Can't knock down Gallagher-Iba arena next to Boone Pickens Stadium. That's the building you were saying they should knock down. It probably wasn't a good idea to build the football stadium right next to the basketball arena like that. There's no room for the stadium to expand. It's the same situation at Kansas State.

Nothing wrong with open endzones imo

I saw the Giants play the Jets in a pre-season game at the Yale Bowl when Namath was still the QB for the Jets. At the game, they announced that the Giants would soon be building a new stadium at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. Amazing to think that that stadium is already gone...I'm old.

College gameday went to App State last season after their upset against Texas A&M

Memorial Stadium where Cal plays! It’s a great place to see a game!

App St should be #1, & host bowl game

UTEP and Penn have amazing stadiums especially UTEP the view is insane!!!

I played my home games at Michie Stadium (MIKEY) and played games in four others. Falcon Stadium used to have natural grass and it was the most well kept field outside of a golf course. The surface was the best field that I ever experienced as a player. When we played Yale, we spent halftime inside one of the tunnels near the endzone, and if I remember the Yale team stayed in the opposite endzone. It was like a high school atmosphere and not much coaching could happen. It was so very cool to say that I played on the same field as the Four Horsemen, and other college legends. Incredible overall experience as a player, but having to share the restroom at halftime with fans was very odd.

Wyomings should def be on here

Failed to mention that at Harvard Stadium you sit on the concrete risers - no seats or benches! Very cold in Winter. 😮 And it (or Yale Bowl?) has no locker room for either team.

Dude Baylor won the Sugar Bowl and finished in the top 10 two seasons ago!

The Yale bowl reminds of the stadium in Guadalajara Mexico where the Chivas play. It has the similar grass setting outside of the stadium.

Very nice list. I do like most of these stadiums because of their locations. Also, Louisville's stadium kind of reminds me of an NFL Stadium. Not surprising because the Yum Center is an NBA caliber arena.

Love App State! If you're the outdoorsy type, it's a neat school.

Love Appalachian Made the list and that you pronounced it correctly! Go Mountaineers!

Bill Snyder Family Stadium @ K-State. Great gameday atmosphere and not a bad seat in the house

If you don't like that building in the end zone at Boone Pickens... I would LOVE to hear your opinion on La Bombonera in Buenos Aires.

Happy to see my Cards gettin some recognition. The entire stadium being seats instead of bleachers is so much more comfortable, too

Other stadiums I'd add to this list: - Maverik Stadium, Utah State - War Memorial Stadium, Wyoming - Albertsons Stadium, Boise State - Canvas Stadium, Colorado State - Mountain America Stadium, Arizona State - Martin Stadium, Washington State - Kinnick Stadium, Iowa - Huntington Bank Stadium, Minnesota - Rice-Eccles Stadium, Utah - Peden Stadium, Ohio - Husky Stadium, Washington - BB&T Stadium, Wake Forest

0:26 - Yale 1:25 - Air Force 2:31 - Baylor 5:06 - Harvard 6:12 - App State 7:17 - Sun Bowl 8:46 - Ok State 10:18 - Cincinnati 11:24 - Army 12:15 - Louisville

The crazy thing about the Sun Bowl is the stadium it replaced still sits right next to it.

Fun fact: Yale Bowl, Harvard Stadium, and Nippert Stadium all hosted NFL games. And the Louisville stadium does look cool. It could host Cincinnati Bengal games if something happened to Paycor. Here at SIU Carbondale, we have one of the smallest stadiums there must be. But it's functional and could be expanded if the Salukis and the university got bigger.

California Memorial Stadium is a great stadium.

I'm surprised that you're surprised that McLane Stadium in Waco left one end zone open. They build this near the water, and they left the water side open for the view. Obviously, it was intentional.

I really like McLane Stadium. It's taken inspiration from European stadiums but not too much to copy them, keeping the North American horseshoe stadium shape. An actual fresh American style of stadium that isn't just dull grey concrete.

Louisville's stadium is L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium. The credit union is named from employees of the former L&N Railroad.

The sun bowl also hosts UTEP games

Nice choices. As an Okie, I am biased towards Boone Pickens in Stillwater, Ok... but I really like the lightning bolt pattern in the seats of Falcon Stadium for Air Force.

The building for Oklahoma State is the basketball arena. There are suites on top that are used for both football and basketball.

Roy Stewart Stadium, home of Murray State, is pretty interesting…huge seating on just one side of the field. They also have their first live mascot, a horse, buried on the grounds

The great thing about Air Force (5-0 right now) is that it is open and spacious, great place to take your young kid, because you can wander around WHILE WATCHING THE GAME. Plus the extras of flyovers, parachute teams, the half-time peregrine Falcon dive bombing the crowd, your kid can pet the falcons, or sit in an AF training glider and chat up a cadet or two. Food trucks IN the stadium, plus AF wins 75% of home games and has a “”small-town” feel to it, lots of military people so lots of “where were you deployed and teasing along Air Force/Army/Navy rivalry.

