Week 12: November 18, 2023

The California schools played their rivals this weekend. UCLA-USC was color on color as is tradition of late. Cal wore its kinda-sorta throwback Roth C logo helmet with normal road combo. IMHO, Rivalry Week should be color-on-color in most PAC-12 matchups. and Cal-Stanford has a good color combo so it's a shame Cal went for white jerseys. 

Arizona wore its annual military appreciation uniform with gray camo numbers and shoulder panels and played like the #2-3 team in the Pac-12! ASU also went for military appreciation, but much more subtle with camo Pat Tillman logo and stripe on the helmet, in looking like the bottom of the Pac.

In the final Pac-12 games in OSU's Reser Stadium and WSU's Martin Stadium, both teams went dark and brooding. Washington State—in a winning battle for the bottom of the Pac— vs. Colorado opted for all-anthracite gray with special WAZZU wordmark helmet. Colorado went mono-white. Oregon State—in a HUGE top-10 game—vs. Washignton wore all black.

Week 11: November 11, 2023

Being Veterans' Day, it is surprising that more teams did not display military pride or flags as they have in the past. Colorado inserted a flag into their logo and wore all gray and black. Oregon State inserted gray camo into their numbers and beaver logo. Arizona teased a military look early in the season but are saving it for next week's home game. Utah went with their well-worn throwback uniforms for the 3rd time this season.

Week 10: November 4, 2023

 

Week 9: October 28, 2023

All 12 teams were back in action. You know it's the Saturday before Halloween by the increase in black and other "scary" hijinks and a few "costumes." 

ASU had teased a black & glow-in-the-dark "Ghost Story" uniform earlier in the season, but this weekend's later start and Halloween, make it more appropriate.

Oregon, did all the black it could for being a road team with its rather drab black helmets and black pants.

Even Stanford got into the act, with their second BFBS set of the season, but this time with a "twist" of e white helemt with black logo and red chrome stripe. Oh Cardinal, you are so daring! 

Across the Bay, Cal also threw in a "twist" by  kinda-sorta pulling out its now-annual Joe Roth throwback— It mixed old with new by pairing the Roth-style C lozenge logo and stripe on the helmet, with its normal navy jersey and gold pants. But the twist is that it used a current helmet that has the modern brighter yellow and darker blue instead of the cheerier Roth blue/gold.

Utah brought out a new hand-painted helmet with a "MUSS"  Mighty Utah Student Section theme. 

UCLA—also riding the throwback bandwagon during Homecoming honored its 1954 national championship team (why in 2023 and not 2024??) with very plain powder blue jerseys, and plain gold helmets and pants. All the shades seem to be 25% less saturated than the current blue and gold. Of note is that number font is back to UCLA's serif font which they have used some sort of font every few years.

Colorado—in LaLa land wore a classy black helmet and mono white with shiny gold details. Looked quite nice with UCLA's classy

Week 8: October 21, 2023

Four teams off this week, but some good uniforms nevertheless! Three specials and three "stormtroopers."

It just so happens that the top 3 teams in the standings (UO, UW, USC) are home and the visitors (WSU, SU, UU) are coming to play in all white! Top that off with Washington's "Husky Royalty" all-purple with chrome-purple helmet and shiny gold accents. And Oregon wearing their 1994/2014 throwbacks (click for my dedicated post on those) and Utah wearing its well-worn throwbacks.

Week 7: October 14, 2023

The entire Pac-12 North was mono color! Ducks broke out the eggshell again and OSU wore retro Benny Beaver helmets and Utah wore the native american inspired pattern U.

Week 6: October 7, 2023

Four teams off this week and the rest all pretty ordinary. Colorado appears to have made the gold on their helmet shinier and the black glossier.