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Boone Pickens Stadium

Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, OK, home of Oklahoma State. Capacity 55,509. Opened October 2, 1920.

Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, OK
Boone Pickens Stadium, Stillwater, OKPhoto: XStewart2007, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
55,509
Opened
1920
Surface
FieldTurf Vertex CORE
Roof
Open air
Elevation
907 ft
Oklahoma State here
115–⁠45 games on file since 2001
College GameDay
six times

Since it opened: Oklahoma State is 346–⁠202–⁠20 in home games from the 1919 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 Boone Pickens Stadium by season, 2001 to 202620k40k60k80k2001: 40,360 a game over 6 games; biggest 47,3902002: 43,238 a game over 7 games; biggest 48,5002003: 45,668 a game over 8 games; biggest 51,2362005: 44,861 a game over 6 games; biggest 48,0352006: 40,954 a game over 6 games; biggest 43,0062007: 40,024 a game over 6 games; biggest 41,7252008: 48,261 a game over 7 games; biggest 52,4632009: 53,719 a game over 8 games; biggest 58,5162010: 50,773 a game over 7 games; biggest 55,9352011: 57,229 a game over 6 games; biggest 58,8952012: 56,557 a game over 7 games; biggest 57,7992013: 59,126 a game over 6 games; biggest 60,2182014: 54,387 a game over 6 games; biggest 59,1242015: 57,668 a game over 7 games; biggest 59,4862016: 53,814 a game over 7 games; biggest 59,5842017: 56,790 a game over 6 games; biggest 56,7902018: 53,542 a game over 7 games; biggest 56,7902019: 54,817 a game over 6 games; biggest 55,5092020: 14,666 a game over 5 games; biggest 14,6722021: 53,012 a game over 7 games; biggest 55,0262022: 54,735 a game over 7 games; biggest 55,5092023: 53,891 a game over 7 games; biggest 54,1052024: 52,202 a game over 6 games; biggest 52,2022025: 44,664 a game over 7 games; biggest 48,8422026: 51,790 a game over 3 games; biggest 52,168200120062011201620212026

Biggest crowds on file

60,218Baylor at Oklahoma State2013
59,638TCU at Oklahoma State2013
59,584West Virginia at Oklahoma State2016
59,486Kansas at Oklahoma State2015
59,124West Virginia at Oklahoma State2014

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 Boone Pickens Stadium six times, first in 2004.

Nov 4, 2017Oklahoma 62, Oklahoma State 52Edmon Low Library Lawn
Nov 28, 2015Oklahoma 58, Oklahoma State 23Edmon Low Library Lawn
Nov 23, 2013Oklahoma State 49, Baylor 17Edmon Low Library Lawn
Nov 27, 2010Oklahoma 47, Oklahoma State 41Edmon Low Library Lawn
Nov 29, 2008Oklahoma 61, Oklahoma State 41Edmon Low Library Lawn
Oct 30, 2004Oklahoma 38, Oklahoma State 35Outside Boone Pickens Stadium

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 Oklahoma State’s home games before 2004 (NOAA GHCN-Daily, public domain).

The stadium’s history

Former names
Lewis Field (1920–⁠2002)
Opened
October 2, 1920
Architect
Gary Sparks (renovation) [http://www.craftontullsparks.com Crafton Tull Sparks]
Surface over the years
FieldTurf Vertex CORE (2022-present)
AstroTurf 3D Decade (2013–⁠2022)
Desso Artificial Grass (2005–⁠2013)
Astroplay (2000–⁠2004)
AstroTurf (1972–⁠1999)
Natural grass (1920–⁠1971)
Expanded
1924, 1929, 1947, 1950, 1971, 2009
Renovated
2003–⁠2009
Record crowd
60,218

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Boone Pickens Stadium.

From above

50 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 240 by 230 meters (800 by 740 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Recent games here

Oct 10, 202618Oklahoma State 42, UCF 28
Sep 19, 2026Oklahoma State 59, Murray State 0
Sep 12, 2026Oklahoma State 39, 6Oregon 31
Nov 29, 2025Iowa State 20, Oklahoma State 13
Nov 15, 2025Kansas State 14, Oklahoma State 6
Oct 18, 202524Cincinnati 49, Oklahoma State 17
Oct 11, 2025Houston 39, Oklahoma State 17
Sep 27, 2025Baylor 45, Oklahoma State 27
Sep 19, 2025Tulsa 19, Oklahoma State 12
Aug 28, 2025Oklahoma State 27, UT Martin 7
Nov 23, 2024Texas Tech 56, Oklahoma State 48
Nov 2, 2024Arizona State 42, Oklahoma State 21

Around the stadium

Beer sales
Sold to all fans · Single 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.