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?
13. Wisconsin Game: The Oreo-look is classy, but boring. Points for matching helmet/pants. Apple wings and maybe apple numbers might be fun?
12. Ohio State Game: All-mono-black may be cool and menacing but just too dark for my taste
11. Purdue Game: Love the yellow helmet and white jersey, and I will tolerate white pants with white jersey, but would have liked green or yellow pants.
10. Washington Game: The "Raider" look was only marginly better than all-black due to semi-matching helmet/pants. But against our rival, I wanted more color.
9. Rose Bowl: The ONLY saving grace of this combo (and game) was the very nice chrome/green helmet paired with the green jersey. The matchup with scarlet OSU had a very Rose Bowl quality to it. At least they were color and didn't just wear back and chrome. BUT they need to revaluate using white pants for the very forseeable future!
8. Michigan Game: I prefer all-white to all-black and the chrome dome made for a very bright sparkly ensemble. The matchup in the sunlight against UM was really nice looking though.
7. Boise State Game: Another white pants with colored helmet game, but the green saved it. White pants not with white jerseys should be retired! Two roughest games of season they wore white pants and green jerseys. The match with bright blue and white Boise was easy to look at though.
6. Michigan State Game: I'm glad it was not solid yellow, and the Stomp Cancer is a good cause, but my least favorite of the yellow-black looks
5. Illinois Game: Bumblebee is a decent look for the Ducks, but Iowa does it better.
4. Idaho Game: Mono green is best of the mono looks in my opinion. Against the yellow and white Vandals, it was a good look.
3. UCLA Game: Classic road look with the throwbacks. Nice looking matchup!
2. Oregon State Game: Another strong road look. The Civil War has been color-on-color lately and I think that should be always. I wish OSU had worn more orange to compliment the bright white and green.
1. Maryland Game: I have no idea why this combo was used against Maryland? Ironically Maryland looked more like modern UO and Oregon looked like retro UO! This is the what the UW game should have been. OR at the least the Big-10 Championship or Rose Bowl. Maybe they were "saving this for the "Natty" that never came?
These last three games...as you can tell I like a "sandwich" look where pant-helmet match. In a traditional world, these last four sets would be pretty much the only ones they wore.
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