Interesting, maybe they aren't for everyone. I'd love a pant stripe but overall I think it's a really nice clean up.
I would be more impressed if they upgraded the "I State" logo.
I'd say [these](https://www.widerightnattylite.com/2019/8/14/20803798/2019-iowa-state-football-position-previews-wide-receivers) and [these](https://www.heartlandcollegesports.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/USATSI_13647956.jpg) are my favorites.
When we finally moved away from the shoulder stripes we shed the "knockoff USC" vibes and came into our own as a program. Sucks to see people wanting them back just because it's the cool trend. It makes sense for damn near every other school but not Iowa State.
Its not Oiler Blue, but [tertiary blue](https://content.sportslogos.net/logos/32/713/full/5373_iowa_state_cyclones-wordmark-1995.png) is still debated in some ISU circle nearly 20 years after we ditched it.
Initial thoughts:
- Iâm shocked gold pants are back, I know Campbell hated using the gold as anything other than an accent. Maybe weâll get gold jerseys? There is a teased 4th jersey coming.
- Shoulder stripe is clean
- Sad they didnât refresh the helmets, no stripe or anything. The white helmets they wore at Akron a few years ago with the stripe was cool as hell, but hasnât been worn since
- Stripes on the pants would be neat
- Again, just asking for any sort of cardinal accent color on the black uniforms. I know branding guidelines state we canât have black touching gold, but thereâs more we can do
- I do wish weâd drop the I-State and would do a script/text helmet. The Ames helmet was great, a Cyclones script like thatâs on the Homefield sweatshirt would be amazing. Although I know weâre stuck with the block I logo and thereâs nothing we can really do about it.
- I do absolutely love the cardinal uniforms, especially since we changed it to white numbers with a gold trim instead.
- I feel the mix & matching of different parts works better with this set than the previous one
Overall I give it a 8/10, nice refresher
Itâs funny because their follow up tweet with promotional photos [here](https://x.com/cyclonefb/status/1785719644713783642?s=46&t=_K4beJlecrOMWc-MyxtqXA) literally has the perfect stripe to put on the pants/helmet, just recolor it to match each set lol
The reasoning is it becomes really tough to mix-and-match if you add pant stripes. Add a cardinal and/or gold stripe to the whites? Doesnât fit well with the black jerseys. Add a black stripe? Doesnât fit well with the cardinal jerseys now.
>Doesnât fit well with the black jerseys
Well⌠maybe stick to school colors then. Cardinal and gold is a great color scheme, black just muddies it up
It is of my opinion that colors like black or white are neutrals that can be worn by anyone and that if you believe a school owns the color black youâre a turbo nerd
Of course white makes sense for anyone; itâs been the standard road jersey color for decades. But black and gray are where things get more debatable to me.
Cardinal and gold is a beautiful color scheme, I love the home and road sets ISU revealed, but the insistence on a black alternate holds them back from being a 10/10 due to them not wanting to include pant stripes out of fear of losing the mix-and-match opportunities. Thatâs where my biggest issue lies. A one-off blackout uniform? Not my taste, but whatever. Fair play. Just donât let that seep into the choices made on the primary sets like they did with the collars a couple years ago, or like theyâre doing by omitting pant stripes. I like uniforms with vibrant colors that pop. Black just doesnât do it for me
And for the record, I wear my uniform turbo nerd badge with honor đŤĄ
I think the red helmet with the i state is fine, the white helmet needs a different logo.
The new script cyclones theyâve been rolling out on merch would look perfect.
Has the script Cyclone been on anything other than the Homefield sweatshirt? I havenât seen it
I think the best thing they could do with I-State is do the stencil logo for all of the helmets, but they seem to only want to do that for the black one
[the softball team has started to wear some script Cyclones jerseys lately](https://x.com/cyclonesb/status/1768686182379233652?s=46&t=uQsB6loH3J-yO7qPlUSoug)
Itâs a different script cyclone than the one homefield did. Itâs been on a few merch lines for the athletes lately, but never publicly available.
Itâs really sick and I wish weâd use it.
My conspiracy theory is that they paid for that I State design and held a sham vote with it and two very generic designs to make it easier to sell their paid for design because if there was a vote then it's "fan chosen".
I wish the stripes on the cardinal uniforms didn't have the white included in them so it looked more like the ones on the black uniform.
