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The gold features on the uniforms have a reflective shine. The bottom of the helmet features darkened blades of grass all the way around. The panther appears as if it's emerging from the tall grass. This use of the grass is a nod to FIU's previous primary logo. The bottom of the pants also features the grass in a subtle way. The sleeve caps are also darkened to match the darkened shade of blue/white.

The concepts so far have only used small deviations on classic designs, but the ones to come will be larger overhauls. The schedules will also start providing a few nuggets about future designs. More reliance on blue than FAU's current identity. New striping pattern on the pants, shoulders, and helmet. I don't believe FAU has ever put this owl logo on their helmet, but that's a shame. I think it's a perfect helmet logo for them.

Each jersey has a read/white/black stripe that matches the pants stripe and incorporates into the jersey cuffs

Consistent orange/blue/white/blue/orange striping across helmet, uniforms, and pants Stripes fade to gator scales

The white script on the teal jersey is an improvement. I like the direction you took with Seattle overall. Their current set is bogged down by way too many outlines on scripts and logos and your version simplifies that while also using more teal. Great job. I am also intrigued by the orange cap at home, blue hat on the road version of the Astros. The incorporation of yellow into the set as an accent color is also well done. Your A's set should be the set the A's actually wear. Kelly green > forest green. Yellow bill on every cap. It's perfect.

I will post the uniform concepts in pairs by rivalry matchups. First, the Iron Bowl: The pants stripe is now a double houndstooth stripe. The houndstooth pattern is also sublimated on the uniform collars. Incorporates the Auburn A into the sleeve design. Makes the striping consistent across helmet, shirt, and pants.

Rivalry matchups: Alabama and Auburn Florida and Georgia Florida Atlantic and Florida International Georgia Southern and Troy Georgia State and Georgia Tech Kentucky and Louisville Louisiana and Louisiana-Monroe LSU and Tulane Memphis and Western Kentucky Mississippi State and Ole Miss Middle Tennessee and UAB South Alabama and Southern Miss Tennessee and Vanderbilt UCF and USF

My proposal is for college football to move to megaconferences. Each Power 5 conference would absorb the Group of 5 teams to yield these conferences: SEC: 28 teams ACC: 28 teams Big Ten: 26 teams Big 12: 24 teams Pac-12: 24 teams Now there’s no glass ceiling on team in FBS. Every team, from Akron to Alabama, has a similar road map to the college football playoff. The only question left is scheduling. How do you schedule a 28-team conference? Algorithmic matching! Here’s a template for what each individual teams’ schedule would look like: Weeks 1 and 13 are prescheduled non-conference games. Weeks 2 and 3 are prescheduled conference games against randomly selected opponents, subject to playing one team from the top half of the previous year’s conference standings and one team from the bottom half. Weeks 4 through 12 algorithmically match opponents every week, subject to prescheduled home/away designations throughout the year. Each team has one bye during this period and one prescheduled game against a rival. The algorithm is quite simple. Line up each of the teams according to home and away designations and order them by conference standings. Match the top team set to play at home to the top team set to play on the road (if they have not already been scheduled to play each other), then go to the next team in the standings and proceed until all opponents have been matched. A poor team gets a fortunate schedule early on and wins some games? They will soon be scheduled with the giants. A great team loses a pair of close games right away? They will soon be scheduled with the minnows and elevated back up. To avoid shenanigans, you would only sort the conference standings by conference record and then randomly order the teams with the same record. This also means there could be weekly scheduling shows to reveal the (quasi-) random matchups that were created. Week 14 algorithmically matches opponents as well, but with no home/away designations set beforehand. This ensures that if a conference has 2 giants that have somehow avoided each other to the end, they will meet in the last week. Home and away would be decided post-matching by scheduling in the location opposite those teams’ last meeting. And if a matchup is a conference decider, the conference could turn it into a neutral site conference championship game. I simulated the 2022-23 college football season and at the very end will reveal the resulting conference standings, the eight-team (!) playoff, and the national champion. But first, onto the conferences where I have designed new uniform sets for every team under the constraint that a casual fan be able to notice that the uniform is different than it was before. Onto the SEC!

