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Kyle Field

Wide Shot from South End Zone Kyle Field above Tunnel with Flyover

COLLEGE STATION, TX - October 09, 2021 - student section fans during the game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Texas A&M Aggies at Kyle Field in College Station, TX. Emily Snyder/Texas A&M Athletics

COLLEGE STATION, TX - AUGUST 26, 2019 - Kyle Field exterior signage and monuments at Kyle Field in College Station, TX. Photo By Craig Bisacre/Texas A&M Athletics

COLLEGE STATION, TX - November 26, 2022 - Kyle Field during the game between the LSU Tigers and the Texas A&M Aggies at Kyle Field in College Station, TX. Photo By Evan Pilat/Texas A&M Athletics

COLLEGE STATION, TX - October 28, 2023 - Fans during the game between the South Carolina Gamecocks and the Texas A&M Aggies at Kyle Field in College Station, TX. Photo By Jonathan Taffet/Texas A&M Athletics

COLLEGE STATION, TX - November 11, 2023 - Fans during the game between the Mississippi St. Bulldogs and the Texas A&M Aggies at Kyle Field in College Station, TX. Photo By Ethan Mito/Texas A&M Athletics

COLLEGE STATION, TX - 20231111 - fan during the game between the Texas A&M Aggies and the Mississippi St. Bulldogs at Kyle Field in College Station, TX. Photo By Rachel Mahan

Football

Regarded as one of the nation’s most intimidating road venues, Texas A&M’s Kyle Field has been the home of the Aggie football team since 1905.

Over a two-year period, Kyle Field underwent one of the largest and most extensive redevelopment projects in the history of collegiate athletics. The redeveloped Kyle Field features an expanded seating capacity of 102,733, making it one of the five largest stadiums in collegiate football. The $485 million redevelopment featured two phases and made its debut for the 2015 season. The Aggies drew more than 100,000 fans to Kyle Field for all seven games in 2014, including the stadium record of 110,633 for the Ole Miss contest.

Prior to the redevelopment, the most recent major improvement was the $32.9 million north end zone expansion, which was completed in 1999. The formation of the Bernard C. Richardson Zone raised Kyle Field’s capacity to 82,589. “The Zone” opened at full capacity for the first time for the annual Texas A&M-Texas grudge match in 1999 and a then state-record football crowd of 86,128 watched the Aggies tally a hard-fought 20-16 victory over the archrival Longhorns. The stadium record was broken six times since the 1999 game and stood at 90,079 (9-6 win over Nebraska in 2010) prior to the redevelopment.

Kyle Field was named for Edwin Jackson Kyle, who served as Texas A&M’s dean of agriculture and athletic council president. Kyle donated a 400 x 400-foot area of the southern edge of campus that had been assigned to him for horticultural experiments.

The permanent seating on the east and west sides of Kyle Field were added in 1927 and the horseshoe was completed in 1929. The stadium was expanded in 1967 to include two decks of grandstands, and the third decks were added to the east and west sides in 1980. The Aggies played on grass through the 1960s, but A&M became one of the many schools that switched to artificial turf in the early 1970s. Grass returned to Kyle Field in 1996 and the Aggies currently play on grass.

Kyle Field Attendance Records

	Crowd	Opponent	Date
1.	110,633*	Ole Miss	October 11, 2014
2.	109,835	Auburn	November 6, 2021
3.	109,028	Texas	November 30, 2024
4.	108,852	LSU	October 26, 2024
5.	108,101	Alabama	October 7, 2023
6.	107,521	UTSA	August 30, 2025
7.	107,315	Notre Dame	August 31, 2024
8.	107,245	Miami	September 17, 2022
9.	106,815	Alabama	October 9, 2021
10.	106,749	Alabama	October 12, 2019
11.	106,248	Tennessee	October 8, 2016
12.	105,829*	LSU	November 27, 2014
13.	105,815	New Mexico State	November 16, 2024
14.	105,733	Alabama	October 17, 2015
15.	104,957	South Carolina	November 6, 2019
16.	104,892	Ole Miss	November 12, 2016
17.	104,794	Clemson	September 8, 2018
18.	104,756*	Missouri	November 15, 2014
19.	104,728*	Lamar	September 6, 2014
20.	104,625	Auburn	November 7, 2015

* redeveloped Kyle Field (102,733) opened in 2015. capacity for 2014 season was 106,000.

Top Kyle Field Season Attendance Averages

Average	Year
105,122*	2014*
103,622	2015
102,883	2022
102,847	2024
101,917	2016

* redeveloped Kyle Field (102,733) opened in 2015. capacity for 2014 season was 106,000.

Kyle Field Timeline

Spring 1905: E.J. Kyle, professor of horticulture and staunch supporter of Aggie athletics, donates 400x400 foot all-purpose athletic area. Two seats of bleachers were built to accommodate 500 spectators.
1906: Grateful Corps of Cadets met in old chapel to express their appreciation for Kyle and named the new field for him. Not officially, but the name stuck.
1907: Kyle purchased grand stands from the Bryan Fair Association with a personal check and moved them to Kyle Field.
1915: Kyle Field seating is raised to 6,800.
1923: Seating increased to 8,500.
1927: Construction begins on concrete stands.
1929: New $365,000 concrete stadium is complete in time for the Texas A&M vs. Texas clash on Thanksgiving. The stadium features 32,890 permanent seats and 5,000 temporary seats.
1956: Texas A&M Board of Directors officially named Kyle Field after Edwin Jackson Kyle, Class of 1899.
1967: Second decks added.
1970: Artificial turf installed.
1980: Third decks finished, new press box, suites dedicated against Penn State. Capacity 70,016.
1982: Seats on east side narrowed. Capacity 72,387.
1992: Seats widened and capacity moves back to 70,210.
1996: Natural grass returns.
1998: Construction on The Zone is underway, capacity is limited to 58,292.
1999: The Zone is complete and capacity increases to 82,600.
2008: Refiguring suites places capacity to 83,002.
2012: Student seating changes makes Kyle Field capacity 82,589.
2013: Texas A&M receives approval from Board of Regents to proceed with $485 million redevelopment of Kyle Field. Renovation and expansion began prior to the 2013 season.
2014: East and South sides are competed. Capacity increases to 106,000 for 2014 season only.
2015: Redevelopment and expansion competed for the 2015 campaign. Capacity decreases to 102,733.