Fun fact about Nippert Stadium: Before TQL Stadium was built, Nippert Stadium was also home of FC Cincinnati in MLS for its two years of existence. Then when it comes to Falcon Stadium it hosted an NHL Stadium Series in 2020 between the LA Kings & the Avalanche.

Cincy has had three unbeaten regular seasons since 2009.

I believe the Fiesta Bowl back in the 80’s was played at 11am

Thanks for showing Kids Brewer at App some love..... You could Easley throw-in Brooks stadium home of Coastal Carolina....

I love App State! Best atmosphere for a football game! Been to stadiums like Notre Dame, South Carolina, Georgia, Wake Forest, UNC, and many others. App State is definitely the best! Super loud and super fun. Nice campus. I will be there for their sold out Tuesday night matchup with Coastal Carolina tomorrow night!

looking at Baylor, a ton of the texas teams left or tried to leave an endzone part of the stadium at least partly open. I'm pretty sure it's to let airflow in so the fans don't bake for the first half of the season. Even OkSt somewhat does it as well leaving the corners open by the building.

Definitely feel like the Ivy league colleges have the coolest stadiums in college football. Mostly because they were the first to have large stadiums built in the first half of the 1900s when architects were all about Roman style buildings. My few favorite college football stadiums would have to be Pennsylvania (Penn) and the most iconic of all; The Coliseum in LA (USC)

4:20 they play 11 AM games because in order to build that stadium, Baylor had to purchase land off campus across the river in the hood on MLK Blvd... you don't want to be in that neighborhood at night.

OSU (OKST) has one of the best stadiums in college football in my opinion, the building informs of it makes it even better and unique

“That building” when talking about Okst is Gallagher Iba Arena, definitely can’t just knock it down

Leaving the stadium open keeps the view and air in. Great idea by Baylor

University of Minnesota Hunnington Bank stadium is a great one too!

Dang I wouldn't have thought uofl would be at the top, im local to Louisville and have gone to games for years. You can also get tickets to most games pretty reasonable, but even when uofl was in talks for the national championship in mid 2000s they still didn't get alot of love from anyone, even when Lamar won the hiesman. But I do agree its a crazy atmosphere. Tailgating is pretty dang good to. They have alot of parking right next to the stadium and yea it is a really cool experience and I guess we take it for granted when everytime you drive downtown and thats just right there on the side of the interstate

Jerry Richardson stadium, home of the Charlotte 49ers should be on the list, it is the smallest in FBS, but one of the nicest and we are in the process of expanding, it will be one of the best small stadiums in the country

Louisville's stadium also consists entirely of chair back seats so there is lots of elbow room as opposed to bleacher seating where your crammed in like sardines in most big stadiums.

Should do a video on the newest ground up stadiums

Good List. Before Boone Pickens was renovated OSU's stadium looked like a giant high school stadium. Rising bleachers on each side. The building behind the endzone used to be the arena. Love the open endzones including Baylor's. Enjoyed your video

Great thing about Louisville is they have chairback seats like NFL stadiums, not bleacher seating

Always love going to games at Cardinal stadium. Hell, sometimes they host high school rivalry games here which is still a surprisingly good atmosphere.

Baylor, and most of central Texas, gets average to above average rain compared to the entire US.

Great vid. First time I've ever heard Yale pronounced as two syllables.

The "open end" at Baylor McLane Stadium has seats behind the end zone - it is visible in the picture you showed. They kept that end lower to have the river view. BTW: only college stadium you can take a ferry to the game... docks near the "open end".

I went to Baylor's OLD stadium several times to see OU play them. Three things: 1).It was a dump. 2.) IT was on the other side of town from their campus. 3) It was more like a big HS stadium. I never bought a ticket until an hour or so before the game and I was always asked, "Where would you like to sit?" lol The NEW stadium is very nice. And, it's right off of campus.

That building in the end zone of Boone Pickens is a 100 year old basketball arena

I heard The Rose Bowl and Big House were modeled after the Yale Bowl.

The building at Boone Pickens Stadium is Gallagher-Iba Arena

That "other building" at boone Pickens is Gallagher Iba Arena . The football & Basketball Stadiums fit together perfectly!

Good list but how could you leave out East Carolina

That building at the end of Boone Pickens is their basketball arena. Gallagher Iba Arena.

“Add suites to the Yale bowl “ ??? No ! No ! ….some stadiums (more than one in this top 10) are perfect the way they are , C’ mon D.G. Stop shilling for the stadium building lobby 😆😜😳 P.S. you’re right , 2021 Sun Bowl kicked off @ 10a.m.

Funnily enough the Yale bowl is built like my old high school u had to walk upstairs to get to the parking lot and the above the ground walkway actually level with the surrounding area

I've been going to OSU games since I was little. Now I live in the dorm across the street

Gonna be at UW vs Oregon this weekend. Sailgating makes it soooooo much nicer.

I remember when Louisville played in a baseball stadium. Gameday visited AppState a couple years ago.

