Traditional Home Uniform:
Nike Pro Combat Home Uniform (View Full Size)
The Gators have two primary home uniforms, blue on white as seen above and blue on blue. Nike decided to upgrade the blue on blue uni's. For the Pro Combat's, the traditional striping on the shoulders and pants has been removed and replaced with a small orange stripe (shoulders), and a HUGE white stripe surrounded by a small orange stripe (pants). The chest numbers are very much the same and the Gator logo has been moved from the chest to the pants.
The helmet is major change from the traditional orange helmet with script "gators" written across it. The middle stripe has been changed from blue and white to blue and orange. This is a modernized version of the helmet worn in 1966, which has been used as a throwback.
Final Judgement: The blue on blue works well for Florida and I like the modernized-throwback helmet. What I don't understand is the giant white stripe on the pants. Combined with the white stripe on the lower-back, it looks like the Gators are running downfield wearing ass-less chaps. Just because Tim Tebow might wear them in his spare time does not mean that they should be put on a pair of football pants.
LSU Tigers
Traditional Road Uniforms:
Nike Pro Combat Road Uniform (View Full Size)
A major color change here for the LSU Tiger's. Instead of wearing a goldenrod color, they're wearing a true gold color. This makes sense because their colors are purple and gold, but now they just look like Washington, which is strange. Instead of a vertical stripe, the shoulders now have a horizontal stripe, the stripe on the pants is more stylized and an L can be seen right above it. The pants have also been changed from colored to white. The helmets remain the same design, but are now true gold and have a single purple stripe instead of purple and white stripes.
Final Judgment: The true gold color is an homage to the LSU teams of the 1940's, so it's understandable why they did this, but I don't like it. This uniform says Washington to most if not all football fans in today's world. I also think that they would be better off with the traditional colored pants. I do however really like the styling of the stripes on the pants, pretty cool. Instead of having a block of white, Florida should have done something similar to this. For LSU and Nike, not bad but not great.
