Week 5: September 28, 2024

Oregon's first official Big-10 game, and it's at the Rose Bowl against a familiar opponent (UCLA) with a historically-familiar uniform.

This game is the first appearance of the "Generation O" throwback-ish yellow and white road uniform they teased in the summer. The Ducks had previously worn the "Gang Green" green and white the first three games.

The last time the Ducks wore this combo was in the 2021 Fiesta Bowl loss to Iowa State. This combo made almost-annual appearances the last decade, but was a real staple of the road before 1998.

The last few seasons, Oregon has used the UCLA game (and Rose Bowl) for some daring new combos like Eggshell, Pink, Ohana, Nightmare Green, Chrome etc. See my post from 2023 here.

Week 3: September 14, Civil War

It's weird to see Civil War in September, but alas better here than never. 

Breaking a recent tradition of color-on-color, the Ducks play IMHO one of their best road combos. Green-white-green is a combo they have worn, mostly in winning efforts, every season since 2019. And, except in 2014 & 2018, it's made an appearance every season since 2005.

The last time Oregon wore a white jersey in the Civil War was a loss in Mark Helfrich's bad year of 2016. Ever since they have worn color. They broke the streak of the road team losing as well.

Week 2: September 7, 2024

Boise State came to town and the Ducks were really hoping for a better game than week 1, but at least it was better than their three previous losing games vs. the Broncos! They wore the same helmet (but with green facemask instead of yellow) and jersey from week 1 and added their new white pants. 

This exact combo was last worn in the 2023 Civil War victory, but that was its first appearance.

But white-green-white combos have been seen in 2022, 2021, the "Duck Mascot" inspired loss in 2016, a 2015 win, the 2014 Pac-12 Championship and the 2010 Rose Bowl loss.

IMHO I'm not  fan of white pants with all green top. I can imagine they might be saving yellow for week 3 Civil War?

Week 1: August 31, 2024

It's finally here! Real live Duck football in the Big-10! and many people didn't see it (and those who did may have wanted to look away from the really messy victory over Idaho) if they live in the Pac territory and have Comcast, but that is an other story! LOL

The Ducks going mono apple green with their new template. All new, but very familiar.

The helmet is glossy apple green with yellow O. The yellow facemask with green helmet is quite rare: the only other time I can find is the 2022 Georgia game!

Mono apple is a great combo, and thankfully it's Idaho, who hasn't beaten Oregon in 6 decades. Since the last 2 times the Ducks have gone mono-green they lost! Georgia and Oregon State in 2022. They did not wear this combo in 2023, but it's been a staple of each season in the last 10 years except for 2020.

Generation O #3: White and Yellow "The Catch" Throwback-ish

To compliment their all-green "Gang Green" set they released a few weeks ago, the Ducks are showing the road white version. 

So now they have green and yellow helmets with O on them; green and white jerseys; and green and yellow pants. Supposedly there will be 5 uniform reveals, so I'm expecting yellow jersey and some kind of all-white set.

Legendary Coach Rich Brooks explains the uniform......

According to their marketing machine these are mean to evoke the 1997 Patrick Johnson " The Catch" vs. Washington. But I kind of think it's a stretch (But don't get me wrong it's a nice uniform) The only thing this new uniform and that season's road uniform have in common is the warmer yellow helmet and white jersey with green numbers. Granted the vibe of this set is throwback, but not re-creation. All the rest is an amalgamation of other throwbacks and new elements:

• Yellow helmet with stripe and modern O. 1997 was stripe-less and had UO logo.
• White jersey with green sleeve and neck accents. Modern duckhead on sleeves. 1997 had Disney Duck and black trimmed green numbers. 
• Yellow stripe-less pants. 1997 had green pants.

The Duck/Nike team explain it more....

Generation O Uniform #2 "Gang Green"

The second uni drop happened today. See part 1 here. Supposedly they have six total? But they will need to speed it up since we only have about five weeks till opening day!

This one is called "Gang Green" and ostensibly references the the 1994-1995 season/s when they had a really good defense and went to the Rose Bowl and Cotton Bowl with Kenny Wheaton and Alex Molden. 

The hype video plays that up. 

The actual uniform is not really a throwback to that era since they already have that from last season. So it might be me being picky but I'm fine with them calling it Gang Green in a broad sense but to so intimately peg it to the 1990s seems to mix messages.  I say that because the actual uniform really calls back to Harrington/Mariota days of the last 20 years and is kind of an homage to the 2014 Mariota Rose bowl vs FSU in 2015

And even earlier in the week they teased this release with Joey and his helmet in a cute video. But that old helmet was the dark mallard green color-changing version with the first O from 1999 onwards. I personally wish they had actually brought back a dark green helmet. 

But thankfully they also released a video with the talking head designers explaing that this is a homage to multiple decades so that makes it better in my mind. 

So this new set has these features

• Apple Green colorway which is linked to Mariota days and the mono-apple is famous from the Rose Bowl game vs. FSU!
• Golden yellow that is warmer than previous lightning yellow and used in previous throwbacks
• Collegiate block numbers that are not like any non-throwback jerseys since 1998
• Helmet with O on the side, for the first time since a few stints in 2015-2017. But really a hallmark of the Joey Harrington and beyond years from 1999-2011. This appears to be glossier helmet than past apple green versions, but not like the mallard one that this pays homage to.
• The non-Disney Duck head which was introduced in the 2015 season.

Nike Oregon video documentary

Go Ducks put out a really nice 20-minute Twitter video doc on Phil Night-Nike and their relationship/history with Oregon. A must for any of us Duck watchers.

https://x.com/GoDucks/status/1805727835677417535

https://x.com/GoDucks/status/1805727835677417535