In the SEC stadium competition, the arms race is never-ending.
Schools add seats to be just that much bigger than their rivals, luxury boxes and special perks are enhanced, and the stadium experience is hopefully improved by doing so.
Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium seats a little over 87,000 people, ranking it behind Texas A&M, LSU, Alabama, Tennessee and others for the largest stadium in the country. But the Auburn Board of Trustees is meeting Friday — according to school documents — to approve or deny a plan that will give Jordan-Hare Stadium the largest video scoreboard in college football.
The reported 200-foot behemoth will tower over the stadium’s south end zone and would surpass any rival screen, including Texas A&M’s 47 by 163 foot screen and Arkansas’ 38 by 166 foot video scoreboard.
Here is a digital rendering from Break Orbit Studios of the proposed screen compared to Auburn’s current screen and Texas A&M’s.
And here’s the view of the proposed screen from the north end zone, also from Break Orbit Studios.
Other improvements to Jordan-Hare Stadium are in the works, but the creation of this gigantic screen is the first item up for discussion and is projected to cost a total of $13.9 million.