On most of these, I don't love the new Tennessee jersey (must be the gray having to be added in as a secondary color) and I immediately like the Tennessee-styled pro jersey. I'm eager to see more striping treatments on these pro teams. The Saints and Steelers treatments are particularly good and would actually work well as a uniform design for them.

The little treatments on the Chargers numbers is great. I wonder if you could bump them up a little so they hit the number on the vertical bars, similar to how they do in the wordmark? For example, the H only has the stripe in the left leg. You might treat the number the same way, where only one of the two vertical bars gets the horizontal stripe. Great idea though. I'm not as much a fan of the gray yoke on the Eagles jersey. There's just too much gray to green on the jersey. I do like the simplified wing on the helmet and the choice of kelly green.

The Maryland logo tweak is a big upgrade. The jerseys initially seemed flag heavy, but I don't get that feel on the black jersey. So that makes me wonder if it isn't just a little too stroke heavy with the black stroke? The little wing added to the Eastern Michigan E logo is perfect. I actually prefer the initial version with the full wing on the sleeve that matches the wing added to the logo.

Real Madrid with a simple collared shirt, light purple trim, and a stencil font that doesn't connect with the overall aesthetic.

Animal logos are always a balancing act between making a logo that's a realistic version of the animal and a logo that looks fierce and prominent and has features that stand out. I see three big changes you've made to the original logo along this axis. 1) the jagged beak ... I like the realism of it and don't think it detracts from the ferocity or prominence of the logo. Good call. 2) the height of head ... this may have been a move in the wrong direction. Imagine a rectangle around the logo but as close to it as possible. The fraction of that rectangle that is empty space just went up a lot, and I think that hurts the prominence of the logo in most applications. That last little feather sticking up at the top isn't adding enough to the logo to compensate for that. 3) the eye ... by making it smaller than the original logo, it's more realistic. But I think it's a move in the wrong direction anyways. It hurts the flow and cohesiveness of the logo. It increases realism only a little bit. I do like the navy and gold colors brought in. However, I have nothing against the copper beak if it copper became a subtle part of the Cardinals identity.

I'm a big fan of #2. That wordmark on the front is striking and I'm a sucker for cream in a baseball uniform.

Traditional look for Borussia Dortmund:

The LA logo is an upgrade, and then incorporating that darker yellow into the number is a nice touch. I actually like those lines in the numbers, which I wouldn't have expected to. And the horn looks great on the helmet. I'm a bit disappointed the shoulder loops don't loop back around as they did on the classic Rams uniform, but I understand why you went the direction you did. Very good look for the Rams.

The jersey designs in here are all so clean looking and the presentation is great. Some of my favorite things: 1. The D-Backs color scheme just works. I was not sure if I was into it when I saw it on the logo, but on the uniform it's great. And that purple jersey is probably the best jersey you've shown so far. I love it. 2. The red Braves jersey just balances the colors so well, and the wordmark pops on the front of the shirt. 3. I wish it had white pants, but the black jersey and hat combo with the O's logos is perfect. That logo is underrated to me, and just letting the black and orange do the heavy lifting works really well. 4. I like the removal of the pinstripes and the heavier emphasis on gray with the White Sox home jersey. The only thing I'm not digging so far is the numbers on the Rockies jerseys. I get that they match closely with the logo/wordmark. But maybe the logo/wordmark could use tweaking too. For the purple and black jerseys, those white outlines just do too much.

I agree that the striping pattern works really well for the Falcons. It's simple, striking, and unique. Also somehow the sleeve striping keeps some consistency with what the current version looks like (which looks awful), except it looks good, which is quite a feat. I like it.

I think that Husky logo is very underrated for Washington, so I like that you found a way to use it. Overall, I appreciate the simplicity of a lot of these concepts. Sometimes simplicity actually makes these brands very identifiable. That striping style just works for well for Arizona, for example. And as soon as you see it, you know who it is, rather than a bunch of gradients and weird shoulder stripes. I also applaud you for including all the possible uniform combinations as well. It helps to visualize how these will look.