To avoid assigning duplicate hood linings to colleges and universities that used the same school colors, the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) used different types of heraldic patterns to divide the two or more colors in an academic hood. One of the heraldic divisions the Bureau employed was a “reversed chevron”. Here the standard chevron of between three and four inches in width was inverted so that the chevron pointed upwards.

The IBAC assigned the University of South Florida a hood lining that was green with a gold “reversed chevron” in the 1960s. A list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Dress and Insignia of the World (1970) and an Intercollegiate Bureau list from 1972 both described South Florida’s hood in this manner.