Getting ready for 2016 season

Its been a pretty quiet offseason for Duck uniforms. But here are some interesting notes:

Oregon is a hit amongst the kids...

A fun May 2016 poll of 100 high school football recruits resulted in Oregon being named the "best uniform" and Alabama being voted "worst" Granted, this was not very scientific, but the results certainly show the "traditional" uniforms being voted down and the non-traditional ones being voted up.  A weird crossover is that Maryland got voted 4th Best and 3rd Worst. While Oregon has had 18 years to figure out their uniform craze, many of the schools like UMd are new at the whole thing.

From http://picksixpreviews.com/fashion-wars.html

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But not with the adults...

According to CBC Sports' Tom Fornelli , Oregon is only the 7th best uniform in the Pac! and that Oregon State is #2. Oh boy!
http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/ranking-the-pac-12s-best-and-worst-football-uniforms/

Preview of the fall season?

In July at Pac-12 media days, Oregon tweeted out some pics of a dark gray ensemble that appears to be a version of the Alamo Bowl uniform (similar shoulder affect and same new font)

Spring Game 2016 Throwbacks

In Saturday's Spring game, the Ducks are looking far back for inspiration. All the way back to 1916-17 Rose Bowl year.  I'll let GoDucks explain more....

http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=500&ATCLID=210922832

My favorite part is that the lyrics to the fight song are on the sleeve stripes. Not grooving on the Cal Bears color scheme, though!


Here's a picture from Jan 1, 1917. Unfortunately it's in BW, so I can't really comment how close the new throwback uniforms are a match:-)

Alamo Bowl: Jan. 2, 2016

As is often the case, Oregon treated the fans to some reworked uniforms for their bowl game. This time, Oregon went a standard route of mostly white/grey uniforms which have caused some trouble in the past and often been a harbinger of loss. This time the jersey got a makeover with slightly reworked number font, almost-invisible shoulder "wing" pattern. The helmet appears to be a reprise of their "Galaxy-white" helmets but with a  new beveled O sticker. While not quite as bad as their "grellow" helmets in the the Las Vegas bowl loss to BYU a few years back, the way they lost to TCU will certainly put many fans off this look for a while. (Much like the "Pioneer" uniforms will probably never resurface after they lost badly in them this year)

Looking back at Oregon Uniforms in 2015

A photo tour of the last season's uniforms! from the International Business Times:

http://www.ibtimes.com/oregon-ducks-football-uniforms-2015-complete-list-pictures-team-season-2245583

Week 13: Nov. 27, 2015

Green and Yellow, Finally!

It seems like the Ducks have been pretty coy with their uniform reveals this year (at least compared to the past, or other teams this year who tweet it out on Monday) Only twice have they made a big deal and announced a uniform multiple days before the game. The other time this year was kind of a mixed bag visually a major mixed bag score-wise! (WSU game loss)

I've been hoping that the Ducks would put green and yellow together all season, and the Civil War is usually when they do it. They've worn a fair amount of green/white and yellow/black (you'd think that they were an NFL team from Pennsylvania. But this week is the first true school color combo of the year.

And this week's helmet is another "new" one with a flying duck coming over the top. They have hinted at this helmet look and military look with their Spring games of late. Click here for Spring game pics.

Here are some artsy pics from GoDuck.com, which look like they were photographed during a forest fire (they did the same thing with the Pioneer uniform photoshoot)

Apparently this is supposed to honor the fact that Oregon was the 33rd state, but the Pioneer one was doing that already I thought? While most uses of camo in football uniforms look tacky, at least this seems somewhat tasteful and using a school color! Looks more like a Minecraft glitch than real camo, but that's ok, I guess.

According to GoDucks.com:

"The Oregon 33 uniform takes a futuristic spin on a traditional camouflage with a unique pattern on the jersey, expressing Oregon’s forward-thinking approach and innovative style of play. The pattern contains different geometric shapes than a classic camo, using multiple shades of green."

 I'd have loved to see a "normal" yellow helmet with green O, but otherwise I think this uniform is pretty strong and leaves out a bunch of extra fluff so the camp pattern can be the "star"  In person these will probably look better than the hazy photos presented.

Week 12: Nov. 21, 2015

This was the first total blackout for Oregon this season (and the first since last year's Stanford game), and it came against an opponent that Oregon likes to wear the "ninja" look against: USC. They beat USC at home in 2011 in all back.

And the mojo worked again. And again this uniform combo is not a repeat of any other week and even the helmet is the 11th different helmet—barely—since it had two "Angry Ducks" rather than just one as in week 3. Now having appeared at least once on five helmets, ties it for the most common decal this season with the O.