Stillwater, OK

Building a strong college sports tradition takes passion, experience, and sometimes, brick and mortar.

That's the case in Stillwater, where Oklahoma State University Cowboy football inspires excitement and loyalty and creates a sea of orange and black on game days.

A long-time fixture in the Big 12 Conference’s South Division, OSU’s 48 team national titles puts it behind only Stanford, USC and UCLA on the all-time title list. From football to soccer, baseball to golf, OSU sports represent a history of success that most collegiate programs can only dream about.

In fall of 2009, Cowboys fans got even more to cheer about with the completion of the new home of Cowboy football.

Boone Pickens Stadium is now a state-of-the-art facility that not only provides Oklahoma State football with a unique game-day environment and a roaring home-field advantage, but also with unrivaled facilities for daily operations located in incredibly convenient proximities.

The relocation was one of the largest building projects in recent NCAA history. While the new digs put OSU on the cutting edge of collegiate facilities, the Cowboys still enjoy the home-field advantage that suffocates opponents with the tightest sidelines in all of football.

The result is that every fan in attendance is close to the action and very much a part of the OSU gameday experience in the coziest 60,000-seat stadium in America.

The west end zone project provides “BPS” with a new multilevel football operations center. Some of the new features include football offices, meeting rooms, speed and conditioning center, locker rooms, equipment room, athletic medicine center, media facilities, and hall of fame areas, along with a new training table. Atop the facility, Boone Pickens Stadium is ringed by more than 100 suites and 4,000 club seats.

The stadium was officially re-dedicated on Sept. 5, 2009, when the Cowboys opened the season against Georgia.

The name honors OSU alumnus and Texas oilman Boone Pickens. His $165 million donation to the OSU athletic department instantly became the single largest contribution to an institution of higher education in American history.

Since then, OSU has literally built its program on the belief that champions deserve facilities. Every sport from soccer to equestrian has had facilities upgraded.