Stadiums of the Pac-12
I found this over at Jedi ASU and thought I'd repost it here because, well, it's pretty damn cool.
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Oregon State stadium looks small..
yet it has more same capacity than Rice-eccles. anyone else notice that?
I don't think they are quite to scale
Look at Husky Stadium and Martin Stadium. Husky stadium holds twice as much but appears only slightly larger.
by spencer peaty on Dec 14, 2010 1:49 AM MST up reply actions
original author grabbed or traced it from google map that have an outdated snapshot....
appears to be a snapshot of Reser Stadium pre-2005
Reser have undergone two expansions since what it looks like how it was showing in Google Map
here is a more recent snapshot of Reser showing the newer east side and south end zone Reser Stadium
by ximiankernel on Dec 14, 2010 3:05 AM MST up reply actions
Multi-decked stadiums
That graphic doesn’t take into account that several of those stadiums are multideck stadiums. Arizona, Sun Devil, Reser, Stanford, and Husky stadiums are all multi-deck stadiums, meaning that some seats are directly above lower deck seats.
Memorial, Folsom, Autzen, Rice-Eccles, Martin, the Rose Bowl, and the Coliseum all have single deck seating, meaning you enter the stadium and can move all the way up to the top of the stadium or all the way down to field level from that single entrance.
And did the california stadiums have the same designer?
Cal’s, UCLA’s, and USC’s are all the same shape, just different size. Only stanford is different from other california schools, because they are cool like that.
Well Stanford did have a similar stadium...
They’re all extremely old stadiums built during an era where that type of bowl was popular.
I always thought Stanford Stadium had an interesting setup with its sliver of seating missing from part of the bowl:

Jazzy’s right about the oval shape of all the California stadia being a remnant of the prevailing designs at the time.
However, you should note that although Ucla plays at the Rose Bowl and USC plays at the Colisseum, those really aren’t “on campus” places. It’s near enough to be moot for $C, but Ucla has to go over 20 miles to Pasadena for their “home” games.
Calmer than you are.
I think I see a football game going on there...
Though it could be a bunch of ants colonizing. I’m not sure.
Don't feel too bad
I sit the next section over and I have season tickets. The Coliseum was designed for the Olympics, so the oval is elongated. Means those sitting in the Peristyle or open end are much further from the field than say at the Rose Bowl. The fact USC has moved the field closer to the closed end only makes that situation worse. There are no visiting tickets worse than at USC.
by ev on Dec 14, 2010 5:23 PM MST up reply actions
So cool!
I still can’t believe we’re going to be playing—regularly!—in some of the most hallowed, tradition-filled places in all of college football. Can’t wait for when fans from the other PAC schools travel here as visitors and demand makes it necessary to expand RES. It’s odd to think that we might just be at the very beginning of a future storied and hallowed Utah football program. Hell, two decades from now, people could be looking at RES with some of the same reverence they view Nebraska’s Memorial Stadium or even “The Horseshoe” with.

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