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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/SMUHypeMachine on 2025-03-22 04:21:45+00:00.

While this has yet to be officially announced by the university, it’s been confirmed SMU is currently tearing up the turf and reinstalling a grass field in Gerald J. Ford Stadium.

Grass provides multiple benefits over turf, including fewer injures due to having less impact on players’ bodies, and decreases the ambient temperature on the field by approximately 15 degrees during hot summer months.

This project was supposed to be finished before the start of the 2024 season, but the Garry Weber End Zone Complex project went over the time budget and forced the grass field to wait.