COLLEGE STATION, Texas — On a rainy early morning just before sunrise, Kyle Field looms in the distance like a medieval fortress on a moor. Driving into town from the south, you can spot it, hulking and floodlit, from miles away. You think it might be some giant agricultural facility — but indeed it’s Texas A&M’s football stadium, now the largest in the SEC, dwarfing everything else across the landscape.
Up close, it’s breathtaking — fully enclosed, double-decked, and now with 102,733 seats thanks to an expansion completed prior to this season. The press notes offer an advisory to first-time visitors: “Please do not be alarmed as the press box will move during the Aggie War Hymn.