New Ole Miss away football jerseys

[doafhat]

While watching Ole Miss at Missouri earlier today, I noticed that the Rebels had different road jerseys than what they've worn in the past few years. The numbers are now red with no outline (used to be blue with a red outline), and the blue & red shoulder stripes have been changed to red & white. Also, I noticed that some players wore the same number style that Ole Miss wore last year, while others wore more generic block numbers.

Previous uniforms:

[NDwas]

I will also add that Mizzou absolutely whooped Ole Miss' sorry butts today.

[sharplcd]

guess now that elis on the giants there trying to make the away jerseys look like the giants also. just white and red

[illinirox1]

guess now that elis on the giants there trying to make the away jerseys look like the giants also. just white and red

That was the first thing I noticed, too. I like the look though. The cleaner the football jersey, the better. (Not that the Eli-era jerseys were bad or anything)

Pretty much a waste of money, but no harm done.

[McCall]

Yeah, I watched this game and noticed the number difference right off the bat and was wondering what the heck was up with it. Really made them look like some little school who could only afford a few new uniforms or something with all the inconsistency.

[pcgd]

i saw it briefly and noticed that some of the linemen seemed to have thicker numbers. Perhaps it was me, but it seems others noticed it as well...

weird.

[illinirox1]

You can see the font difference in 7s if you look at the guy getting tackled in the 2nd pic and #77 in the 3rd pic.

[swilson160]

Best pic of the inconsistent numbers I can find so far. Who are these people, the '77 Sugar Bowl Pitt Panthers?

[cranium]

I gotta say that I like the Eli-era road jersey better just because the shoulder stripes match the pants stripes. If they removed the blue stripes from the pants, then they would be consistant. I like the red numbers vs. the blue numbers, but it seems wrong for ole Miss to be removing blue from their unis.

[Mingjai]

Do their home jerseys still have no blue on the shoulder like this? I've always thought the middle stripe on their homes should be blue (on the red jerseys, or red on the blue jerseys).

But hey, now the new roads match the homes--no blue stripes.

[sacker12]

I think the old school looks is just them trying to say "Eli Manning Played Here". It looks a lot like the Giants road shirts. Besides, they suck really bad.

[cheo25]

guess now that elis on the giants there trying to make the away jerseys look like the giants also. just white and red

Actually, the red numbers were there for a long time before they temporarily got rid of shoulder stripes in the 1990s and switched to blue numbers around the same time. Ole Miss had red numbers when Archie Manning was the QB in the late 60s and early 70s. So it probably doesn't have anything to do with Eli going to the Giants. It's more a case of Ed Orgeron trying to go more traditional with Ole Miss' look.

[yh]

I was at the game, six rows behind the Rebel bench, and noticed the number discrepancy right away. From what I could tell the backs and receivers had the narrower numbers while a few of the linemen and LB's were wearing the fatter numbers. I have no idea why this discrepancy existed. I also noticed that the pants were a really odd color - while they certainly look gray on the photos posted here, they looked almost like a pale champagne color (think 1983 Michigan Panthers) in person. Also, neither team's jerseys had TV numbers - something you don't see that frequently.

[whitedawg22]

I think the jersey itself looks pretty good. But similar to the Giants, a blue helmet with no blue on the jersey looks sort of weird.

[sacker12]

I like the way the jersey looks with the True Block numbers than with the Standard Block numbers.

Also, Nike is pretty bad about inconsistencies. For example, Miami OH had jerseys that had the True Block on the front and back, but had Standard Block on the shoulders. And on FIU's jerseys, they had the number too low on many of the jerseys. Coincedentally, FIU has since switched to Adidas.

[RichO]

credit to Ole Miss for one thing that seems rare these days: they do UCLA stripes right- no weird cut-off effect (LSU is a serious violator)

[SouthSidePride]

MIZ!

[kewp80]

ZOU!!!!!

[leedsunited]

ZOU!!!!!

Ouch. This weekend hurt for any Ole Miss folks. What a shellacking.

[statebully]

thank you mizzou for making my college football weekend tolerable! as for ole piss' uniforms, those are awful...couldn't sum up this school any better.