The Greatest Setting in College Football

Husky Stadium

Husky Stadium in Seattle, WA, home of Washington. Capacity 70,138. Opened November 27, 1920.

Husky Stadium in Seattle, WA
Husky Stadium, Seattle, WAPhoto: Atomic Taco, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
70,138
Opened
1920
Surface
AstroTurf 3D3
Roof
Open air
Elevation
38 ft
Home team
Washington
Washington here
103–⁠46 games on file since 2001
College GameDay
three times

Since it opened: Washington is 431–⁠193–⁠23 in home games from the 1920 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 Husky Stadium by season, 2001 to 202640k60k80k2001: 72,741 a game over 5 games; biggest 74,4422002: 71,435 a game over 7 games; biggest 72,8982003: 71,906 a game over 7 games; biggest 74,5492006: 57,483 a game over 6 games; biggest 62,6562007: 67,732 a game over 7 games; biggest 74,9272008: 63,640 a game over 7 games; biggest 70,4372009: 64,356 a game over 7 games; biggest 69,1612010: 66,264 a game over 6 games; biggest 72,8762011: 62,193 a game over 6 games; biggest 69,4072013: 68,769 a game over 7 games; biggest 71,9632014: 64,508 a game over 7 games; biggest 66,5122015: 61,919 a game over 7 games; biggest 70,4382016: 64,589 a game over 7 games; biggest 72,3642017: 68,822 a game over 7 games; biggest 71,2652018: 69,068 a game over 6 games; biggest 71,2002019: 68,238 a game over 7 games; biggest 70,9312021: 62,046 a game over 7 games; biggest 68,0772022: 62,933 a game over 7 games; biggest 68,1612023: 68,814 a game over 7 games; biggest 71,3212024: 68,865 a game over 6 games; biggest 72,1322025: 68,237 a game over 7 games; biggest 72,4852026: 62,365 a game over 3 games; biggest 63,323200120062011201620212026

Biggest crowds on file

74,927Ohio State at Washington2007
74,549Washington State at Washington2003
74,442Washington State at Washington2001
74,080Michigan at Washington2001
72,946USC at Washington2001

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 Husky Stadium three times, first in 2013.

Oct 14, 2023Washington 36, Oregon 33Red Square
Nov 12, 2016USC 26, Washington 13Red Square
Oct 12, 2013Oregon 45, Washington 24Red Square

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

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

The stadium’s history

Opened
November 27, 1920
Architect
Bebb and Gould
360 Architecture (2012 renovation)
Surface over the years
AstroTurf 3D3 (2021–present)
FieldTurf (2000–⁠2021)
AstroTurf (1968–⁠1999)
Natural grass (1938–⁠1967)
Dirt (1920–⁠1937)
Expanded
1936, 1950, 1968, 1987
Renovated
1950, 1987, 2013

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Husky Stadium.

From above

50 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 240 by 250 meters (780 by 820 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Statues

Statues: Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons: statues placed at the stadium or within a few hundred meters of it. Names link to their pages here; each statue links to its record there.

Recent games here

Oct 9, 202620Iowa 41, Washington 24
Sep 26, 2026Minnesota 27, Washington 24
Sep 19, 2026Washington 48, Eastern Washington 16
Sep 12, 202619Washington 16, Utah State 14
Sep 6, 202617Washington 24, Washington State 10
Nov 29, 20255Oregon 26, Washington 14
Nov 15, 2025Washington 49, Purdue 13
Oct 25, 2025Washington 42, 23Illinois 25
Oct 10, 2025Washington 38, Rutgers 19
Sep 27, 20251Ohio State 24, Washington 6
Sep 6, 2025Washington 70, UC Davis 10
Aug 30, 2025Washington 38, Colorado State 21

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, on record since 2023. Official source.