• Help Shape NCAA Football: Band Locations

    The NCAA Football team is reaching out to the community and wants your help in gathering team reference details for possible inclusion in the years to come. After asking for info on Cheerleader Chants several months ago, they now want your help in learning where each college football marching band sits in their home stadium, as well as bowl, conference championship and neutral site locations.

    Share your team - or any team you know - info in this thread with a photo reference/circling the section on a seating chart image. A written description would also work, but obviously a photo reference would be more beneficial.

    UPDATE - Band seating sections have been gathered for ALL venues in NCAA Football. Great work by the community! Feel free to double check the list and make sure the info for your favorite program is correct.

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    1. RedAL925's Avatar
      RedAL925 -
      UConn - Rentschler Field

      Sections: 114 and bottom part of 113





    1. Paakaa10's Avatar
      Paakaa10 -
      Oklahoma State - Boone Pickens Stadium

      Section: Section 216







      Band sits in section 216 according to this ticket map from the Oklahoma State football site.



      The band section is pretty well visible in this picture on the second level behind the goalposts that are fully in the shot here.

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      mhm0819 -
      East Carolina - Dowdy Ficklen Stadium

      Section: Bottom 3/4 of 27



      The ECU Marching Pirates is the dominant spirit organization at East Carolina University. The band entertains over three-hundred thousand fans each year, performing at ECU football games and making guest appearances at NFL games and regional high school marching band festivals. The band's style is both traditional and innovative: exciting arrangements of diverse musical styles, blended with traditional and contemporary marching, allow the band to create shows that are both musically and visually entertaining



      http://www.ecupirates.com/facilities...ies-dowdy.html

      With our new stadium expansions last year, the band now sits in section 27 the bottom 3/4 of that section. If visting school brings their band, they sit in section 12 in the top half.

      If you have any question the ECU's Band also has a website, www.ecu.edu/band

    1. RussellWilson's Avatar
      RussellWilson -
      NC State - Carter Finley Stadium

      Section: 113



      NC STATE WOLFPACK band location is Section 113 beside the entrance

      EDIT -



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    1. Colonel Reb's Avatar
      Colonel Reb -
      Ole Miss - Vaught Hemmingway Stadium

      Section: Back of Section 6



      Seating Chart (Link)


      Old Info
      Spoiler: show




      Ole Miss conveniently did the work for me in pointing where their band sits.

      The visiting band is a bit of an interesting situation though. If they bring the whole thing (basically, close SEC opponents like MSU or LSU) they sit in sections 105 and 106 in the north end zone. If they bring part of the band, they usually sit in section S, the lower section only.





      I'm going to hope this works since there is no Add Image button and no Help section on this site to tell me how to add images otherwise. If not maybe it'll at least add the link.

      Also, while we're on the subject of stadiums, could they update the field? I'd like it if it didn't take EA 4 years to get the field right like it did after the last time they changed it, especially since there are other teams who changed theirs at the same time as Ole Miss who have updated fields.

      EDIT -

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      mlightner29 -
      Florida - Ben Hill Griffin Stadium

      Section: Front of 25 & 28












      USF - Raymond James Stadium

      Sections: 143 & 140



      http://www.2-tickets.com/venues/Raym...tadium_all.GIF



    1. Paakaa10's Avatar
      Paakaa10 -
      Michigan State - Spartan Stadium

      Sections: Front of 14 & 15





      The band sits in the southeast corner of the stadium in the space indicated on the seating chart above; the band area is between 14 and 15.



      The band is sitting just to the left of the goalposts in the above picture.
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      MagnaCarterGT -
      Georgia Tech - Bobby Dodd Stadium

      Section: Front of 116



      Georgia Tech's marching band is in the lower part of section 116 of Bobby Dodd Stadium, right behind the north (left side) endzone. Highlighted in blue.




      Note the empty section on the right side (the band is on the field).
    1. Paakaa10's Avatar
      Paakaa10 -


      According to the seating chart above, the band sits in section 116 directly behind the south endzone.



      With the band on the field, you can see the empty section of seating behind the far goalposts.
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      Paakaa10 -
      Kansas - Memorial Stadium

      Section: Front of 17






      According to the seating chart above, the Kansas band sits on the side of the north endzone in section 17.

      Haven't found a solid reference photo from real-life yet, however.

      EDIT (cdj) - Band appears to be front of Section 17

    1. Paakaa10's Avatar
      Paakaa10 -
      Arizona State - Sun Devil Stadium

      Section: 37





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      Paakaa10 -
      Oregon State - Reser Stadium

      Section: Front of Section 124






      Band sits in section 124 directly behind goalposts on that end of the stadium.

      Information taken from seating chart here: http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/...f-resermap.pdf

      EDIT -

    1. kstatefan4ever's Avatar
      kstatefan4ever -
      Kansas State - Bill Snyder Family Stadium

      Section: Front of 26



      http://www.lapayne.com/proddetail.as...009_SP_CFB_087

      EDIT -



    1. Paakaa10's Avatar
      Paakaa10 -
      Minnesota - TCF Bank Stadium

      Sections: Front of 125 & 126.





      The band is seated directly behind the east endzone in front of sections 125 and 126.

      EDIT -

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      Paakaa10 -
      Missouri - Faurot Field

      Sections: Front of 9 & 10





      The band is seated directly behind the endzone opposite the large "M" and standing room only seating.
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      Paakaa10 -
      Marshall - Joan C. Edwards Stadium

      Section: 123






      The band is seated behind the closed endzone next to the student section.

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      Paakaa10 -
      Illinois - Memorial Stadium

      Sections: 133, 134, 135





      The band sits in sections 133, 134, and 135 behind the north endzone.
    1. Paakaa10's Avatar
      Paakaa10 -
      Pittsburgh - Heinz Field

      Section: 131





      The lone pink section--Section 131--is designated for the band.
    1. Paakaa10's Avatar
      Paakaa10 -
      BYU - LaVell Edwards Stadium

      Section: Back half of 25, behind north endzone.





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      Paakaa10 -
      San Diego State - Qualcomm Stadium

      Section: 43, 44, 45



      http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/...me-pricing.pdf

      According to that .pdf, the band sits in sections 43, 44, and 45 on the side of the endzone near the scoreboard.



      Top right at field level in the picture above.