Situated on the banks of the Hocking River with a seated capacity of 25,210,[4] Peden Stadium has been the home of the Ohio Bobcats Football team since 1929.

[5] The stadium was named in honor of Don C. Peden, a coach and director of athletics at Ohio University for 27 years.

[6] The first game at the venue featured a 14–0 Bobcats victory over archrival Miami University in front of a sellout crowd.

Today, it houses press boxes, game-day suites, football offices, athletic training facilities, team meeting rooms, a recruiting lounge, a ticket office, the football locker room, and Ohio Athletics' academic services and compliance departments.

A bronze life-sized sculpture of an Ohio Bobcat, stands poised at the north of the stadium outside of the Sook Academic Center.

This $2.8 million project removed the track, lowered the stadium's playing surface by 10 feet (3.0 m), and increased the seating capacity to its current mark of 24,000 with the addition of lower-level, bleacher-back seats collectively called the Phillips Club, plus added capacity of the Sook Center on game days.

In 2002, the natural grass playing surface at the stadium was replaced with FieldTurf, and in 2017, an updated video scoreboard was added to the south end zone.

[8] In 2014, the administration of the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, along with Varsity OHIO and affiliated university alumni organizations and bodies, began a cooperative campaign for a state-of-the-art academic wing at Peden Stadium due to crowded interior space for students, and renovated locker rooms for teams that had not received prior renovations.

Completed in the fall of 2018, and designed by Ohio-based MSA Sport, the Perry and Sandy Sook Center is 26,000 square feet.