Jones AT&T Stadium is the football stadium on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Jones AT&T Stadium is the home field of the Texas Tech Red Raiders of the Big 12 Conference. Clifford and Audrey Jones Stadium opened in 1947. The original seating capacity was 27,000.
In 1959 the stadium’s first expansion raised the seating to 41,500. It was again expanded in 1972. The current capacity is listed as 53,000, but a record crowd of 56,333 was in attendance for the November 1, 2008, nationally televised upset of then number-one ranked Texas.
The stadium name was changed to Jones SBC Stadium in 2000 due to a naming rights agreement with SBC Communications, which funded a large part of the stadium’s recent and ongoing expansion. On April 6, 2006, the stadium’s name was officially changed to Jones AT&T Stadium as a result of SBC’s merger with AT&T and adoption of AT&T as its new corporate name.
