Sport is the lifeblood of America. It oozes across the country, from the east coast to the west, infiltrating every city and town, with a huge focus on college sports. The entire concept of university teams battling it out in front of thousands of screaming fans is completely alien to the UK, but that's the way things work on the other side of the atlantic. NFL teams are seen as state-representatives, with each of them the size of small - or sometimes even large - countries. They are to American fans, what international football teams are to Europeans. Colleges provide the US public with 'their' local team, as the university level sport attracts a vast number of viewers from the stadium stands to mass media coverage on every sports channel. It's a multi-million dollar empire, where the athletes involved aren't directly paid a penny, instead they get a shot at achieving their dreams in the pro-leagues. There are 2,090,821 official seats in the 31 stadiums across the NFL, with the average capacity resting at 67,455 per stadium. Meanwhile in college football, the 2.09 million mark is surpassed by a combined 23 stadia, with 15 stadiums larger than the biggest NFL stadium. So while the NFL continues to lead the way with tech and gadgets, college football comfortably rolls ahead in terms of sheer size, so let's take a look at the top 20 largest college football arenas...
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