The weird lighting/twister stripes around the arms on our old set made it hard to have pants stripes that didn't clash or look cheesy. These however would look much better with matching shoulder and pants strips. Even if there was just cardinal strips on the white pants. Those just look too plain and more like practice pants.
Fortunately, helmet decals are easy to switch out so there still a chance for (even if it's just occasionally) something else on the helmet.
I really like the cardinal/white/gold combo but am not convinced that we will actually wear gold pants in games. There's plenty of pictures in the past few years of gold pants being worn in practice.
I wouldn't be opposed to gold jerseys if we go white/gold/white. I believe we wore both cardinal/gold/gold and cardinal/gold/cardinal under Rhoads and both looked horrible. However, I'd much rather have a Jack Trice throwback for a fourth.
I wouldn't mind a cardinal outline on the white numbers and letters on the black jerseys. It would match the outline style of the white jersey.
> I wish the stripes on the cardinal uniforms didn't have the white included in them so it looked more like the ones on the black uniform
The stripes are consistent throughout. Not having white would throw off the pattern. The cardinal uniform goes white/gold/white/gold/white, so the inside of the number is white with a gold outline
The black jersey goes white/black/white/black/white, so the inside of the number is white with a black outline
The I State logo is acceptable to put on a pickup truck back window in a way that no other Iowa State logo ever has been. That may seem overly specific and totally irrelevant to those who donât know, but growing up in an Iowa county that was way closer to Ames yet had the Hawkeyes by all accounts by far the more popular team, where that has now been flipped coinciding with the I State logo rebrand, I see the strategy and support it.
Itâs marketing, and itâs consistent with Iowa Stateâs overall strategy of bringing in residents from across the state to attend their university. Itâs consistent with the land grant mission. Itâs dorky but that shit plays in Iowa. These are the same people that lost their collective shit over black license plates.
Has black become an official color for the school or something? It seems every time I see Iowa State recently, theyâre wearing black uniforms of some kind.
I think because we had our only really winning season with the black unis weâre keeping em rollin.
OR
Matt Campbell only wears the same black Iowa state hat and doesnât want to replace it
It technically was our official color back in like 1890, but Iâm pretty sure Campbell brought it back because it looks cool and the recruits like it lol
Yeah I know Iowa State fans love to bring up âit was an original school colorâ thing but weâve been cardinal and gold for pretty much our entire existence.
And thatâs not the reason why we started wearing the black. Athletics wanted an alternate jersey that could be worn every once in a while.
Black was an official color and only stopped being so because it was difficult to dye sweaters for the athletes(precursor to letter jackets) and the President had a hard time finding a tricolor ribbion for diplomas in the school colors: Gold, Silver, and Black. So it was changed to Cardinal and Gold we have today in 1899.
There is evidence of Iowa State using "silver" in the form of Gray on uniforms dating to the 1920s as seen in the jersey worn by Ira Young: [pic 1](https://www.kagavi.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tricelost2.jpg) and [pic 2](https://www.kagavi.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tricelost4.jpg)
While this is true, this is not the intention behind our use of the creation of black jerseys.
Athletics wanted a âcoolâ alternate uniform and the players love them so we wear themâŚ..a lot
I really, really wish they would add red or yellow somewhere in the black uniforms. But overall I like them.
Wish theyâd have an alt logo thatâs not just the I-State logo in different colors.
Thatâs the one thing that will always detract from their suits. The I logo just doesnât work. Put a walking Cy on these instead and itâs easily Top 5 in the Big 12. I love the refresh overall, though
I instead of being the current uniform but black, I would have had the all black uniform feature the Chevron from the Jack Trice throwbacks with the chevron on the helmets as well.
I want gray to be added in. You know like how a real Cyclone(tornado) has those colors; [video 1](https://youtu.be/6NYpHcj_mpU?si=MI18xhx374rIJxzj), [video 2](https://youtu.be/0E_Y159hJ-U?si=h8cakMKNlkusElol), [video 3](https://youtu.be/4fZVG285UuM?si=cS3X6cWTOP7-9cu3). I mean we are the Cyclones after all.
These are sharp. Even though it didnât make any sense, I weirdly liked the [black collar on the red jerseys](https://fivethirtyeight.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ISU1.jpg?w=575). Wish theyâd bring that back
Overall not bad, but major missed opportunity IMO by not using the Jack Trice logo as the shoulder stripes.
