One company is responsible for 8 of the 10 largest video displays in college football.
When Illinois installed a new video board at Gies Memorial Stadium in January, it became the largest scoreboard in college football.
The 16 million-pixel display stands 69 feet high by 250 feet wide, and it—along with 15 other new LED screens installed at Gies—cost the school $20,938,463, according to documents obtained by Front Office Sports. The expense was funded by a $100 million donation from alum Larry Gies Jr. Illinois did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
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In a press release announcing the installation at Illinois, Daktronics—the South Dakota-based company that built it—stood the screen up against comparable displays at professional stadiums: It “would be the fifth-largest display in professional football. It is roughly the same size as the main outfield display at Citi Field in New York and 3.4 times the size of the main display at Soldier Field in Chicago.”
