OT: ranking college football field designs
October 28th, 2016 at 10:33 AM ^
Boise State: "the bright blue field is phenomenal." More like atrocious.
October 28th, 2016 at 10:47 AM ^
Completely unfair to the opposition. When the field is bright blue and Boise wears their bright blue unis, it's like freaking camoflague. When you have players moving really fast and you are trying to strain your eyes to see everything, I would have to imagine that's a big disadvantage to the opponent.
October 28th, 2016 at 10:56 AM ^
Like when teams wear green on a green field.
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October 28th, 2016 at 1:29 PM ^
Wouldn't the disadvantage be to the Boise St QB trying to find receivers downfield if that were the case.
October 28th, 2016 at 11:06 AM ^
I literally can't watch a game broadcast from there, and I doubt I'm the only one. Their games must be worth substantially less to advertisers, and therefore to tv networks.
October 28th, 2016 at 11:12 AM ^
That's why ESPN bought exclusive rights to their home games.
October 28th, 2016 at 3:28 PM ^
I start getting a headache after watching for a few minutes and change the channel to almost anything else.
October 28th, 2016 at 11:21 AM ^
I haven't read the link, but Boise State as the worst is a very easy pick. Fortunately, we will never play a game there. Otherwise, I don't care much, but I always liked Tennessee's end zones.
October 28th, 2016 at 12:06 PM ^
Their endzones remind me of that Purina dog food commercial, but maybe that's the effect they are going for. Their mascot is smokey the dog.
October 28th, 2016 at 11:45 AM ^
While I'm not normally a fan of non-green fields, the blue turf is Boise's thing. It's part of their identity. I like when schools have their own little quirks.
October 28th, 2016 at 12:22 PM ^
That's not little. More like a 300 ft ( + 60 ft) quirk.
October 28th, 2016 at 12:29 PM ^
Anyone can rate anything. When I used to watch Boise St. games, that blue field used to hurt my eyes.
October 28th, 2016 at 10:38 AM ^
I'm sensing a little bit of a bias towards non-traditional colored fields.
If you ask me the Gray and Purple field as well as UNLV were horrible.
October 28th, 2016 at 11:07 AM ^
Seeing Notre Dame at #24 kills the credibility early. Say what you want about the domers, but that field is iconic.
October 28th, 2016 at 11:28 AM ^
Completely agree, wish they still had natural grass though.
October 28th, 2016 at 1:00 PM ^
He didnt rank the most iconic football fields though.
October 28th, 2016 at 2:52 PM ^
Yeah, it's a classic field. I don't like the ND at midfield they just added, though. It was cool when it was totally plain and just had the diagonal lines in the endzones
October 28th, 2016 at 11:39 AM ^
Yes, definite bias. The author way over-weighted unique looks. I'm all for trying different things and adding a brand to the field, but the Central Arkansas and Eastern Washington fields feel like huge misfires to me.
That said I like the smurf turf as it, at least, was the leading edge for weird colored turf.
October 28th, 2016 at 10:40 AM ^
I had no idea Costal Carolina played football in a swimming pool.
October 28th, 2016 at 10:41 AM ^
They have a bright red turf.
October 28th, 2016 at 12:08 PM ^
watching one of their games on the red turf is much worse than the Boise blue turf to me
October 28th, 2016 at 10:42 AM ^
This is one of the dumber rankings I have seen in awhile. The criteria is essentially: (1) the logo at midfield, (2) anything special with the endzones, and (3) is the field a weird color.
Most football fields are just football fields....nothing all that special about them.
October 28th, 2016 at 1:02 PM ^
"Most football fields are just football fields....nothing all that special about them."
Seriously dude? I'm not sure you can be a true football afficianado and feel this way. You are just a few steps away from saying, "All helmets are the same."
October 28th, 2016 at 10:43 AM ^
I've been to 7 of these and the UCA field might be my favorite (besides ours of course). It's just crazy.
October 28th, 2016 at 10:44 AM ^
The color fields are so ugly how can they rank them
And Michigan State is on the list
October 28th, 2016 at 10:47 AM ^
At least perennial power house Kentucky is ahead of them.
October 28th, 2016 at 10:45 AM ^
Man I wish Michigan would have blue end zones. It looks so beautiful.
October 28th, 2016 at 10:46 AM ^
Let's break tradition for a navy blue endzone. Can't go wrong with that.