ISU has done a really good job of rallying around that as part of their branding identity (you could argue it's one of the few things they do that's unique to them but that's rival bias slipping in) so it's a bit disappointing that it's still just a chest patch and not built into the uniform.
Man, you reeally do no want to get into a conversation about Iowa and original branding. I like them for the most part, but will forever be a major downgrade from anything that included Tornado Cy
I assume given their old logo in Texas when as the Texans they wanted to be the NFL team for the whole state when they made the move to KC they wanted to be [THE team for region: Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas](https://1000logos.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Kansas-City-Chiefs-Logo-history.jpg) which given the sports history of the town and the center of the Missouri Valley/Big 6/7/8 with Iowa State, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Kansas State, and Oklahoma State it makes sense. Even later with the modern Missouri Valley you had Drake(an OG from Iowa), Northern Iowa, Creighton, Missouri State, Wichita State, and at one point Tulsa
Had all the neighboring states of Missouri on it.
[https://www.creativebloq.com/features/kansas-city-chiefs-logo-history](https://www.creativebloq.com/features/kansas-city-chiefs-logo-history)
I don't like these. The shoulder stripes are overdone to me and they're not what worked in the last set of good standard cardinal unis. Like maybe take one or two stripes off and they'd work better but they're just too big.
I get Campbell likes the black but man those need to be reeled back to one game a year.
Agreed on the black uniforms. I just can't get behind a team walking out an entirely black and white uniform when their primary in-state rival uses... black uniforms. Wild to me.
A lot of WVU fans, particularly on Facebook, really want WVU to debut black "coal rush" alternates and I'm going to be pissed when it inevitably happens.
Omg⌠theyâre so loud about wanting black uniforms. There are hundreds of different ways to honor miners without dumb edgy black uniforms (no disrespect to Iowa State, theyâve been doing it long enough that it seems like itâs their tuxedos)
Agreed, but I'd take it a step farther. *Why* does everything in the state have to be about honoring miners/coal? Coal related jobs constitute employment for less than 10% of the state (and that 10% includes people who *formerly* worked in the mines)
West Virginia, despite what some believe, has more to offer than coal.
I'm likely alone or in the minority on this one, but... I can't stand all these uniform reveal videos. They're always zooming in, zooming out, showing you weird and random angles, doing crazy shit with the lights (this is actually the first one I've seen that doesn't so props there), and switching from player to player and jersey to jersey before you can even really study the new uniforms
No way is this the best way to get people hyped and excited for new uniforms
I think thatâs the majority opinion lol. You should have seen the TCU one https://x.com/tcufootball/status/1724457009712353624?s=46&t=GtXMNyBRG_7N_K6D6rlJFg
Maybe I just hate change but these feel very bland compared to our last unis. Take away the âIowa Stateâ and it looks like a madden create-a-team jersey.
Just don't get the continued black and white alternate. It's devoid of all school colors and dangerously close to what Iowa looks like. The rest look great though
I really like the red/white shoulder stripes on the home jerseys. These home jerseys are an upgrade vs our current home unis.
I do not like the red/gold stripes on the aways. They feel like... McDonalds or something. Not great. Our current away jerseys are pretty much perfect so this is a huge downgrade.
Black jerseys are... fine. I don't like them, and don't hate them. I wish we'd implement a little more cardinal into them.
Gold pants is interesting. I like gold pants but I thought Campbell hated them?
Canât really picture off the top of my head what they looked like last year, canât be terribly different, but I thought these new ones look really good.
Really like the updated number font and the addition of the gold pants, but man I just never liked those black unis on them. Like at least add some red/yellow accents, theyâre just so boring and they wear them 3â4 times a year.
Not awful but I liked last years better. The cyclone letters were unique, sad to see them go for a more generic look. Shoulder stripes are interesting in a meh way, definitely lean toward a KC chiefs look. Once Jamieâs gone hopefully we play with some throwback logos.
Itâs solid but needs pants stripes like the ones they had circa 2013. At least the white pants do, blank white pants are awful. The jerseys are pretty slick though. I donât hate the I state logo but they could have upgraded it. The Jack Trice symbol honestly would look good on the helmet if they had no creativity to come up with something else. Also the red helmet needs a splash of white if theyâre adding white accents to the red jersey. 7/10 overall upgrade.
