
Tennessee Uniform Schedule 2026: Every Jersey and When the Vols Wear It
What Tennessee wears every game in 2026, including the new Smokey Grey Neyland tribute against Auburn and orange against Alabama.
Tennessee VolunteersAll Tennessee Volunteers coverage from ColorWay Sports.
← Back to all stories
Track the Tennessee VolunteersNCAA
What Tennessee wears every game in 2026, including the new Smokey Grey Neyland tribute against Auburn and orange against Alabama.

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.
×

College·Updated Nov 11, 2026Texas A&M posted a black uniform with an Aggies script helmet decal and painted script Aggies end zones at Kyle Field this week, ahead of Tennessee's visit on Saturday at 3 p.m. Eastern on ESPN. What both look like and what we know.
College 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.

Kentucky wears all white with a chrome silver helmet at Tennessee on Saturday, against the Vols' all-black Dark Mode. We like the idea, but the helmet fights the jersey and hides the logo. Our grade: B-.


College·Updated Oct 30, 2026Tennessee men's basketball revealed its cream adidas uniform on October 30: orange 'Vols' script, double orange stripes on the collar, arms and shorts, and the adidas trefoil instead of the Nike swoosh. It debuts Tuesday, November 17, against Michigan State. Every detail and what changed from the Nike version.


College·Updated Oct 30, 2026Tennessee announced it will wear its all-black Dark Mode uniform against Kentucky at Neyland Stadium on Saturday, November 7: black helmet with the orange Power T, black jersey with orange numbers, black pants. It is the first game in the new adidas version. Every detail, the history and the game info.

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.
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

Where 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
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
Week 4 of the 2026 college football season is the first week that looks like conference play, and the uniform calls have come in early. Oregon is bringing Warp Speed to the Coliseum: a silver helmet, white jersey and white pants against USC's cardinal and gold on Saturday night. Texas is in its icy whites for its first ever trip to Knoxville, and Tennessee answered with the classic home set, white helmet, orange jersey, white pants, so
Most top teams in Week 3 of the 2026 college football season are in their standard sets: home teams in color, visitors in white. The exceptions are Texas Tech's all-black Patrick Mahomes "Let's Ride" uniform against Houston on Friday, Missouri's Memorial Stadium 100th anniversary throwback against Troy, Utah's white Ute Proud helmet against Utah State, BYU's navy-trimmed whites at Colorado State and Florida's orange pants at Auburn, all

Alabama will wear crimson and Tennessee will wear orange on October 17 at Neyland. It is the first color vs color Third Saturday in October since 1970.