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Bobby Dodd Stadium

Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta, GA, home of Georgia Tech. Capacity 55,000. Opened September 27, 1913.

Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta, GA
Bobby Dodd Stadium, Atlanta, GAPhoto: WhoIsDanielHord, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
55,000
Opened
1913
Surface
Shaw Legion NXT synthetic turf
Roof
Open air
Elevation
916 ft
Home team
Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech here
101–⁠60 games on file since 2001
College GameDay
twice

Since it opened: Georgia Tech is 497–⁠222–⁠21 in home games from the 1913 season on. Our source names a game’s stadium only from 2001, so that count takes every earlier home game not marked neutral and may include a few played elsewhere.

Biggest games here

From the games on file here, 2001 on: title and postseason games, meetings of two ranked teams, upsets by our pregame Elo ratings and the biggest swings in CollegeFootballData.com’s excitement index.

Crowds season by season

Average and biggest crowd at Bobby Dodd Stadium by season, 2001 to 202620k30k40k50k60k2001: 41,634 a game over 5 games; biggest 41,9742002: 43,156 a game over 6 games; biggest 43,7192003: 53,343 a game over 7 games; biggest 56,2262004: 44,163 a game over 7 games; biggest 55,0002005: 51,607 a game over 6 games; biggest 56,4122006: 50,617 a game over 7 games; biggest 56,6802007: 50,280 a game over 7 games; biggest 54,9902008: 47,489 a game over 7 games; biggest 53,5282009: 51,584 a game over 6 games; biggest 55,4072010: 46,449 a game over 6 games; biggest 51,6682011: 48,232 a game over 7 games; biggest 55,6462012: 43,955 a game over 7 games; biggest 50,3902013: 49,649 a game over 7 games; biggest 54,9142014: 48,519 a game over 6 games; biggest 53,1732015: 50,707 a game over 7 games; biggest 55,0002016: 47,503 a game over 7 games; biggest 53,9322017: 46,885 a game over 6 games; biggest 55,0002018: 43,087 a game over 6 games; biggest 50,5952019: 44,599 a game over 7 games; biggest 55,0002020: 11,000 a game over 6 games; biggest 11,0002021: 37,515 a game over 6 games; biggest 52,8062022: 34,408 a game over 5 games; biggest 40,2932023: 36,322 a game over 6 games; biggest 51,4472024: 38,216 a game over 5 games; biggest 47,3582025: 47,694 a game over 6 games; biggest 52,4132026: 49,799 a game over 3 games; biggest 52,113200120062011201620212026

Biggest crowds on file

56,680Notre Dame at Georgia Tech2006
56,412Georgia at Georgia Tech2005
56,226Michigan State at Nebraska2003
55,646Clemson at Georgia Tech2011
55,407Georgia at Georgia Tech2009

Bars are each season’s average crowd, dots its biggest (the record in orange), the dashed rule today’s capacity. Attendance is on file for most games from 2001 on.

College GameDay here

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from Bobby Dodd Stadium twice, first in 1998.

Sep 2, 2006Notre Dame 14, Georgia Tech 10Yellow Jacket Park
Oct 24, 1998Florida State 34, Georgia Tech 7

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of College GameDay locations (CC BY-SA).

Weather on game day

Coldest kickoffs

Hottest kickoffs

Coldest game days before 2004

Hottest game days before 2004

Kickoffs: the NOAA report nearest kickoff from the closest weather station (NOAA NCEI Integrated Surface Database). Game days: the day’s high and snowfall at the NOAA station nearest the stadium, for Georgia Tech’s home games before 2004 (NOAA GHCN-Daily, public domain).

The stadium’s history

Former names
Grant Field (1913–⁠1988)
Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field (1988–⁠2023)
Opened
September 27, 1913
Architect
Charles Wellford Leavitt
HOK Sport (renovation)
Surface over the years
Bermuda grass (1913–⁠70, 1995–⁠2019)
Astroturf (1971–⁠94)
Shaw Legion NXT synthetic turf (2020–present)
Expanded
1924, 1925, 1947, 1958, 1962, 1967, 2003
Renovated
1985, 2003, 2020
Record crowd
60,316 (1973 vs. Georgia)

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Bobby Dodd Stadium.

From above

50 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 160 by 240 meters (530 by 780 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Recent games here

Oct 10, 2026Georgia Tech 28, Duke 25
Sep 19, 2026Georgia Tech 44, Mercer 11
Sep 12, 202618Tennessee 45, Georgia Tech 24
Sep 3, 2026Colorado 14, Georgia Tech 13
Nov 22, 2025Pittsburgh 42, 15Georgia Tech 28
Oct 25, 20257Georgia Tech 41, Syracuse 16
Oct 11, 202513Georgia Tech 35, Virginia Tech 20
Sep 20, 202518Georgia Tech 45, Temple 24
Sep 13, 2025Georgia Tech 24, 12Clemson 21
Sep 6, 2025Georgia Tech 59, Gardner-Webb 12
Nov 21, 2024Georgia Tech 30, NC State 29
Nov 9, 2024Georgia Tech 28, 4Miami 23

Around the stadium

Playing surface
FieldTurf · Single source
Beer sales
Sold to all fans · Official source

Found by several AI researchers searching the web, then kept only where the page loads and says so in words naming the program; every quote is checked again each time the data is rebuilt. Official source: the school’s own page. All of them.

Pouring rights

Coca-Cola has the stadium’s soft-drink pouring rights. Official source.