College Football Uniforms - 2015 Season

[Derek94]

... "no conincidence the dominated in their either" ... lolwut Are you actually trying to say that at least in some small way, the Canes' uniforms were part of why the team was successful?

Maybe not but take a look at every national champion from 1991 to now.

Notice a trend?

Every champ outside Miami 2001 has worn classic uniforms.

I mean that's pretty uncanny irregardless of what impact one attributes to unis.

But maybe Oregon finally kicks the door in for Team Fashion.

[Geoff]

Correlation ≠ Causation.

Simple as that. Just because teams won in traditional looking uniforms doesn't mean the uniforms had anything to do with it. I won't even call that a dumb argument ... it's just dumb.

[_RH_]

I think the slashes through the stripes are clever, and the UCLA jerseys aren't really the same. It's a shame the material looks so cheap. And that w-o-g combo should never be seen again. I wonder if Adidas proposed the same slash design on the helmet.

[sportzfan]

It's just those teams with that win the NC excel in recruiting, coaching, ect. And have kept the same classic uniforms because they haven't had to change their looks to get noticed because they are always in the spotlight.

[Lights Out]

As for the stripes on the pants and sleeves not matching the helmet, that isn't an adidas thing. That is a Miami thing

It was an awful "thing" back then and it doesn't look any better now.

[Derek94]

Correlation ≠ Causation.

Simple as that. Just because teams won in traditional looking uniforms doesn't mean the uniforms had anything to do with it. I won't even call that a dumb argument ... it's just dumb.

Again, it's remarkable all the same.

Ohio State

Florida State

Alabama

Auburn

Florida

LSU

Texas

USC

Oklahoma

Tennessee

Michigan

Nebraska

Penn State

^every champion since 1994 and dollars to donuts not more than a trickle of alteration in the years since.

Hey man maybe I'm a product of my age (37) but there's nothing like teams sticking to tradition.

Oh props to Penn State for taking the names off.

Now just need them and Texas to jettison the goofy collar logos.

[BlackBolt3]

I'd argue that FSU didn't have a straight up traditional look, but all those teams are long time powers in football. Uniforms didn't really matter to those teams. If Alabama came out in full blown elephant skin for any of the championship years, it would've looked bad, but they probably wouldn't have lost any games because of it.

[seattlesonicsofsacramento]

As for the stripes on the pants and sleeves not matching the helmet, that isn't an adidas thing. That is a Miami thing

As I'm reading the opinions of more and more people ITT, I'm surprised at how many of you are nostalgic for these 80s-90s uniforms. It's gotta be because of the teams that wore them, right? Or do yall genuinely believe that a uniform made up of mismatching stripes in every part of its set (helmet, jersey, pants) looks amazing? White, orange, and dark green are a sexy color combination, but all those different stripes just look sloppy.

And come on, everyone who just wants a throwback to these uniforms: when will yall realize that traditional sleeve stripes are a relic of a past era of actual football sleeves? I know a lot of yall are clinging to those stripes designs because of warm memories from way back when, but eventually yall have to wake up and look at the size of modern sleeves:

Now, I'm not gonna try and defend that 2014 set ^ because it was such a radical departure from what Nike had done for decades, and some of the combinations--a symptom of modern college football mix&match philosophy--looked garish.

I want you to compare this upcoming Adidas look that yall are trying to defend to what Nike had been developing pre-2014 though. (c.f. Adidas's sets here, here, and here.) I'll be ignoring the alternates Nike created for Miami, since we're focusing on Miami's regular set ITT, even though I like a lot of the ideas Nike had for those alternates--which may be unpopular opinions of mine, since most of those uniforms were pretty controversial. Click on the images below if you want to view them full-size.

1999-2003

2004-2006

2007-2012

That progression of striping was calculated, unique, and modern in a way ahead of its time. Nike unfortunately blew it all up in 2014, and I think resentment from that is fueling some people's embracement of Adidas's return to the old design (in a horrible template), but I think plenty of yall just never liked Miami's modernization of Miami, and for that I'm a little confused. Do yall really want football uniforms to be designed with the same striping forever?

[pianoknight]

... "no conincidence the dominated in their either" ... lolwut Are you actually trying to say that at least in some small way, the Canes' uniforms were part of why the team was successful?

Maybe not but take a look at every national champion from 1991 to now.

Notice a trend?

Every champ outside Miami 2001 has worn classic uniforms.

I mean that's pretty uncanny irregardless of what impact one attributes to unis.

But maybe Oregon finally kicks the door in for Team Fashion.

Irregardless is not a word. "Regardless" means the exact same thing, so the "ir" is irrelevant.

Grammar duty done for the day.

[Lights Out]

I thought the 2004-06 uniforms were perfect for Miami. One of the best uses of piping I've seen, great color distribution. The 1999-2003 set would have been their best look without the cluttered side panel/pants stripe. The 2007-2013 uniforms sucked and I'm amazed they lasted as long as they did.

