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Mountain America Stadium

Mountain America Stadium in Tempe, AZ, home of Arizona State. Capacity 65,870. Opened October 4, 1958.

Mountain America Stadium in Tempe, AZ

Hottest game on record107°F

Mountain America Stadium, Tempe, AZPhoto: Clintus McGintus, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
65,870
Opened
1958
Surface
Bermuda grass
Roof
Open air
Elevation
1,182 ft
Home team
Arizona State
Arizona State here
112–⁠52 games on file since 2001
College GameDay
twice

Since it opened: Arizona State is 321–⁠122–⁠3 in home games from the 1958 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 Mountain America Stadium by season, 2001 to 202620k40k60k80k100k2001: 52,143 a game over 7 games; biggest 74,1182002: 49,795 a game over 8 games; biggest 77,5022003: 56,988 a game over 7 games; biggest 73,4252004: 64,196 a game over 7 games; biggest 73,5192005: 63,037 a game over 8 games; biggest 76,1962006: 53,680 a game over 7 games; biggest 58,5262007: 61,322 a game over 9 games; biggest 71,7062008: 61,995 a game over 8 games; biggest 72,9552009: 48,123 a game over 8 games; biggest 55,9892010: 48,730 a game over 7 games; biggest 60,3262011: 58,412 a game over 8 games; biggest 72,6942012: 55,089 a game over 7 games; biggest 71,0042013: 61,644 a game over 9 games; biggest 72,5422014: 54,069 a game over 7 games; biggest 65,8702015: 52,712 a game over 7 games; biggest 64,8852016: 47,736 a game over 6 games; biggest 50,5822017: 51,380 a game over 7 games; biggest 59,3852018: 48,515 a game over 6 games; biggest 53,5992019: 49,166 a game over 7 games; biggest 54,1912021: 47,248 a game over 7 games; biggest 53,9262022: 43,081 a game over 6 games; biggest 51,2652023: 48,845 a game over 8 games; biggest 54,1662024: 48,984 a game over 6 games; biggest 55,4002025: 54,444 a game over 7 games; biggest 56,7592026: 51,999 a game over 3 games; biggest 54,063200120062011201620212026

Biggest crowds on file

77,502Ohio State at Miami2002
76,196Notre Dame at Ohio State2005
74,118Colorado at Oregon2001
73,519Pittsburgh at Utah2004
73,425Kansas State at Ohio State2003

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 Mountain America Stadium twice, first in 2002.

Oct 1, 2005USC 38, Arizona State 28ASU Lot 59
Jan 3, 2003Ohio State 31, Miami 24Sun Devil Stadium

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

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

The stadium’s history

Former names
Sun Devil Stadium
Opened
October 4, 1958
Architect
Edward L. Varney Associates (original)
HNTB/Gould Evans (renovation)
Surface over the years
Bermuda grass
Expanded
1966, 1970, 1976, 1977, 1989
Renovated
2015–⁠2018

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Mountain America Stadium.

From above

50 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 230 by 210 meters (770 by 700 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Recent games here

Oct 10, 2026Arizona State 30, Hawai’i 12
Oct 3, 2026Baylor 55, Arizona State 19
Sep 5, 2026Arizona State 70, Morgan State 7
Nov 28, 2025Arizona 23, Arizona State 7
Nov 15, 2025Arizona State 25, West Virginia 23
Oct 25, 2025Houston 24, 24Arizona State 16
Oct 18, 2025Arizona State 26, 7Texas Tech 22
Sep 26, 2025Arizona State 27, 24TCU 24
Sep 13, 2025Arizona State 34, Texas State 15
Aug 30, 202511Arizona State 38, Northern Arizona 19
Nov 23, 202421Arizona State 28, 14BYU 23
Nov 9, 2024Arizona State 35, UCF 31

Around the stadium

Playing surface
Natural grass · 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, on record since 2024. Single source.