Every SEC stadiums with capacity >80,000 are the home of

Posted on: September 13, 2024 at 12:47:56 CT

recent national champions, with the exception of Texas A&M. Those stadiums also have more suites and higher revenue producing spaces that fans of national champions are more willing to pay for. OP was asking about top tier status and those stadiums are the homes of the blue bloods and are the top tier stadiums in the SEC.

There hasn’t been a first time national champion college football team since Florida in 1996 and I would suspect that fact may be one of the reasons why we haven’t seen any major capacity expansion in the SEC since A&M’s in 2015. I agree with your appraisal that suites and other revenue producing spaces has been the recent focus and that major expansion projects are a thing of the past, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if one of the perennial also rans, like South Carolina, Ole Miss, Arkansas, Kentucky, or Missouri won a national championship, they would eventually expand their current stadium > 80,000 by piecemeal incremental degrees over time if they remained competitive.

Edited by SSN 780 at 12:48:45 on 09/13/24