Polled recruits rank Alabama's uniforms the worst in college football
While most die-hard SEC fans love the tradition and pageantry of college football, young recruits typically fall into a different category. Prospects identity more with flash, sleekness and style, thus Oregon’s many alternate uniforms that occasionally burn the eye upon viewing.
The contrast in styles between schools like Alabama and Penn State are stark between Oregon, TCU and Baylor, so it should come as no surprise that those schools landed on different spectrums of a recent poll conducted by Pick Six Previews. The post goes into great detail on their survey and is really worth checking out for any jersey/recruiting junkies.
PSP polled 100 FBS football recruits, none of which were currently committed to a school, to ask a few questions including: favorite apparel brands, uniform’s importance in their interest of a school, which school has the best uniforms and which school has the worst uniforms.
Here are the results of the last two questions:
We surveyed 100 D1 recruits about uniforms — here are the votes for Best and Worst: https://t.co/eiC13g6hNN pic.twitter.com/prM5lhX0EL
— Pick Six Previews (@PickSixPreviews) May 24, 2016
Interestingly enough, only one SEC school made the top of either category and it was Alabama with the worst uniforms in college football. This strengthens the argument that elite prospects wisely don’t consider uniform when it comes to picking a school, as Alabama has recruited the top class each of the last six years and are likely to compete for another top class this season.
While Alabama may be dominating the SEC landscape on the field, at least fans of other schools can take solace in the fact they don’t look good doing it.
Iconic? Yes
Really dull? Yes
Well if anyone could understand dull a Tennessee fan could. I mean crimson and white with numbers on the helmet and orange and white with a orange T on the helmet. I’d say they are both pretty boring.
Don’t worry, UT would be right up there with Alabama if only they were relevant.
lol, Vandy.
Vandy is an embarrassment to the SEC and football in general. Please sit down and watch Tennessee win the east, and wait for your a$$ beating come Nov. Vandy will be a nice little tune up before Atlanta. UT will be able to rest starters and still win by 4 TDs.
Yeah y’all might beat us, but at least our players, fans and coaches won’t be covered in puke orange. This article (and my comment) is about jerseys not football.
Well, honestly, how much pop can you get out of crimson and cream? Especially with the lack of a logo on the helmet. Purists may love the dress-down, team-oriented simplicity of Bama and PSU, but kids love flash. Never heard of a uniform throwing a TD or making a tackle, though.
Interesting that Maryland made both lists. You either love or hate that acid-trip combo they’ve gone to in recent years. Personally, it makes my head hurt trying to watch a Maryland game.
Crimson and Cream? Seriously? Dude thats Oklahoma. Alabama is Crimson and White.
Seriously? He wrote two paragraphs and that’s what you wanted to argue about?
Well, yeah. That was the clearly wrong part of what he wrote. I agreed with the rest. That would be like someone writing that LSU was purple and yellow.
Yes I’d agree , the dumbest thing said in the whole paragraph was Crimson and Cream. Pretty obvious that’s not the colors. Also , anyone who knew anything about SEC football would know that wasn’t the colors. A Georgia fan should really know Alabamas colors since they’ve been owned by those colors. Kinda like another team has …. team that starts with a L and ends with a U … Has a S in the middle.
Apologies to Bama fans – don’t know why it came out as cream vs white. That’s what I get for multi-tasking while writing a post. The point stands, though.
Don’t apologize, if Rocky actually went to Alabama he works for you and if he jumped on the bandwagon in ’09 he isn’t a true fan.
God, you guys are so harsh. The man made one typing mistake and we are bashing him like he has never seen watched football before. Geez
FWIW, my first UGA game was 1976 vs Bama, and pretty much every fall Saturday since then has been a holy day for me. I love my Dawgs, but I also consider myself a general CFB fan of almost the same intensity. I love talking CFB, but I refuse to be “that guy” that seems so prevalent now behind a keyboard – the one who can only criticize, berate, trash and belittle other fans, or the one who believes their team is flawless and invincible. I erred and owned up to it. Wouldn’t it be great if we saw more of that on this site, along with more respectful discussion and less vitriol?
Nah – pie in the sky. But my skin’s pretty damn thick, so I take my lumps and move on.
100, that’s a massive sample size. Now a poll of 10 college football fans to determine who really has the largest fan base.
I honestly think Oregon’s unis are butt ugly. The worst unis belong to Maryland.
While i dont think Bama’s unis are ugly, i dont think they are great either. But i still prefer the older traditional unis like Bama and Penn St over unis like Oregon and Maryland.
As an Ole Miss fan, i really like our unis. Its hard to go wrong with red, white and navy colors. But my favorite uni of all time is OM’s red tops with the powder blue helmets.
The only unis i dont care for in the sec are Mizzou, Vandy and SC.
It’s the tradition that makes Bama’s uniforms good. Remove the tradition and yeah, they’d be boring. Nothing wrong with them but nothing particularly pops on them either. Don’t have to worry about that though because they DO have the tradition and therefore they are iconic uniforms.
Its a joke that Oregon and Maryland are voted in the best. But I did laugh at Alabamas being the worst. I mean, who wants to look like a used tampon?
Bama’s uniform is not the worst, but it’s far from the best. Tennessee has the ugliest uniform in the SEC, by far.
First that’s false
2nd ugliest uniform does belong to bama and that’s an unbiased comment
Funny how an Auburn fan can think their comment about Bama is “unbiased”.
Thank you! LSU’s uniforms is not the worst either they look a hell of a lot better then Tenneesse. In my house we are not allowed to wear Orange durning football season! Roll Tide
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Ah, that’s a new one Legend. How witty.
hey man say what yall want about LSU and Tennessee, but they are my favorite 2. I know tradition is important, but how shades of ugly red/crimson/cardinal/garnet/maroon can one conference have? too many red teams in the SEC. I like what those schools have going on. The Purple and Gold is beautiful, and I think yall are jealous that Louisiana has a little color.
Hey Bulldogs, how are those black out uniforms working for you? “They’re wearing black because they’re going to a %$#$$^%$#%’ funeral.” Kirby Smart
They are 2-1 with a sugar bowl win but some fans only remember the last time I see…
I picture a bunch of hipsters with no sense of… I’ll leave that at no sense, voting in this survey.
Agree….they are FUGLY!
I guess they are too busy winning championships to worry about their “outfit.” Maybe if Oregon spent less time looking in the mirror and more time on the field they would have one by now.
What’s South carolina’s excuse
We’d rather earn one, then buy one. *Cough* Cam *cough*
Considering you’ve never earned one
Uniforms don’t win championships. Dedicated players with focus on the game rather than how they look wins championships. If a recruit picks another school based upon the uniform then Alabama don’t want him.
I call ‘shenanigans’ on this poll.
Alabama’s unis are classic & iconic. So are Penn State’s unis. Classic & iconic is not ugly.
Yes they are. Start living in the modern times no one cares about old fashioned anymore. There’s a new generation of uniforms and they look a whole lot better than boring traditional uniforms.
Well Bama has had a few number one recruiting classes recently. I guess some recruits don’t care about the look of a Uniform.