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Memorial Stadium

Memorial Stadium in Columbia, MO, home of Missouri. Capacity 71,168. Opened 1927.

Memorial Stadium in Columbia, MO
Memorial Stadium, Columbia, MOPhoto: Lectrician2, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
71,168
Opened
1927
Surface
AstroTurf
Roof
Open air
Elevation
698 ft
Home team
Missouri
Missouri here
120–⁠47 games on file since 2001
College GameDay
once

Since it opened: Missouri is 331–⁠204–⁠17 in home games from the 1927 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 Memorial Stadium by season, 2001 to 202620k40k60k80k2001: 52,556 a game over 6 games; biggest 64,2042002: 52,723 a game over 6 games; biggest 60,5782003: 55,833 a game over 6 games; biggest 68,3492004: 59,571 a game over 6 games; biggest 66,1332005: 53,364 a game over 6 games; biggest 60,6412006: 55,918 a game over 7 games; biggest 64,6572007: 60,232 a game over 6 games; biggest 70,0492008: 64,520 a game over 6 games; biggest 68,3492009: 64,120 a game over 6 games; biggest 71,0042010: 61,540 a game over 6 games; biggest 71,0042011: 62,095 a game over 6 games; biggest 71,0042012: 67,476 a game over 7 games; biggest 71,0042013: 63,505 a game over 7 games; biggest 67,1242014: 65,285 a game over 7 games; biggest 71,1682015: 65,120 a game over 6 games; biggest 70,7672016: 52,236 a game over 7 games; biggest 57,0982017: 51,490 a game over 7 games; biggest 55,0232018: 51,466 a game over 7 games; biggest 58,2842019: 54,160 a game over 7 games; biggest 62,6212020: 11,347 a game over 5 games; biggest 11,7382021: 46,503 a game over 7 games; biggest 48,1392022: 54,525 a game over 7 games; biggest 61,0472023: 60,169 a game over 7 games; biggest 62,6212024: 62,621 a game over 7 games; biggest 62,6212025: 57,321 a game over 8 games; biggest 57,3212026: 63,609 a game over 3 games; biggest 63,609200120062011201620212026

Biggest crowds on file

71,168Arkansas at Missouri2014
71,168Georgia at Missouri2014
71,004Alabama at Missouri2012
71,004Arizona State at Missouri2012
71,004Georgia at Missouri2012

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 Memorial Stadium once, first in 2010.

Oct 23, 2010Missouri 36, Oklahoma 27Francis Quadrangle

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of College GameDay locations (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 Missouri’s home games before 2004 (NOAA GHCN-Daily, public domain).

The stadium’s history

Architect
Jamieson and Spearl (original)
Ellerbe Becket (renovation)
Surface over the years
Grass (1926–⁠1984, 1995–⁠2002)
Omniturf (1985–⁠1994)
FieldTurf (2003–⁠2020)
AstroTurf (2021–present)
Expanded
1949–⁠1950, 1961–⁠1965, 1971, 1978, 1996, 2003, 2009, 2014, 2026
Renovated
1978, 2003, 2012, 2019
Record crowd
75,298

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Memorial Stadium (Columbia).

From above

100 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 260 by 280 meters (850 by 910 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Recent games here

Oct 10, 202614Missouri 27, Texas A&M 6
Oct 3, 202625Missouri 45, 8Florida 17
Sep 19, 202620Missouri 27, Troy 17
Sep 3, 202625Missouri 54, Arkansas–Pine Bluff 14
Nov 15, 2025Missouri 49, Mississippi State 27
Nov 8, 20253Texas A&M 38, 19Missouri 17
Oct 11, 20258Alabama 27, 14Missouri 24
Sep 27, 202520Missouri 42, Massachusetts 6
Sep 20, 202523Missouri 29, South Carolina 20
Sep 13, 202525Missouri 52, Louisiana 10
Sep 6, 2025Missouri 42, Kansas 31
Aug 28, 2025Missouri 61, Central Arkansas 6

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

Coca-Cola has the stadium’s soft-drink pouring rights. Official source.