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Michigan Stadium, nicknamed The Big House, is the football stadium for the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Michigan Stadium has often been called "The Carnegie Hall of all Sports" and is also known as "the House that Yost built." It was built in 1927, at a cost of $950,000 and had an original capacity of 72,000. Before playing football at the stadium, the Wolverines played on Ferry Field. Today, Michigan Stadium has an official capacity of 106,201, due to renovations for the 2008 season. The stadium previously had a capacity of 107,501 spectators. The football game attendance often exceeds 111,000 when band members, stadium staff, and others are added. The largest crowd in NCAA college football history was 112,118 on November 22, 2003 for a game against Ohio State.
Currently the stadium lists as the second largest in the United States, behind Penn State's Beaver Stadium, due to a reduction of 1,300 seats resulting from a lawsuit filed on behalf of disabled patrons. Notwithstanding the reduction in official seating capacity due to the renovations, Michigan has retained its number one ranking in actual attendance. The former official capacity of 107,501 made The Big House the largest stadium in the United States up until the recent changes. Current renovations are expected to be completed in time for the 2010 football season. These renovations will bring the capacity up to 108,000, once again making it the largest football stadium in the country. It is the fourth largest stadium in the world, and the 31st largest sports venue in general (which includes auto racing and horse racing tracks, among others). Home games are invariably sellouts, and residents of Ann Arbor are aware of "football Saturdays" because of the influx of traffic and business at local establishments. The size of the crowd in the stadium nearly matches the city's population of 114,000.
Michigan Stadium was designed with footings to allow the stadium's capacity to be expanded beyond 100,000. According to the University of Michigan Library's and Athletics Department's history of the stadium, then-athletic director Fielding Yost envisioned a day where 150,000 seats would be needed. To keep construction costs low at the time, the decision was made to build a smaller stadium than Yost envisioned but include the footings for future expansion.
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"The Michigan Wolverines football program represents the University of Michigan. They have the most all-time wins and highest all-time winning percentage in NCAA Division I-A history. The team is also known for its distinctive helmet design (brought from Fritz Crisler after he left Princeton University), its fight song, its record-breaking attendance figures, and its many rivalries, particularly its annual season-ending game against Ohio State, voted as ESPN's best sports rivalry.
Michigan began competing in intercollegiate football in 1879. The Wolverines compete in the Big Ten Conference and have won or shared 42 league titles, more than any other football program in any conference. Their current head coach is Rich Rodriguez."