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College Football's 10 Best Stadiums Named Ahead Of 2026 Season

Few sports, if any, do stadiums as well as college football.

College football is littered with iconic and legendary stadiums, from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena to The Swamp in Gainesville to the Big House in Ann Arbor. College football is full of pageantry, tradition and passion - and those things are all evident in the various stadiums across the country.

But what are the best venues in all of college football?

College football's 10 best stadiums have been named ahead of the 2026 college football regular season. It's an impressive list.

 Rose Bowl stadium view.
Rose Bowl stadium view. © Kirby Lee-Imagn Images.

On3 college football experts Andy Staples and Ari Wasserman drafted the 10 best college football stadiums during a recent draft on the latest edition of Andy and Ari On3.

There are a number of stadiums from the SEC and the Big Ten on the list, which should come as no real surprise.

College football's 10 best stadiums

The 10 best stadiums in college football, according to the college football experts over at On3.

  1. Rose Bowl
  2. LSU's Tiger Stadium
  3. Penn State's Beaver Stadium
  4. Florida's The Swamp
  5. Notre Dame Stadium
  6. Oregon's Autzen Stadium
  7. Tennessee's Neyland Stadium
  8. Michigan Stadium
  9. Utah's Rice-Eccles Stadium
  10. Auburn's Jordan-Hare Stadium

There are some notable omissions from this list. Ohio State's Ohio Stadium and Alabama's Bryant-Denny Stadium, two of the biggest venues in the country, did not make the list. Neither did Nebraska's Memorial Stadium or Texas's Memorial Stadium.

It'll be interesting to see which venues come to life in the biggest way during the 2026 college football season.

Week 1 can't get here soon enough.

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This story was originally published June 7, 2026 at 6:09 AM.

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