The sports network cited the $10 million upgrade, which expanded the video board’s size by nearly tenfold, as the reason for the ranking.
“This gives a whole new meaning to The Big Green,” ESPN’s Edward Aschoff said in the article.
The upgrade increased the video board’s size from 567 square feet to 5,300 square feet, ESPN reported.
With a high-definition scoreboard measuring nearly 7,370 square feet, Texas beat MSU for the #1 slot, proving once again everything is bigger in Texas.
MSU completed the scoreboard renovations during the fall 2012 semester. The upgrade featured a 5,300-square-foot video board on the south side of the stadium and two smaller boards on the north side.
“This new technology is going to give us an opportunity to entertain people better,” deputy athletic director Greg Ianni said in a previous interview with The State News.
