Cotton Bowl

The Cotton Bowl is an outdoor stadium located in Dallas, Texas. It was built on the grounds of the Texas State Fair, known as Fair Park, and opened in 1930 as Fair Park Stadium.

The Cotton Bowl Classic, for which the stadium is named, is an annual college football post-season bowl game held at the Cotton Bowl. It hosted the first 73 editions of the game, beginning on New Year's Day 1937 and ending in January 2009; the game was transferred to AT&T Stadium in Arlington in January 2010. The stadium also hosts the Red River Showdown, the annual college football game between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns, and the First Responder Bowl.

Due to the massive crowds that SMU running back Doak Walker drew to the stadium during his undergraduate career in the late 1940s, it was dubbed "The House That Doak Built."

On January 1, 1967, the Cowboys hosted the Green Bay Packers for the NFL championship in the Cotton Bowl, in their sixth season. SMU was in the collegiate bowl game that year, which was played the day before New Year's Eve, necessitating a rapid turnaround to alter the field. The two games drew a combined 75,504 spectators, although none of the local teams were victorious.

In preparation for the 1994 FIFA World Cup, artificial turf was built in 1970 and removed in 1993. The playing field is located about 450 feet (140 meters) above sea level.

Capacity: 92,100 seats

Opened: 1930

Location: Dallas, Texas, USA