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Williams-Brice Stadium

Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, SC, home of South Carolina. Capacity 80,250. Opened October 6, 1934.

Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, SC
Williams-Brice Stadium, Columbia, SCPhoto: Eisenthesky Productions, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
80,250
Opened
1934
Surface
Grass
Roof
Open air
Elevation
199 ft
South Carolina here
115–⁠59 games on file since 2001
College GameDay
seven times

Since it opened: South Carolina is 336–⁠214–⁠15 in home games from the 1934 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 Williams-Brice Stadium by season, 2001 to 202640k60k80k100k2001: 82,532 a game over 6 games; biggest 85,0002002: 82,138 a game over 6 games; biggest 84,2272003: 77,275 a game over 9 games; biggest 83,9872004: 75,886 a game over 7 games; biggest 84,3002005: 79,867 a game over 7 games; biggest 83,4212006: 75,630 a game over 7 games; biggest 82,5132007: 78,467 a game over 7 games; biggest 82,4102008: 80,529 a game over 7 games; biggest 83,7042009: 75,369 a game over 7 games; biggest 80,5742010: 76,668 a game over 7 games; biggest 82,9932011: 79,134 a game over 7 games; biggest 83,4422012: 80,001 a game over 7 games; biggest 85,1992013: 73,980 a game over 8 games; biggest 84,1742014: 81,381 a game over 7 games; biggest 84,2322015: 78,822 a game over 6 games; biggest 82,1782016: 76,920 a game over 7 games; biggest 80,3842017: 78,586 a game over 7 games; biggest 82,9082018: 73,628 a game over 7 games; biggest 83,1402019: 77,962 a game over 7 games; biggest 81,9542020: 15,415 a game over 5 games; biggest 16,4442021: 69,759 a game over 7 games; biggest 79,8972022: 75,785 a game over 7 games; biggest 79,0412023: 77,833 a game over 7 games; biggest 80,1722024: 79,329 a game over 7 games; biggest 80,2982025: 79,334 a game over 7 games; biggest 79,8732026: 78,032 a game over 4 games; biggest 78,399200120062011201620212026

Biggest crowds on file

85,199Georgia at South Carolina2012
85,000Clemson at South Carolina2001
84,900Florida at South Carolina2001
84,300Georgia at South Carolina2004
84,232Georgia at South Carolina2014

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 Williams-Brice Stadium seven times, first in 2004.

Sep 14, 2024LSU 36, South Carolina 33Gamecock Park
Sep 27, 2014Missouri 21, South Carolina 20Old Campus District
Oct 6, 2012South Carolina 35, Georgia 7Old Campus District
Oct 9, 2010South Carolina 35, Alabama 21Old Campus District
Oct 28, 2006Tennessee 31, South Carolina 24South Carolina State Fairgrounds
Sep 1, 2005South Carolina 24, UCF 15
Sep 11, 2004Georgia 20, South Carolina 16South Carolina State Fairgrounds

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

The stadium’s history

Also known as
Willy B
The Cockpit
Former names
Columbia Municipal Stadium (1934–⁠1940)
Carolina Stadium (1941–⁠1972)
Opened
October 6, 1934
Architect
Robert L. Sumwalt
JHS Architecture (renovations)
Surface over the years
Grass (1934–⁠1969, 1984–Present)
AstroTurf (1970–⁠1983)
Expanded
1949, 1957, 1972, 1982, 1997
Renovated
1970, 1996, 2008, 2012, 2020
Record crowd
85,199 (October 6, 2012 vs University of Georgia)

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Williams-Brice Stadium.

From above

100 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 260 by 260 meters (840 by 850 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Recent games here

Oct 3, 202624Kentucky 35, South Carolina 34
Sep 19, 2026Mississippi State 41, South Carolina 34
Sep 12, 2026South Carolina 45, Towson 9
Sep 5, 2026South Carolina 57, Kent State 0
Nov 29, 2025Clemson 28, South Carolina 14
Nov 22, 2025South Carolina 51, Coastal Carolina 7
Oct 25, 20254Alabama 29, South Carolina 22
Oct 18, 202514Oklahoma 26, South Carolina 7
Sep 27, 2025South Carolina 35, Kentucky 13
Sep 13, 2025Vanderbilt 31, 11South Carolina 7
Sep 6, 202510South Carolina 38, South Carolina State 10
Nov 23, 202419South Carolina 56, Wofford 12

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 2021. Official source.