Week 8: October 18, 2025

A week after a tough loss at home to Indiana (the Ducks first ever Big10 conference loss!), the Ducks flew east to play Rutgers for the first time ever.

The Ducks went Stormtrooper this week, for the first time since 2022. The last few years they have gone chrome helmet and all white, which is a good look but not strictly Stormtrooper. The black wings on white marble (shell is from Shoeduck ensemble) helmet is a first. 

The Ducks have had some memorable Stormtrooper looks the last 15 years. Very few have been hum-drum games-mostly historic wins and some historic losses!:

2022 Holiday Bowl win and WSU win (both closer than comfortable)

2021 Ohio State win

2016 Loss at USC and win at Utah

2016 Alamo Bowl loss

2104 Win at UCLA (after a demoralizing loss at home to AZ, before making Natty/Heisman)

2013 Win at home in white (the only time at home?!) vs Nicholls State (Mark Helfrich's debut)

2012 win at USC (huge game for Kenyon Barner)

2011 win at Colorado

2009 Loss at Boise (Chip Kelley's debut!)

2007 win at Washington (the first Duck Stormtrooper look)

Week 7: October 11, 2025

Oregon returned home from their Penn State victory and a week off to a hot Indiana team as well as College Game Day on campus! The teams could combine for a very Christmasy look with their official colors of red, green and yellow. Oregon and Indiana have only played three times before, and their last meeting was a stunning #24 Oregon home loss in 2004, which repeated itself in 2025!

This year the Ducks opted to wear a very unique combo of green-black-green. The only other times were in 2006 and 2007! The helmet is basically the same as last game but with apple green paired with silver wings.

My ranking of the recent One-Off uniforms

With Oregon off this week, I thought I'd look back at various single-game special uniforms they have worn the last decade+ (Since I started tracking the Ducks in fall 2015. My criteria for this is that it typically has some storytelling element and is made up of completely new parts. I'm not including any of the "throwbacks" since they typically wear parts of those on multiple weeks. I'm also not including the uniforms that were worn sparingly but repeatedly like the eggshell and the blurry melted crayon yellow/black from 2016 which had no "story". But I am judging the various cancer uniforms, including the 2024 cancer uniform—since it had a story— even though the jersey was reused. So these typically were worn once and centered around a theme.

10. The "Cal Bears Flag themed uniform"  

Don't get me wrong, I love flags and history, and in isolation the idea for this throwback-ish uniform is good. But during a down year against your most important rival-ouch! And all the state-seal-on-blue flags are horrible! Why celebrate that.

9. Lewis and Clark

Again I love history and L&C, but why silver and gray?, with too detailed helmet artwork. Only saving grace is the sublimated map texture. And they lost as well. Ick!

8. "Blue Collar"

Nice story telling, but why pajama gray jersey and more black and blue.

7. Shoe-Duck Phil Knight Civil War

Best of the non-green/yellow ones, but details and narrative too small to see from distance. Just became GRGS and wearing "black" against the Beavers! 

6. Breast Cancer awareness

Great cause and really clean uniform. Pink really pops along with yellow details. I like this unifrom. Is it Oregon? Not really.

5. Ohana

A bit too dark for my taste, but the neon green is cool. Details mostly lost in darkness.

4. Stomp Cancer   

Again good cause. While it's very pale, it does look sharp in sunlight against Nebraska.

3. Cancer Awareness

A really good story about Coach Lanning's wife's battle with cancer, and strong colors. The fiddly patches and helmet bumpers are only visual detriment.

2. Flying Duck Civil War

Helmet art too small and fiddly much like that season's other helmets (see #9). Saving grace is the great color scheme, and the fractal camo texture is really cool.

1. Duck Mascot

A lot of people hate on this set and they lost to Colorado, but it's a real great combo of colors. And at least it wasn't wearing one of OSU's school colors in a Civil War (see #7)

Week 5: September 27, 2025

Whiteout for Penn State and visiting Oregon. The Ducks went black and white for second week in a row. 

Even though they made a big deal about the "Mummy Duck" cleats and have an arm sleeve that looks like mummy wrap, the parts appear to be off the shelf from last season! Helmet looks like the matte black with matte silver wings from four games last season, and the jersey and pants look just like last year's versions. 

Black was tied with green as their most common helmet last season. The last time they wore this colorway was last season at Wisconsin and again in 2023. If you don't count Nightmare Green as black, this is their 6th time wearing this combo ever, which seems kinda low.

UO and PSU have only played five games in history—two times in modern Duck times (both neutral sites)— with Oregon winning the most recent. Those last two games were pretty memorable: 1995 Rose Bowl and 2024 Big 10 Championship. Here is how those matchups looked:

The Black and White Civil War matchup

With the Ducks and Beavers—teasing their uniforms early for the Civil War—we got a mostly black and white game, with the Ducks ironically being the most black (actual game photos make it look more dark gray). I love a good color-on-color Civil War—and think most CFB rivalry games should be that way if possible.

I'll update with real game pics, but here is the matchup:

Update from gameday:

The Duck uniform color looks way more gray on screen in the sunlight. 

Register Guard photos https://www.registerguard.com/picture-gallery/sports/college/football/2025/09/20/oregon-ducks-oregon-state-beavers-football-rivalry-photos-civil-war/86265730007/

Don't get me wrong, these uniforms might be fine on their own, but together, what a snore fest. And the blame falls on both teams! UO choosing such a black heavy special set and OSU not choosing orange and white! And this OSU graphic with all its orange background makes it look nice. But this is what the game SHOULD be from 2 weeks ago when UO and the other OSU played at Autzen.

OR better yet how about a redo of this game (with Oregon winning please) from 2022:

OR if you must go heavy on black and white....a game like this from 2010 which is my top 5 most memorable Civil Wars:

Week 4: Civil War September 20, 2025

Civil War week and Oregon is flying high and Oregon State is floundering. It will be a blowout, but at least Oregon is trying to cheer up the Beavers by wearing their school color? to the funeral for OSU. While my opinion about the uniform is mixed it has great details that you can read about here.

Notes:

• First time they have worn a white helmet since week 4 in 2022
• First time ever they have worn white over black jersey and pants
• First asymmetrical helmet with two different wing styles
• First use of true shiny gold elements, and marble texture
• Pregame photos made it look black, but on-field in the sun does show that it's a dark gray.

Shoe Duck Phil Night uniform

Oregon unveiled their "Shoe Duck" uniform to honor Phil Knight. They will wear it for this weekend's Civil War game. To not reinvent the wheel, I'll just link to several really good write-ups about it here:

Our own Phil Hecken on Uni-watch

https://uni-watch.com/2025/09/15/oregon-ducks-unveil-new-shoe-duck-uniforms-honoring-phil-knight/

The official Oregon announcement

https://goducks.com/news/2025/9/14/football-rivalry-uniform-honors-impact-of-shoe-duck

A good overview by Uniswag

https://www.uniswag.com/blog/oregon-honors-phil-knight-with-shoe-duck-tribute-uniform

Here is my honest opinion: I'm all for honoring Phil and the legacy Nike and the lore of the waffle iron etc. But this is giving me the vibe of the over-storytelling uniforms that the Ducks wore in the 4-8 2016 season. Plus wearing black for the Civil War game against your rival who wears black?? I hope the Beavers wear a lot of orange with the their white, to give the matchup some life from a distance.  If this was green and gold with black and white accents would please me more. The small details are kinda lost from a distance and nobody will understand the backstory for some components.