Oregon's first conference road trip takes them to Northwestern to play the Wildcats for only the second time in history. This yellow/white/yellow combo is an old-school classic, but not much recently. They have worn it only once in each of these years: 2024, 2021 Fiesta Bowl loss, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012. Before 2012 the last time was 1998. The Ducks did not have a yellow helmet from 1998-2009. 1998 was last time they wore a yellow helmet with green facemask too!
Mono green for the Ducks vs Oklahoma State. A similar look to the 2024 opener, but with green facemask. Oddly this year and last it was green jersey for the first two games! This combo was not used in 2023, but worn twice in 2022 (2 losses). Typically this all-green look has been used in non-conference or for Civil War, but was most famous for the 2015 Rose Bowl victory.
Now that the Ducks have ended their wonderful/horrible 13-1 season (see the spreadsheet here),
I take a look at color and combo trends:
Here is my personal ranking of their 2024-25 uniforms. As with my ranking last year I have a methodology that leans toward:
This season had no real dogs until late, so even my least favorite set might be a decent one in years past. The one thing that hurt them this season was the fact that they had a ful set of colors to choose from but some colors were in Throwback look and other in Modern look, so that limited the mixing of the two.
From least favorite to most favorite:
14. Big 10 Championship Game: The result was good, but I just found the set a bit dull, even with the bright helmet. Maybe green pants would have helped?
| Jan. 2, 1995 | Rose | Penn State | L 20-38 |
| Jan. 1, 2010 | Rose | Ohio State | L 17-26 |
| Jan. 2, 2012 | Rose | Wisconsin | W 45-38 |
| Jan. 1, 2015 | CFP Semifinal | Rose Bowl | Florida State | W 59-20 |
| Jan. 1, 2020 | Rose | Wisconsin | W 28-7 |
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| 2012 |
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| 2020 |
The Big 10 announced next season schedule and the Ducks have 4 conference home games. The most taxing games appear to be at Penn State (but in Sept so no bad weather)
From uniform perspective:
1. Vs. Montana State: A blue and gold team. Hopefully a good game for green and yellow.
2. Vs. Oklahoma State: An orange and black team, so hopefully not a lot of black for the Ducks?
3. At Northwestern: A purple and black team, so hopefully yellow and white Ducks?
4. Civil War. Hopefully color on color.
5. At Penn State. They will most likely do white out, but blue jerseys? So anything possible with Oregon.
6-8. A bunch of red teams. Red, white and green? Merry early Christmas.
9. At Iowa. Black, yellow, white and green?
10. Vs. Minnesota and USC. Lots of maroon, yellow and green?
11. At Washington. Skys the limit.
The Ducks are wearing green-black-black for the first time since the Belotti era—his last game to be exact.
The Ducks in 2007 and 2008 wore this combo 4 times, including the Sun Bowl and Holiday Bowl, just before the Chip Kelly era. This was the era of the first shoulder designs-namely green with diamond plate, but still the mallard green color changing helmets that are much darker than this apple green. But fore that it was a very common home look when the shoulders and side stripes contrasted with the black uniform. This was a definitive Joey Harrington look.
IMHO, I wish they had gone more traditional and colorful vs. Penn State, but this dark look is similar to the 2 most important wins this season.
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| 2008 Holiday Bowl win-the last game for Mike Belotti. |
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| 2000 Holiday Bowl |
