses and 3 ties at Bryant–Denny in addition to selling out every home game since the 1988 season. [1]
However, in 1998, when Bryant–Denny was expanded to a capacity exceeding Legion Field, the more important home games started to move to Bryant–Denny, culminating with the move of the Tennessee series to Tuscaloosa in 1999 and the Iron Bowl a year later. [31] From 1998 to 2003, Alabama continued to play two or three minor games in Birmingham.
Bryant–Denny Stadium: 100,077 Tuscaloosa: Alabama: Alabama Crimson Tide [8] Sanford Stadium: 93,033 Athens: Georgia: Georgia Bulldogs [9] Rose Bowl: 92,542 Pasadena: California: UCLA Bruins, the Rose Bowl Game, hosted the BCS National Championship game every fourth year, and will host a College Football semifinal game once every three years ...
Alabama opted not to send its band to last year's game in Austin after Texas tried to seat them in the upper deck of the stadium.
The following is a list of stadiums in the United States. They are ranked by capacity, which is the maximum number of spectators the stadium can normally accommodate. All U.S. stadiums with a current capacity of 10,000 or more are included in the list.
The first game at Bryant-Denny Stadium this year will be under the lights against Middle Tennessee at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 2. The game will be broadcast on SEC Network.
2017 (1,000 seats widened, reducing capacity) [100] FieldTurf Merlin Olsen Field at Maverik Stadium: Logan: UT: Utah State: Mountain West: 25,513: 33,119 (October 4, 1996 vs. BYU) 1968 1980 AstroTurf GameDay Grass 3D60 Extreme Michigan Stadium: Ann Arbor: MI: Michigan: Big Ten: 107,601 [102] 115,109 (September 7, 2013 vs. Notre Dame) [103] 1927 ...
Neither Alabama's Bryant-Denny Stadium nor Auburn's Jordan-Hare Stadium were nearly large enough to accommodate the large crowds that attended the game even in the 1950s. Additionally, Birmingham was much more accessible to the rest of the state well into the 1970s. By the 1980s, Jordan-Hare Stadium had expanded to seat over 80,000 people.