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Hello r/CFB! Welcome to the 2025 Big 12 Uniform Tracker! In this extra special edition, the final one of the 2025 season review, we’ll take part in one of my favorite segments: the Uniform Awards! I’ll go over the suits, helmets, and teams that popped through the 2025 season in the Big 12. If you want to see my broader thoughts on each Big 12 team’s seasons and uniforms, my 2025 Season Review is linked at the bottom of the post.

Crack open a celebratory beverage, settle in, and let’s all get together and look back at this good looking, highly entertaining season in the Big 12. Three cheers for our season winners!

I’m u/matte_purple, and let’s 3, 2, 1 go! 

Time Machine - Best Throwback: TTU 100 Year Celebration Suit

We’ll work in ascending order. The Arizona Wildcats donned a fauxback punctuated with a chunkier 80’s edition Block A. The helmet also features award stickers in the shape of a wildcat paw, another logo used from that timeframe. When adding this helmet to the classic Arizona uniform set, you get a tasteful throwback uniform that makes a lot of people happy. Plus, the award stickers stayed through the season, adding a nice sprinkle of individuality to an already great suit. 

WVU’s throwbacks featured a light-blue West Virginia state outline that really gave the old-gold helmet a sweet technicolor vibe back in ‘65, but nowadays looks classic in the best of ways. The color was inspired by the old Star City bridge on the north side of Morgantown, which used to have blue steel girders. It’s the first time old gold has appeared in a WVU uniform since 1978. My only gripe about these is as follows: the helmet and pants shade doesn’t match. But these are throwbacks, so I’m sure the designers intentionally mismatched the two in order to maintain historical accuracy, but it does irk me a tad. Regardless, I think this suit was very solid!

Opposite of the WVU suit, Arizona State made a new change to their throwback suits. Take a peek at the original 1975 Fiesta Bowl suit versus the one linked above. The changes are fairly minor, sans the double stripe on the leg. The newer single leg stripe, in my mind, better mimics the helmet stripe and creates a nice bit of symmetry. Not exactly historically accurate, but it maintains the overall spirit and improves slightly. Not that there’s much to improve in the first place! The colored shoulder tri-stripe? Incredible. The more vintage cream white coloring? Wonderful. The two different Sunburst logos, one on the helmet (first time we’ve seen it on a lid since 2020) and one featuring Sparky on the shoulders? Awesome. Plus the vintage number font, gray facemask, and tasteful accessories. A very good looking suit to be sure!

Texas Tech’s throwbacks had to take the No. 1 spot. They seamlessly rolled a century of Red Raider history into one fantastic uniform for their homecoming game and 100 year anniversary of Tech football. The TECH wordmark is an homage to the logo present on their  very first uniforms, back when they were the Texas Technological College “Matadors.” The logo utilized on the helmet and collar come from 1926, the first appearance of the Double T, while the helmet stars mimic those awarded for good play in 1965. The striped shoulder pattern with the integrated logo is sourced directly from the 1930 jersey design, with the number font choice coming from the 1935 jerseys, the first time numbers showed up on Tech jerseys. The leg stripe mimics the harness collar on the Masked Rider’s steed from 1965. These flow well, the combo choice itself is excellent, and the intricacies of each design choice is wonderful. As a fun aside, KU wore throwbacks vs Tech in 2011, but I’d say the Red Raiders’ ones are a little better. I’m definitely not biased. 

Keep Moving Forward - Most Improved Uniform Team: Cincinnati Bearcats

  • 2nd Place: Iowa State Cyclones
  • 3rd Place: UCF Knights
  • Honorable Mention: Houston Coogs and Arizona State

Four schools totally revamped their core set this past summer, and one school feels brand new after removing an important piece. Let’s get into it: 

Houston and Arizona State made some changes to their set alongside the standard Nike/Adidas templates, particularly adding/editing their wordmark to the chest, which I feel adds to the wardrobe. Houston also opted for different colored cuffs and collars for the first time since 2012. Arizona also utilized Sparky far more and utilized the logo on a white helmet for the first time ever, wore 10 distinct color combos, and introduced a devilish (ha) throwback that I just spoke about. Both very good improvements to the rotation.

UCF made several brand new changes to the suit. For one, they updated to the newer Nike F.U.S.E template. But on that template, they added bigger numbers, better font, gold drop shadow and number perforations, TV numbers, bigger stars on the legs and better emphasized pegasus wings on the shoulder. They also updated their Knightmode set (one of my favorite alternates of theirs), added gold pants to the rotation, and introduced another Space Game look to the tradition. It’s really hard to pick apart these awesome suits from the Knights!

While Iowa State already updated their look in 2024, I put them in second place because of a season-long omission: The Block I-State logo. The Cyclones appear to have removed the Block I logo from the helmets in favor of the fan-favorite Script Cyclone wordmark. That alone is worthy of a ranking, but Iowa State also reintroduced the Cy-Nado logo, wore gold pants for the first time since 2016, and limited their slightly less popular black and white suits to two appearances. The Cyclones looked more like the team I remember, and they are having a renaissance threadwise!

By far the most improved wardrobe in the Big 12, to my eyes, was Cincinnati. There are noticeable differences to last year’s template, the contrasting collar and sleeve hems are gone, the new numbers have different fonts and outlines (structured with the same notch as the C-Paw logo and outlined for the first time since 2007) along with the new “Cincinnati Stripe.” I really like the geometry of these shoulder and pant stripes. These changes create a fantastically tailored and personal look, but maintain the simplicity to encourage mixing combos while maintaining identity. The Bearcats also introduced a new helmet logo, the first time they’ve ever worn script on a helmet, in color-corrected, glossy lids. All of those changes create a lovely uniform set that continued to grow on me all season. Even some of the more “out there” choices looked better with this new template. Bravo to Cincy. I was not expecting this set to grow on me as much as it did.

Appetizer Award - Best Non-Con Uniform Matchup: K-State vs North Dakota

In the honorable mention spot, I had to go with a classic red vs blue look. But more than that, I like the interplay between these two “classic” uniforms. UCLA has a fashion sense that has remained mostly the same for a very long time. Utah has been going back to their roots more and more with these throwbacks. Though UCLA has small pieces of white in their suits, the two suits are almost entirely contrasting. Just a really traditional, classic, easy contrast! Simple as that!

Simply put, I love a color on color matchup, and I can’t pass up speaking on this rare treat. This one featuring the Colorado Buffaloes and Wyoming Cowboys was a particularly great showing. Put Wyoming’s stellar gold alternates, complete with mountainous shoulders, script Wyoming wordmark, and saloon numbers against the more geometric and new age style of Colorado’s 2024 blackout suits and you get a really wonderful “Old West vs New West” battle. Seriously, this Wyoming look is AWESOME. 

I had to shout out Kansas and their “Red Legs” uniform vs the Missouri Tigers. This suit holds significance that adds to the lore of this rivalry while also looking very aesthetic. As a safeguard against Missouri aggression and to aid the Union cause, a company of Kansan border scouts was formed in late 1862. They were known to wear red or tan leather leggings to identify themselves, thus the term. These bold men were never regularly mustered into the United States service, but were nonetheless an important part of Civil War history. This is easily one of my favorite away combos that KU has. Matched against the traditional and highly…

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