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Dix Stadium

Dix Stadium in Kent, OH, home of Kent State. Capacity 25,319. Opened 1969.

Dix Stadium in Kent, OH
Dix Stadium, Kent, OHPhoto: JonRidinger, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
25,319
Opened
1969
Surface
FieldTurf
Roof
Open air
Elevation
1,054 ft
Home team
Kent State
Kent State here
64–⁠68 games on file since 2001

Since it opened: Kent State is 130–⁠163 in home games from the 1969 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 Dix Stadium by season, 2001 to 20260k10k20k30k2001: 6,929 a game over 4 games; biggest 12,6072002: 10,086 a game over 6 games; biggest 16,0732003: 10,546 a game over 6 games; biggest 20,1722004: 12,877 a game over 5 games; biggest 25,1862005: 6,658 a game over 5 games; biggest 14,0022006: 17,004 a game over 5 games; biggest 22,0132007: 8,999 a game over 5 games; biggest 17,1652008: 10,609 a game over 5 games; biggest 18,5362009: 15,512 a game over 6 games; biggest 16,4812010: 16,152 a game over 6 games; biggest 24,2212011: 12,035 a game over 6 games; biggest 15,2452012: 17,880 a game over 5 games; biggest 21,6572013: 17,018 a game over 5 games; biggest 22,7582014: 13,544 a game over 6 games; biggest 22,7542015: 12,561 a game over 6 games; biggest 15,4242016: 10,898 a game over 6 games; biggest 20,1672017: 13,185 a game over 5 games; biggest 20,5372018: 13,118 a game over 5 games; biggest 20,0622019: 12,822 a game over 5 games; biggest 19,7002021: 12,778 a game over 5 games; biggest 20,5372022: 13,354 a game over 5 games; biggest 20,4722023: 9,511 a game over 5 games; biggest 13,5982024: 8,447 a game over 5 games; biggest 11,5852025: 9,875 a game over 5 games; biggest 11,8332026: 10,656 a game over 3 games; biggest 13,022200120062011201620212026

Biggest crowds on file

25,186Akron at Kent State2004
24,221Akron at Kent State2010
22,758Bowling Green at Kent State2013
22,754Ohio at Kent State2014
22,013Akron at Kent State2006

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.

Weather on game day

Coldest kickoffs

Hottest kickoffs

Snow at kickoff

Coldest game days before 2004

Hottest game days before 2004

Snow on game day

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

The stadium’s history

Former names
Memorial Stadium (1969–⁠1973)
Architect
Osborn-Papesh
Surface over the years
FieldTurf (2005–present)
AstroTurf (1997–⁠2004)
Natural grass (1969–⁠1996)
Renovated
2008
Record crowd
27,363 (October 13, 1973 vs. Miami (OH))

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Dix Stadium.

From above

50 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 190 by 210 meters (630 by 680 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Recent games here

Oct 3, 2026Ohio 13, Kent State 10
Sep 26, 2026Kent State 26, Ball State 13
Sep 12, 2026Kent State 36, Wofford 15
Nov 19, 2025Central Michigan 28, Kent State 16
Oct 25, 2025Kent State 24, Bowling Green 21
Oct 11, 2025Kent State 42, Massachusetts 6
Sep 13, 2025Buffalo 31, Kent State 28
Aug 30, 2025Kent State 21, Merrimack 17
Nov 19, 2024Akron 38, Kent State 17
Nov 6, 2024Ohio 41, Kent State 0
Oct 12, 2024Ball State 37, Kent State 35
Sep 28, 2024Eastern Michigan 52, Kent State 33

Around the stadium

Playing surface
AstroTurf · 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.

Pouring rights

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