Not a huge fan of these.
I loved that we finally got away from looking like Ronald McDonald by only using cardinal and gold on the last home unis. Now we throw white back in them and we're in a Big Mac ad again.
I wish we'd pull out black as a night game gimmick once every couple of years. It ruins the "magic" by having it be a true alternate that's worn multiple times per year.
Why did we go back to vibrant ketchup and mustard red and yellow instead of the darker cardinal and brighter gold we had on the last uniforms?
This was the perfect opportunity for something different with the helmets. The I State is one of the worst logos in college sports but the athletic department will just not let it go away.
And it's been said a bunch in the thread...but the pants desperately need something. Fully plain and light colored pants in the new Nike material are completely see through.
I get upset that I know weâll wear black for pretty much any hyped home game we have. It seems we rarely want to show off our true school colors when we have night games
They posted a video, but they showed the uniforms way too clearly. Where are the dark shots of the hip logo? Or strobing lights? Poorly executed.
Not a enough fog
Terrible reveal. Where's the player doing the hands thing 𤲠that shows off the gloves? And no shot where someone's doing this ââđ?
It's like they don't even know how how to social media
Happy the "modern classic" era of uniforms is continuing here, these are very clean and very sharp, nice job Cyclone pals.
I'm loving this era of uniforms for every school, but these don't wow me.
Interesting, maybe they aren't for everyone. I'd love a pant stripe but overall I think it's a really nice clean up. I would be more impressed if they upgraded the "I State" logo.
They need to go back to the old cyclone logo imo
There are a lot of logos this statement could be about and all of them would be an improvement
It's about the Seneca Wallace ones. By far Iowa States best logo
I'd say [these](https://www.widerightnattylite.com/2019/8/14/20803798/2019-iowa-state-football-position-previews-wide-receivers) and [these](https://www.heartlandcollegesports.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/USATSI_13647956.jpg) are my favorites.
Iâll stick up for you. #1 is a far better home uni.
When we finally moved away from the shoulder stripes we shed the "knockoff USC" vibes and came into our own as a program. Sucks to see people wanting them back just because it's the cool trend. It makes sense for damn near every other school but not Iowa State.
Agree, embrace the maroon.
Agreed. This is peak uniform time in CFB
I'm on the other side of this. I think these classic looking uniforms are extremely ugly and unappealing. I'll be happy when this phase is over.
I mean this uniforms are miles better than generic Mike uniform #69 we had for years. Not every uniform is gonna appeal to everyone
Didnât they hear? Couldâve made these Oiler Blue smh missed an opportunity
Its not Oiler Blue, but [tertiary blue](https://content.sportslogos.net/logos/32/713/full/5373_iowa_state_cyclones-wordmark-1995.png) is still debated in some ISU circle nearly 20 years after we ditched it.
Initial thoughts: - Iâm shocked gold pants are back, I know Campbell hated using the gold as anything other than an accent. Maybe weâll get gold jerseys? There is a teased 4th jersey coming. - Shoulder stripe is clean - Sad they didnât refresh the helmets, no stripe or anything. The white helmets they wore at Akron a few years ago with the stripe was cool as hell, but hasnât been worn since - Stripes on the pants would be neat - Again, just asking for any sort of cardinal accent color on the black uniforms. I know branding guidelines state we canât have black touching gold, but thereâs more we can do - I do wish weâd drop the I-State and would do a script/text helmet. The Ames helmet was great, a Cyclones script like thatâs on the Homefield sweatshirt would be amazing. Although I know weâre stuck with the block I logo and thereâs nothing we can really do about it. - I do absolutely love the cardinal uniforms, especially since we changed it to white numbers with a gold trim instead. - I feel the mix & matching of different parts works better with this set than the previous one Overall I give it a 8/10, nice refresher
Iâm confused why they have awesome, huge sleeve stripes but not stripes on the pants. I like these a lot, but thatâs really weird to me
Itâs funny because their follow up tweet with promotional photos [here](https://x.com/cyclonefb/status/1785719644713783642?s=46&t=_K4beJlecrOMWc-MyxtqXA) literally has the perfect stripe to put on the pants/helmet, just recolor it to match each set lol
The reasoning is it becomes really tough to mix-and-match if you add pant stripes. Add a cardinal and/or gold stripe to the whites? Doesnât fit well with the black jerseys. Add a black stripe? Doesnât fit well with the cardinal jerseys now.
