SoFi Stadium can save money in 2028 when USC football plays there

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The news is not surprising to anyone following USC football: The Trojans, as reported by Ryan Kartje of the Los Angeles Times, are likely to move to SoFi Stadium in 2028. This is due to renovations attached to the Los Angeles Coliseum for the 2028 Summer Olympics. The recent Coliseum renovations took away the track used for the 1984 Summer Olympics in the venerable stadium. Hence, there is a need to build a new and reconfigured track for the 2028 track and field competition in Los Angeles. That project is so massive and detailed that the Coliseum won’t be ready to host football for a majority of the 2028 season.

Notably, USC and the Rose Bowl are not in talks. The Trojans are not reportedly interested in moving to Pasadena for 2028. The Trojans are intent on moving to SoFi. With UCLA likely to be in SoFi by 2028 — whereas 2026 is more of a question due to pending litigation — there is now an excellent chance that in 2028, SoFi Stadium will have four football tenants.

We have simple advice for SoFi Stadium, in the interests of saving some money. It is rooted in USC-UCLA football history:

1967 USC-UCLA football game

If you watch the old YouTube video of the classic 1967 USC-UCLA game, you will see that the end zones are decorated in both USC and UCLA colors: yellow-gold (the shared crossover color), mixed with red for the Trojans and light blue for UCLA.

1973 USC-UCLA football game

You can once again see the mixture of colors: yellow-gold, blue, and red.

USC and UCLA as shared tenants of a stadium

USC and UCLA shared the Los Angeles Coliseum as football tenants for decades, going through 1981. UCLA moved to the Rose Bowl in 1982. That’s at least part of why the end zones shared USC and UCLA colors instead of belonging exclusively to the Trojans, which happened in later years.

UCLA move to SoFi Stadium

The move hasn’t been finalized because of pending litigation, but one would think that by 2028, UCLA will likely be established as a SoFi tenant.

One year only

It’s not as though SoFi Stadium will have four football tenants on a continuous basis. This is for 2028 only, so it’s not as though SoFi has to make a permanent arrangement.

College and pro tenants for the same football stadium

The Louisiana Superdome had the New Orleans Saints and Tulane as joint tenants in the 1980s. You can see from the video below, as you watch, that the Superdome end zones were simply split between Tulane’s light blue and the Saints’ black with gold, one at each end of the field:

Two times two

Obviously, the Superdome had two tenants, one college and one pro. In 2028, Los Angeles and SoFi Stadium will have double the tenants, two college and two pro. It would obviously cost a lot more money and take a lot more time to create four different fields with four different collections of decorations. Why not save a few bucks and pass them along to the consumer with slightly reduced parking prices?

2028 at SoFi Stadium

The idea is simple: Create a four-team midfield logo for the SoFi Stadium field. UCLA and the Chargers both use powder blue. All four teams share a shade of yellow/gold as a color. Just put red, yellow-gold, light blue, and (for the Rams) darker blue diamonds in the two end zones. One field for four teams instead of four fields.

You’re welcome, SoFi Stadium groundskeepers and facilities managers.

This article originally appeared on Trojans Wire: SoFi Stadium likely to have four LA football tenants with USC in 2028

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