Week 9: October 29, 2022

It's Halloween weekend in the Pac-12, but most teams kept their "costumes" at home, but the matchups were prettier than normal with good complementary colors and contrast between dark and light. Nothing wildly dramatic except a few "mono-dark" getups from Colorado, Cal and Arizona. And the only real new element was the WSU "Wazzu" script on their helmet. It seems to be a faux-back since I cannot find reference to it on historic helmet sites—while they have worn a "Cougars" script many times, this appears to be new. Utah wore their handpainted helmets from 2 weeks ago again.

Week 8: October 22, 2022

A third of the Pac was on bye this week, but several teams brought out new uniforms: Washington trotted out their "Husky Royalty" set that was announced as a road-only uniform and is an all-white look with shiny gold numbers and stripes paired with the chrome gold helmets. They debuted these at Cal, which seems a bit down-market for such "Royalty"since they play away games at Oregon and WSU which seem like more natural spotlights and bigger games. Speaking of Oregon, the Ducks wore their Stomp Out Cancer blackout with pink details. OSU/CU was a rather bland black-fest wince the Buffs opted to wear their black hats and pants against mono-black Beavers. Cal wore its best IMHO set with the yellow jersey for the first time this season.

Week 7: October 15, 2022

Three Pac teams are on bye this week, but some more interesting helmets did pop up this weekend. The Utah Utes honored late players Aaron Lowe and Ty Jordan with custom hand-painted helmets showing one of the players on each side. The Beavers pulled out retro Bucky Beaver on their helmets to go with mono-orange.

Week 6: October 8, 2022

We are at the midpoint of the season and no unique or alternate sets have been worn by the Pac-12 this season. (Utah's annual throwbacks not counted) 

ASU started the one-off train with their "Sunrise" uniform vs. UW. It's a sandy tan base uniform—much like a military-inspired set from several years back—paired with retro-inspired Sun Devils script. IMHO the look might have sounded good but kinda falls flat with its too lemony yellow numbers and hard-to-read script paired with gradient.  Funny thing is it forced UW to wear its home purple jerseys (with rare white pants) in the afternoon Arizona heat! 

Oregon also went outside the box with a repeat of their "eggshell" AKA "Cookies-n-Cream" or "bird poop" uniform that debuted in this exact combo last season at UCLA. I'm not  fan of this look either. 

Utah wore an oddly-rare combo with a "standard" black helmet with the "normal" feather-drum logo. In the years that I have been tracking the Pac they typically wear black helmets with non-standard  logos with chrome or native patterns. This is a good look for the Utes who tend to lean heavier on red than black.

Week 5: October 1, 2022

Week two of conference play brings a pretty normal slate of uniforms. Utah brings back its annual throwback, for the second time this year already. The Utes wore the road version in week 1. Oregon trots out a rare combination that they have surprisingly only worn a few times in history. 7 of the 12 went with same color jersey and pants.