page_title: TDECU Stadium
section_title: Skyline view
hierarchical_section_title: TDECU Stadium / Features / Skyline view
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of the Downtown Houston skyline from 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: TDECU Stadium was designed to showcase the Houston skyline in the northwest corner of the stadium to remind all visitors and television audiences that UH is Houston's university. After a sun study, the orientation of the field was turned more east–west than the former Robertson Stadium. In addition to creating more efficient parking and fitting the stadium in line with the University's grid system campus layout, the change in orientation provided the skyline view to the south side of the stadium including the stadium club, suites and press box.  Finally, while the lower seating bowl encircles the playing field, a gap in the upper levels of seating was left open in the northwest corner of the stadium to highlight the skyline view. After construction of the indoor practice facility in 2017, fans in the South upper grandstand (300 level - see picture to the right) retained their skyline view.  However, the indoor practice facility occludes the skyline view for fans sitting in the suite level and club level below.
caption: A view of Downtown Houston from TDECU Stadium prior to the construction of the indoor practice facility
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