• Spartan Stadium will enter its 87th season as home to Michigan State football in 2010. Since its opening in 1923, Michigan State has won nearly 69 percent of its games played in Spartan Stadium.
• The Spartans have ranked among the NCAA's top 25 in attendance each of the last 54 seasons, including 19th in 2009, averaging 74,741 fans per game.
• Since 1957, capacity crowds have attended 152 games in Spartan Stadium, including the single-game record 80,401 fans who witnessed MSU's 20-19 loss to top-ranked Notre Dame on Sept. 22, 1990.
• In 2005, the natural grass playing surface in Spartan Stadium earned Field of the Year honors from the Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA).
• Prior to the 2002 season, ESPN.com's Mel Kiper Jr. ranked Spartan Stadium No. 8 on his list of the nation's most scenic venues.

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