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College football Week 11 uniforms: Texas at LSU, Utah at Arizona, USC at Indiana, and Marshall's Play For The 75 against App State. Every announced look, every Top 25 game and what each team is expected to wear.
ExplainedCollege colors are older than almost everything else on a college football uniform. Most were picked in the 1880s and 1890s, usually by a handful of students who needed something to wave at a game or pin to a commencement program. Nobody hired a designer. One school took its colors from a flower on campus. One bought out a store's Carnival ribbon. One took them off a teammate's necktie, and another pulled them off a classmate's neck at
College football Week 10 uniforms: Tennessee wears its all-black Dark Mode against Kentucky, Florida goes all blue against Oklahoma, and Miami visits Notre Dame, Alabama visits LSU and Oregon visits Ohio State. Every announced look, every Top 25 game and what each team is expected to wear.
Iowa wears the black jersey with gold pants at Kinnick Stadium and the white jersey with gold pants on the road, under the same black Tigerhawk helmet every week. That is the Iowa football uniform in one sentence, and it covers almost every Saturday. The exceptions so far in 2026 were the all-black nights: the Cy-Hawk game, where the Hawkeyes beat Iowa State 16-13, and the October 3 loss to Ohio State. This is the full Iowa 2026 uniform
Michigan State wears green at home and white on the road, but the Spartans reveal a new helmet, jersey and pants combination almost every week, so the base colors are only half the answer. This is the full Michigan State 2026 uniform schedule: the green home set, the white road set, the Greek key helmets, the black alternate, and a week-by-week outlook for all twelve games in Pat Fitzgerald's first season. Six games in, the Spartans hav
Michigan's wardrobe is the least complicated in college football and that is entirely the point. This is the full Michigan 2026 uniform schedule: the navy home set, the white road set, the winged helmet that never comes off, and a week-by-week outlook for all twelve games. We update this page as each combination is confirmed. Update, October 24: Michigan wore the maize winged helmet, navy jersey and navy pants it posted as "Saturday's T
Minnesota plays its colors straight: maroon, gold and white, mixed and matched across helmet, jersey and pants. This is the full Minnesota Gophers 2026 uniform schedule: the maroon home set, the gold jersey that came out for the Gold Out, the white road set, the chrome gold helmet that is back for 2026, and a week-by-week outlook for all twelve games in P.J. Fleck's tenth season. Through four games the Gophers have worn maroon over gold
Northwestern ran through ten different uniform combinations last season, so "purple at home, white on the road" only gets you halfway. This is the full Northwestern 2026 uniform schedule: the purple home set, the white road set, the black Gothics, the brand new Purple Gothics alternate that has a debut date already circled, and a week-by-week outlook for all twelve games. The season also splits across two stadiums, because the new Ryan
Penn State wears the most deliberately plain uniform in college football: a white helmet with one navy stripe, no logo, and no name on the back of the jersey. This is the full Penn State 2026 uniform schedule, week by week. We update this page as each combination is confirmed. The no-names rule is the part people ask about. Penn State leaves the back of the jersey blank on purpose, the argument being that the team matters more than the
Rutgers keeps its base look simple and saves the surprises for the nights that mean something. This is the full Rutgers 2026 uniform schedule: the scarlet home set, the white road set, the white 9/11 tribute helmet that already made its appearance at Boston College, the all-black Blackout set, and a week-by-week outlook for all twelve games. Five games in, the Scarlet Knights have worn three different helmets. We update this page as eac
UCLA wears its powder blue jersey at the Rose Bowl and white on the road, both under a metallic gold helmet and almost always with gold pants. That is the short answer. This is the full UCLA 2026 uniform schedule: the blue home set, the white road set, the 1954 throwback the Bruins have pulled out once a season for three years running, and a week-by-week outlook for all twelve games of Bob Chesney's first season. Two games are in the bo
Washington has worn the gold helmet in five of six games in 2026: purple over gold pants in the Apple Cup win over Washington State and the 16-14 escape against Utah State, purple over white pants against Eastern Washington, white over white pants in the 25-21 loss at USC, and all purple in the 41-24 loss to Iowa. The all-black Dawgs alternate came out once, for the Minnesota blackout. This is the full Washington Huskies 2026 uniform sc
Wisconsin opened 2026 in a uniform the program had never worn before, and then went straight back to one of the most settled wardrobes in the Big Ten. This is the full Wisconsin 2026 uniform schedule: the red home set, the white road set, the white Motion W helmet that goes with both, the all-red Lambeau Field alternate that already came and went, the Red Out with the red helmet for Homecoming against Michigan State, and a week-by-week
Illinois has three jersey colors, a rack of orange helmets and a navy one, and a home crowd that picks a color theme for the big games. This is the full Illinois 2026 uniform schedule: the navy home set, the white road set, the orange alternate, the helmets, and a week-by-week outlook for all twelve games in Bret Bielema's sixth season. Six games in, the Fighting Illini are 3-3: navy over orange in all three early home games, with a pat
Nebraska wears scarlet at home, white on the road, and the white helmet with the red Block N every week but one. The exception is October 31, when the Huskers put on a brand-new black alternate with a black helmet and a metallic red Huskers script for the second Blackout game, against Washington. This is the full Nebraska 2026 uniform schedule: the redesigned home and road sets that debuted this fall, the black alternate, and a week-by-
Wondering what jersey Ohio State is wearing this week? This is the full Ohio State 2026 uniform schedule, game by game, plus the home dates where an alternate is most likely to show up. Big Ten programs confirm most combinations in game week, so we update this page as each one lands. Ohio State runs one of the most disciplined wardrobes in college football, and the helmet is the reason people care.
