University at Buffalo Stadium

UB Stadium
"The Bullpen"[ citation needed ]
	UB Stadium, 2012
Location	Webster Road; Amherst, NY 14221
Coordinates	42°59′57″N78°46′39″W / 42.99917°N 78.77750°W
Owner	University at Buffalo
Operator	University at Buffalo
Capacity	25,013 (2017–present); 29,013[ failed verification ] (1999–2017); 15,000 (1993–1999)
Surface	A-Turf Titan (2014–present); Momentum Turf (2005–2013); Natural grass (1993–2004)
Construction
Broke ground	September 17, 1991
Opened	September 4, 1993 (UB football)
Expanded	1999
Construction cost	$23 million; ($46.6 million in 2022 dollars)
Architect	HOK Sport
Tenants
	Buffalo Bulls (NCAA); Football (1993–present); Women's soccer (1993–present); Men's track and field (1993–present); Women's track and field (1993–present); Men's soccer (1993–2017)

Last updated September 19, 2023

UB Stadium is a stadium in Amherst, New York on the campus of the University at Buffalo. It is primarily used for football, soccer, and track and field events, and is the home field of the Buffalo Bulls. It opened on September 4, 1993, with a football game between the Buffalo Bulls and Maine Black Bears.^[3]

History

The stadium was built from 1991 to 1993 as the final piece of the school's "Run to Division I" drive, meant to bring UB football back to Division I status and as the feature athletics venue for the 1993 Summer Universiade. The program had been dropped for seven years in the 1970s, but returned at a lower level. The team had played at a much smaller, 4,000-seat UB Stadium (now known as Walter Kunz Stadium) from the time of its move to the town of Amherst north of Buffalo in 1985 until 1992. The current stadium opened in the summer of 1993, hosting the World University Games. The Bulls played their first six years in the stadium as a member of Division I-AA, finally making their return to Division I-A in 1999.

Jim Kelly hosted his third-annual StarGaze charity event at the venue in 1994. The stadium was the primary venue for the 1995 World Masters Athletics Championships. The stadium hosted the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Empire State Games on July 21, 2010.

Location and configuration

The stadium consists of a north-south field surrounded by an eight-lane track. There are the original double-decked grandstands on either sideline spanning the entire length of the football field, a large bleacher grandstand around the south end of the track, and two shorter bleacher sections on the north side with the free-standing scoreboard located between them. The stadium is lit by the four large light towers near the corners of the stadium.

The stadium is located at the east side of UB's North Campus. Students living on the North Campus typically walk to the stadium from their on-campus housing or take the UB Stampede shuttle buses directly to Alumni Arena, which is nearby.

UB Stadium has a capacity of approximately 25,000. The sideline seating areas consist of two main grandstands which hold 15,000 (7,500 each). A large bleacher grandstand in the southern end of the stadium has a seating capacity of approximately 10,000. There is additional space on the north and south ends of the field level that is utilized as a standing room only space which accommodates approximately 3,000, though this is not factored into the capacity of the stadium.

In 1999, the school added two rounded bleacher sections to UB Stadium, raising the capacity to above 29,000. The southern section holds 10,000. Two half-sections were constructed in the north endzone, both with a capacity of 3,000 each (6,000 total). In October 2017, demolition work commenced on the northern endzones of the stadium in preparation for the program's new 92,000-square-foot (8,500 m²), $18 million field house.^[4] The demolition of the bleachers brought the stadium's capacity down to about 25,000.

Attendance records

Rank	Attendance	Date	Game Result
1	29,795	August 31, 2006	Buffalo 9, Temple 3^OT
2	29,013	September 11, 2004	Buffalo 17, Syracuse 37
3	26,511	November 18, 2000	Buffalo 16, Miami (OH) 17
4	24,714	September 12, 2014	Buffalo 21, 8 Baylor 63
5	24,013	September 14, 2013	Buffalo 26, Stony Brook 23^5OT
6	23,671	September 29, 2018	Buffalo 13, Army 42
7	23,602	October 5, 2013	Buffalo 42, Eastern Michigan 14
8	22,918	November 5, 2013	Buffalo 30, Ohio 3
9	22,676	September 22, 2007	Buffalo 21, Baylor 34
10	22,658	August 30, 2001	Buffalo 15, Rutgers 31
11	21,933	September 10, 2011	Buffalo 35, Stony Brook 7
12	21,870	September 12, 2009	Buffalo 27, Pittsburgh 54
13	21,719	October 18, 2008	Buffalo 27, Army 24^OT
14	21,139	September 20, 2014	Buffalo 36, Norfolk State 7
15	21,103	August 29, 2002	Buffalo 26, Lehigh 37
16	20,952	September 28, 2013	Buffalo 41, UConn 12
17	20,872	September 5, 2015	Buffalo 51, Albany 14
18	20,843	October 3, 2015	Buffalo 22, Bowling Green 28
19	20,841	September 27, 2014	Buffalo 35, Miami (OH) 27
20	20,835	September 11, 1999	Buffalo 10, Akron 17

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References

↑ "UB Stadium - Amherst, NY Tickets". eventticketscenter.com. Archived from the original on August 13, 2014. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
↑ 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–" . Retrieved May 28, 2023.
↑ Holland, Scott (September 4, 2013). "1993 Buffalo Football – A 'new' UB Stadium". University at Buffalo Digital Collections. Archived from the original on March 2, 2014.
↑ Fuller, Jon (September 15, 2017). "UB moves forward on fieldhouse". www.buffalo.edu. University at Buffalo . Retrieved 18 September 2023.

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[eventticketscenter-1] "UB Stadium - Amherst, NY Tickets". eventticketscenter.com. Archived from the original on August 13, 2014. Retrieved 4 July 2014.

[inflation-US-2] 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–" . Retrieved May 28, 2023.

[3] Holland, Scott (September 4, 2013). "1993 Buffalo Football – A 'new' UB Stadium". University at Buffalo Digital Collections. Archived from the original on March 2, 2014.

[4] Fuller, Jon (September 15, 2017). "UB moves forward on fieldhouse". www.buffalo.edu. University at Buffalo . Retrieved 18 September 2023.

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