Kyle Field is the football stadium located on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. It is the home to the Texas Aggie football team, and is known as “The Home of the 12th Man”. It is the second largest American Football venue in Texas, behind Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.

	Capacity		82,600
	Opened		1927
	Owner		Texas A&M University
	Operator		Texas A&M University
	Surface		Grass
	Location		Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843
	Construction cost		$300,000 USD

Originally built in 1927 and 1929, Kyle Field was named for Edwin Jackson Kyle, who served as Texas A&M’s dean of agriculture and athletic council president.

The stadium, originally a horseshoe surrounding a track, was expanded in 1967 to include two decks of grandstands, and the third decks were added to the east and west sides in 1980. The Aggies played on grass through the 1960s, Kyle Field switched to artificial turf in the early 1970s. Grass returned to Kyle Field in 1996.

In 1999 the $32.9 million Bernard C. Richardson Zone raised the capacity of Kyle Field to 82,600 making it the largest football stadium in the state of Texas. “The Zone” also brings the fans in the north end zone 65 feet closer to the action on the field of play.

Kyle Field and its amenities continue to expand with the addition of the Bright Football Complex on the south end of the stadium. The facility opened in Fall 2003 and includes a players’ lounge overlooking Kyle Field, dressing rooms, one of the largest training and rehabilitation facilities in the country, and a state-of-the-art academic center.

In late 2004, various expansion plans for Kyle Field were communicated to the public, with the final capacity possibly expanding to 115,000. The expansion plans are indefinite with university officials saying, “Anything could happen, but there’s no definitive time line to make this go. It’s a vision, and much of it depends on the success of the football program.”

During the 2006 offseason, Kyle Field underwent several renovations. The Jumbotron was removed and replaced by a Mitsubishi Diamond Vision high resolution LED videoboard, the second largest in college athletics and one of the ten largest in the world. The Texas A&M Athletic Department has dubbed the new screen “#12th Man TV,” although some fans refer to it as the “Gigatron.” It has a total of 590,000 pixels on 154 video panels with a size of 74 ft x 54 ft. The athletic department also completed required updates to the media equipment to allow production and broadcast of high-definition video to the screen. In addition to the video board, new LED ribbon boards were installed along the facade of the second deck of the stadium. At 1,130 feet long, Kyle Field has the second longest ribbon board in the United States, behind Dolphin Stadium in Miami.

Kyle Field is often regarded as one of the most intimidating college football stadiums in the nation. CBS Sportsline listed Kyle Field as the nation’s best with a perfect score under three categories (atmosphere, tradition, and fans.) It is ranked as the #4 stadium in the nation by The Sporting News and the most intimidating stadium in the Big 12 Conference. The college recruiting ranking service Rivals ranked Texas A&M as having the seventh-best home field advantage in the nation with Kyle Field[. In the 1990s, Texas A&M boasted one of the nation's best home records at 55-4-1, including 31 straight wins at Kyle Field from 1990 to 1995 and 22 straight from 1996 to 2000.

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