COLLEGE STATION, Tex. — Above Kyle Field’s Hall of Champions, a football-shaped, 100-yard atrium that honors past Texas A&M athletes, and through the Heritage Lounge, where black-and-white photographs and dark-wood décor conjure the city’s past as a railroad stop with a college nearby, there is a sign that cautions, “All-access credentials do not provide access.”

Past the sign is the exclusive inner domain of Kyle Field known as the Founders Club, with two bars, a baby grand piano and a chandelier that drips down three stories. Outside some of the 12 Founders Club suites, which are clustered on two levels on either side of the 50-yard line, are oil paintings of the couples to whom the suites will belong for at least the next 20 years. The rights to the suites were secured with donations of $5 million to $12.5 million, and the suites were then personalized with furnishings and color palettes of their owners’ choosing.

On Saturday afternoon, when the No. 9 Aggies host No. 10 Alabama, the suites will be in use for only the fourth time. They were built in the past year as part of the record-setting $485 million renovation of Kyle Field, Texas A&M’s home stadium — in increasingly elaborate forms — since 1927.

Any project that size is a story about money. But at Texas A&M, a member of the powerful Southeastern Conference since 2012, the story of the renovation of Kyle Field is one of a university that found itself with more money than it knew what to do with.