If you look at the photo closely, the botton 17 rows are actually sunken down below the normal ground surface. Note the hills in each endzone? From the field house, players approch the stadium and have to walk down a stairway to get down to the playing field. Thus they nick named it "The Hole". Our normal seating capacity is around 17,800 with the sky box seating added in. BUT, the hills allow us to add another 5,000 seats on the hills, which we have done on occasion. Our all time record crowd is officially 27,500 vs ULL in 1976, the year we beat Tulsa in the Independance Bowl. There were so many people in the stadium about 2000 could not even see the playing surface. The fire marshal will not let us do that anymore, so that will be our all time record unless we expand our stadium.