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The 50 biggest college football stadiums by capacity

Biggest stadium you’ve ever seen a game in?

From the “Big House” and a couple of “Death Valleys” to a horseshoe and a house a rock built, no sport has nicknames for their venues quite like college football does.

College football is the greatest game on the planet, and its just that much better when its actually played on a college campus instead of in an NFL venue.

What are the biggest stadiums in all the land?

You know some of the names toward the top of the list but have you ever wondered which college football stadiums actually are the biggehst?

Here are the 50 largest college football stadiums based off capacity according to CollegeGridirons.com:

A look at the stadiums for the 2023 FIFA World Cup in Australia and New Zealand

Here are the stadiums for the 2023 World Cup.

Where the 2022 World Cup was given to a nation with virtually no existing stadium infrastructure, that wasn’t the case for 2023 with Australia and New Zealand.

They are ready to host on the biggest stage.

For just the second time in World Cup history — and the first time for the women’s tournament — the World Cup will take place in two countries with Australia and New Zealand sharing the hosting duties. The multi-host trend will continue in 2026 when the United States, Canada and Mexico host the expanded World Cup.

In all, 10 stadiums were selected to hold matches for this summer’s tournament with six of which being in Australia and four in New Zealand.

Let’s take a look at the stadiums below.

Ranking the most iconic SEC football stadiums from worst to first

Ranking the SEC’s most iconic football stadiums.

Traditions run deep throughout the south and a school’s football stadium is more than just a place where college football games are played. If the sport is our religion, the home stadium is the cathedral. It’s a holy place that provides a spiritual-like afternoon and an intense sense of nostalgia that can move even the most casual fan to tears.

From Tennessee’s iconic checkerboarded Neyland Stadium to Athens’ Between the Hedges –– each school’s stadium has its rituals and traditions that help make college football in the South the region’s favorite pastime.

Here, I’ll be ranking the most iconic stadiums in the SEC, looking at history, atmosphere and overall experience to determine the most iconic. 

SEC worst-to-first series: Head coaching jobs, college towns, stadiums, logos, live mascots, traditions, uniforms, loyalty, helmets

A look at the stadiums for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar

These are the stadiums for the 2022 World Cup.

Among the many controversies surrounding the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar are the stadiums themselves.

When FIFA awarded Qatar with the 2022 World Cup back in 2010, soccer’s governing body decided to hold a tournament in a country the size of Connecticut with virtually no stadium infrastructure.

That set off a mad dash to build eight world-class stadiums, and to do so, Qatar utilized an abusive “kafala” system with migrant workers that bordered on modern-day slavery. On top of that, a Guardian investigation estimated that 6,751 migrant workers died amid the dangerous conditions in Qatar.

So while we take a look at the eight stadiums that will host World Cup games in Qatar, let’s not forget the staggering human cost that went into building them.

Ranking all 14 SEC football stadiums from worst to first

The SEC is home to 14 teams that have some very unique stadiums that offer a wide variety of experiences. Here’s how they rank.

The SEC is home to not only some of the strongest football teams in the nation, but some of the most dedicated fans. All 14 teams, soon to be 16, have their own home fields and the stadiums in which those fields reside are considered a special and sometime sacred place to many fans.

Recently our friends over at UGA Wire ranked all 14 SEC college towns. We decided it’s time to dig a little bit deeper and rank the stadiums within those towns.

Whether it be a daunting setting that hosts over 100,000 people in Baton Rouge, Louisiana or a smaller horseshoe stadium that offers the visiting team a home field advantage is Nashville, the SEC has a wide variety of stadiums.

Here’s how we rank them.

‘This is the most magnificent stadium in the world’: A preview of the new SoFi stadium

The new multi-billion dollar SoFi Stadium and entertainment complex is the largest in the NFL.

The new multi-billion dollar SoFi Stadium and entertainment complex is the largest in the NFL.

Player fines? Larger practice squads? Split teams? Covid posing more questions

The ongoing pandemic is forcing the NFL to ask some hard questions and consider new processes as it moves toward play in 2020.

At the time of this writing, NFL teams are 25 days away from reporting to training camp. The chances of a 2020 season actually happening, though, have never felt so shaky.

Given the longest head-start of any major sports league on how to proceed in the midst of a pandemic, the NFL has wasted most of that time cruising full speed ahead as if everything will be just fine. But with the nation’s coronavirus numbers constantly changing- and not for the better- the league suddenly finds itself nearing an event horizon, with more questions now than ever.

