Pac All-star Uniform team

With the regular season wrapped up, I thought it would be nice to show you MY favorite single-game looks for each of the 12 teams in 2022. The order is alphabetical by division, so no judgement ranking. (You can check out my ranking of the teams from preseason here) Some of these looks might not have been the best visual matchup with their opponent that day, but rounding those up is another list. In general color is going to be better than white or mono, so in all cases I picked a home look with alternating school colors for these teams, and tradition almost always trumps innovation so my favorites tend to be classic.

California

IMHO, Cal's normal uniforms rely on a too much of a too-dark navy blue (helmet and jersey), so my favorite looks this season were their two throwback sets that utilize a possibly? lighter navy and bright blue and more even use of yellow. The Big Game set and/or Joe Roth set should be their normal uniform.

Pac-12 Championship: Dec 2, 2022

With Oregon losing to OSU and Washington beating WSU, the Utes filled the second spot in Las Vegas, after a convoluted tiebreaker between UO, UW, UU. 

A battle of the two teams that use "red" the best in the Pac-12. But too bad Utah did not go with black helmets to contrast more with USC. 

Interestingly, this is the first year that the North/South divisions were not used to seed the the game. So Washington lost out again ( in 2020 they had Covid). Ironically the North had been dominant in winning the game the last decade, but this year it's two South teams playing.

Week 13: November 25-26, 2022

Rivalry week in the Pac! (with the non-conference rivalries USC/ND and Stanford/BYU)  Oregon vs Oregon State was color-on-color—an exact repeat of last season. ASU went traditional with 1990s-era gold pants and a gold helmet with Sparky on it. WSU went all-crimson vs all-white UW. Colorado vs Utah was a black vs white. The only unique set was Cal's Joe Roth throwback.

Week 12: November 19, 2022

The 125th "Big Game" and 40th anniversary of the "The Play" Cal vs. Stanford produced a real nice Cal faux-back that included a yellow helmet, simplified shoulder stripes and "Ax" logo instead of Cal logo. This is my favorite look for Cal so far this season and I'd suggest they go with this look for all their home games, instead the of the too-heavy use of navy blue. Stanford, without fanfare, pulled out their 1970s retro helmets and pants from last season. My only quibble is that if Stanford was trying to replicate the 1982 game they almost got there but needed a larger S logo...and Cal wore blue helmts in 1982.

Utah pulled out its all white throwbacks against Oregon, who wore a rare green and white combo.

ASU went about as mono-yellow as they have in a longtime with an extra sunny combo.

Week 11: November 12, 2022

With it being Veteran's Day weekend we usually see militariana on uniforms. But the Beavers seem to the be the only one, and they only went with a very subtle white and gray camo pattern in the beaver logo. Oregon vs. Washington was a rare color on color.

Week 10: November 5, 2022

Even with the rather drab Ducks going black(ish)-and-white with the Buffalos being gold/black, the rest of the Pac had a good mix of color and contrast: Cal in their Joe Roth throwbacks against USC was a nice red/blue/yellow matchup; Stanford did its almost-annual blackout game against WSU. OSU/UW could have been prettier with more orange for Beavers. ASU went mono-maroon with the Pat Tillman shield camo stickers.