Look! I just discovered that Utah's Rice-Eccles Stadium (which I love) used to look COMPLETELY different! Lookit! I guess they smashed a lot of the stadium down and basically rebuilt it in like 1997 or something.
Look at it then! It was so cute! They had like a TLBL upper deck there, AND they threw some metal bleachers (I think) to make an even TLBL'ier upper deck above the permanent end zone bleachers, kinda like what Arkansas does (elite stade ref)! And--AAAAND--they had that cool weird ramp behind the end zone that Colorado has. Super jealous!
They tore everything except the south end zone bleachers down in 1997 two days after the season ended, and quickly Stanford'd that badboy and had a whole new stadium built before the first game of the 1998 season.
Here's a picture of the newer version. Truly an elite venue. Obviously no The Setting, though.
One thing I really liked about the newer version of their stadium was the standalone section behind their end zone. I assume this is the only part of the stade leftover from the old iteration. Anyway, I like it because it's always seemed very Northern Illinois Husky Stadium'y to me. Its front row is elevated like 12 feet off the ground and it's got this sorta rounded off concrete at the edges that makes it look really keen, imo.
Anyway, that part is now gone. They renovated it and now it looks like some of the more dumb, modernized, stadium-ruining end zones at Texas and UGA. Here's what it looks like now: