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Folsom Field

Folsom Field in Boulder, CO, home of Colorado. Capacity 50,183. Opened October 11, 1924.

Folsom Field in Boulder, CO
Folsom Field, Boulder, COPhoto: Thelastcanadian, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
50,183
Opened
1924
Surface
FieldTurf
Roof
Open air
Elevation
5,361 ft
Home team
Colorado
Colorado here
78–⁠72 games on file since 2001
College GameDay
four times

Since it opened: Colorado is 340–⁠196–⁠10 in home games from the 1924 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 Folsom Field by season, 2001 to 202630k40k50k60k2001: 47,475 a game over 6 games; biggest 53,7902002: 49,219 a game over 6 games; biggest 53,1192003: 50,431 a game over 6 games; biggest 54,2152004: 48,365 a game over 6 games; biggest 54,9542005: 50,410 a game over 6 games; biggest 54,9722006: 46,048 a game over 6 games; biggest 50,2332007: 50,509 a game over 6 games; biggest 52,9512008: 49,476 a game over 6 games; biggest 53,9272009: 50,088 a game over 6 games; biggest 53,1682010: 46,862 a game over 6 games; biggest 52,8552011: 50,355 a game over 5 games; biggest 52,1232012: 45,373 a game over 6 games; biggest 46,8932013: 38,463 a game over 6 games; biggest 45,9442014: 37,778 a game over 6 games; biggest 39,4782015: 39,389 a game over 6 games; biggest 46,2222016: 46,609 a game over 6 games; biggest 52,3012017: 47,056 a game over 6 games; biggest 49,9762018: 45,809 a game over 6 games; biggest 52,6812019: 49,573 a game over 6 games; biggest 52,8292021: 46,484 a game over 6 games; biggest 49,8062022: 42,847 a game over 6 games; biggest 50,4712023: 53,180 a game over 6 games; biggest 54,0322024: 52,514 a game over 6 games; biggest 54,6462025: 50,469 a game over 7 games; biggest 53,4422026: 49,735 a game over 2 games; biggest 50,106200120062011201620212026

Biggest crowds on file

54,972Colorado State at Colorado2005
54,954Colorado State at Colorado2004
54,841Nebraska at Colorado2005
54,646Utah at Colorado2024
54,215Oklahoma at Colorado2003

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.

The pregame shows here

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from Folsom Field four times, first in 1995; Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff four times.

Nov 16, 2024Big Noon KickoffColorado 49, Utah 24
Sep 30, 2023Big Noon KickoffUSC 48, Colorado 41
Sep 16, 2023College GameDayColorado 43, Colorado State 35Leeds School of Business Field
Sep 16, 2023Big Noon KickoffColorado 43, Colorado State 35
Sep 9, 2023Big Noon KickoffColorado 36, Nebraska 14
Sep 14, 1996College GameDayMichigan 20, Colorado 13
Oct 28, 1995College GameDayNebraska 44, Colorado 21
Sep 23, 1995College GameDayColorado 29, Texas A&M 21

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of College GameDay locations (CC BY-SA). Big Noon Kickoff’s from Wikipedia’s list of its sites (CC BY-SA).

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

The stadium’s history

Former names
Colorado Stadium (1924–⁠1944)
Opened
October 11, 1924
Architect
Waldo E. Brockway
Sink Combs Dethlefs (renovations)
Surface over the years
Natural grass (1924–⁠1970, 1999–⁠2024)
AstroTurf (1971–⁠1998)
FieldTurf (2025-present)
Expanded
1956, 1967, 2003
Renovated
1968, 1976, 2003
Record crowd
54,972

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Folsom Field.

From above

50 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 190 by 210 meters (630 by 700 feet). Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Recent games here

Oct 17, 202611Utah 27, Colorado 24
Oct 3, 202612Texas Tech 29, Colorado 7
Sep 12, 2026Colorado 52, Weber State 21
Nov 22, 2025Arizona State 42, Colorado 17
Nov 1, 2025Arizona 52, Colorado 17
Oct 11, 2025Colorado 24, 22Iowa State 17
Sep 27, 202525BYU 24, Colorado 21
Sep 20, 2025Colorado 37, Wyoming 20
Sep 6, 2025Colorado 31, Delaware 7
Aug 29, 2025Georgia Tech 27, Colorado 20
Nov 29, 202423Colorado 52, Oklahoma State 0
Nov 16, 202418Colorado 49, Utah 24

Around the stadium

Playing surface
AstroTurf · 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

PepsiCo has the stadium’s soft-drink pouring rights, on record since 2025. Official source.