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Doak Campbell Stadium

Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, FL, home of Florida State. Capacity 67,277. Opened October 7, 1950.

Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, FL
Doak Campbell Stadium, Tallahassee, FLPhoto: SeminoleNation, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
67,277
Opened
1950
Surface
419 Tifway Bermuda Grass
Roof
Open air
Elevation
64 ft
Home team
Florida State
Florida State here
120–⁠47 games on file since 2001
College GameDay
11 times

Since it opened: Florida State is 318–⁠107–⁠5 in home games from the 1952 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 Doak Campbell Stadium by season, 2001 to 202640k60k80k100k2001: 81,441 a game over 6 games; biggest 82,8362002: 81,766 a game over 6 games; biggest 84,1062003: 83,149 a game over 6 games; biggest 84,3362004: 82,841 a game over 6 games; biggest 84,2232005: 82,399 a game over 5 games; biggest 83,9122006: 80,532 a game over 8 games; biggest 83,5102007: 80,597 a game over 5 games; biggest 82,7282008: 77,968 a game over 7 games; biggest 83,2372009: 72,998 a game over 5 games; biggest 83,5242010: 71,270 a game over 7 games; biggest 82,3242011: 77,842 a game over 7 games; biggest 84,3922012: 75,601 a game over 7 games; biggest 83,4292013: 75,421 a game over 7 games; biggest 84,4092014: 82,211 a game over 7 games; biggest 82,4852015: 73,219 a game over 7 games; biggest 82,3292016: 76,800 a game over 6 games; biggest 78,3422017: 70,943 a game over 6 games; biggest 78,1692018: 68,288 a game over 7 games; biggest 75,2372019: 54,019 a game over 7 games; biggest 63,9952020: 16,117 a game over 5 games; biggest 18,0162021: 58,679 a game over 7 games; biggest 71,9172022: 67,254 a game over 7 games; biggest 79,5602023: 78,711 a game over 6 games; biggest 79,5602024: 52,995 a game over 7 games; biggest 55,1072025: 65,876 a game over 7 games; biggest 67,2772026: 62,778 a game over 3 games; biggest 66,637200120062011201620212026

Biggest crowds on file

84,409Miami at Florida State2013
84,392Oklahoma at Florida State2011
84,336Miami at Florida State2003
84,223Florida at Florida State2004
84,155Virginia at Florida State2004

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 Doak Campbell Stadium 11 times, first in 1995.

Oct 18, 2014Florida State 31, Notre Dame 27Langford Green
Sep 20, 2014Florida State 23, Clemson 17Langford Green
Nov 2, 2013Florida State 41, Miami 14Langford Green
Sep 22, 2012Florida State 49, Clemson 37Langford Green
Sep 17, 2011Oklahoma 23, Florida State 13Langford Green
Oct 11, 2003Miami 22, Florida State 14Doak Campbell Stadium
Oct 26, 2002Notre Dame 34, Florida State 24Doak Campbell Stadium
Oct 13, 2001Miami 49, Florida State 27Doak Campbell Stadium
Nov 18, 2000Florida State 30, Florida 7Langford Green
Nov 30, 1996Florida State 24, Florida 21Dick Howser Stadium
Oct 7, 1995Florida State 41, Miami 17

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

The stadium’s history

Opened
October 7, 1950
Architect
Ball-Horton & Associates
Barnett Fronczak Architects
The Architects Collaborative (renovations)
Surface over the years
419 Tifway Bermuda Grass
Expanded
1954, 1961, 1964, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1992–⁠1996, 2001, 2003, 2016, 2025
Record crowd
84,431 (October 18, 2014)

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Doak Campbell Stadium.

From above

50 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 250 by 250 meters (810 by 810 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Recent games here

Oct 3, 2026Florida State 38, Virginia 7
Sep 26, 2026Florida State 34, Central Arkansas 7
Sep 7, 202619SMU 27, Florida State 24
Aug 29, 2026Florida State 34, New Mexico State 17
Nov 15, 2025Florida State 34, Virginia Tech 14
Nov 1, 2025Florida State 42, Wake Forest 7
Oct 11, 2025Pittsburgh 34, 25Florida State 31
Oct 4, 20253Miami 28, 18Florida State 22
Sep 20, 20257Florida State 66, Kent State 10
Sep 6, 202514Florida State 77, East Texas A&M 3
Aug 30, 2025Florida State 31, 8Alabama 17
Nov 30, 2024Florida 31, Florida State 11

Around the stadium

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, on record since 2024. Official source.