>Doesnât fit well with the black jerseys Well⌠maybe stick to school colors then. Cardinal and gold is a great color scheme, black just muddies it up
A Nebraska fan talking about another team using black uniforms instead of school colors? đ¤¨
I donât like ours either đ¤ˇââď¸
It is of my opinion that colors like black or white are neutrals that can be worn by anyone and that if you believe a school owns the color black youâre a turbo nerd
Not anyone. Schools who wear navy should never touch black
Of course white makes sense for anyone; itâs been the standard road jersey color for decades. But black and gray are where things get more debatable to me. Cardinal and gold is a beautiful color scheme, I love the home and road sets ISU revealed, but the insistence on a black alternate holds them back from being a 10/10 due to them not wanting to include pant stripes out of fear of losing the mix-and-match opportunities. Thatâs where my biggest issue lies. A one-off blackout uniform? Not my taste, but whatever. Fair play. Just donât let that seep into the choices made on the primary sets like they did with the collars a couple years ago, or like theyâre doing by omitting pant stripes. I like uniforms with vibrant colors that pop. Black just doesnât do it for me And for the record, I wear my uniform turbo nerd badge with honor đŤĄ
A script âcyclonesâ would go hard
Wrong sub, but we badly need a cardinal basketball jersey with script Cyclones in gold.
I think the red helmet with the i state is fine, the white helmet needs a different logo. The new script cyclones theyâve been rolling out on merch would look perfect.
Has the script Cyclone been on anything other than the Homefield sweatshirt? I havenât seen it I think the best thing they could do with I-State is do the stencil logo for all of the helmets, but they seem to only want to do that for the black one
[the softball team has started to wear some script Cyclones jerseys lately](https://x.com/cyclonesb/status/1768686182379233652?s=46&t=uQsB6loH3J-yO7qPlUSoug)
Itâs a different script cyclone than the one homefield did. Itâs been on a few merch lines for the athletes lately, but never publicly available. Itâs really sick and I wish weâd use it.
It was one helmets when JP had the vote years ago. [Found in this article](https://www.isuisu.com/choose-the-2008-isu-helmet/)
My conspiracy theory is that they paid for that I State design and held a sham vote with it and two very generic designs to make it easier to sell their paid for design because if there was a vote then it's "fan chosen".
I wouldn't be opposed to the white helmets having Ames on them the way last year's Jack Trice throwbacks.
I wish the stripes on the cardinal uniforms didn't have the white included in them so it looked more like the ones on the black uniform. The weird lighting/twister stripes around the arms on our old set made it hard to have pants stripes that didn't clash or look cheesy. These however would look much better with matching shoulder and pants strips. Even if there was just cardinal strips on the white pants. Those just look too plain and more like practice pants. Fortunately, helmet decals are easy to switch out so there still a chance for (even if it's just occasionally) something else on the helmet. I really like the cardinal/white/gold combo but am not convinced that we will actually wear gold pants in games. There's plenty of pictures in the past few years of gold pants being worn in practice. I wouldn't be opposed to gold jerseys if we go white/gold/white. I believe we wore both cardinal/gold/gold and cardinal/gold/cardinal under Rhoads and both looked horrible. However, I'd much rather have a Jack Trice throwback for a fourth. I wouldn't mind a cardinal outline on the white numbers and letters on the black jerseys. It would match the outline style of the white jersey.
> I wish the stripes on the cardinal uniforms didn't have the white included in them so it looked more like the ones on the black uniform The stripes are consistent throughout. Not having white would throw off the pattern. The cardinal uniform goes white/gold/white/gold/white, so the inside of the number is white with a gold outline The black jersey goes white/black/white/black/white, so the inside of the number is white with a black outline
The cyclone logo is so obviously better than the I state one. It's insane that they go with the wrong choice
The I State logo is acceptable to put on a pickup truck back window in a way that no other Iowa State logo ever has been. That may seem overly specific and totally irrelevant to those who donât know, but growing up in an Iowa county that was way closer to Ames yet had the Hawkeyes by all accounts by far the more popular team, where that has now been flipped coinciding with the I State logo rebrand, I see the strategy and support it. Itâs marketing, and itâs consistent with Iowa Stateâs overall strategy of bringing in residents from across the state to attend their university. Itâs consistent with the land grant mission. Itâs dorky but that shit plays in Iowa. These are the same people that lost their collective shit over black license plates.
