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Bryant-Denny Stadium

Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, AL, home of Alabama. Capacity 100,077. Opened September 28, 1929.

Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, AL
Bryant-Denny Stadium, Tuscaloosa, ALPhoto: DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
100,077
Opened
1929
Surface
Grass
Roof
Open air
Elevation
230 ft
Home team
Alabama
Alabama here
151–⁠25 games on file since 2001
College GameDay
21 times

Since it opened: Alabama is 477–⁠99–⁠4 in home games from the 1929 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.

Capacity through the years

From 12,000 seats in 1929 to 100,077 today, across 10 documented figures. Sources disagree on two stretches, drawn in orange; the table says which figure we use and why.

Bryant-Denny Stadium capacity by season, 1929 to 2026025k50k75k100k125k1940196019802000202012,000100,077
Every figure and its sources
1929–⁠193512,000Official source
1936–⁠194524,000Sources disagreeAlabama Athletics gives 12,000; Paul W. Bryant Museum, University of Alabama gives 12,000; Wikipedia gives 12,000. Alabama’s 2016 facilities page dates the 24,000-seat east grandstand to 1936 and the Bryant Museum puts about 24,000 in the 1930s; the current page’s 12,000 through 1945 omits that expansion, and Wikipedia dates it to 1937 from a 1937 Tuscaloosa News story. (Our reading, not yet reviewed.)
1946–⁠196031,000Official source
1961–⁠196543,000Official source
1966–⁠198760,000Sources disagreeAlabama Athletics gives 59,000; Wikipedia gives 60,210. Alabama’s 2016 facilities page and the Bryant Museum both say the 1966 expansion of 17,000 seats raised capacity to 60,000 (43,000 plus 17,000); the current page’s 59,000 for 1966-87 is undated and unexplained, and Wikipedia’s 60,210 cites a 1983 newspaper. (Our reading, not yet reviewed.)
1988–⁠199770,123Official source
1998–⁠200583,818Official source
2006–⁠200992,138Official source
2010–⁠2019101,821Official source
2020 on100,077Official source

How we know

A list that ends one range in the year the next begins (“1969–⁠1972”, then “1972–⁠1976”) is read as a change that year.

Official source: the school’s own publication. Independently corroborated: two or more sources that don’t copy each other. Sources disagree: we show both and say which we use and why. Single source: one source only. Documented for 98 of the 98 seasons since 1929; 32 disputed (as of 2026-10-18). All the evidence.

Crowds season by season

Average and biggest crowd at Bryant-Denny Stadium by season, 2001 to 202660k80k100k120k2001: 83,044 a game over 5 games; biggest 83,8182002: 82,857 a game over 7 games; biggest 84,8182003: 83,189 a game over 7 games; biggest 83,8182004: 81,870 a game over 7 games; biggest 83,8182005: 81,018 a game over 7 games; biggest 81,0182006: 92,138 a game over 8 games; biggest 92,1382007: 92,138 a game over 7 games; biggest 92,1382008: 92,138 a game over 7 games; biggest 92,1382009: 92,012 a game over 7 games; biggest 92,0122010: 101,821 a game over 7 games; biggest 101,8212011: 101,821 a game over 7 games; biggest 101,8212012: 101,722 a game over 7 games; biggest 101,8212013: 101,505 a game over 7 games; biggest 101,8212014: 101,534 a game over 7 games; biggest 101,8212015: 101,112 a game over 7 games; biggest 101,8212016: 101,821 a game over 7 games; biggest 101,8212017: 101,722 a game over 7 games; biggest 101,8212018: 101,562 a game over 7 games; biggest 101,8212019: 101,117 a game over 7 games; biggest 101,8212020: 19,424 a game over 5 games; biggest 19,4242021: 98,720 a game over 7 games; biggest 100,0772022: 98,981 a game over 7 games; biggest 100,0772023: 100,077 a game over 7 games; biggest 100,0772024: 100,077 a game over 7 games; biggest 100,0772025: 100,077 a game over 7 games; biggest 100,0772026: 100,077 a game over 4 games; biggest 100,077200120062011201620212026

Biggest crowds on file

101,821Western Carolina at Alabama2019
101,821LSU at Alabama2019
101,821Tennessee at Alabama2019
101,821Southern Miss at Alabama2019
101,821Auburn at Alabama2018

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 Bryant-Denny Stadium 21 times, first in 2001.

Oct 10, 2026Georgia 20, Alabama 17Inside Coleman Coliseum
Oct 4, 2025Alabama 30, Vanderbilt 14Denny Chimes
Sep 28, 2024Alabama 41, Georgia 34Denny Chimes
Nov 4, 2023Alabama 42, LSU 28Denny Chimes
Sep 9, 2023Texas 34, Alabama 24Denny Chimes
Nov 28, 2020Alabama 42, Auburn 13Magnolia Parking Deck
Oct 17, 2020Alabama 41, Georgia 24Bryant–Denny Stadium
Nov 9, 2019LSU 46, Alabama 41The Quad
Oct 22, 2016Alabama 33, Texas A&M 14Walk of Champions outside Bryant–Denny Stadium
Nov 7, 2015Alabama 30, LSU 16Walk of Champions outside Bryant–Denny Stadium
Sep 19, 2015Ole Miss 43, Alabama 37Walk of Champions outside Bryant–Denny Stadium
Nov 29, 2014Alabama 55, Auburn 44Walk of Champions outside Bryant–Denny Stadium
Nov 15, 2014Alabama 25, Mississippi State 20Walk of Champions outside Bryant–Denny Stadium
Nov 9, 2013Alabama 38, LSU 17Walk of Champions outside Bryant–Denny Stadium
Nov 5, 2011LSU 9, Alabama 6Walk of Champions outside Bryant–Denny Stadium

The latest 15 of 21.

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

The stadium’s history

Former names
Denny Stadium (1929–⁠1975)
Bryant–Denny Stadium (1975–⁠2024)
Opened
September 28, 1929
Architect
Atwood and Nash, Inc., Architects and Engineers
Surface over the years
Grass (1929–⁠1967)
AstroTurf (1968–⁠1990)
Grass (1991–present)
Expanded
1937, 1946, 1961, 1966, 1988, 1998, 2006, 2010
Record crowd
101,821

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Bryant-Denny Stadium.

From above

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The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 220 by 270 meters (730 by 900 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Statues

Statues: Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons: statues placed at the stadium or within a few hundred meters of it. Names link to their pages here; each statue links to its record there.

Recent games here

Oct 10, 20262Georgia 20, 6Alabama 17
Sep 26, 20268Alabama 49, South Carolina 18
Sep 19, 202610Alabama 50, Florida State 36
Sep 5, 202613Alabama 48, East Carolina 10
Nov 22, 202510Alabama 56, Eastern Illinois 0
Nov 15, 202511Oklahoma 23, 4Alabama 21
Nov 8, 20254Alabama 20, LSU 9
Oct 18, 20256Alabama 37, 11Tennessee 20
Oct 4, 202510Alabama 30, 16Vanderbilt 14
Sep 13, 202519Alabama 38, Wisconsin 14
Sep 6, 202521Alabama 73, UL Monroe 0
Nov 30, 202413Alabama 28, Auburn 14

Pouring rights

Coca-Cola has the stadium’s soft-drink pouring rights, on record since 2018. Official source.