The West Virginia football program recently unveiled a new turf design for Milan Puskar Stadium that will be installed before the Mountaineers kick off the 2025 season against Robert Morris on Aug. 30.
A gold Flying “WV” will still be prominently featured at the 50-yard line, just like it has been since the 1997 season, when West Virginia moved away from the state outline and a smaller Flying “WV” at midfield.
However, the Mountaineers have replaced the wordmarks in the navy blue end zones and the yard-line numbers with their current typeface, which was introduced in 2019, while two parallel stripes also flank the wordmarks.
The stripes are reminiscent of the pants stripes on West Virginia’s uniforms, which were revealed prior to this season. The stripes were a staple under Hall of Fame head coach Don Nehlen from 1980-93 and were used on their “Country Roads” alternate uniforms in 2022 and 2023.
Lastly, the out-of-bounds area behind the end zones and down the sidelines to the designated team areas at the 25-yard line is now navy blue. The sidelines and out-of-bounds area behind the end zones have been white since 1988.
This marks the first update to the turf at Milan Puskar Stadium since 2016, when – according to our friend Ethan Dimitroff of the Mountaineer Uniform Database — West Virginia increased the size of the Flying “WV” and changed the placement of the Big XII logos to the 25-yard lines.
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