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50 best college football stadiums

By Connor Muldowney

Oct 4, 2014; Knoxville, TN, USA; General view of Neyland Stadium during the game between the Florida Gators and Tennessee Volunteers. Mandatory Credit: Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 4, 2014; Knoxville, TN, USA; General view of Neyland Stadium during the game between the Florida Gators and Tennessee Volunteers. Mandatory Credit: Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports /
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Sep 6, 2014; Minneapolis, MN, USA; A general view of TCF Bank Stadium during a game between Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders and Minnesota Golden Gophers. The Gophers won 35-24. Mandatory Credit: Jesse Johnson-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 6, 2014; Minneapolis, MN, USA; A general view of TCF Bank Stadium during a game between Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders and Minnesota Golden Gophers. The Gophers won 35-24. Mandatory Credit: Jesse Johnson-USA TODAY Sports /

36. TCF Bank Stadium (Minnesota)

Another one of those newer venues that needs to just build on its history, Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium is a remarkable place to play. By no means is this the best stadium in the Big Ten, but if the Golden Gophers remain on the right path, winning games and potentially conference titles, it will rise.

Opened in 2009, TCF Bank Stadium became the new home for the Golden Gophers as they were forced to share the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome with the Minnesota Vikings as well as the Minnesota Twins prior to the new field’s construction. Right now, the Gophers still share the field with the Vikings until the latter’s new stadium is completed and it might be listed as the smallest capacity field in the NFL right now, but it’s one of the more beautiful and well-kept ones.

While the record attendance of TCF Bank Stadium is just over 54,000 – broken in 2015 when the Gophers hosted TCU – it’s built so that future renovations could add on to the current capacity by about 30,000. That would make it one of the biggest in the Big Ten.

Some pretty notable bragging rights for the Gophers and their new-ish field: it has one of the biggest video boards in the entire nation and has the largest home locker room in both college and pro football.

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