Where Neyland Stadium is ranked in EA Sports College Football 26's 'toughest places to play'
Tennessee’s Neyland Stadium is ranked as the 12th-toughest stadium to play in on the new EA Sports College Football 26 video game, despite the Vols entering the 2025 season on a 20-game home win streak.
LSU’s Tiger Stadium is ranked No. 1, ahead of Penn State’s Beaver Stadium, Ohio State’s Ohio Stadium, Georgia’s Sanford Stadium and Alabama’s Bryant-Denny Stadium rounding out the top five.
The rest of the top 10 is Clemson’s Memorial Stadium at No. 6, then Florida’s Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, Oregon’s Autzen Stadium and Michigan Stadium.
Texas A&M’s Kyle Field ranked just ahead of Neyland Stadium
Texas A&M’s Kyle Field is ranked No. 11, one spot ahead of Neyland. Behind Tennessee is Texas Memorial Stadium, Florida State’s Doak Campbell Stadium and Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium at No. 15.
The rest of the top 25 is South Carolina’s Williams-Brice Stadium, Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium, Washington’s Husky Stadium, Iowa’s Kinnick Stadium, Utah’s Rice-Eccles Stadium, Notre Dame Stadium, North Carolina State’s Carter-Finley Stadium, Oklahoma State’s Boone Pickens Stadium, Michigan State’s Spartan Stadium and Mississippi State’s Davis Wade Stadium.
EA Sports brought back the college football franchise last July after a 13-year hiatus. College Football 26 will be released on July 10.
The new version of the game will include Dark Mode at Neyland, with a teaser in May showing the home of the Vols with the lights out, with players running through a lit up ‘T’ formed by the Pride of the Southland Band, with spotlights bouncing around the stadium.
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The Vols have sold out 20 straight games at Neyland Stadium
Tennessee announced in April that the season-ticket allotment of 70,500 is sold out for a third straight year. At the time, the Vols reported another 23,755 fans on a season-ticket waiting list.
Last season Tennessee averaged a sold-out crowd of 101,915 fans over seven home games, going a perfect 7-0 in front of a total of 713,405 fans. Both totals ranked sixth nationally.
Neyland Stadium has been sold out for 20 straight games, dating back to a 63-6 win over Akron on September 17, 2022. All seven home games of the 2023 season were sold out and the final six home games of the 2022 season were capacity crowds.
Tennessee is 24-4 at home during the Josh Heupel era. The Vols are 18-1 over their last 19 home games, dating back to the start of the 2022 season and 20-1 at home since the start of the 2022 season, with the only loss being against No. 1 Georgia. The 20 wins since 2022 are third nationally in the FBS and tied for first in the SEC.
