AndrewMLind

I mentioned this at the time of the tease, but I assume it’ll be gold in 2021 and either black or navy blue for a LA/Hollywood Nights kind of thing in 2022. https://news.sportslogos.net/2020/05/13/los-angeles-rams-tease-alternate-uniforms-in-2021-2022/football/ I am especially curious, though, how they hope (or plan) to unveil a new one each year beyond that, though. Red and black and/or red and yellow would surely be under consideration. https://news.sportslogos.net/2020/11/07/los-angeles-rams-hope-to-unveil-new-alternate-uniform-each-season/football/

*when the Rams introduce...

Georgia should wear the red pants from its 1980 throwback and Cincinnati should wear black pants (instead of the red pants they're going with) to give us a red-black-red vs black-red-black matchup.

Ohio State will wear scarlet jerseys while Northwestern will don purple helmets (with a white facemask), white jersey and purple pants in the Big Ten Championship Game.

They look fine on the Vapor Untouchable template to me. Certainly better than the modified Pro Combat template shown above or what Under Armour has done to them, which was to overcorrect the shrinking stripes we saw from Adidas.

But that’s a matter of personal preference more than anything. The wordmark makes their brand stronger, which was undoubtedly the intent behind putting there in the first place. By comparison, taking it away dilutes the brand that has been established for 40-plus years, as I said from the beginning. The other schools are irrelevant in the conversation because they’ve never had a wordmark on their respective uniforms, thus you’ve come to know their branding as is. Adding it now would be strange, but you wouldn’t think twice about it had they made the change in the 1970s like Texas did. And had they done it then, it would have been to strengthen their branding. It’s no different, at its core, than teams adding their logos at the base of their collar, just in a much larger format. Also, kudos for sneaking Mississippi State in there well after the fact. Though, like you said, they’re more maroon and gray than maroon and white.

But then the same can be said about every team that has a unique color scheme. That they don’t need identifiers like logos or wordmarks because their color scheme stands for itself.

I mean, you’re talking about Texas A&M your last sentence. And you wouldn’t even have to say anything beyond burnt orange for me to know you were talking about Texas. But that just speaks more to the uniqueness of their respective color schemes than it does about their uniforms.

The lack of the Texas wordmark across the chest just make these feel like a generic, unlicensed depiction of the Longhorns. I understand they’re era appropriate, but I don’t think Texas’ brand is strong enough to withstand the lack of something that makes their brand whole (at least to me).

I first saw it pop up, along with a different unnamed template, in fall camp 2018: The sublimated Buckeye Leafs, meanwhile, first showed up on practice uniforms in fall camp 2016:

They’re sticking with the Vapor Untouchable uniforms this year. I know Nike had production issues with teams eyeing a switch to the Vapor Fusion templates due to the pandemic. Some Buckeyes have been wearing the Fusion template in practice for a few years now, too.

This belongs in the unpopular opinions thread.

Too much white for my taste. Would rather see color vs color or simply more orange vs Carolina blue.

This would look excellent on a Nike template. The Adidas template has too many stretch points that warp anything placed on it, hence the arched wordmarks.

It's definitely the lighting:

It's not a great design, but it's the exact look I associate with Rutgers, especially with Schiano back on the sidelines. I highly doubt he finds the same success the second time around, though.

The contrasting collar is still there. It's just really small compared to what they previously wore (especially in the front) thanks to adidas' template.

I've been told numerous planned uniform updates were put on hold due to production issues associated with the pandemic, particularly schools that were supposed to be switching to the Vapor Fusion template this year. It's possible Florida State was forced to make the number changes in-house as a result, thus the Mach Speed template still being in use.

They apparently take a lot of pride in the UAlbany moniker. We received an email from their communications department this evening letting us know that UAlbany is the informal name for the school, not Albany. “Albany is the city, the high school and the county.” I respect the desire to uphold the brand standards, even if it comes off a little pompous.

That's my bad. I did not realize they wore that helmet in most of their games last fall. They had three nationally televised games last fall and only wore it once during those games (black vs Temple, white vs UCF). The chrome helmet didn't make an appearance, which is odd considering it was worn during their uniform unveiling last summer.

USF has been wearing a chrome helmet for six years now, but it looks like this one actually has a black outline around logo rather than the typical white. They have switched the decals around in the past. Might be a black facemask, too. Hard to tell in that lighting, though. I miss the greenish-gold helmets, if I’m being honest. I used to hate them and I always wondered why they didn’t color match the rest of the uniform. Then they went away until they reappeared in the Wisconsin game last year, which made me wish they still existed. Not the best look from an aesthetic standpoint, but it was uniquely USF.

My wife says to me as I'm writing the article on the front page last night: "Why does it look like an IUD." Now I can't unsee it.

Their 1998-2013 look was easily my favorite because of that pattern and its subtle application on the collar and sleeve cuffs. It only got better when the numbers were changed from screenprinted to tackle twill, too. The addition of FSU under the collar in 2011 wasn’t necessarily needed, but not something I minded too much. I wish we could have seen that look on the Vapor Untouchable template rather than the older mesh templates (like the Destroyer in the Jameis Winston photo), though.

The pattern isn’t the issue. It’s that the Mach Speed template brings the pattern to an abrupt stop rather than all the way down to the point if the collar (like it did on the Hypercool template when the set was initially unveiled).