The 901 Game and the Paint Bucket Bowl.

Home opener and the official unveiling of the renovated stadium.

Tickets from $20.

Youth Day and UofM Student Appreciation

Kids are asked to wear their team jerseys.

Tickets from $15.

The Battle for the Bones plus BBQ and Blues Night

A barbecue contest on Tiger Lane before kickoff and Memphis music all game long.

Tickets from $20.

The DeAngelo Williams Foundation Breast Cancer Awareness Game and Healthcare Appreciation.

A Thursday night ESPN game.

Tickets from $20.

Homecoming and Hero Day: superheroes, military, veterans, and first responders

The game is on Halloween.

Army's first trip to Memphis since 2002.

Tickets from $25.

Senior Day on Thanksgiving weekend.

Tickets from $15.

🎯 QB Marcus Stokes — 223 passing yards and 2 touchdowns in his first FBS start, plus 45 yards on the ground.

🏃 RB Jaylin Carter — 97 yards and a 36-yard touchdown run that tied the game.

🙌 TE Hunter Tipton and WR Stonka Burnside — each caught a touchdown. Tipton hurdled a safety on his.

💥 DL Elijah Kinsler — 2.5 sacks. The defense sacked UNLV's quarterback six times.

🧱 LBs Zach Ruffin and Mike Montgomery — 13 and 10 tackles.

🦶 K Philippe Laforge — two second-half field goals, including the go-ahead kick.

🏗️ A brand-new West Side Tower. The old west-side press box ("the tugboat," as AD Ed Scott called it) is gone. The new six-level tower on the home sideline holds suites, loge boxes, club lounges, a drink-rail level, and the stadium's first-ever suspended kitchen.

🍻 Landers Plaza. A new 3,000-person gathering deck on the plaza level of the West Tower. If your seat is in the west-side chairbacks (Sections 131, 132, or 101–109) you get in free. Everyone else can buy a wristband on gameday.

📺 The biggest videoboards in stadium history. The new south board is 47 by 114 feet, the same size as boards at Ohio State and Ole Miss. There is a new north board too, plus a 17-by-284-foot "mega ribbon" board across the West Tower.

🔊 A 360-degree sound system. Speakers now ring the whole bowl instead of sitting in one scoreboard. Scott's own words: on the old system, "if you were on the south side of the stadium, you needed ear muffs."

💡 Color-changing LED lights on the field and throughout the concourse. Expect light shows.

🧽 A sealed, repainted bowl. Every bleacher and chairback was pulled, the concrete was recoated to stop the leaks, and the old red trim is being painted out.

🔢 New section numbers. Seats below the main concourse are now 100-level; seats above it are 200-level. Old Section 120, Row 40 is now Section 220, Row 12. Check your ticket before you climb.

🚚 A new north tunnel big enough for semi-trucks, which is why the stadium can host big concerts again for the first time in decades.

The school is working with vendors on a $7 meal option and plans to bring food trucks into the halo inside the stadium.

The bowl is also intentionally smaller now, with capacity reduced from the old 58,000-plus to create a tighter, louder atmosphere.

💰 Starting prices: Army from $25; Arkansas State, UAB, and East Carolina from $20; UT Martin and Temple from $15. Prices rise $5 during game week and another $5 on gameday at the box office. Shelby County's 9.75% sales tax is added to tickets and parking.

📦 Season tickets start at $99 for all six home games, a $50 cut from last year. The school says the average works out to under $17 a game.

3️⃣ Mini Plan: pick any three home games from $60.

🛒 The Costco deal: at the Cordova and Hacks Cross warehouses, $99 gets two lower-level East sideline chairback seats plus a $30 food and drink voucher, while supplies last. Details here.

🍸 West Side Chairback single-game tickets include Landers Plaza access.

📱 Everything is digital. Load your tickets and parking pass into your phone's wallet before you leave the house.

🅿️ Pre-buy gameday parking through the stadium's JustPark page. Have the pass on your phone before you reach the gate.

💳 Parking is cashless on event days. Cards only.

🕙 Lot opening times: in recent seasons, lots opened at 10 a.m. for 6 p.m. or later kickoffs (8 a.m. for afternoon games, 6 a.m. for 11 a.m. games).

♿ ADA parking is in Lot 7, first come, first served, with a visible placard.

🔁 Traffic pattern: last season Glenn Rogers Sr. Street ran one-way southbound before the game and one-way northbound after, and Waze and Google Maps were updated to match. Expect something similar.

🚌 Shuttles: last year Blue City Tours ran a $10 shuttle and MATA ran a free shuttle that dropped at Early Maxwell and Central. Expect something similar.

🚕 Rideshare is the easy button. Set your pickup a few blocks out (Cooper-Young or the Central Avenue side) to skip the post-game crush.

✅ Tailgating is allowed in every lot once lots open to the public.

📏 Your setup has to sit directly in front of or behind your vehicle. Want to spread into the next stall? Buy it at the gameday rate.

🔥 Grills only on pavement. No grills and no tent stakes in the grass lots (Blue Lot 11 and the Purple lots).

⏱️ Tailgating ends one hour after the game.

