If you have watched Oregon football for the past decade, you will have noticed that Oregon tends to experiment "a bit" with colors and styles. Sometimes those styles work great visually like the wings on shoulders and helmets; but sometimes they tend to be associated with bad losses/seasons. "Grellow" helmets is all you need to know!
On this blog I have already tallied what the Ducks wear during their losses since 2019:
2009-2015 losses
2015-2019 losses
Check out my spreadsheet of combos going back to 2008
But, the subject of this post (a few days after a bad loss to Cal while wearing "wolf grey") is "Are Grey Pants Cursed?" And the answer is not really. If the grey pants are worn by the likes of Marcus Mariota and LaMichael James in the Chip Kelley years pre 2015, then they are fine, but pretty much every time since 2015 they lost!
Ever since the 2009 season, when they started to wear grey they are actually 15-7! BUT, the vast majority of those wins come in the golden years of Chip Kelly when they wore a lot of grey. But in the five years since, the Ducks are 0-4 in grey pants. All four of those losses coincide with pairing grey with practically NO green/yellow.
So the takeaway is for the Ducks to be good in grey pants, they need to....have a Heisman-finalist....and/or also pair them with good amounts of yellow, green and black. Stay away from mono-grey and silver/white.
Results when Oregon has work grey/silver pants the last decade:
(Note: I did NOT include the really dark grey, that bordered on black, from 2016)
2020: Week 5 "Wolf Grey" Loss at Cal
 |
AP photo
|
2015: Week 6 Loss to Washington State "Lewis and Clark uniforms"
 |
Getty Photo
|
2015: Week 2 Loss at Michigan State
 |
| Michigan Live Photo |
2015 (2014): National Championship Loss
 |
| Pac 12 photo |
2014: Week 9 Win at Cal
 |
USA Today photo
|
2014: Week 3 Win vs Wyoming
 |
Getty photo
|
2013: Week 12 Loss at Arizona
 |
| USA Today photo |
2013: Week 2 Win at Virginia
 |
| The Daily Progress photo |
2012: Week 12 Loss vs. Stanford
 |
| Getty photo |
2012: Week 8 Win at ASU
 |
AP photo
|
2012: Week 5 Win at WSU
 |
| Getty photo |
2012: Week 3 Win vs Tennessee Tech
 |
| Getty photo |
2012: Week 2 Win vs. Fresno State
 |
| AP photo |
2011: Week 10 Win at Washington
 |
| Getty photo |
2011: Week 7 Win vs. ASU
 |
| Oregonlive.com photo |
2011: Week 2 Win vs Nevada
 |
Salt Lake Tribune photo
|
2011 (2010) National Championship Loss to Auburn
 |
AP photo
|
2010: Week 13 "Civil War" Win at OSU
 |
| Getty photo |
2010: Week 12 Win vs Arizona
 |
Getty photo
|
2010: Week 3 Win vs Portland State
 |
| Getty photo |
2010: Week 1 Win vs New Mexico
2009: Week 3 Win vs Utah
 |
Getty photo
|
No comments:
Post a Comment