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Ohio Stadium, Michigan Stadium ranked among top 25 best in college football
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Ohio Stadium and Michigan Stadium are ranked among the top 10 stadiums in college football.
Popular Mechanics ranked the top 25 best in college football, but there was a catch — the outlet ranked the stadiums based solely on the buildings. The Horseshoe and the Big House were the only two from the Big Ten ranked.
Both are iconic stadiums, and both certainly deserved to be ranked among the top 10.
Ohio Stadium which, seats 105,000, was ranked No. 4, according to the outlet, with a snippet below:
The horseshoe shape is synonymous with Ohio State, and at roughly 105,000 seats, Ohio Stadium is one giant horseshoe. The nation’s first concrete double-deck stadium was built with 66,000 seats in 1922. Howard Dwight Smith chose the horseshoe curve to ensure the crowd always faced the field. Four towers add architectural waymarkers, while the half-dome entry with terra cotta tile-covered ceilings is an Ohio icon.
Michigan Stadium was ranked just inside the top 10 at No. 9. The Big House is no doubt iconic in college football.
Michigan Stadium was already a monstrosity in 1927, when it opened with 72,000 seats. Building the Big House was no easy feat. Three-fourths of the structure was sunk below ground level to counteract the underground spring lying below the stadium, which engulfed a crane during construction (the crane was never retrieved). Today the colossal stadium (designed after the Yale Bowl) holds 107,000 and is the largest football stadium in the country by capacity.