College football's oldest FBS stadium was built by the students who filled it. Bobby Dodd Stadium at Georgia Tech, on North Avenue at Techwood Drive in downtown Atlanta, has hosted football on the site since 1905 and as a proper stadium since 1913, when a 15,000-dollar gift from trustee John W. Grant - given in memory of his son Hugh Inman Grant, for whom the field was named - funded concrete west stands that Tech students largely built themselves. The horseshoe grew with the century: east stands in 1924, south stands in 1925, a rebuilt west side in the 1940s, upper decks in the 1960s pushing capacity to a peak of 58,121, through the eras of John Heisman and the coach whose name went on the stadium in 1988, Bobby Dodd. No FBS stadium has seen more home wins, and few have seen more history: the 1916 game against Cumberland ended 222-0, still the most lopsided score in college football, and the Yellow Jackets' famous 1928 national championship season ran through Grant Field. A 75-million-dollar renovation from 2001 to 2003 bowled in the north end and added an upper deck for a 55,000 capacity that held two decades, until construction of the Fanning Student-Athlete Performance Center trimmed the north stands in 2024 to the current 51,913. The setting is the sell: the stadium sits inside the campus grid with the Midtown Atlanta skyline looming over the east stands - the Flats, as the fill-dirt ground has been called for a century, offer the most urban backdrop in college football. The 1913 concrete is still down there, buried under the rebuilt west side; Georgia Tech just kept building on top of it, which is roughly the engineering school's whole philosophy. Game-day tradition runs correspondingly deep: the Ramblin' Wreck - a restored 1930 Ford Model A - leads the team onto the field, the whistle from the campus power plant sounds after scores, and the student body's engineering pranks against visiting teams are their own folklore. Hyundai's field naming partnership and the Fanning Center's construction mark the modern era, but the stadium's sell remains unchanged for a century: big-time football inside a city campus, with the skyline for a scoreboard backdrop.

Type: Stadium / Arena

Address: 155 North Avenue NW, Atlanta, GA, United States, 30313

Website: https://ramblinwreck.com

Capacity: 51913

Opening Date: 01/09/1913

Serves Food

Outdoor Area

Accessible