Adam Schefter reports teams are likely looking at starting camp this preseason with fewer than the usual 90 players. According to the NFL insider:

“One source said he believed it’s likely that teams will go to camp with 80-man rosters, and another source said it’s ‘definitely not 90.’ A third league source said he has ‘heard lots of discussion about 75 players potentially instead of 90,’ especially with the reduction in preseason games and teams not needing as many players for camp as normal.”

Another possible change? Larger practice squads. Those units are already set to grow from 10 to 12 this year thanks to the new collective bargaining agreement, but Schefter notes that the league is considering further expansion “to 16-20 players” to provide teams a larger pool of players to draw from should a Covid outbreak occur.

Team player representatives and the NFLPA’s medial director took part in a conference call Thursday regarding the virus.

ESPN’s Dan Graziano reports:

“One source told ESPN that players on the call were told that they could be fined for conduct detrimental if they are found to have engaged in “reckless” behavior away from the team facility, such as eating out in restaurants and using ride-sharing services.

New protective equipment- including gameday alterations to players’ on-the-field gear- was also discussed as a possibility.

Graziano goes on:

“Sources told ESPN there was plenty of pushback on Thursday’s call from players asking why they are trying to rush back to play if the virus is such a dangerous threat. Players also have been asking what happens to their contracts if they opt not to play for virus-related reasons (as some NBA players already have), what happens if they grow too uncomfortable to play as the season goes on and what happens to next year’s salary cap as a result of lost revenue this year.”

Even the buildings that NFL teams will be entering pose a legitimate risk. The league has already instructed teams to devise protocols for how team employees will move about their facilities. But SoFi Stadium, the new Los Angeles home of the Chargers and Rams that’s now nearly complete, revealed just Thursday that seven more workers at the stadium- from three different trades- have tested positive for Covid-19. Twenty-five stadium workers have now tested positive since the pandemic began.

The Cowboys were scheduled to open SoFi as the visiting team for its first game, Week 1 of the preseason against the Rams. The NFL had already nixed Weeks 1 and 4 of the preseason before the latest positive cases at the facility.

As stadiums reopen for business, recommendations from an internal group headed by a league executive “will likely include having stadiums stop accepting cash, concessions only offering prepackaged food, and for all fans to wear masks.” Daniel Kaplan of The Athletic reports that the NFL may even ask fans to sign liability waivers before attending games.

Amidst talk of shrinking training camp numbers and beefing up practice squads for the Cowboys and the 31 other teams, there’s also now talk of splitting rosters. The idea is for each club to keep two fully-functioning skeleton crews practicing in isolation. Like the president and vice-president not traveling on the same plane, if something happens to the A-team, the B-team can still take the field.

ProFootballTalk’s Mike Florio argues:

“Whether the squads practice in different shifts (following a thorough cleaning of the primary practice facility for camp) or whether part of the team works at the practice facility and the rest practices at the stadium, there’s real value in keeping the team separated.

“Obviously, fewer players in any given space will make it easier to comply with guidelines aimed at limiting the spread of the virus. More importantly, if an outbreak commences, the other half of the team will (in theory) be insulated.”

The sporting world is already getting a look at what happens when players and team personnel start testing positive. Major League Soccer, using Orlando as a “bubble city” to resume its season in just a matter of days, is dealing with an eleventh-hour outbreak on its Dallas team.

The team members reportedly tested negative for the virus before leaving Dallas but tested positive once inside the bubble. Texas is currently experiencing one of the highest Covid spikes in the country; Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott has already tested positive for the virus, as have other players among the Cowboys and Texans organizations.

Everything is changing daily for all Americans. Best-laid plans are falling by the wayside with every news report. A second wave of closings is spreading. Every question about how an NFL season might look or could work in the current climate just leads to more questions. And the answers to those questions aren’t set in stone. They’re not written in ink. Heck, by the time they’re scrawled on a dry-erase board, things have probably changed. And things will undoubtedly change again- multiple times- before July 28.

To that end in this rapidly-evolving environment, Florio warns that the CBA agreed upon in the pre-Covid era just a few months ago is in desperate need of an express-lane update to get the league and its players through a season like no other.

“They need to reach, essentially, a new labor agreement that covers one season of football,” Florio writes. “What the league thinks advances the safety interests of the players may be different from what the players believe. That’s where problems can arise, and problems that can’t be worked out could delay the start of training camp and, potentially, the start of the season.”

Florio even brings up the possibility of a “non-traditional work stoppage” that could result from the league and team owners plowing forward with football, putting players in jeopardy during an unprecedented global health crisis.

A work stoppage in the current landscape would be disastrous. But right now, a work startage looks like it could be, too.

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