Last year, EA Sports relaunched its iconic college football video game, marking the first college football game from EA Sports to be released since 2013.
Now, the 2026 edition – EA Sports College Football 26 – is set to launch on July 10.
As part of the game, EA Sports once again ranked the toughest stadiums to play in. On Tuesday, EA Sports released its list of the top 25 toughest places to play in College Football 26, a list that was put together by the game’s development team.
Ahead of last year’s game, when EA Sports unveiled the top 25 toughest places to play, Clemson’s Memorial Stadium did not even make the top 10 — despite the fact that the Tigers had a stretch where they went 62-1 at home from 2013-22, including a streak of 40 straight wins.
After Clemson/Memorial Stadium came in at No. 12 on the aforementioned EA Sports list last year, Clemson moved into the top 10 this year. For this year’s game, Memorial Stadium is ranked No. 6 among the toughest places to play.
LSU’s Tiger Stadium is No. 1, while Penn State’s Beaver Stadium, Ohio State’s Ohio Stadium, Georgia’s Sanford Stadium and Alabama’s Bryant-Denny Stadium round out the top five.
Along with Clemson, two other ACC stadiums made the list in Florida State’s Doak S. Campbell Stadium (No. 14) and NC State’s Carter-Finley Stadium (No. 22).
South Carolina’s Williams-Brice Stadium is ranked No. 16.
You can see the full EA Sports stadium rankings below:
- Tiger Stadium | LSU
- Beaver Stadium | Penn State
- Ohio Stadium | Ohio State
- Sanford Stadium | Georgia
- Bryant-Denny Stadium | Alabama
- Memorial Stadium | Clemson
- Ben Hill Griffin Stadium | Florida
- Gaylord Family – Oklahoma Memorial Stadium | Oklahoma
- Autzen Stadium | Oregon
- Michigan Stadium | Michigan
- Kyle Field | Texas A&M
- Neyland Stadium | Tennessee
- Darrell K Royal Texas Memorial Stadium | Texas
- Doak S. Campbell Stadium | Florida State
- Camp Randall Stadium | Wisconsin
- Williams-Brice Stadium | South Carolina
- Jordan-Hare Stadium | Auburn
- Husky Stadium | Washington
- Kinnick Stadium | Iowa
- Rice-Eccles Stadium | Utah
- Notre Dame Stadium | Notre Dame
- Carter-Finley Stadium | NC State
- Boone Pickens Stadium | Oklahoma State
- Spartan Stadium | Michigan State
- Davis Wade Stadium | Mississippi State
Clemson is featured in the official trailer that was released last month for the upcoming game, showing Clemson players coming off the buses to run down the hill.