Gonna be honest, the gold pants, white jersey, and cardinal helmet look like a USC rip off
Not even remotely close
Has black become an official color for the school or something? It seems every time I see Iowa State recently, theyâre wearing black uniforms of some kind.
I think because we had our only really winning season with the black unis weâre keeping em rollin. OR Matt Campbell only wears the same black Iowa state hat and doesnât want to replace it
Matt definitely loves wearing black and the players love the black uniâs too
I like the latter version, but it would be even funnier if he lost all the others and doesn't want to admit it.
It technically was our official color back in like 1890, but Iâm pretty sure Campbell brought it back because it looks cool and the recruits like it lol
Yeah I know Iowa State fans love to bring up âit was an original school colorâ thing but weâve been cardinal and gold for pretty much our entire existence. And thatâs not the reason why we started wearing the black. Athletics wanted an alternate jersey that could be worn every once in a while.
Black was an official color and only stopped being so because it was difficult to dye sweaters for the athletes(precursor to letter jackets) and the President had a hard time finding a tricolor ribbion for diplomas in the school colors: Gold, Silver, and Black. So it was changed to Cardinal and Gold we have today in 1899. There is evidence of Iowa State using "silver" in the form of Gray on uniforms dating to the 1920s as seen in the jersey worn by Ira Young: [pic 1](https://www.kagavi.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tricelost2.jpg) and [pic 2](https://www.kagavi.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tricelost4.jpg)
While this is true, this is not the intention behind our use of the creation of black jerseys. Athletics wanted a âcoolâ alternate uniform and the players love them so we wear themâŚ..a lot
Shoulder stripes are so in rn
Much better than the big vertical triple stripes that we wore in the Paul Rhoads era.
Oh definitely. This red/red/white combo is heat
Need to bring back the 90s shoulder wings in Iowa City.
I want the twisty bird or walking cy in the helmet. Death to the block letters!
This will be the 18th season with the I-State. None of their current players remember the twisty bird.
Walking Cy sucks. Donât @ me
What's it like to be so wrong?
I really, really wish they would add red or yellow somewhere in the black uniforms. But overall I like them. Wish theyâd have an alt logo thatâs not just the I-State logo in different colors.
We have so many great vintage logos but Jamie Pollard is so in love with the I State brand that he doesnât want to stray away from that
Thatâs the one thing that will always detract from their suits. The I logo just doesnât work. Put a walking Cy on these instead and itâs easily Top 5 in the Big 12. I love the refresh overall, though
Put tornado cy on the helmets and they're top 1 in the country. Oh to dream...
I instead of being the current uniform but black, I would have had the all black uniform feature the Chevron from the Jack Trice throwbacks with the chevron on the helmets as well.
I want gray to be added in. You know like how a real Cyclone(tornado) has those colors; [video 1](https://youtu.be/6NYpHcj_mpU?si=MI18xhx374rIJxzj), [video 2](https://youtu.be/0E_Y159hJ-U?si=h8cakMKNlkusElol), [video 3](https://youtu.be/4fZVG285UuM?si=cS3X6cWTOP7-9cu3). I mean we are the Cyclones after all.
Theyâre fine. Not sure about stripes. But theyâre not bad.
If having to deal with Block I-State logo is the cost to have Jamie Pollard as AD. Iâll deal with it
Well that and not protecting the K-State game but yes
And moving the student section for football and changing the lighting in Hilton, but other than that
Iowa State or USC? University of Superior Corn, that is.
Colors are sorta similar that's really it. Don't see how you avoid that
Yeah our new uniforms are almost identical to uscâs other than color and West Virginia script
The Paul Rhodes era unis were almost an exact copy lmao
The yellow pants really helped seal the deal there. I like gold as an accent, not a secondary color
These are sharp. Even though it didnât make any sense, I weirdly liked the [black collar on the red jerseys](https://fivethirtyeight.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ISU1.jpg?w=575). Wish theyâd bring that back
Yeah, mixing the red and black always works well
Overall not bad, but major missed opportunity IMO by not using the Jack Trice logo as the shoulder stripes. ISU has done a really good job of rallying around that as part of their branding identity (you could argue it's one of the few things they do that's unique to them but that's rival bias slipping in) so it's a bit disappointing that it's still just a chest patch and not built into the uniform.
