COLLEGE STATION, Texas – One look inside newly-renovated Kyle Field and you'll know where the Texas A&M football program is headed.
"This will be the number one sports venue in the United States," said Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp. "It will be the best-looking and the best."
A&M officials unveiled the new-look Kyle Field and the upgrades are everywhere.
"There's sure not going to be anything, anywhere around here close to this, that's for sure," Sharp said.
The first thing fans will notice is the addition of 20,000 seats, enclosing the stadium. Total capacity for the 2014 season is more than 106,000.
Existing seats were moved closer to the action and the field itself was lowered eight feet.
All that adds up to what's expected to be the most deafening 12th Man to date.
"It's gonna be so loud," freshmen Bethany Tenerias said. "It's gonna be so crazy."
Then there's the new 163-foot wide video board, the largest in college football.
But this is just phase one of the two part $450 million renovation. At the end of the 2014 season, the entire west side of the stadium will be imploded and rebuilt.
"When this thing is finished and done (in 2015), everybody here, no matter how callous you are, no matter how grumpy you might be, you're gonna go, 'Wow. This is one heck of a stadium.' It'll be the best in the country," said Sharp.
The Aggies debut their new stadium Saturday versus Lamar University.