Week 6: October 10, 2026

After the bye in week 5, the Ducks don another special uniform at home vs UCLA.  Since black helmets were introduced in 2008, this is the 21st mono black/nightmare green worn, and third year in row.

 

See my detailed writeup here.

 

 

Oregon 2026 "Origin of Speed" special uniform

 

Oregon announced it's—presumably one-off—annual "dark" uniform named "Origin of Speed" for its night game against UCLA on October 17. The Ducks have a history of  wearing special uniforms vs UCLA! ...and some Black For Black Sake single-serve uniforms the last few years (and my ranking from last year): 

• Grateful Dead in 2025 
• ShoeDuck in 2025 
• Breast Cancer Awareness in 2022 
• Ohana in 2020   
• Oregon Flag from 2016 

The nutshell list of new/different elements: new almost-black green called "Night Forest;" new "kinetic wings" that are like graphic scratchy marks in neon green and volt yellow; new "superman" numerals; and various nods to Hayward Field and an angle of attack of 26.2 degrees (marathon length). I'll let the Oregon press machine and former colleague Rob Moseley give you the details: https://goducks.com/news/2026/9/29/new-football-uniform-honors-origin-of-speed 

 

 

 

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Week 4: September 26, 2026

A huge game in LA, with the Ducks entering the game with a 4-game win streak against USC but needing some confidence. My preseason forecast was all white "storm trooper" since the Ducks have had luck with all-white at the Colisseum in the distant past.  I was not too far off since they went all-white Warp Speed set with a new chrome helmet with dark green wings. 

The Ducks last time playing USC in LA was the 2020 Pac-12 Championship game win and they went green/white/green. In 2019, they won in LA wearing yellow/white/yellow. The last time USC beat Oregon was in LA in 2016 when the Ducks wore all-white. 

In the modern era, Oregon has gone all-white16 times, with three such games under Dan Lanning. The last few years they have paired chrome helmets with all-white. 

 

Week 3: September 18, 2026

Coming home after a ROUGH loss to Oklahoma State, the Ducks play Portland State. My pre-season prediction was all-yellow since PSU is a green team, but they went all- green for the third year in a row for non-conference. Under Dan Lanning, the Ducks are 2-2 in this set. Oregon has gone all-green in every modern season except 2023, 2020, 2016, and 2012, going back to 2002 whnen their green was black/green.

 

Week 2: September 12, 2026

An away game at an orange-and-black OSU...but this time in Stillwater, Oklahoma for Oklahoma State. The Ducks dominated the Cowboys last year at home, but with their tough week 1 victory and new personnel in Stillwater, it looks to be a more competitive game?

Green-White-Green on the road for the 8th year in a row. Green helmet with white facemask and O for first time ever. I personally wish that with the white throwback jersey they had used yellow accents on helmet.

 

Week 1: September 5, 2026 vs. Boise St.

The Ducks open the season vs. Boise State the same way they did last year with a classic yellow/green/yellow combo. This time with green O, instead of wings, which appears to be first ever for this exact helmet.

This is the fifth time they have done this combo in the 4 years since they brought back the throwback yellow and apple green.

Duck fan color schedule update

An update to my initial thoughts on the schedule from January, now that they have put out the fan color schedule:

 

Boise stripeout: hopefully we get green/yellow uniform since I bet BSU will go all-white.

 

At OKST. Hopefully Cowboys wear lots of orange and black this time, and the Ducks wear green and yellow.

 

PSU-Fans wearing green against a team who has green as school color? Kinda weird, whne they could have done fan yellow??

 

At USC, another clue that Ducks go stormtrooper!

 

Back home vs Bruins: Black? in October? Hmmm?

 

Nebraska: Fans in green against a red team? Very Christmassy! 

 

At Illinois in the fall. A good yellow and orange matchup.

 

Halloween at home-you know they will do a blackout!! but against a team who wears a fair bit of black?

 

At Ohio State-a retread of their last game there please! Another green/red fan duel.

 

Michigan at Autzen. Please be classic combos here!!!

 

At Michigan State. Hopefully Spartans go all-green and the Ducks go yellow and white!

 

Home vs Huskies. Gotta be classic uniforms, but fan color of black makes me worried about gimmicky black uniforms?