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:
- 14 unique combos (no repeat)
- 2 complete mono
- 6 sandwich combos (helmet/pants match)
- 5 uneven combos (2 out of 3 match)
- 1 mixed (all 3 different)
- heavy use of green in pre-conference
- almost NO green in-conference
- heavy yellow/black in-conference
- chrome/gray only after week 10
- GREEN: 10 items
- YELLOW: 8 items
- WHITE: 9 items
- BLACK: 11 items
- GRAY:1 item
- CHROME: 3 items
- No one helmet color dominated
Here is my personal ranking of their 2024-25 uniforms. As with my ranking last year I have a methodology that leans toward:
- favoring green and yellow uniforms
- like "sandwich" looks that have matching helmet/pants over ones where adjacent parts are matching
- all three elements mono is ok, but not preferred
- dislike combos that have no use of school colors
- dislike white pants paired with dark uppers/non-matching uppers
- I am not a traditionalist only, but this season the school colors were throwback
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?