Update, November 5: Oregon's uniform for Ohio State is Mummy Mode 2.0: a dark chrome helmet with a chrome facemask, a white jersey with black chrome numbers and a charcoal and silver feather pattern on the shoulders, and black pants, posted by the team Wednesday night. That replaces the yellow, green and yellow we had from Monday's game-week graphic. Update, October 28: Oregon will wear a matte black helmet with white wings, a black jer
Oregon wears Mummy Mode 2.0 at Ohio State on Saturday, November 7: a chrome helmet with a chrome facemask, a white jersey with black chrome numbers and silver feather trim, black pants and white socks. What the original Mummy Mode was, how 2.0 is different, what Ohio State wears, kickoff time and our grade.
USC opened in Week 0, which put the Trojans on the field before almost everybody, and through nine games the Trojans are 7-2. This is the full USC 2026 uniform schedule: the cardinal home set, the white road set, gold pants with both, and a week-by-week outlook for all twelve games. We update this page as each combination is confirmed. Update, November 4: USC wore a cardinal helmet and cardinal jersey at the Coliseum on October 31 and s
College football Halloween uniforms for Week 9: Nebraska's new black alternate debuts against Washington, Syracuse puts Otto on the helmet, BYU goes all navy, UCF wears its Space Game set, Navy brings out its 1926 throwback against Notre Dame, Northwestern goes all white at Oregon and TCU blacks out against Kansas. Every announced look and every Top 25 game.
What if every college football team ditched its current uniform and wore its throwback every Saturday? UCLA, Florida, Arizona State, Missouri, Kentucky and North Carolina get better. Oregon, Tennessee, LSU, USC, Oklahoma and Navy get worse. Ohio State already did it, and Alabama, Penn State and Texas have nothing to throw back to.
Maryland opened 2026 in red at home and white on the road, and the first special look of the season has already come and gone: the new "Los Terps" helmet, worn against Virginia Tech on September 19, which Maryland says makes it one of the first college football programs to put Spanish on a helmet. This is the full Maryland 2026 uniform schedule: the Script Terps sets, the alternates in the Under Armour closet, and a week-by-week outlook
Update, October 24/25: Every game below now has its final score, plus what each team actually wore wherever we could confirm it from the school's own posts and game photos. The big results: Miami won 52-23 in the 2001 Tribute, UCF beat No. 2 BYU 39-31 in double overtime in its all black Drip U set, Illinois beat Oregon 21-10 in the military appreciation helmet with a navy jersey and orange pants, and Arizona State finished its eclipse l
Indiana is the defending national champion and it is defending the title in the plainest uniform in the Big Ten. Two jerseys, one pair of pants for each, no alternate jerseys, and until October 3 a single helmet. This is the full Indiana 2026 uniform schedule: the crimson home set, the white road set that says HOOSIERS instead of INDIANA, the crimson helmet that goes with both, the white helmet that showed up at Rutgers, and a week-by-w
College·Updated Oct 23, 2026Where every Power 4 college football nickname came from, all 68. A land-grab cheat, a $5 cheer contest, a cartoonist's alley cat, a pun on a fullback's name, a forgotten fight song and a word nobody can define. Plus which names started as insults.
Week 7 of the 2026 college football season is the best uniform week of the year so far, and most of the big looks were posted before Thursday night. Cal wears a Grateful Dead helmet against No. 21 Wake Forest for its Grateful Bears game, Coastal Carolina goes full 1990s on Friday night against App State, and Oklahoma brings back its Bud Wilkinson era throwback against No. 15 Kentucky, which is wearing a black helmet and black pants of i
Week 6 of the 2026 college football season has the best set of games on the calendar so far, and three of the biggest uniforms of the year were locked in before it started. Oregon debuts its new Origin of Speed uniform against No. 21 UCLA, the Hayward Field tribute in Night Forest with Green Strike speed-streak wings. No. 3 Notre Dame wears green against Stanford for the annual Irish Wear Green game, and Florida brings out the retro hel
Purdue only has two jersey colors, but between two helmets and three pants, the Boilermakers can change the look every Saturday without ever leaving black and gold. This is the full Purdue 2026 uniform schedule: the black home jersey, the white road jersey, the old gold and black helmets, and a week-by-week outlook for all twelve games in Barry Odom's second season. Five games in, Purdue has already used both helmets. We update this pag
Week 5 of the 2026 college football season is the week the pre-announced alternates finally come out of the closet. Tennessee wears its Smokey Grey Neyland Legacy set against Auburn, the one-game centennial tribute to General Robert Neyland that the Vols revealed in August. Texas A&M wears its desert camo Honor and Support uniform against Arkansas on the day the university turns 150, and Air Force debuts its matte black B-21 Raider unif
Oregon's new Origin of Speed uniform, a Hayward Field tribute in Night Forest and Green Strike. Every hidden detail, our B grade, and when the Ducks wear it.