Auburn University Scores College Football’s Largest LED Display

Daktronics installs 10,800-square-foot video board at Jordan-Hare Stadium that’s so bright, it can be seen eight miles away.

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“There is no place in the country like Jordan-Hare Stadium to watch a football game, and this dynamic board will revolutionize the game-day experience and make it even better. Our fans are going to be in awe the first time they see it, and they are going to really enjoy all the creative and dynamic things we will be able to do with it.”

The new display will measure approximately 57 feet high by 190 feet wide and be comprised of more than 8.7 million LEDs—an increase from the old 30-foot-high-by-74-foot-wide display. The new display features variable content zoning to allow for one large image to be shown on the entire display or for multiple different zones of the display to show any combination of live video, instant replays, scoring and statistics, graphics and animations, and sponsors messaging.

The new display will be paired with Daktronics’ Show Control system and a custom Daktronics audio system to truly elevate the game-day atmosphere for the Tigers. Show Control provides a combination of display control software, video processing, data integration and playback hardware.

“It’s exciting to continue our long-standing relationship with Auburn University by providing them with this awe-inspiring new video display,” said Daktronics CEO Reece Kurtenbach.

“The capabilities provided by a display of this size matched with Daktronics’ control system allows the university to really get creative when planning their game-day entertainment. We’re looking forward to seeing the overall presentation when the new system is fired up for their first game.”

During testing of the new video board, alternating flashes of blue, white, green, red lit up portions of Auburn’s campus surrounding Jordan-Hare Stadium and could actually be seen from neighboring towns. One local news photographer tweeted he could see the glow from the new video board eight miles away.

Two new ribbon displays will also be installed along the seating fascia of the stadium, each measuring approximately 3.5 feet high by 435 feet wide and featuring a 15HD pixel layout. These displays work in conjunction with the main display to help brand the entire event and show additional statistics, graphics and sponsorship messages.
All of the displays feature wide-angle visibility to appeal to every fan in the stadium and low power consumption.
Integrated into the video and scoring system will be a new top-of-the-line, custom Daktronics audio system. The system will measure 33 feet high by 70 feet wide—larger than the previous video display—to provide full-range sound reproduction and clear, intelligible speech creating a powerful audio experience for Auburn fans.
Daktronics engineered the audio solution using JBL and Danley Sound Labs products in a centralized scoreboard cluster of full range line arrays and low frequency subwoofers to fit the specific acoustical and structural properties of Jordan-Hare Stadium.

Accompanying delay speakers will provide sound to shaded areas along the sidelines. The system comes with a touchscreen control solution and custom presets are available to configure this system for different sections to be turned on or off to meet the needs of each event.

Auburn University is one of 19 colleges and universities with which Daktronics worked to enhance their football game day experiences this season, from video boards to ribbon displays to other auxiliary panels.

The others are: Delaware State University, Duke University, Emporia State University, Iowa State University, Kansas State University, McNeese State University, North Carolina A&T State University, Northern Illinois University, Sam Houston State University, South Dakota State University, Tulane University, University of Cincinnati, University of Alabama, University of Florida, University of Mississippi, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska and Wingate University.

We won’t tell Tigers fans if you won’t that Daktronics worked not only with Auburn’s biggest in-state rivals (Alabama) but also one of its fiercest Southeastern Conference combatants (Florida) too.

But neither can claim the largest LED display in all of college football.

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