The Sun Bowl was very cheap to build as they carved it out of a granite mountain outcrop and utilized the hacked out rock as building material.

Whats the problem with big noon? Im on the WestCoast so of course we're a few hours behind, so the start time to us could feel early but ive always been up early for CFB. If you're on EST you would pretty much be up for the game already. Daylight breaks around 6:30am-7:00am out here, where would it be dark at? Eastern states?

The Giants played at the Yale Bowl during the renovations to Yankee Stadium (before Giants Stadium was built)

I saw Colgate v. Army at Michie Stadium back in 1995. It is a gorgeous place to play but for game day experience it isn't the best. Parking and walking up all those hills to get to the stadium is a pain.

Texas State has a ridiculously underrated Stadium

I like the early games, I went to a USC game that started at 7:30 pm and didnt get home until 1 am with traffic. Id much rather wake up early on a Saturday.

Boone Pickens Stadium -- The building in the endzone is the basketball arena, Gallagher Arena (also an underrated venue)

What an opening! My first 4 years of college were spent at App State. Loved every second of it except the ridiculous hurricane strength winds in subzero temperatures Almost unbelievable in the spring, stunning weather followed by 24 inches of snow every April (so it seemed). But we *All Go to College” for other reasons

The building in the east endzone of Boone Pickens Stadium is the basketball arena, "Gallagher-Iba Arena"

I love Nippert Stadium.

Dude, look up the Sun Bowl between the Barry Sanders led Oklahoma State Cowboys and WVU Mountaineers...It Snowed in the Sun Bowl.

The building next to Boone Pickens is Gallagher Iba... The basketball arena... Dont think they're going to tear that down.

If it's on everyone's list of underrated stadiums, then it's not underrated.

Folsom field in boulder, got to be up there

the stadium in the thumbnail is pretty cool

That is Gallagher Iba Arena that building is historic. Go Pokes

The coldest game I've ever been to was the 1983 Sun Bowl. The wind whipping down was BRUTAL!

that building next to boone pickens is the basketball arena

10) Yale Bowl (Yale) 9) Falcon Stadium (Air Force) 8) McLane Stadium (Baylor) 7) Harvard Stadium (Harvard) 6) Kidd Brewer Stadium (Appalachian St) 5) Sun Bowl (UTEP) 4) Boone Pickens Stadium (Oklahoma St) 3) Nippert Stadium (Cincinnati) 2) Michie Stadium (Army) 1) Fed Credit Union Stadium (Louisville)

Going to my first Harvard game next week vs. Dartmouth

The Yale Bowl isn't truly built into the ground. The field is slightly below ground level and the excavated dirt was piled around the perimeter to create a mound, so it's half & half. It has great sight lines, but no facilities inside the stadium. Harvard has no seats or benches, you sit on concrete.

It would be nice when McLane ever hosts a women’s soccer game, maybe it needs to not only widen the field to FIFA requirement, but also eventually, forced to tear down like in Seattle, recycle the rubble for even newer stadium, still with big college football experience and home field advantage, but to make better, a Japanese-designed wooden (see Kengo Kuma architecture) domed, maybe 61,845 seat, all seater, soccer specific stadium, to prepare for bid of Women’s World Cup, and moving some marquee events like all-University Sing inside, making it year-round venue to improve utilization.

You got Army. Yes. Great campus. Stay at hotel in Eisenhower room. The canon.

As a diehard Louisville fan. I was totally surprised by your list.

It’s ironic you have Baylor’s new stadium and the Sun Bowl on this list. Baylor’s old stadium Floyd Casey Stadium is a carbon copy of the Sun Bowl minus the rocky hillside.

Had Harvard season tickets in early ‘70s….there actually was a major renovation…perhaps early ‘80s….there used to be a second level entryway, which you can see on the postcard…these were sealed off but the second level can be seen underneath the stadium….all the cement ‘seats’ were replaced as well….a big improvement but it’s still all cement seats….fairly uncomfortable….they also removed all the ivy, which eats away at cement….the roots are still visible…also impossible for crowds of any size to get there…buried in Cambridge from years ago…small streets…no parking…a hike to the T, which is a disaster itself…

The only problem with Harvard Stadium are the stairways. They are very steep and I have seen someone take a header because of it.

Strange enough the other closest stadium to my house was Michie Stadium. Lived 30 minutes away. Very similar to where I went to college, App State. In fact, can anyone tell them apart?? Only the Hudson breaks it up. Same mountain range though

The Yale Bowl is just a smaller version of the Michigan Big House.

That building at OSU is gallagher Iba arena the basketball arena

number 6 ,during the fall is a beautiful sight

If I were rich, I’d be on the road every Sept thru November, touring the country and checking out College games, with a little bit of NFL, MLB, and NHL in between. How fun would it be to get a map out and plot your trip?

Do division 2

That "building" next to Boone Pickens Stadium is OSU's basketball arena. They cant just tear it down bro lol

Wake Forest has the best small stadium I've ever seen. Beautiful up to date design and everything is pristine.