LSU’s Tiger Stadium underwent at $19.8M renovation ahead of its 100th football season this year, according to Reed Darcey of the New Orleans ADVOCATE. The Tiger Athletic Foundation “footed the bill,” which covered the cost of “adding new lighting, a better sound system and a few larger video boards.” As LSU was finishing its new $20M players’ lounge, which it constructed as an addition to its football operations building and officially unveiled on Monday, it “started adding bells and whistles to Tiger Stadium.” LSU Exec Deputy AD & COO Keli Zinn said that the department “first imagined the project during the 2022 season,”

when LSU started “encountering ‘operational challenges’ in the stadium.” Darcey notes LSU “swapped out its lights, built three larger video boards, installed seven new ribbon boards and added video screens to the end zone tunnel the Tigers  use to enter the field.” The new north end zone video board is 152 feet long, with “more than twice the surface area of the old jumbotron.” The new LED lights will allow LSU to “put on in-game light shows that have become a fixture” at other SEC venues. LSU has said that the upgrades are “on track to be finished in time for LSU’s home opener” on Sept.