Week 2: September 10, 2022

Last weekend was a great uniform worn in a horrible game. It will be interesting to see what becomes of the mono-apple green in the future. 

This weekend the Ducks break out the yellow and black. This appears to be the first use of yellow helmet with solid black wings and facemask. And this exact combo is being used for the first time. There was the loss to Boise State in 2008 that used the dreaded "grellow" helmet which was kinda yellow but also had lots of dark green parts. 

It feels like yellow and black have been common the last decade or so, but this is only the second time since 2017, because Mario Cristobal used Nightmare Green instead of black most often. Almost always when the Ducks where a yellow helmet is is in a mono-yellow set or non-yellow jersey.

Week 1: September 3, 2022

The Dan Lanning era kicked (literaly since they only scored a FG) off with this all-apple green combo against a dominant Georgia in Atlanta. Being a special kickoff game the teams went color-on-color. It was like Christmas (but no gifts for the Ducks) in September! 

The yellow facemasks appear to be a new addition to the green helmets, as I can't find any green helmets in Duck history with yellow facemasks. And the only yellow mask on non-yellow helmet I could find was 2016 with black helmet and angry duck decal. 

They last went mono-apple green in last year's game against Oregon State. Their most famous use of this combo was in the Mariota Rose Bowl victory against Florida State in 2015. 

What to wear

I'm a bit late, but this is what the UO says to wear to each game this season, which might give some clue about the player's uniforms? Doubt the Ducks are wearing green jerseys in away games against Georgia, Cal and Colorado, but who knows about pink vs UCLA? 

Duck uniforms in Big Games

Only 10 days until the big game with Georgia and we are still wondering what the Ducks will wear!

I've done several blog posts on their big game attire over the years:

Wearing white helmets in big games

The Curse of Grey pants

Unlucky uniforms 2015-2019

Unlucky uniforms 2009-2015

2022 Duck Schedule

 

Alamo Bowl, Dec. 29, 2021

The Ducks donned green/white/white in their bowl. This combo was last worn in a victory in 2020, but previous to that it had been relatively unlucky in the several times they have worn it in the last decade. While they did not wear their apple green helmets until the last few games of the season, they ended up wearing it three times, matching the three times for black, white, and yellow helmets.

Pac 12 Championship, Dec. 3, 2021

Nightmare Green helmet and pants paired with the Eggshell jersey from the UCLA game. The Ducks have not worn this generalized combo since a loss to Auburn in game 1 of 2019. But Nightmare Green has been relatively good to Oregon the other 2019 games they wore the color.