Unveiling the sport's latest alternate uniforms and helmet options.
Brad Crawford
College football's 2024 season feature more than three dozen teams debuting new uniforms or helmets this season, including updated templates or one-off alternates. The look good, feel good, play good mantra coined by Deion Sanders should ring true for several programs inside this week's preseason AP Top 25 rankings including a couple playoff hopefuls from the SEC and Group of Five ranks.
Extrapoints go to teams who took the subtle, more simplistic approach and allowed Nike, Adidas or Under Armour to do their thing to the highest degree without completely changing already impressive uniforms looks.
Programsnot included in this ranking of new helmets and uniforms that will feature updated threads this season include Appalachian State, Arizona, Arkansas State, BYU, Bowling Green, Cal, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana, Miami (Ohio), Middle Tennessee, Minnesota, North Texas, Oklahoma, Oregon State, Purdue, Rice, TCU, Tulsa, UAB, ULM, UMass, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, West Virginia, WKU and Wyoming.
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Here's a glance at 10 new uniform or helmets that are cause for excitement.
10. Baylor Bears
New Baylor uniforms. pic.twitter.com/wDYdu2J78g
— FB_Helmet_Guy (@FB_Helmet_Guy) May 28, 2024
Sixty-four different uniform combinations. Baylor's official release earlier this summer indicated the Bears have a nearly unlimited amount of options moving forward with this uniform change. We're still going to the four recognizable colors associated with this program — green, white, gold and black. And whether the Bears go monochromatic or mix it up a bit, these look good. However, are they all that different from previous iterations?
9. Boise State Broncos
— Jay Tust (@KTVBSportsGuy) July 9, 2024The new uniforms are very similar to the old uniforms, so here is what’s different…
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2️⃣ The Broncos script featured on the pants is slightly larger and longer.
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Boise State made subtle changes to its Nike uniforms this season, redesigning the template just a bit for this fresh look. Blue, orange, white and black are all options for the Broncos, who have a variety of different contrasting combinations to choose from. The early-season game at Oregon, aesthetically-speaking, should look terrific.
8. Iowa State Cyclones
Iowa State’s new uniforms just dropped. Which one is your favorite? pic.twitter.com/gR4XOnnLGy
— Iowa Chill (@IowaChill) May 2, 2024
The Cyclones will have three helmet colors this season, along with three different jerseys and pants — white, red and black. The black alternates are different. There's no hint of red or gold anywhere in the uniform. What do uniform gurus think of this approach?
7. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Notre Dame 2024 Shamrock Series uniforms.
— FB_Helmet_Guy (@FB_Helmet_Guy) July 25, 2024
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Notre Dame's Shamrock Series alternate this season is quite unique. Not only are the Gothic-style numerals in flashy gold, but the blue-gray color mix of a uniform is supposed tobe inspired by legendary sports writer Grantland Rice’s famous lead from a game at the Polo Grounds featuring the Fighting Irish in 1924 — 100 years ago.
6. Miami Hurricanes
— Miami Hurricanes Football (@CanesFootball) July 10, 2024
TheMiami Hurricanesare going retro with their new 2024 uniforms from Adidas, a nod to the power era of "The U" asMario Cristobalpreps for his third seasonwith his best roster to date. Miami unveiled its revised threads this summerwith a video shot on the practice fields in Coral Gables featuring several looks, including green, white and orange jerseys with corresponding pants.This season'sversion of the annual "Miami Nights"alternate look is all-black with orange accents.
5. Tennessee Volunteers
— Tennessee Football (@Vol_Football) July 13, 2024The next iteration in the Smokey Grey Series …
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Tennessee has updated its popular "Smokey Grey" alternate uniforms this season as a "Volunteer State" edition, the second concept since these first debuted in 2022.The main changes to the uniform are an orange version of the flag's emblem on the side of the shoulders and a bold "Tennessee" across the front above the jersey numbers. The Vols tout the uniform as "an ode to the state and Tennessee's status as the flagship university."
4. Texas Tech Red Raiders
— Jake “JBOY” Crain (@JakeCrain_) July 1, 2024Texas Tech’s new uniforms are perfect @JoeyMcGuireTTU
Adidas is going retro this season with Texas Tech's updated look. "RED RAIDERS" will be across red alternate jerseys, while "TEXAS TECH" has been stamped across the white road and home black options. Tackle-twill numerals and lettering gives these a true throwback appearance. We love them.
3. Ole Miss Rebels
Introducing our New White Uniforms ?#DripInTheSip | #HottyToddy pic.twitter.com/Kbp1ARknQx
— Ole Miss Football (@OleMissFB) June 24, 2024
Per Inside The Rebels,Ole Miss' latest addition to their game day wardrobe is a combination that will feature a white helmet (2021 Sugar Bowl), white jerseys and white pants. Another helmet seen with the new combination has been a powder blue helmet. The slick part of the uniform are the powder blue numbers and stripes. Ole Miss'newest white uniforms feature Nike's 'Vapor F.U.S.E.' template.
2. Liberty Flames
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— Liberty Football (@LibertyFootball) July 24, 2024
After an unbeaten regular season last fall under Jamey Chadwell, Liberty is going to look the part as one of the Group of Five's playoff leaders this fall. Not only is the program incorporating "FLAMES" in cursive across its alternate helmet options and jerseys, but Liberty took the minimalist approach with its updated jerseys and pants, too. In this case, simple is better.
1. Oregon Ducks
"Fly Era" taking off.#GoDucks pic.twitter.com/aQgzAX0lY7
— Oregon Football (@oregonfootball) June 26, 2024
Oregon's new 'Fly Era' Generation O combinations this season are impressive. They'll include an updated black alternate with silver and kelly green accents, a "Mighty O" green and yellow ensemble and various other options. As usual, Oregon's new looks are a home run.
