page_title: TDECU Stadium
section_title: Seating and scoreboard
hierarchical_section_title: TDECU Stadium / Features / Seating and scoreboard
caption_attribution_description: English: Cougar Cage Exterior - Southeast Corner of TDECU Stadium
context_page_description: John O'Quinn Field at TDECU Stadium is an American football stadium on the campus of the University of Houston. The stadium serves as the home of the Houston Cougars football team, which represents the University of Houston in collegiate football and the Houston Roughnecks of the XFL. On April 26, 2020, the stadium was supposed to host the XFL championship.
  TDECU Stadium was built on the former site of Robertson Stadium, which was the intermittent home of the school's football program since 1946. Its official name is derived from Texas Dow Employees Credit Union, the largest credit union in Houston, which purchased its naming rights in what was then the largest-ever naming rights deal for a college football stadium.
  Plans for a new or renovated football venue were developed by the university's athletics department and their contractors as early as 2010. Demolition of Robertson Stadium began on December 3, 2012, and the official groundbreaking for the new stadium was celebrated on February 8, 2013. TDECU Stadium cost US$128 million to build. The University of Houston opened the new stadium on Friday, August 29, 2014 in a contest with UTSA.
context_section_description: With 26 suites, 42 loge boxes, 766 club seats, two suite decks, four party plazas and the Section 129 club, TDECU Stadium offers a variety of premium seating throughout the venue. In addition to the sections listed above, there are 3,778 chairback seats and 1,210 benchback seats.  The remaining 34,000 seats are traditional benches.
  Unlike many college stadiums with premium seating at the top of the upper grandstand, UH built its 12,400-square-foot (1,150 m²) stadium club at ground level.  This required the field level to be built 25 feet (7.6 m) below the main concourse level.  The padded club level seats are located in the south lower seating bowl with the loge boxes on the concourse level, while the suites are located one floor above the club. Through a 20-foot (6.1 m) glass wall, the club level patrons will enjoy an exclusive view of the team as they travel between their locker room and the tunnel accessing the field.
  The new scoreboard measures 68' by 51' with an LED HD video display 68' wide by 38' tall. The video board, designed by Panasonic using Nichia technology, is among the 35 largest in college football, and among the 20 largest in terms of square feet per seating capacity.  Houston also installed ribbon scoreboards between the 20 yard lines on each side of the stadium as well as an auxiliary scoreboard in the southeast corner of the stadium.
  On the February 23, 2017, the Board of Regents granted authority to the Chancellor to extend UH's contract with IMG Sports.  Part of the contract extension calls for IMG to pay $2.5 million for additional LED ribbon boards at TDECU Stadium. Athletic Director Hunter Yurachek told the Regents that ribbon boards will now encircle the entire field.
  Additionally, UH announced in January 2017 that it will install 1,000 new chairback seats in Sections 127 and 131 for the 2017 season, replacing the original bench seating.
caption: Cougar Cage Exterior - Southeast Corner of TDECU Stadium
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