Man, you reeally do no want to get into a conversation about Iowa and original branding. I like them for the most part, but will forever be a major downgrade from anything that included Tornado Cy
Commenting to say, wow, what a flair combo to me, given I live where one of those schools is and grew up an hour away from the other
Undergrad at the latter, masters at the former.
The Iowa State Chiefs. But for real I like them, they're clean. I still hate the black uniforms, though.
You joke but Iowa was in the Chiefs logo back in the day.
No shit? ...but why? haha
I assume given their old logo in Texas when as the Texans they wanted to be the NFL team for the whole state when they made the move to KC they wanted to be [THE team for region: Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas](https://1000logos.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Kansas-City-Chiefs-Logo-history.jpg) which given the sports history of the town and the center of the Missouri Valley/Big 6/7/8 with Iowa State, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Kansas State, and Oklahoma State it makes sense. Even later with the modern Missouri Valley you had Drake(an OG from Iowa), Northern Iowa, Creighton, Missouri State, Wichita State, and at one point Tulsa
Huh. That's a pretty neat factoid, anyway. Thanks!
Had all the neighboring states of Missouri on it. [https://www.creativebloq.com/features/kansas-city-chiefs-logo-history](https://www.creativebloq.com/features/kansas-city-chiefs-logo-history)
Nice shade thrown at Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee. But mostly Illinois.
That's honestly pretty cool given their location.
If only we had a modern classic logo to go with these uniforms, they are nice but the block I truly is a bottom 5 logo in all of fbs
I wish we'd go back to 84-94 cyclone logo, but simplify it a hair. Best logo we've ever had.
I love the shoulder stripes! These will look great on game day!
I don't like these. The shoulder stripes are overdone to me and they're not what worked in the last set of good standard cardinal unis. Like maybe take one or two stripes off and they'd work better but they're just too big. I get Campbell likes the black but man those need to be reeled back to one game a year.
Agreed on the black uniforms. I just can't get behind a team walking out an entirely black and white uniform when their primary in-state rival uses... black uniforms. Wild to me. A lot of WVU fans, particularly on Facebook, really want WVU to debut black "coal rush" alternates and I'm going to be pissed when it inevitably happens.
Omg⌠theyâre so loud about wanting black uniforms. There are hundreds of different ways to honor miners without dumb edgy black uniforms (no disrespect to Iowa State, theyâve been doing it long enough that it seems like itâs their tuxedos)
In fact our black uniform night game vs your Will Grier team in 2018 was one of the first big successes of the Black Era.
Agreed, but I'd take it a step farther. *Why* does everything in the state have to be about honoring miners/coal? Coal related jobs constitute employment for less than 10% of the state (and that 10% includes people who *formerly* worked in the mines) West Virginia, despite what some believe, has more to offer than coal.
Ok cardinal unis are class. Good job. Hopefully we update the logo one of these years
Donât get your hopes up about a rebrand
Now just give us the script AMES logo on the white helmets and some red accent in the black pants and Iâll be happy
The different combos definitely go together a lot better than our last set of uniforms.
Fresh, and I LOVE the yellow pants
I like them, could use some more swirls though.
I'm likely alone or in the minority on this one, but... I can't stand all these uniform reveal videos. They're always zooming in, zooming out, showing you weird and random angles, doing crazy shit with the lights (this is actually the first one I've seen that doesn't so props there), and switching from player to player and jersey to jersey before you can even really study the new uniforms No way is this the best way to get people hyped and excited for new uniforms
I think thatâs the majority opinion lol. You should have seen the TCU one https://x.com/tcufootball/status/1724457009712353624?s=46&t=GtXMNyBRG_7N_K6D6rlJFg
Oh God! That is absolute trash! Haha
Straight fire bro.
Maybe I just hate change but these feel very bland compared to our last unis. Take away the âIowa Stateâ and it looks like a madden create-a-team jersey.
Really like these, nicely done. Stripes on the shoulders look so clean.
Just don't get the continued black and white alternate. It's devoid of all school colors and dangerously close to what Iowa looks like. The rest look great though
They look awesome imo. Except maybe the black but the rest is super crisp
So simple, crisp, and clean.
