Bowl Game Field Designs

Bowl games provide some of the most unique designs in college football. Each design is special, with different sponsor logos, bowl game logos, and flourishes that represent the two participating teams. Few fields in this archive look the same, with the most outlandish designs clearly standing out.

Early football fields were very simple, with just hashmarks and yardage numbers. It didn’t take long for the artistry to take over, though. In the 1950s, Auburn was a mainstay at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, FL, becoming the first team to play in the same bowl game twice in one year. Nearly a decade later in the Tigers’ first Orange Bowl appearance, one of the most terrifying game logos appeared in the end zones. Soon, the fields became the canvas and showed much more life. In the 1970s, the Gator Bowl added a giant gator stretching from side to side in both end zones (and having an endearing kicking gator midfield logo).

As time progressed, field designs became more colorful, but also more adorned with corporate sponsor logos. The 2006 Capital One Bowl, for example, had nine corporate logos scattered throughout the surface.

This archive takes great pride in this design history and works hard to replicate each detail correctly. From the flooded field of the 1990 Peach Bowl to the ghosted Tennessee Titans branding at the Music City Bowl, no detail left untouched for this collection.