The Cotton Bowl is host to the most important college football game in the universe. I first went there when I was about 10 years old, and we had seats on the highest row directly on the 50 yard line. I was not prepared for that level of trash talk as a 10 year old. The original capacity could hold about 45,000 people. As of today, the stadium record attendance is 96,009. If it were in Oklahoma, it would be the 5th largest population center in the state on game days. The stadium was built in 1930, but did nothing important until becoming the host of the Red River Shootout in 1932. OU has been annihilating inferior opposition on that field ever since.