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The Worst College Football Uniforms Of All Time, Non-Oregon Edition

Posted Jun 05, 2007 4:10PM By Brian Cook (RSS feed)

Filed Under: Clemson Football, Minnesota Football, Notre Dame Football, Oregon Football, Penn State Football, Brigham Young Football

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FanHouse's friends at AOL Sports are compiling a list of the worst uniforms ever. Because they're our friends and the subject matter lends itself to hilarity, we thought we'd join in the fun. So here's our look at the worst uniforms in college football history.

This is always a difficult thing for college football fans, because everyone knows that Oregon is the be-all and end-all of hideous uniforms. They've been rocking their day-glo green and yellow combinations for decades, mixing in smatterings of black, white and truck-bed gray whenever the mood strikes them, which is constantly. There's no debate: Oregon has the worst uniforms in college football and probably in the entirety of sport. So, yeah. Brian Grummell highlighted five of the ugliest Oregon unis of all time in a separate post. The rest of the world is just trying to finish second.

You may notice that many of these "worst uniforms of all time" are recent creations. There is a simple reason for this and it resides in Oregon: Nike.

Dishonorable Mention: Penn State. What? Penn State? Yes. It's no coincidence that uncommitted recruits in EA's NCAA series have helmets that look like PSU's, as Penn State's uniform is really more of an absence of style than anything else. What one perceives as clean, classic, and unadorned is just boring to another. The kicker: you can trace the irritating trend of teams removing names from the back of their uniforms, thus confusing onlookers as to just who the hell is who on your newly "unified" team full of team players who play on a team right back to the Nittany Lion getups. While the PSU uniforms don't rise to the level of horror the following do, they're always amongst the most overrated uniforms in college.

5. The Nike One-Shoulder Look. This can't be blamed on one team. Rather, these hideous creations are the fault of Nike's phantasmagoric uniform torture lab, which decided it would be really cool to make some football teams look like stormtroopers.



Miami, Virginia Tech, and a few others obliged; the results were eye-melting. Though these are legendarily ugly, points are taken off because they were a one-time stunt.


4. BYU Wanna Cookie, Must Finish Sippy Cup To Get It. College football players have a reputation as being large, immature people who may be more boy than man, but this is taking it a bit far:



Unless you're really into lobster or two years old, a bib is never a good look.

3. We're Green Beer. Notre Dame's blue and gold is an iconic combination. Though many hate the Irish, none can seriously claim that they don't look good whilst getting whomped on whenever they play real competition. Unless, of course, it's a game so big Notre Dame busts out these monstrosities:



Gold helmets, gold pants, gold numbers, and green jerseys. Bleah. And it's not like the lucky charms -- they're always after me green jerseys -- actually work. Whenever the Irish have donned the green jerseys the past couple decades they've lost in them. It got so bad that last year ND broke them out against Army to break the hex.

2. "M" is for "Minnesota"; the other "M" is for "aaaargh my eyes".



Assuming the Ms on the helmet and pants are symmetrical, that means there are a grand total of six of the ugly slanted Minnesota Ms on this abomination. Yuck.

1. Clemson Would Like To Share A Song. Clemson hadn't rocked all purple since the 1930s until last year against Georgia Tech, and while the end result of their experiment was a big win over the then ACC leaders, they did not look maaaaahvelous:



Popsicle? Or Barney wannabes? Either way, these should come with a biohazard warning.

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