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Tiger Stadium (LA)

Tiger Stadium (LA) in Baton Rouge, LA, home of LSU. Capacity 102,321. Opened November 25, 1924.

Tiger Stadium (LA) in Baton Rouge, LA
Tiger Stadium (LA), Baton Rouge, LAPhoto: Spatms, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
102,321
Opened
1924
Surface
Celebration Bermuda Grass
Roof
Open air
Elevation
25 ft
Home team
LSU
LSU here
152–⁠26 games on file since 2001
College GameDay
15 times

Since it opened: LSU is 483–⁠160–⁠22 in home games from the 1924 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.

Capacity through the years

From 12,000 seats in 1924 to 102,321 today, across 13 documented figures. Sources disagree on four stretches, drawn in orange; the table says which figure we use and why.

Tiger Stadium (LA) capacity by season, 1924 to 2026025k50k75k100k125k1940196019802000202012,000102,321
Every figure and its sources
1924–⁠193012,000Official source
1931–⁠193522,000Sources disagreeWikipedia gives 24,000. LSU’s stadium history and facilities overview both give 22,000 after the 1931 expansion (12,000 plus 10,000 seats); Wikipedia’s infobox 24,000 cites no source for it and its own prose says 22,000. (Our reading, not yet reviewed.)
1936–⁠195246,000Official source
1953–⁠197767,720Sources disagreeWikipedia gives 67,500. LSU’s stadium history and facilities overview both give 67,720 from the 1953 south end zone; Wikipedia’s prose agrees and only its infobox rounds to 67,500. (Our reading, not yet reviewed.)
1978–⁠198678,000Official source
198778,000Sources disagreeWikipedia gives 80,150. LSU’s history and overview both date 80,150 to the 1988 bleacher seating, so 1987 stays at about 78,000; Wikipedia’s infobox starts 80,150 in 1987. (Our reading, not yet reviewed.)
1988–⁠199380,150Official source
199480,150Sources disagreeLSU Athletics gives 80,000; Wikipedia gives 80,000. LSU’s stadium history says the bleacher seating came out after the 1994 season; the overview’s ’1994 (visitor locker room; 80,000)‘ dates the work, not the first season at 80,000, and Wikipedia follows the overview’s year. (Our reading, not yet reviewed.)
1995–⁠199980,000Official source
2000–⁠200491,600Official source
2005–⁠201092,400Official source
2011–⁠201392,542Official source
2014 on102,321Official source

How we know

A list that ends one range in the year the next begins (“1969–⁠1972”, then “1972–⁠1976”) is read as a change that year.

Official source: the school’s own publication. Independently corroborated: two or more sources that don’t copy each other. Sources disagree: we show both and say which we use and why. Single source: one source only. Documented for 103 of the 103 seasons since 1924; 32 disputed (as of 2026-10-18). All the evidence.

Crowds season by season

Average and biggest crowd at Tiger Stadium (LA) by season, 2001 to 202660k80k100k120k2001: 90,491 a game over 7 games; biggest 92,1412002: 90,307 a game over 7 games; biggest 92,0122003: 90,974 a game over 7 games; biggest 92,2512004: 91,209 a game over 7 games; biggest 91,8612005: 81,292 a game over 7 games; biggest 92,6642006: 92,212 a game over 8 games; biggest 92,5882007: 92,619 a game over 7 games; biggest 92,9102008: 92,383 a game over 8 games; biggest 93,0392009: 92,489 a game over 7 games; biggest 93,1292010: 92,718 a game over 7 games; biggest 92,9692011: 92,868 a game over 6 games; biggest 93,1082012: 92,626 a game over 8 games; biggest 93,3742013: 91,380 a game over 7 games; biggest 92,9802014: 101,723 a game over 7 games; biggest 102,3212015: 93,441 a game over 7 games; biggest 102,3212016: 101,231 a game over 7 games; biggest 102,3212017: 98,506 a game over 6 games; biggest 101,6012018: 100,819 a game over 7 games; biggest 102,3212019: 100,842 a game over 7 games; biggest 102,3212020: 19,449 a game over 5 games; biggest 22,3492021: 94,808 a game over 7 games; biggest 98,7722022: 100,596 a game over 7 games; biggest 102,3212023: 100,742 a game over 7 games; biggest 102,3212024: 101,235 a game over 7 games; biggest 102,2832025: 101,575 a game over 7 games; biggest 102,2192026: 102,321 a game over 4 games; biggest 102,321200120062011201620212026

Biggest crowds on file

102,321McNeese at LSU2026
102,321Texas A&M at LSU2026
102,321Louisiana Tech at LSU2026
102,321Clemson at LSU2026
102,321Florida at LSU2023

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 Tiger Stadium (LA) 15 times, first in 1996.

Sep 5, 2026LSU 51, Clemson 10LSU Quad
Nov 9, 2024Alabama 42, LSU 13The Quad
Oct 12, 2019LSU 42, Florida 28Campus Quad
Nov 3, 2018Alabama 29, LSU 0The Quad
Nov 5, 2016Alabama 10, LSU 0The Quad
Oct 25, 2014LSU 10, Ole Miss 7Parade Grounds
Nov 3, 2012Alabama 21, LSU 17Northeast corner of Parade Ground
Oct 10, 2009Florida 13, LSU 3Parade Ground
Nov 8, 2008Alabama 27, LSU 21Old Front 9
Oct 6, 2007LSU 28, Florida 24Parade Ground
Sep 8, 2007LSU 48, Virginia Tech 7Parade Ground
Sep 4, 2004LSU 22, Oregon State 21Parade Ground
Sep 20, 2003LSU 17, Georgia 10Outside Pete Maravich Assembly Center
Oct 11, 1997LSU 28, Florida 21
Nov 9, 1996Alabama 26, LSU 0Outside Tiger 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 LSU’s home games before 2004 (NOAA GHCN-Daily, public domain).

The stadium’s history

Opened
November 25, 1924
Architect
Wogan and Bernard
Trahan Architects (renovations)
Surface over the years
Celebration Bermuda Grass
Expanded
1931, 1936, 1953, 1978, 1988, 2000, 2014
Renovated
1994, 2006, 2011, 2014
Record crowd
Football: 102,321 (Eighteen times, most recently September 12, 2026, vs Louisiana Tech)
Concert: 102,000 (The Garth Brooks Stadium Tour, April 30, 2022)

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Tiger Stadium (Baton Rouge).

From above

100 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 290 by 300 meters (940 by 990 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Recent games here

Oct 17, 202622LSU 31, 16Mississippi State 0
Oct 3, 202611LSU 63, McNeese 14
Sep 26, 202610LSU 35, 23Texas A&M 6
Sep 12, 20268LSU 45, Louisiana Tech 14
Sep 5, 202611LSU 51, Clemson 10
Nov 22, 2025LSU 13, Western Kentucky 10
Nov 15, 2025LSU 23, Arkansas 22
Oct 25, 20253Texas A&M 49, 20LSU 25
Oct 11, 202511LSU 20, South Carolina 10
Sep 20, 20253LSU 56, SE Louisiana 10
Sep 13, 20253LSU 20, Florida 10
Sep 6, 20253LSU 23, Louisiana Tech 7

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.

Pouring rights

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