re: Stadium Sizes of the 12 Playoff teams

I went to the Mizzou game in Norman last month and was surprised how small it felt

Going to LSU Tenn; Bama and A&M it looks and feels tiny

Also, your own website says it’s 80k

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Gaylord Family – Oklahoma Memorial Stadium One of America's most recognized college football cathedrals, Gaylord Family – Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, situated on the east side of the Norman campus, is the largest sports venue in the state of Oklahoma and ranks among the 20 largest on-college football stadiums in the nation. Each home football Saturday, Sooner Nation packs the 80,126-seat "Palace on the Prairie," resulting in one of the country’s top home-field advantages.

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Techs stadium is not big but it looks pretty nice.

OU hit official high of 85k. Largest crowds were against TCU and Ohio State at over 88,000. Due to remodeling, required to put in handrails-cut out 2 seats from each row, Put in club seats, to replace bleachers, in south end with lots of leg room and free food. All that cut it to 82k. West side remodel will remove bleachers in favor of club seats. The club seats require a capital donation of at least $5k plus an annual donation of $2k for the south. Won't be surprised if the west side will be lot higher. The donations are in addition to ticket prices. Every OU season ticket holder must pay a donation.

The OU stadium has chairs in upper east side deck, most of south end zone and will have chairs on majority of west side including west upper deck.
I read somewhere that OU and Texas have highest ticket prices/donation requirements in the SEC. With the west side remodel, OU may run at top of the league. The AD believes that OU will bring in more revenue with a smaller stadium. Many, including me believe it is a mistake.

You SEC hillbillies are standing in bleachers all over, aren't you. Like me in the north OU end zone.

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I went to the Mizzou game in Norman last month and was surprised how small it felt

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Go to a Mizzou game in Columbia.

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OK announced a few months ago they are reducing stadium size. I assume to add more luxury boxes

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True. Luxury boxes and Club seats will dominate the entire west side plus most of south end zone.

Pro tip regarding OU’s stadium. Rather than type all that ridiculously long name into your GPS or Google maps, just put in “Owen Field.”

I’ll be curious to see how downsizing works for the Sooners, but they are in a major metropolitan area, so it probably makes sense for them to try to tap more corporate revenue with more luxury seating; this is just a really painful way to do it.

These capacity numbers are trash because not every team plays a home game.

The 7000 seeat reduction at Owen Field is temporary. When they start phase 2 on the North end they will add that back plus some.

Also there are some bad seats in a couple of those 100k stadiums in the SEC.

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Also there are some bad seats in a couple of those 100k stadiums in the SEC.

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The only one I've been in with bad seats is Neyland, where it is possible to buy a ticket to see the game and then find out you can't actually see the game.

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A smaller stadium, OR ARENA, can be a much more intimidating factor for the visiting team.

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That is why Duke at Cameron Indoor Arena is one of the hardest places to play for a visiting team. The fans are basically on the court as it just over 9000 people.

It was even worse until about 20 years ago when they finally put AC in the arena. Duke trained in it but opposing teams would struggle with so many people packed in and no AC