OT: Kyle Field Expanding to 102,500 Capacity

Submitted by MichGoBlue858 on

Texas A&M is adding about 20,000 seats to become the third largest stadium in college football, trailing only Michigan and Penn State. Kyle Field is already known for being extremely loud, so Texas A&M has a very good chance to have the best home field advantage in college football. Its been a good year for them: Moving to the SEC, beating Alabama, Heisman winning QB, now this. They also have a great recruiting class coming in. Texas can't be too happy right now. 

Links:  http://kylefield.com/

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9233122/texas-aggies-approve-plans-seat-more-100000-sec-largest-stadium

Vonkleist

May 2nd, 2013 at 12:44 AM ^

I'm a professor here because its one of the few good nuclear engineering programs (not as good as UM of course) and it is a total Spartan vibe: they have such vitriol for UT. The fight song is all about beating them for chrissakes. Whereas, UT considers Oklahoma to be their rival. I feel like I'm in bizarro world.

alum96

May 4th, 2013 at 3:31 PM ^

Bizzaro world?  You mean like when a school in the middle of the state has such vitriol for a school "up north". Whereas the school up north considers Ohio to be their rival?  Yeah who could ever think of such a situation. 

Sac Fly

May 1st, 2013 at 8:41 PM ^

Why would Texas be mad? They already have plans to expand to a 112,000 seat stadium, so when they do A&M will be the 4th largest.

Balrog_of_Morgoth

May 1st, 2013 at 8:45 PM ^

Texas A&M has had a super successful year, they are on a huge upswing, and they recenlty bailed the Big XII. In the meantime, Texas has had a few down years. Texas is probably mad due to all of A&M's recent success under the current circumstances, not just the plans to build a bigger stadium.

Sac Fly

May 1st, 2013 at 9:12 PM ^

Mack Brown may be dragging down the program, but once he's gone they will go back to being Texas again because no matter what A&M does, UT still recruits better.

If Michigan State jumped to a better conference and didn't even get to play in a BCS bowl during one of the programs best seasons, I think it would be pretty funny. I wouldn't be mad.

WolvinLA2

May 1st, 2013 at 9:17 PM ^

And if a Michigan State player won the Heisman, had a different player drafted #2 overall, built a stadium bigger than ours, got more national attention than us and recruited better than us?  You wouldn't be upset about that?  

Sac Fly

May 1st, 2013 at 9:29 PM ^

Michigan State had a few of those things before. They won the Rose Bowl, Tony Mandarich was drafted 2nd overall and then they went back to being irrelevant.

No program stays down forever, eventually small programs make a run and then go away. It's the landscape of college football.

M-Wolverine

May 1st, 2013 at 9:51 PM ^

Before Mack Brown they had been average for a lot more than a decade and while Slocum was at A&M they were the ones playing in big bowls (and usually losing, but still). Things can change.

Lutha

May 1st, 2013 at 9:18 PM ^

Maybe you haven't noticed how Michigan Stadium is a(n almost) perfect bowl.  Not having huge gaps in the stadium makes it easier to locate people closer to the field even when you're the biggest stadium in the country.

Tshimanga Cowabunga

May 1st, 2013 at 9:54 PM ^

I was in College Station this summer before the Michigan game in Texas this year and since the field isn't a bowl or anything it was just open to the public. I walked right in and took pictures right on the field.  It definitely looks high from there. Would not want to be a drunk fan in Texas heat walking up the curvey ramps to the upper deck.