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Glass Bowl

Glass Bowl in Toledo, OH, home of Toledo. Capacity 26,038. Opened September 27, 1937.

Glass Bowl in Toledo, OH
Glass Bowl, Toledo, OHPhoto: The original uploader was Mactropy at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
26,038
Opened
1937
Surface
Field Turf
Roof
Open air
Elevation
595 ft
Home team
Toledo
Toledo here
116–⁠34 games on file since 2001

Since it opened: Toledo is 261–⁠95–⁠5 in home games from the 1951 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 Glass Bowl by season, 2001 to 202610k20k30k40k50k60k2001: 30,014 a game over 6 games; biggest 36,8522002: 23,965 a game over 6 games; biggest 26,0502003: 21,920 a game over 6 games; biggest 31,7112004: 28,779 a game over 6 games; biggest 52,5522005: 21,817 a game over 5 games; biggest 25,2662006: 20,311 a game over 6 games; biggest 23,9172007: 18,668 a game over 7 games; biggest 26,1002008: 17,008 a game over 6 games; biggest 21,4222009: 16,285 a game over 5 games; biggest 20,0822010: 19,333 a game over 6 games; biggest 25,9072011: 22,157 a game over 6 games; biggest 28,9052012: 20,552 a game over 6 games; biggest 28,1152013: 18,467 a game over 6 games; biggest 21,9742014: 19,548 a game over 6 games; biggest 24,1962015: 20,842 a game over 6 games; biggest 23,1182016: 20,628 a game over 6 games; biggest 30,1472017: 20,745 a game over 6 games; biggest 24,2392018: 21,352 a game over 7 games; biggest 28,1172019: 20,399 a game over 6 games; biggest 25,3612021: 18,436 a game over 6 games; biggest 21,7832022: 19,557 a game over 6 games; biggest 22,2732023: 19,675 a game over 6 games; biggest 23,4172024: 21,519 a game over 6 games; biggest 29,6972025: 21,199 a game over 6 games; biggest 24,5352026: 21,085 a game over 4 games; biggest 24,767200120062011201620212026

Biggest crowds on file

52,552Toledo at UConn2004
36,852Navy at Toledo2001
36,502Northern Illinois at Toledo2001
34,950Minnesota at Toledo2001
31,981Bowling Green at Toledo2004

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

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

The stadium’s history

Former names
University Stadium (1937–⁠1945)
Opened
September 27, 1937
Architect
SSOE, Inc. (renovation)
Surface over the years
Field Turf (2008–present, replaced in 2016)
AstroTurf (1975–⁠2007)
Grass (1937–⁠1974)
Expanded
1940, 1949, 1966, 1971, 1990
Renovated
1990, 2016
Record crowd
36,852 (2001 vs Navy)

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Glass Bowl.

From above

50 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 170 by 160 meters (570 by 520 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Recent games here

Oct 10, 2026Buffalo 23, Toledo 8
Sep 26, 2026Toledo 41, San Diego State 16
Sep 19, 2026Toledo 49, Temple 48
Sep 12, 2026Toledo 63, Central Connecticut 10
Nov 22, 2025Toledo 38, Ball State 9
Nov 5, 2025Toledo 42, Northern Illinois 3
Oct 18, 2025Toledo 45, Kent State 10
Sep 27, 2025Toledo 45, Akron 3
Sep 13, 2025Toledo 60, Morgan State 0
Sep 6, 2025Toledo 45, Western Kentucky 21
Nov 20, 2024Ohio 24, Toledo 7
Nov 12, 2024Toledo 37, Central Michigan 10

Around the stadium

Playing surface
FieldTurf · 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.