When the first-ever college football game was played in 1869, just about 100 spectators showed up on Rutgers' campus.
Fast forward 147 years to Sept. 10, 2016 and Bristol Motor Speedway played host for a special Tennessee-Virginia Tech neutral site game that drew an NCAA-record 156,990 paid.
Crowds of 100,000-plus have become commonplace in college football thanks to extraordinary renovations and multimillion-dollar projects.
In 2022, eight schools boast home stadiums that hold a six-figure capacity.
Here are the 10 largest capacity stadiums that serve as primary homes for FBS college football teams ahead of the 2022 season.
RANK SCHOOL STADIUM CAPACITY 10 UCLA Rose Bowl (Pasadena, Calif.) 91,136
RANK SCHOOL STADIUM CAPACITY 9 Georgia Sanford Stadium (Athens, Ga.) 92,746
RANK SCHOOL STADIUM CAPACITY 8 Texas Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium (Austin, Texas) 100,119
RANK SCHOOL STADIUM CAPACITY 7 Alabama Bryant-Denny Stadium (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 101,821
RANK SCHOOL STADIUM CAPACITY 6 Tennessee Neyland Stadium (Knoxville, Tenn.) 101,915
RANK SCHOOL STADIUM CAPACITY 5 LSU Tiger Stadium (Baton Rouge, La.) 102,321
RANK SCHOOL STADIUM CAPACITY 4 Texas A&M Kyle Field (College Station, Texas) 102,733
RANK SCHOOL STADIUM CAPACITY 3 Ohio State Ohio Stadium (Columbus, Ohio) 102,780
RANK SCHOOL STADIUM CAPACITY 2 Penn State Beaver Stadium (University Park, Pa.) 106,572
RANK SCHOOL STADIUM CAPACITY 1 Michigan Michigan Stadium (Ann Arbor, Mich.) 107,601