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Spieker Field at the Rose Bowl

Rose Bowl

Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA, home of UCLA. Capacity 88,565. Opened October 28, 1922.

Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA
Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CAPhoto: Ted Eytan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
88,565
Opened
1922
Surface
Bermuda grass
Roof
Open air
Elevation
804 ft
Home team
UCLA
UCLA here
97–⁠59 games on file since 2001
College GameDay
25 times
National Historic Landmark
1987

Since it opened: UCLA is 380–⁠187–⁠15 in home games from the 1926 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 Rose Bowl by season, 2001 to 202620k40k60k80k100k120k2001: 72,296 a game over 5 games; biggest 93,7812002: 68,460 a game over 7 games; biggest 91,0842003: 61,952 a game over 7 games; biggest 93,8492004: 60,515 a game over 6 games; biggest 88,4422005: 68,470 a game over 7 games; biggest 93,9862006: 68,567 a game over 8 games; biggest 93,8522007: 78,885 a game over 7 games; biggest 93,9232008: 75,357 a game over 8 games; biggest 93,2932009: 72,019 a game over 8 games; biggest 94,9062010: 65,196 a game over 7 games; biggest 94,1182011: 61,588 a game over 7 games; biggest 91,2452012: 71,591 a game over 8 games; biggest 93,3592013: 76,387 a game over 8 games; biggest 95,1732014: 78,746 a game over 7 games; biggest 91,3222015: 70,774 a game over 7 games; biggest 94,2682016: 71,411 a game over 7 games; biggest 95,1282017: 61,301 a game over 7 games; biggest 92,8442018: 56,250 a game over 8 games; biggest 91,8532019: 50,508 a game over 7 games; biggest 90,4622021: 51,071 a game over 8 games; biggest 87,8422022: 47,513 a game over 9 games; biggest 94,8732023: 54,868 a game over 7 games; biggest 96,3712024: 53,081 a game over 7 games; biggest 90,7322025: 44,853 a game over 7 games; biggest 90,2782026: 31,445 a game over 2 games; biggest 31,973200120062011201620212026

Biggest crowds on file

96,371Alabama at Michigan2023
95,173Stanford at Michigan State2013
95,128USC at Penn State2016
94,906Texas at Alabama2009
94,873Penn State at Utah2022

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 Rose Bowl 25 times, first in 1998.

Jan 1, 2026Indiana 38, Alabama 3Inside the Rose Bowl
Jan 1, 2025Ohio State 41, Oregon 21Inside the Rose Bowl
Jan 1, 2024Michigan 27, Alabama 20Inside the Rose Bowl
Jan 2, 2023Penn State 35, Utah 21Inside the Rose Bowl
Jan 1, 2022Ohio State 48, Utah 45Inside the Rose Bowl
Oct 23, 2021Oregon 34, UCLA 31Wilson Plaza
Jan 1, 2020Oregon 28, Wisconsin 27
Jan 1, 2019Ohio State 28, Washington 23Inside the Rose Bowl
Jan 1, 2018Georgia 54, Oklahoma 48
Jan 2, 2017USC 52, Penn State 49
Jan 1, 2016Stanford 45, Iowa 16
Jan 1, 2015Oregon 59, Florida State 20Inside the Rose Bowl
Jan 6, 2014Florida State 34, Auburn 31Outside the Rose Bowl
Jan 1, 2014Michigan State 24, Stanford 20Inside the Rose Bowl
Jan 1, 2013Stanford 20, Wisconsin 14Inside the Rose Bowl

The latest 15 of 25.

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

The stadium’s history

Also known as
Spieker Field at the Rose Bowl
America’s Stadium
Opened
October 28, 1922
Architect
Myron Hunt
Surface over the years
Bermuda grass
Record crowd
106,869 (1973 Rose Bowl)

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Rose Bowl (stadium).

From above

50 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 240 by 270 meters (790 by 890 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

On the National Register

Listed
February 27, 1987
National Historic Landmark
Designated February 27, 1987
Reference
No. 87000755, significant at the national level The nomination

National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service; nominations in the National Archives catalog.

Recent games here

Oct 17, 202612UCLA 17, Wisconsin 7
Sep 19, 2026UCLA 52, Purdue 38
Sep 12, 2026UCLA 28, San Diego State 10
Jan 1, 20261Indiana 38, 11Alabama 3
Nov 22, 2025Washington 48, UCLA 14
Nov 8, 2025Nebraska 28, UCLA 21
Oct 18, 2025UCLA 20, Maryland 17
Oct 4, 2025UCLA 42, 7Penn State 37
Sep 12, 2025New Mexico 35, UCLA 10
Aug 30, 2025Utah 43, UCLA 10
Jan 1, 20256Ohio State 41, 1Oregon 21
Nov 30, 2024UCLA 20, Fresno State 13

Around the stadium

Beer sales
Sold to all fans · 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.