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Opened in 1940, The University of Akron’s Rubber Bowl ties for largest football stadium in the Mid-American Conference, and is the third largest collegiate stadium in the state of Ohio. With current capacity at 31,000, The Bowl is runnerup to Ohio State’s Ohio Stadium which packs in 101,568.
As far as MAC stadiums go, the Rubber Bowl is tied with UB Stadium (Buffalo) as the largest in terms of seating capacity.
The Zips’ horseshoe-shaped home has been a gathering spot for Northeast Ohio football fans and event goers for 64 years. In 1999, UA football fan No. 3,000,000 passed through the Rubber Bowl turnstiles, marking six decades of Zips gridiron action at The Bowl.