"The House That Bobby Built" | |
![]() Stadium entrance | |
Location | 403 Stadium Drive West, Tallahassee, FL 32306 |
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Coordinates | 30°26′17″N 84°18′16″W / 30.43806°N 84.30444°W |
Operator | Florida State Athletics |
Capacity | 79,560 (2016–2023)[1]
Former capacity List
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Record attendance | 84,431 (October 18, 2014) |
Surface | 419 Tifway Bermuda Grass[2] |
Construction | |
Broke ground | June 1950 |
Opened | October 7, 1950 |
Expanded | 1954, 1961, 1964, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1992–1996, 2001, 2003, 2016 |
Construction cost | $250,000 (in 1950) ($3.17 million in 2023 dollars[3]) |
Architect | Ball-Horton & Associates[4] Barnett Fronczak Architects The Architects Collaborative (Renovations) |
General contractor | Jack Culpepper Construction Co.[5] |
Tenants | |
Florida State Seminoles football (NCAA FBS) | |
Website | |
seminoles.com/doakcampbellstadium |
Doak S. Campbell Stadium (in full Bobby Bowden Field at Doak S. Campbell Stadium), popularly known as "Doak", is a football stadium on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. It is the home field of the Florida State Seminoles football team of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).
Opened in 1950, it was originally named Doak Campbell Stadium in honor of Doak S. Campbell, the university's first president. On November 20, 2004, the Florida Legislature added longtime head football coach Bobby Bowden to the stadium name to become Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium.[6] A petition in June 2020 sought to remove Campbell's name, as he resisted racial integration while president of Florida State University.[7][8] FSU President John E. Thrasher asked Athletics Director David Coburn "to immediately review this issue and make recommendations to me."[9] As of June 2022, no recommendations have been made.
The stadium is part of the University Center complex, a mixed-use facility encompassing university office space, university classrooms, the university's Visitor's Center, souvenir store, The University Center Club, now known as the Dunlap Champions Club, and skyboxes and press boxes for use during football games.
With a capacity of 79,560, the 49th-largest stadium in the world, the second-largest stadium in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and the 15th largest stadium in the NCAA.[10]