Top 20 college football stadiums you must see in your lifetime

18. Rose Bowl

School: UCLA
Location: Pasadena, CA
Capacity: 92,542

Although UCLA has not put its best foot forward in recent years, Los Angeles, as a whole, has a lot going on in regards to its sports scene. It’s hard for any team in the city to carry a consistently large fan base if they put up mediocre results season-by-season. That’s one of the problems that the Bruins have run into.

Yet, the Rose Bowl is home to much more than just UCLA football now. The IOC visited the Rose Bowl just a few weeks ago, part of the evaluation of the city of Los Angeles for its bid to host the Olympics.

More than anything, it’s home to the “Granddaddy of them all” — the actual Rose Bowl Game. The last Rose Bowl to take place in Pasadena was no disappointment either. LA’s own USC Trojans defeated the Penn State Wildcats a narrow three-point margin in a thrilling 52-49 victory that became an instant classic.

The atmosphere of the Rose Bowl for UCLA would not be up to par with the rest of the schools and stadiums on this list since the Bruins averaged less than 68,000 in attendance last season. That means Bruin fans roughly filled up the Rose Bowl to only 73 percent capacity last season.

If you’re visiting empty stadiums just to see the sights of the stadiums themselves, then the Rose Bowl is definitely a must-see. However, if you’re finding different stadium atmospheres worthy of witnessing during the actual season then watching UCLA play in the Rose Bowl will not be the best atmosphere you can find.