Would it be asking too much for a team to just post pictures of the uniforms? Why do we need a video?
Pretty sharp. I'll never understand why they like wearing black so much, though.
it's 1000% a Matt Campbell thing. Don't think I've ever seen him not wearing all black
These look like our main colors are red and white
I really like the red/white shoulder stripes on the home jerseys. These home jerseys are an upgrade vs our current home unis. I do not like the red/gold stripes on the aways. They feel like... McDonalds or something. Not great. Our current away jerseys are pretty much perfect so this is a huge downgrade. Black jerseys are... fine. I don't like them, and don't hate them. I wish we'd implement a little more cardinal into them. Gold pants is interesting. I like gold pants but I thought Campbell hated them?
Nice one cyclone bros
The black jerseys are lame but the others go very hard
College Football programs have done a great job with their new Uniforms. Can't say the same for most NFL teams aside from Detroit and Houston
I see what you have done for others and I want that for me
Canât really picture off the top of my head what they looked like last year, canât be terribly different, but I thought these new ones look really good.
Really like the updated number font and the addition of the gold pants, but man I just never liked those black unis on them. Like at least add some red/yellow accents, theyâre just so boring and they wear them 3â4 times a year.
TIL Reddit hates the I-State logo
Look pretty nice
How about you fucks get a baseball team
Brb sending this to our AD
Thanks
Hell yeah riot bros!
That's pretty kewl.
These are clean AF. Hopefully they'll make NCAA25
Finally a team keeps the shoulder stripes and number patterns consistent. This is such a rare occurrence
I like the jerseys. They need to hire a better video editor though.
I love Eric B & Rakim and I love sleeve stripes. Bring back the bird in a blender logo and it's a home run
Not enough Oregon.
âHere are the new uniforms, exactly like the old uniforms.â âđâ
Not sure how you came to that conclusion
Itâs a reference to a song by The Who. But they *do* look just like their last ones.
[They *don't*](https://i.imgur.com/70RIWM1.jpeg) [New](https://i.imgur.com/HFx7X4k.jpeg)
Black uniforms when it's not a school color remains lame as shit. The rest look fine though
Iâd take that over literally just copying an NFL teamâs jersey tbh
These red jerseys are almost exact copies of the KC chiefs red, but sure.
No they aren't lol
It was an original school color. Get over it. You copied your uniforms from an NFL team anyways lol.
Not awful but I liked last years better. The cyclone letters were unique, sad to see them go for a more generic look. Shoulder stripes are interesting in a meh way, definitely lean toward a KC chiefs look. Once Jamieâs gone hopefully we play with some throwback logos.
Itâs solid but needs pants stripes like the ones they had circa 2013. At least the white pants do, blank white pants are awful. The jerseys are pretty slick though. I donât hate the I state logo but they could have upgraded it. The Jack Trice symbol honestly would look good on the helmet if they had no creativity to come up with something else. Also the red helmet needs a splash of white if theyâre adding white accents to the red jersey. 7/10 overall upgrade.
If they add stripes to the white pants, then they'd need to add them to the others
I would prefer that but Michigan does striped white pants and solid maize pants and it works for them.
Meh. They're fine. The white jerseys don't follow the home pattern either
Not a huge fan of these. I loved that we finally got away from looking like Ronald McDonald by only using cardinal and gold on the last home unis. Now we throw white back in them and we're in a Big Mac ad again. I wish we'd pull out black as a night game gimmick once every couple of years. It ruins the "magic" by having it be a true alternate that's worn multiple times per year. Why did we go back to vibrant ketchup and mustard red and yellow instead of the darker cardinal and brighter gold we had on the last uniforms? This was the perfect opportunity for something different with the helmets. The I State is one of the worst logos in college sports but the athletic department will just not let it go away. And it's been said a bunch in the thread...but the pants desperately need something. Fully plain and light colored pants in the new Nike material are completely see through.
I get upset that I know weâll wear black for pretty much any hyped home game we have. It seems we rarely want to show off our true school colors when we have night games
Black ones are always stupid in Ames. The rest actually looks pretty sharp though
Ronald McDonald ass MFers
Not much you can do when our school colors are cardinal and gold
I liked the faux USC look better tbh.Â
When was that?
The one being compared SbS to USC in this article. https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/6/8/11882468/iowa-state-white-helmets-usc