How many college football stadiums are there in the FBS?

College football's Football Bowl Subdivision counts 136 programs for the 2026 season, and that number is also the answer to how many college football stadiums are there in the FBS — one primary home venue per team, spread across ten conferences. The one wrinkle: a few of those 136 aren't dedicated, on-campus buildings. A handful of programs share an NFL venue or play at an off-campus municipal site instead of a stadium built exclusively for them.

Why this matters

The FBS number isn't fixed the way the NFL's 32 teams are. Schools reclassify up from the FCS, conferences reshuffle, and every couple of years a stadium moves off the list because a program pauses football or a school changes divisions. If you're trying to plan a season around visiting stadiums, or just settling an argument, you need the count that matches the current year, not one from three realignment cycles ago. Triptyka tracks these programs the same way collectors track ballparks or national parks — as a fixed list you check off one visit at a time.

How many college football stadiums are there in the FBS in 2026?

The FBS runs 136 programs in 2026, and each one has a primary home stadium, which puts the working total at 136. The breakdown by tier looks like this:

That 136 is the count of primary home venues, not a guarantee that every stadium is exclusively owned by its team. A small number of programs play at shared or off-campus sites, which is the caveat worth knowing before you build a visit list around the raw number.

Power Four programs: 67 stadiums

The four richest conferences carry 67 of the FBS's 136 stadiums in 2026:

• Big Ten — 18 teams, 18 stadiums, stretching from Rutgers on the East Coast to UCLA and USC on the West Coast.
• SEC — 16 teams, 16 stadiums, anchored by some of the largest capacities in the sport.
• ACC — 17 teams, 17 stadiums, including Stanford and Cal on the West Coast since their 2024 move.
• Big 12 — 16 teams, 16 stadiums, now spanning from West Virginia to Arizona.

Verdict: if your goal is the biggest, loudest stadiums with the least travel between them per capacity, the Power Four's 67 stadiums are the highest-leverage subset to target first.

Group of Five and independents: 69 stadiums

The remaining 69 FBS stadiums sit across six Group of Five conferences — the American, Conference USA, the MAC, the Mountain West, the revived Pac-12, and the Sun Belt — plus three football independents: Notre Dame, UConn, and UMass. These programs are less nationally televised, but their stadiums tend to be cheaper to visit, easier to get tickets for, and closer together in some regions, which matters if you're trying to knock out a cluster in one road trip.

Why the FBS stadium count changes almost every year

The number isn't static, and it hasn't been for a decade. Here's what moves it:

• FCS reclassification — Delaware and Missouri State moved up to the FBS for the 2025 season, pushing the total from 134 to 136, and that number carries into 2026 unless another school reclassifies.
• Conference realignment — schools switching conferences don't change the total, but they do change which stadiums sit in which grouping, which is why the Power Four's 67-team split looks different than it did five years ago.
• New conference formation — the Pac-12's 2026 relaunch adds a tenth conference to the ledger, but its member schools were already playing FBS football elsewhere, so the stadium count itself doesn't move.
• Shared or non-exclusive venues — a few programs, like UNLV at Allegiant Stadium, play at a site shared with an NFL tenant rather than a stadium built solely for the college team.
• Renovation displacement — a program mid-renovation can play a season at a temporary or secondary site, which briefly changes what's actually in use without changing the program's official home venue on record.
• Program pauses — a school dropping or pausing its football program removes a stadium from the active FBS list, though this is rare at the FBS level compared to the FCS.

How many FBS teams are there in 2026?

There are 136 FBS teams in 2026, spread across ten conferences plus three independents — Notre Dame, UConn, and UMass. That's up from 134 in the 2024 season, after Delaware and Missouri State completed their move up from the FCS.

Does every FBS team have its own stadium?

Most FBS teams play in a stadium built and used primarily for their own program, but a handful don't. UNLV shares Allegiant Stadium with the NFL's Raiders, and a few other programs play at municipal or off-campus sites rather than a stadium exclusively tied to the school.

How many stadiums do the Power Four conferences have?

The Power Four conferences carry 67 stadiums combined in 2026 — 18 in the Big Ten, 16 in the SEC, 17 in the ACC, and 16 in the Big 12. That's roughly half of the FBS's full 136-stadium count in less than half the conferences.

If you're building a life list around this number, a printable college football stadium checklist turns the 136 into something you can actually track program by program instead of trying to hold the count in your head. Triptyka's version groups the list by conference, so checking off all 67 Power Four stops before moving to the Group of Five is as straightforward as flipping a page.

FAQ

One last thing

The conference map moves more than the stadium count does. The Pac-12's 2026 relaunch adds a tenth conference to the ledger, but every one of its member schools was already playing FBS football in the Mountain West — so the total holds at 136 stadiums even as the logos on the sideline change. The number to remember is 136, not the conference names attached to it, because those keep shuffling.

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