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22 College Football Stadiums Bigger Than the Cities They Call Home

HERO Sports by HERO Sports
August 17, 2017
22 College Football Stadiums Bigger Than the Cities They Call Home

The entire population of Clemson, S.C., could fit inside Clemson University's Memorial Stadium. In fact, every single one of the city's 16,058 residents could also bring four friends from out of town and there would still be 1,210 empty seats.

Clemson is one of 22 FBS programs whose football stadium has a larger seating capacity than the city (or other census-designation place) the institution resides in. Their 407.5 percent seating-capacity-to-city-population ratio is not, however, the largest difference in college football.

That honor belongs to Notre Dame, which — contrary to popular belief — is located in Notre Dame, Ind., not South Bend. The census-designation place has a population of 6,021, or less than eight percent of the capacity of Notre Dame Stadium (80,795). The stadium is 1,241.9 percent larger than the city, which is nearly triple that of the next closest university, Army (461.9 percent), which — like Notre Dame — is located within a very small census-designation place, West Point, N.Y. (population of 6,763).

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Here's the full alphabetical list of the 22 college football institutions that could invite their whole home town to a game and have room to spare:

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Team City State Population Stadium Capacity Percent
Alabama Tuscaloosa AL 99,543 Bryant-Denny Stadium 101,821 102.3%
Army West Point NY 6,763 Michie Stadium 38,000 561.9%
Auburn Auburn AL 63,118 Jordan-Hare Stadium 87,451 138.6%
Clemson Clemson SC 16,058 Memorial Stadium 81,500 507.5%
Eastern Michigan Ypsilanti MI 21,018 Rynearson Stadium 30,200 143.7%
Louisiana Tech Ruston LA 22,370 Joe Aillet Stadium 28,019 125.3%
Maryland College Park MD 32,275 Maryland Stadium 51,802 160.5%
Miami (OH) Oxford OH 22,341 Yager Stadium 24,386 109.2%
Michigan State East Lansing MI 48,870 Spartan Stadium 75,005 153.5%
Mississippi State Starkville MS 25,570 Davis Wade Stadium 61,337 239.9%
North Carolina Chapel Hill NC 59,246 Kenan Memorial Stadium 62,980 106.3%
Notre Dame Notre Dame IN 6,021 Notre Dame Stadium 80,795 1,341.9%
Oklahoma State Stillwater OK 45,688 Boone Pickens Stadium 60,218 131.8%
Ole Miss Oxford MS 23,290 Vaught-Hemingway Stadium 64,038 275.0%
Penn State State College PA 41,992 Beaver Stadium 106,572 253.8%
Purdue West Lafayette IN 45,872 Ross-Ade Stadium 57,236 124.8%
SMU University Park TX 23,068 Gerald J. Ford Stadium 32,000 138.7%
Stanford Stanford CA 13,809 Stanford Stadium 50,424 365.2%