October 28th, 2016 at 10:49 AM ^
I actually love keeping the blue endzones for bowl games. That way, when you see them it just gets you going it's like 'oh shit it's Rose Bowl/Florida bowl game time' (or Buffalo Wild Wings bowl but we don't need to discuss that).
October 28th, 2016 at 11:07 AM ^
I'm the same way, it makes it special for those games.
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October 28th, 2016 at 10:50 AM ^
Plus, need to make a change, because Oregon (who obviously copied us) is ahead of us. Need to do something to get back ahead of them.
October 28th, 2016 at 10:56 AM ^
Then it would be beautiful and maize...
October 28th, 2016 at 11:06 AM ^
I do like Tennessee's checkerboard, but don't want Michigan to copy it.
October 28th, 2016 at 11:10 AM ^
For whatever reason, I think the dark colored endzones look better on grass fields. I'm not sure what it is, but on fieldturf they just look kinda cheap.
October 28th, 2016 at 2:21 PM ^
LSU has a great field design. I'd rate it #1 personally. All grass field, the purple on gold and gold on purple end zones look real sharp. Tiger Eye logo at mid-field is cool and unique. Also, having the yard numbers every 5 yards --- that's a minor thing but it's also unique to LSU and makes their field distinctive.
Florida State's field design is simply great. And that's another one with colored grass. Also Alabama here.
Temple has used a red-and-white diamond pattern on grass a few times (PSU and Notre Dame games in 2015). I really liked that, it looked very good. Unfortunately, they only use that pattern if the Eagles don't have a home game too close - otherwise it's an Eagles end zone.
October 28th, 2016 at 11:24 AM ^
Once at night and once during the day. If it looks really sweet at night, then maybe that can be a special touch for our night games since those will be once a year at the most.
I have a feeling that it may "pop" more during the day, so I'd love to see it for a big game next season. Maybe during the OSU game and both teams also wear their home jerseys.
October 28th, 2016 at 12:57 PM ^
No, no, no, no no. NO. Enough with the 'let's do special things for certain games' mentality. All games are big games. Treat each one like the other.
October 28th, 2016 at 1:37 PM ^
I agree and that should start with eliminating the notion that night games at Michigan Stadium should be against "worthy opponents." I don't understand why so many Michigan fans think that way.
October 28th, 2016 at 10:48 AM ^
was playing in the Rose Bowl for the picture they used.
October 28th, 2016 at 12:55 PM ^
I was wondering why the Rose Bowl had Michigan in one of its end zones. I had just assumed the grounds crew got confused. Thanks for this much-needed clarification!
October 28th, 2016 at 10:52 AM ^
but their checkered end zones are fantastic.
October 28th, 2016 at 12:44 PM ^
I like whatever weirdness is on Maryland's end zones. Looks like the flag from an old European city-state or something.
October 28th, 2016 at 10:55 AM ^
On LSU, this guy says "The end zones are fine, but could be dazzled up more with claw marks or something of that nature." I nearly stopped reading. But on the other hand he had Michigan #5 and the Rose Bowl #1 (painted with Michigan - USC), so ok.
Also holy cow does that Central Arkansas field look terrible. In fifteen years people are going to look at these odd-colored fields the same way we look at the teal 90s Pistons (and Sharks and Ducks and Grizzlies and Marlins and...) uniforms.
October 28th, 2016 at 11:52 AM ^
Watch your mouth when talking about the Mighty Ducks man.
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October 28th, 2016 at 12:09 PM ^
Quack......quack....quack...quack..quack. Quack quack quack quack quack quack.
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October 28th, 2016 at 11:02 AM ^
I was watching the Penn State-OSU game and thinking about how much I loved PSU's classic field design. Everything about it is just boiled down to it's simplest form.
October 28th, 2016 at 11:21 AM ^
I am a bad person for making a joke about institutional approved rape. Please neg now.
October 28th, 2016 at 11:07 AM ^
I hate OSU, but am actually surprised they are not on that list, simply because the media loves to blow OSU every year.
October 28th, 2016 at 11:21 AM ^
How is Florida State that low on the list? Their field design IMO is one of the best in the sport. Also, maybe it's just me but out of all the places on that list with non-traditional fields, costal Carolina had the best looking one.
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October 28th, 2016 at 11:24 AM ^
Eastern Michigan's field is "not too in your face"?? Explain why every time I see a highlight from a home game I panic thinking that I became color blind cause of the stupid grey field