[Derek94]

I'd argue that FSU didn't have a straight up traditional look, but all those teams are long time powers in football. Uniforms didn't really matter to those teams. If Alabama came out in full blown elephant skin for any of the championship years, it would've looked bad, but they probably wouldn't have lost any games because of it.

Charles Ward 1993 vs James Winston 2013 - honestly they didn't do much rearranging outside of numeral stripes. So in my comparison I'm simply connecting the sameness quotient to these teams. But yeah if 2014 FSU won it then that would be a sharp turn.

And as far as the U.

These are my favorite from the 1996 season. I was a huge U fan before I enrolled at UNC.

[4_tattoos]

IMO Miami's 99-03 set would have looked better had the pants stripe just run straight down the leg instead of tapering mid way. (Was that even considered a tapered stripe?) Also, the orange pants of that era just look flat out bad to me. Would have looked better had they made the stripe on those predominantly green. However that would have needed Miami to also make a second set of white jerseys with a predominantly green side stripe. Pretty much the way that set had two sets of white pants to match the orange & green jerseys.

The 04-06 set was their best modern look. Should have held on to throughout their contract with Nike. They 07 set that followed was GARBAGE!

[Lee Noire]

Oh Adidas...

Pick one. Slashes or shockweb, you can't do both. Oh, and stop making your stripes with tin foil. The last Nike Miami look wasn't their best, but at least it looked like nothing would fall off of it mid game.

If that shockweb wasn't there and the stripe fabric choice was different, I'd actually like these. I think the slashes do give the traditional stripes the modern touch, but the foil look overdoes it.

[martymcfry]

Miami isn't horrible. I agree the three stripes/shockweb is bad, but really, it could've been a lot worse. The MIAMI wordmark is big though.

[SiLeNt WaVe]

Montana doesn't pay for their uniforms. Phil Knight of Nike attended UM for a while and donates the unis every 3 years unless that has changed. They have 6 helmets right now and about 4 or 5 sets of pants and jerseys.

MAC attendance is garbage. I went to an Akron game last season and there was 1,200. Hell my D3 teams averaged 7,800 while I was playing. The fact they have a TV deal as a conference is a joke.

I'm not sure where you're getting your info but you are way off. He ran track for 4 years at Oregon (graduating in 1959) and then attended grad school at Stanford. He's got no real connection to Montana except for them being a Nike school.

Wasn't Knight my bad. It's the executive VP Sprunk that attended Montana.

[WSU151]

As for the stripes on the pants and sleeves not matching the helmet, that isn't an adidas thing. That is a Miami thing

As I'm reading the opinions of more and more people ITT, I'm surprised at how many of you are nostalgic for these 80s-90s uniforms. It's gotta be because of the teams that wore them, right? Or do yall genuinely believe that a uniform made up of mismatching stripes in every part of its set (helmet, jersey, pants) looks amazing? White, orange, and dark green are a sexy color combination, but all those different stripes just look sloppy.

And come on, everyone who just wants a throwback to these uniforms: when will yall realize that traditional sleeve stripes are a relic of a past era of actual football sleeves? I know a lot of yall are clinging to those stripes designs because of warm memories from way back when, but eventually yall have to wake up and look at the size of modern sleeves:

The stripes on the orange pants matched with the orange jersey, and the white pants matched the white jersey stripes, so technically only the helmet had mismatching stripes in the 80s/90s.

Traditional stripes are definitely not a thing of the past. Adidas could have done it without the slashes and it would have looked good. Ohio State, Florida, Texas, et al, all have traditional stripes.

[MJWalker45]

And Ohio State's new alternates had even more stripes. Granted it's the same pattern Iowa uses.

[seattlesonicsofsacramento]

Traditional stripes are definitely not a thing of the past. Adidas could have done it without the slashes and it would have looked good. Ohio State, Florida, Texas, et al, all have traditional stripes.

Those aren't "traditional stripes" though. Traditionally, those stripes existed because they wrapped around a sleeve. Now they're just a design on top of the one remaining visible side of the sleeve. The only way you can have "traditional stripes" is by moving them to undersleeves, such as Oregon State did with this uniform:

[razorback447]

Traditional stripes are definitely not a thing of the past. Adidas could have done it without the slashes and it would have looked good. Ohio State, Florida, Texas, et al, all have traditional stripes.

Those aren't "traditional stripes" though. Traditionally, those stripes existed because they wrapped around a sleeve. Now they're just a design on top of the one remaining visible side of the sleeve. The only way you can have "traditional stripes" is by moving them to undersleeves, such as Oregon State did with this uniform:

Such a great look for Oregon State too.

[ConcreteCharlie]

Traditional stripes are definitely not a thing of the past. Adidas could have done it without the slashes and it would have looked good. Ohio State, Florida, Texas, et al, all have traditional stripes.

Those aren't "traditional stripes" though. Traditionally, those stripes existed because they wrapped around a sleeve. Now they're just a design on top of the one remaining visible side of the sleeve. The only way you can have "traditional stripes" is by moving them to undersleeves, such as Oregon State did with this uniform:

What year is this picture from? That uniform is brilliant