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Elliott T. Bowers Stadium

Elliott T. Bowers Stadium in Huntsville, TX, home of Sam Houston. Capacity 14,000. Opened September 13, 1986.

Elliott T. Bowers Stadium in Huntsville, TX
Elliott T. Bowers Stadium, Huntsville, TXPhoto: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
14,000
Opened
1986
Surface
Real Grass Pro artificial turf
Roof
Open air
Elevation
419 ft
Home team
Sam Houston
Sam Houston here
96–⁠24 games on file since 2003

Biggest games here

From the games on file here, 2003 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 Elliott T. Bowers Stadium by season, 2003 to 20260k5k10k15k20k2003: 6,386 a game over 5 games; biggest 10,1312004: 9,526 a game over 5 games; biggest 12,9412005: 8,674 a game over 3 games; biggest 10,6102006: 9,469 a game over 5 games; biggest 10,1212007: 9,802 a game over 3 games; biggest 10,5172009: 5,370 a game over 6 games; biggest 11,1442010: 5,963 a game over 3 games; biggest 8,0302011: 7,074 a game over 6 games; biggest 9,8312012: 8,782 a game over 4 games; biggest 11,0612013: 7,040 a game over 8 games; biggest 9,2462014: 6,712 a game over 5 games; biggest 8,4182015: 6,398 a game over 8 games; biggest 10,1162016: 7,940 a game over 6 games; biggest 9,1822017: 6,834 a game over 7 games; biggest 12,8632018: 7,911 a game over 5 games; biggest 10,0982019: 4,878 a game over 6 games; biggest 8,1962020: 2,612 a game over 1 games; biggest 2,6122021: 7,283 a game over 7 games; biggest 9,8362022: 7,611 a game over 4 games; biggest 8,6752023: 8,298 a game over 5 games; biggest 14,5662024: 10,977 a game over 5 games; biggest 15,1342026: 12,982 a game over 2 games; biggest 13,7812003201320182023

Biggest crowds on file

15,134Hawai’i at Sam Houston2024
14,566Jacksonville State at Sam Houston2023
13,781Tulsa at Sam Houston2026
13,059New Mexico State at Sam Houston2024
12,941Montana at Sam Houston2004

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

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

The stadium’s history

Opened
September 13, 1986
Surface over the years
Real Grass Pro artificial turf (2007–present)
Record crowd
16,148 (October 24, 1994
vs. Alcorn State)

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Elliott T. Bowers Stadium.

From above

50 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 180 by 230 meters (580 by 770 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Recent games here

Oct 14, 2026Western Kentucky 16, Sam Houston 3
Sep 19, 2026Sam Houston 59, Nicholls 0
Sep 12, 2026Tulsa 23, Sam Houston 17
Nov 29, 2024Sam Houston 20, Liberty 18
Oct 29, 2024Sam Houston 9, Louisiana Tech 3
Oct 16, 2024Western Kentucky 31, Sam Houston 14
Sep 21, 2024Sam Houston 31, New Mexico State 11
Sep 14, 2024Sam Houston 31, Hawai’i 13
Nov 25, 2023Sam Houston 23, Middle Tennessee 20
Nov 4, 2023Sam Houston 24, Kennesaw State 21
Oct 25, 2023UTEP 37, Sam Houston 34
Oct 18, 2023Florida International 33, Sam Houston 27

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.

Pouring rights

PepsiCo has the stadium’s soft-drink pouring rights, on record since 2022. Official source.