College Football: Ranking Division I Indoor Stadiums

Location: San Antonio, Texas

Capacity: 65,000

The Alamodome is an anomaly amongst indoor college football stadiums. It was built for the purpose of being an NFL stadium, but San Antonio was never able to attract an NFL team.

When the University of Texas-San Antonio started up a college football team in 2011 and became the main tenants of the Alamodome, the stadium became the largest indoor stadium whose main tenant is a college football team.

The large capacity of the Alamodome has been a huge help for the upstart Roadrunners. In their inaugural home game, they managed to attract over 50,000 fans, who were able to fit comfortably into the spacious Alamodome. They also managed to set the record for highest average attendance for a first year college football team, averaging over 35,000 per home game. The spacious confines of the Alamodome are a major reason for that.

The downside to the Alamodome is because it was a stadium designed for football that went almost two decades without a major football team as a tenant, it has not been kept up very well as a football stadium. The inside needs some renovations in order to modernize it and make it a more enjoyable football stadium.

With a little tender love and care, the Alamodome could become one of the premier indoor stadiums in all of college football.

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College Football: Ranking Division I Indoor Stadiums