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The stadium was used extensively for local high school football for decades until August 2012, when games were transferred a few blocks northeast to the new Dona Larsen Park, which is also the new home venue of Boise State's track & field team. Albertsons Stadium is widely known for its unusual blue playing surface, installed in 1986, while ...
Albertsons Stadium: Boise State Broncos: Boise, Idaho: NCAA Division I FBS: Mountain West Conference: Blue 1986 36,387 Nicknamed "The Blue" and "Smurf Turf". The first college stadium field to be any color other than traditional green, as well as the only college to have a non-green field for 22 years (1986–2008).
The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, previously the Humanitarian Bowl (1997–2003, 2007–2010) and the MPC Computers Bowl (2004–2006), is an NCAA-sanctioned post-season college football bowl game that has been played annually since 1997 at Albertsons Stadium on the campus of Boise State University in Boise, Idaho.
Whether it’s a coincidence or directly related, the Broncos have thrived with the blue turf. Since 2000, Boise State has gone 158-20 at home, though some allege there’s a camouflage effect ...
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They finished the season as the only major undefeated college football team. BSU's football team has won the Fiesta Bowl two more times, following the 2009 and 2014 seasons. The school's Albertsons Stadium introduced its famous blue artificial turf (now FieldTurf) thirty-nine years ago in 1986.
New turf is installed at the Southmoore High School football field in Moore, Okla., on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024.