BOULDER, Colo. — The Colorado Buffaloes are getting a new football stadium videoboard, a year after selling out every home game for the first time ever.
Construction of the new screen at Folsom Field began in January on the University of Colorado campus and is expected to be finished for CU’s season opener on Thursday, Aug. 29, against North Dakota State.
CU Athletic Director Rick George said last fall that the new Folsom Field video board will be more than five times the surface area of the old board.
The video board will go from being one of the smallest in the Power 5 conferences to above the national average of all schools within those conferences.
The new board will measure 130 feet wide by 36 feet high, eight feet taller than the previous board and 98 feet wider, or about the same width of the ribbon board under the current video board, which measures 32 feet by 28 feet.
CU said funding is ongoing for the project and interested fans can donate online to the project.
"Enhancing the atmosphere of Folsom Field on game day is always a top priority, and we are always looking for ways to improve," George said. "I’m confident this new video board will further enrich and elevate the game day experience for our fans next year in our first season in the Big 12 Conference."
CU said the majority of the approximately $15 million project will go into the steel infrastructure to support the video board, which includes four columns running from the bottom of the video board to the ground around the south side of the stadium.
The ribbon board below the video board will also be significantly expanded, stretching from the north end of the club level on the east side around the bowl to Balch Fieldhouse on the southwest side, over 1,000 feet from the top of section 203 to the top of section 220.
Folsom Field upgrades
The CU Buffs have sold out of season tickets for the 2024 football season. CU Athletics said football season tickets sold out for the second-straight season and the 10th time in CU history.
This is the second time CU has sold out of season tickets before August of an upcoming season. The first time was last year.
The 2024 football season is Colorado's second under head coach Deion "Coach Prime" Sanders and the first in the program's return to the Big 12 Conference.
Fans wanting to express interest in season tickets for the 2025 football season can sign up on a wait list.
CU students can purchase Student Sports Passes for the 2024-25 season at 10 a.m. July 10.
CU Athletics said that prior to last season, it had been 27 years since last selling out of season tickets, doing so in a seven-year run from 1990-96. The only other time CU sold out of season tickets was the 1972 season.
For the second-straight year, the season ticket renewal rate finished above 98%, the best two marks in school history.
Colorado 2024 football schedule
- Thursday, Aug. 29, at 6:30 p.m. - vs. North Dakota State - ESPN
- Saturday, Sept. 7, at 5:30 p.m. - at Nebraska - NBC
- Saturday, Sept. 14, at 5:30 p.m. - at Colorado State - CBS
- Saturday, Sept. 21 - vs. Baylor
- Saturday, Sept. 28 - at UCF
- Saturday, Oct. 12 - vs. Kansas State
- Saturday, Oct. 19 - at Arizona
- Saturday, Oct. 26 - vs. Cincinnati
- Saturday, Nov. 9 - at Texas Tech
- Saturday, Nov. 16 - vs. Utah
- Saturday, Nov. 23 - at Kansas
- Friday, Nov. 29, at 10 a.m. - vs. Oklahoma State - ABC
With games scheduled to air on NBC, ABC, CBS and ESPN, the Colorado's first four announced start times are all on national TV.
CU Athletics said this is the second time CU will appear on three of the four major networks in the United States in the same season, the other coming in 1990.
With FOX being a partner of the Big 12, Colorado has a chance to appear on all four networks in the same season for the first time in school history, CU Athletics said.
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