It is not clear whether the University of Tampa was assigned an official hood lining pattern by the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC). A 1972 list by the Bureau described the university’s hood as black above gold with a red horizontal bar. But a citation by Kevin Sheard only two years earlier in Academic Dress and Insignia of the World stated that Tampa’s lining was black with two chevrons: the upper one gold and the lower one red.

Because a vintage University of Tampa hood has not been found to determine which pattern (if either) the university originally used, here the pattern recorded by the Intercollegiate Bureau has been privileged.