1) Tennessee's all orange is horrific. Apparently the Vols didn't get the memo to enjoy all things in moderation.
2) The Akron Zips suffer from the same malady as many of their MAC counterparts, an uninspiring color scheme set against muddled graphics. Light gold and navy blue is perhaps the most overwrought scheme in college uni's, but the crappy graphics put this one over the top.
3) West Virginia's yellow ensemble. Along the lines of the Vols, the Mountaineers allow themselves too much of good thing. Did the same guy who designed the WV helmet logo also do Va. Tech?
4) Despite an otherwise agreeable look, dark green over gold is palatable, the UAB Blazers feature the worst helmet in D-I football.
The dragon looks as if he's puking up a mai tai, ruining a decent color scheme.
5) Maryland's uniform's are a problem, in that if you took the "Terps" off the helmet, they would be an unrecognizable school. Their uniforms are designed by Under Armor, which might explain the excessive piping and odd side panels. Too much going on, and fails to register a signature look.
6) Iowa State's uniforms look like the default uni on those design-your-own programs for football video games. The colors, yellow, white and red are a generic panoply that fail to inspire. I am aware that Ames, Iowa is probably not the flashiest place, but a little tweaking of the Cyclones uni's would go a long way to making Gene's recruiting job easier.
7) Toledo sports the acceptable blue and yellow combination, yet makes this list for the Calvin and Hobbes-like rocket ship on their helmets.
8) When a color-blind retiree heads out to the grocery store in an orange hat, with a purple shirt and purple shorts, it's just another day in Florida. When a college football team adopts this scheme, you know the fanaticism has exceeded all bounds of reality.
9) Bowling Green makes the list for its unique ability to mix a poor helmet logo with colors only a Hokie could love. Unable to capture brown and orange like the Cleveland Browns, BG simply looks like the leftover bin from the 70's.
10) Maybe it's the silly shoulder stripes, or the copied NFL Cardinals logo. Or maybe it's the fact they let their stadium be named after a pizza franchise, but I can't let this list go without including Louisville. Unoriginal and uninspiring, the Cards stick with a safe color scheme, but take it nowhere.
1) Tennessee's all orange is horrific. Apparently the Vols didn't get the memo to enjoy all things in moderation.
2) The Akron Zips suffer from the same malady as many of their MAC counterparts, an uninspiring color scheme set against muddled graphics. Light gold and navy blue is perhaps the most overwrought scheme in college uni's, but the crappy graphics put this one over the top.
3) West Virginia's yellow ensemble. Along the lines of the Vols, the Mountaineers allow themselves too much of good thing. Did the same guy who designed the WV helmet logo also do Va. Tech?
4) Despite an otherwise agreeable look, dark green over gold is palatable, the UAB Blazers feature the worst helmet in D-I football. The dragon looks as if he's puking up a mai tai, ruining a decent color scheme.
5) Maryland's uniform's are a problem, in that if you took the "Terps" off the helmet, they would be an unrecognizable school. Their uniforms are designed by Under Armor, which might explain the excessive piping and odd side panels. Too much going on, and fails to register a signature look.
6) Iowa State's uniforms look like the default uni on those design-your-own programs for football video games. The colors, yellow, white and red are a generic panoply that fail to inspire. I am aware that Ames, Iowa is probably not the flashiest place, but a little tweaking of the Cyclones uni's would go a long way to making Gene's recruiting job easier.
7) Toledo sports the acceptable blue and yellow combination, yet makes this list for the Calvin and Hobbes-like rocket ship on their helmets.
8) When a color-blind retiree heads out to the grocery store in an orange hat, with a purple shirt and purple shorts, it's just another day in Florida. When a college football team adopts this scheme, you know the fanaticism has exceeded all bounds of reality.
9) Bowling Green makes the list for its unique ability to mix a poor helmet logo with colors only a Hokie could love. Unable to capture brown and orange like the Cleveland Browns, BG simply looks like the leftover bin from the 70's.