🚫 No overnight parking the night before, except season RV spaces in Blue Lot 15.

🕙 ~10 a.m. — Lots open. Tents up, grills lit.

🕞 ~3:30 p.m. — Tiger Walk on Tiger Lane, about 2.5 hours before kickoff. The team and coaches walk through a tunnel of fans, the Mighty Sound of the South, and the cheer and pom squads on their way into the stadium. It ends with the cheerleaders leading the Tiger Spellout. Get there early for a rail spot.

🕟 ~4:30 p.m. — Gates open, 90 minutes before kickoff. Every gate has walk-through metal detectors, so no wanding. Then your ticket gets scanned.

🕔 Pregame — Pep rally and band. The Mighty Sound of the South and spirit squads perform on Tiger Lane before heading inside.

🕕 6 p.m. — Kickoff.

🌙 Postgame — Tailgate for one more hour, then out.

✅ Allowed: clear bags and totes up to 12" x 6" x 12", or a small clutch/purse up to 5" x 7". Seat cushions or chair backs no wider than 18".

🚫 Not allowed: backpacks, cinch bags, and camera bags; coolers; outside food or drinks (except medical or baby needs); umbrellas; strollers; cameras with lenses over 12"; air horns and noisemakers; poles, sticks, and balloons; weapons; drones.

🔁 No re-entry. Once you leave, you are out unless you buy another ticket. Do your tailgating before you go in.

🍺 Beer and drinks are sold inside. You just can't bring your own. Concessions are cashless.

🚭 No smoking or vaping inside the stadium. Ask staff for the designated outdoor areas.

🎈 The Kid Zone on Tiger Lane has inflatables and a mini football field, and the Pouncer's Pals Kids Zone (face painters, balloon artists) has set up on Landers Plaza at recent events.

🚫 No strollers inside the stadium. Bring a carrier for the little ones.

🧃 Outside food and drink is a no, but infant needs are the exception.

👕 Sept. 19 is Youth Day. Kids in their own team jerseys are the theme, and tickets start at $15.

🔊 The new sound system is loud everywhere now. Pack ear protection for toddlers.

🎶 The Mighty Sound of the South. The UofM marching band, founded in 1940. Legend has it the name came from a handmade bedsheet sign on a bus trip to New York. They play the fight song, "Go! Tigers! Go!" Learn the words; you will hear it a lot.

🐾 Tiger Walk. The pregame team walk down Tiger Lane, 2.5 hours before kickoff. See the timeline above.

🐯 Pouncer. The costumed mascot. If you have kids, the Pouncer's Pals Kids Club is worth a look.

💙 Blue and gray. Students picked the school colors in 1912. Legend says they chose the colors of the two Civil War armies to celebrate a reunited country. Wear blue on gamedays.

🪣 The Paint Bucket Bowl. Memphis and Arkansas State have played since 1914, making it the most-played series in A-State's history. The story goes that the name came from a "trophy" of paint buckets and brushes, invented to stop students from painting each other's campuses during rivalry week. Memphis leads the series and has won five straight.

🍖 The Battle for the Bones. Memphis vs. UAB, with a trophy that is a 94-pound bronze rack of ribs. Barbecue capital bragging rights. It is in Memphis this year on Oct. 10.

📻 The radio call. Every game is on News Talk 98.9 The Roar (WKIM-FM), "the Home of the Tigers." Bring earbuds to the stadium; plenty of fans listen along.

🐷 Central BBQ (Midtown) — 2235 Central Ave. About a half mile from the stadium. Pulled pork, ribs, and the famous nachos. Open until 9 p.m., so plan it for pregame.

🥪 Payne's Bar-B-Que — 1762 Lamar Ave. The legendary chopped pork sandwich with mustard slaw. Saturdays 11 a.m.–2 p.m. only, so this is a lunch-then-tailgate move.

🐟 Soul Fish Cafe — 862 Cooper St. in Cooper-Young. Catfish, hushpuppies, and a lemon pie that costs about $5.

🍀 Celtic Crossing — 903 Cooper St. Irish pub with a big patio and plenty of TVs. Great for the early games on the way to the stadium.

🍔 Huey's Midtown — 1927 Madison Ave. The burger-and-toothpick institution. Open until 12:30 a.m. on Saturdays, so it works for a late-night post-game bite.

🍻 Alex's Tavern — 1445 Jackson Ave. A Memphis dive since 1953 with a Greek burger, wings, and a legendary jukebox. Opens at 3 p.m. and is cash only.

🚂 RP Tracks — 3547 Walker Ave., right by campus. The barbecue tofu nachos are the famous order. Open until 1 a.m. on Saturdays.

🎟️ The champions of the ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, and SEC get automatic bids.

⭐ One spot goes to the highest-ranked "Group of Six" team — the American, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, or Sun Belt — whether or not it wins its conference. That is new. Under the old rules, only conference champions could take that spot.

🏠 The top four seeds get a bye. Seeds 5–12 play first-round games on the higher seed's home field on Dec. 18–19. Selection Day is Sunday, Dec. 6, and the national championship is Jan. 25, 2027, at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas — the same building where the Tigers just won their opener.

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