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Most expensive college football stadium ever to enforce unique soccer-style ban on students when opened

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College football’s most expensive stadium ever is edging closer and closer to opening. Northwestern’s new Ryan Field is being constructed thanks to the deep pockets of billionaire mogul and Northwestern trustee, Pat Ryan, who is transforming Illinois one stadium at a time . Renders show the outside of the new Ryan Field, the most expensive stadium in college football history Northwestern .edu The $870 million arena will make its debut for the 2026 college football season, however, at just 35,000 seats, it will be the smallest stadium in the Big Ten. That was always the plan, though, as Ryan decided to adopt a European soccer-style approach to stadium building where quality beats quantity and there are no bad seats. “I truly believe it’s the best stadium in all of football,” Wildcats coach David Braun recently said. “We’re not trying to be the biggest. We delivered on being the best.” The furthest seat is also only 135 feet away from the field, the closest in the Big Ten, with seating i

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