10) Maybe it's the silly shoulder stripes, or the copied NFL Cardinals logo. Or maybe it's the fact they let their stadium be named after a pizza franchise, but I can't let this list go without including Louisville. Unoriginal and uninspiring, the Cards stick with a safe color scheme, but take it nowhere.
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As an Iowa Hawkeye alumni, thank you for including Iowa State. Their unis are god awful. They somehow get a bird mascot out of a Cyclones nickname. Even more dumb.
Iowa State is going to have new uniforms this fall that are basically the same as USC's, only bolder colors.
The bird is the mascot because they couldn't figure out a way to put a cyclone in a logo, so they went with a cardinal in reference to the shade of red (cardinal red) that they wear.
The University of Oregon is nowhere in the Top 10. This blogger has completely lost credibility.
AT LAST! You have TASTE! I thought you'd go after the usual,(and actually very cool and advanced) Oregon or Hawaii, but you nailed it! Tennessee's creamsicle makes me sick. Maryland mimics an actual terrapin--horribly--and the others you pick have graphic clashes and design belchs. I'd add Nebraska, because their minimal one-color scheme looks like they couldn't THINK of anything else.
Well mac g our uniforms might be ugly but we will still be kicking your ass again this year in our new uniforms. Maybe if you guys worried a little more about coaching and less about getting your players out of rape charges you could win a football game or to. ISU was the worst team in the Big 12 last year and we still beat your pathetic excuse for a D1 football team. Keep trying loser and good luck getting out of jail.
I would like to commend you for not going with Oregon. The uniforms the Ducks wear are way better than anything you listed. Well done.
all comments are appreciated, especially negative ones. as i mentioned later, oregon didn't seem to fit in the ugly crowd. they are too avant garde for the SEC, but should be commended for their innovation. when discussing college uni's there's oregon, and everyone else.
As a Tennessee fan/alum, I must agree with the point on the Creamsicle. I don't know why they keep rolling this out. We haven't won an important game in all orange, ever.
Sorry David, you're wrong. Iowa State actually used to be nicknamed the Cardinals prior to taking on the nickname, Cyclones. For some reason, they never gave up the bird though.
And yes, their unis are going to be very similar to USC's, only w/ to gold shoulder stripes and white shoes. Their road unis will also feature cardinal pants. Huge upgrades in all categories.
How can anyone make a list of the ugliest football uniforms and leave out Oregon? They have multiple combinations of ugly. You could almost get a top ten list from just their various combinations.
Hilarious comments from the ISU contingent, always so sensitive to any type of criticism leveled at your program.
And despite your new USC ripoff unis, you will still be on this list due to your incredibly idiotic helmet, with it's prominent "I-State" logo. Then again, once Pollard leaves you will probably change them for the eighth time in 15 years...
I have two additional suggestions: Minnesota (with their mugly color scheme and lame "M" logo) and Purdue with their all gold unis.
Nebraska is classic red and white, not a minimal one-color scheme. Any uniform that is all one color is awful and Cal comes to mind with their ugly uniforms along with Oregon.
Why did you leave out Oregon? As someone who lives near them and having to see those ugly uniforms almost every weekend, I feel like gagging everytime I see them. Was the person that created them blind?
If you're going to rip on my beloved Akron Zips, at least use a representative image that isn't 3 years old! The Zips are wearing blue pants these days.
I think Mississippi, Tennessee, Clemson, Oregon and Texas's all white to the ankles.
Akron's I can live with. They just have the gayest name in all of college. Zips, Ducks,and my goodness, God forbid if we need anymore Bulldogs.
Iowa States nickname/mascot before 1900 was a cardinal. After beating Northwestern in a football game a newspaper writer gave Iowa State the Cyclone nickname... refering that a cyclone came through NW's stadium and tore them apart because ISU blew out NW in that game. That is how Iowa State has a bird in their mascot and david im sorry but it isn't because of the color but im glad your on IOWA STATES side
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