On february 26 2010 espn reported that eastern washington planned to remove the natural turf at woodward field and replace it with red sprinturf making it the second division i college football program to have a non green playing surface boise state of the mwc has had a blue surface since 1986.
College football field red turf.
This is a list of college football venues with non traditional field colors.
Perhaps the most publicized of the new crop of colorful football fields is roos field at eastern washington university.
The intense red lava turf was inspired by bsu s blue turfed bronco stadium and some say the choice of color is a thinly veiled grab at the spotlight.
Eastern washington red boise state blue eastern michigan gray coastal carolina teal.
The god awful bright red turf installed in 2010 at eastern washington university s roos field tops our list.
The switch to an artificial field will allow bobby dodd stadium to continue as one of college football s best stadiums as well as become a space that the entire campus community can enjoy more.
These are the four solid non green college football colored playing fields in the fbs and fcs.
Traditionally college football is played on grass fields.
Former nfl player michael roos an alumnus of eastern washington chipped in 500 000 for the green to red turf transformation a project that in large part was launched as a marketing ploy.
As technology advanced the use of various kinds of artificial turf as a playing surface became more and more popular.
New red turf was installed tuesday at ewu s roos field in cheney replacing its 10 year old urf that helped boost the football championship subdivision power s national profile in 2010.