LSU road unis are iconic and instantly recognizable. Think about the fog game vs UF. Never had to wonder if it was Bama or Oklahoma because both teams sport great unis

A very underrated, excellent uniform that you didn’t even mention is Florida. Without even knowing the teams on the field you can just look at the crisp orange helmets on top of the Royal blue jerseys and know that’s Florida. The orange kinda represents the sunshine state and blue represents the oceans surrounding Florida. The patterns and stripes on the jerseys and pants make them look so slick and they don’t just use the same old uniform every single game. Traditional home unis are Orange helmets, blue jerseys, and white pants which is a fantastic look. But it’s so nice because they also incorporate their orange jerseys in addition to other alternate home combos. My personal favorite is the orange helmets and blue jerseys/pants. The all blue look makes the helmets pop and are usually worn in rivalry games. Also nice to see their throwback uniforms for homecoming every year. You don’t have to honor the past in every single game. I think it’s a bit overkill and boring to do so by not making any changes. The alternate gators unis used in 2017 were not good because they tried to be something that definitely was not “Florida”. But the Blue and orange is an oddly fascinating color combination that should be appreciated.

I seldom pull for them, but LSU’s uni’s are awesome!

Not gonna lie as a Oregon fan I think we have a lot of misses with our uniforms, and would love some consistency. But we’ve walked out of the tunnel with some of the best *non-traditional* uniforms out there.

1. Bama 2. Penn St 3. LSU 4. Florida St. 5. Pitt when they use the powder blue or Ole Miss when they use the power blue.

Arkansas went back to the 05 McFadden uniforms and they look amazing.

Auburn's white Unis are the cleanest in college football imo. My other favorites in no order, UGA, LSU, Ole Miss, Ohio State, Navy

Georgia Alum here. I am surprised that FSU hasn’t been mentioned more. Also, like Classic Canes circa 1988. Love the Storm Trooper Texas Unis, Purdue’s home unis from the Brees days are nice along with Colorado. Auburn’s home uniforms are better than the road ones…I don’t think another team wears Navy as good as Auburn.

Love the list Josh here's my top 5. This is a VERY tough list to limit to just 5. So many amazing choices! 1. Penn State 2. USC 3. LSU 4. Miami 5. Clemson Honorable mentions: Alabama, Ohio State, Michigan, Florida, Texas

Totally agree with you on these! Love the traditional uniforms

How you left Texas off this list is mind boggling!!! There is not another team in any sport that has burnt orange and it truly pops with their white helmets!!!

Selfishly I think UGA’s is up there. I’ve never really put much thought into this, but like you, I’m a traditionalist when it comes to jerseys. I’d probably go with Penn St. I how they white pops in contrast to their dark navy blue home unis. I wish we kept the throwback 80s jerseys from 2020, because those looked incredible and are probably my favorites.

I fell in love with USC because of Reggie bush and the jerseys😍

Auburn's Storm Trooper whites are second to none. LSU wearing the home whites at night is pretty iconic too.

My opinion is totally biased but I freaking love LSU playing in all white with the white helmet. Only get to see it once a year or so which makes it a little more special.

My top 5: Powder blue UCLA, Texas, Penn ST, Ohio State, Michigan: Honorable mention Tennesee, Nebraska Miami

As a Buckeye fan of course my fav is the Scarlet & Gray. I also am a fan of Usc and Georgia unis. Texas burnt orange looks good as well.

Penn State's is about as old school as you can get. I'm biased to the scarlet and grey. Especially when they rack up those buckeye stickers. Controversial, but I like Georgia's contrast more than bama's dull red

No disrespect but LSU definitely needs to be in this convo we got tradition and good looking unis

I think Texas belongs in the top 5, not just because it meets the same tradition criteria, as the top 5, but because, with exception to Alabama, their color wasn’t just picked. Austin has some spectacular sunsets where the whole sky turns a burnt orange, and is where the Longhorns got their burnt orange color from. In short, I just personally think their color scheme’s origin is cooler than some of the other top 5.

Love this list. Always love the traditional uniforms. As an Aggie of course I think we should be in the top 5 on this list, but it’s hard to argue with this top 5. Great video, Josh. Top 5 SEC uniforms would be a great video too!

The modern MSU white on white on white uniform with the 90’s Gruff Sparty on the helmet 🪖 perfection. Beautiful

100% agree with your selection philosophy. There is something special about the continuation of tradition that many programs have built by keeping the brand consistent. I like everyone you mentioned with a partiality to Nebraska, Oklahoma (growing up with family who cheer for both). A couple of non mentioned teams I like, Kansas St., Wisconsin, and North Carolina

I am also a traditionalist....but I have a somewhat different top 5 because give me interesting design with my tradition. Not just a plain outfit....LOL. I would go 1. Notre Dame (and they are a rival of my team) 2. Ohio State 3. Miami (I am a Miami fan) 4. Michigan 5. USC...Although I hate Notre Dame I always loved their tradition and their Uniforms. They use real gold to make their helmets. That's dope! I love the stickers on that buckeye helmut. I alaways have. The U is just the U. It's just undeniable. I grew up when that was a brand that actually scared the crap out of teams. I love the Michigan color scheme and I would throw USC in there because it is a cool theme.

biased but the all white Texas uniforms. they’re a timeless classic.

No order but I got Kansas State, LSU, Florida, USC, Georgia

Guessing the jerseys before he called them out, went 3 for 5, missed usc and penn state, but agree overall with your opinion josh, love the tradition of the uniforms and the how you can instantly recognise a team and university from just one look at their uniforms or even in just their helmets even

For the same reasons as Josh mentioned, I love being able to watch videos of a game in black and white and immediately know it's Ohio State vs Michigan because of the winged helmet and Buckeye stickers. They're the same jerseys our great-grandfathers fell in love with.

Hate OU's alternate uniforms. Stick with the traditional uniform.

My top 5. Alabama, Florida, LSU, Ole Miss, and North Carolina.

He is 100% right about the traditional uniforms! Oregon is the only program that should be wearing alternates. It’s their thing. Everybody else stick to your real uniform. As a Buckeye fan it kills me a little inside whenever we change the uni.

Ohio State has really good uniforms.

USC-UCLA (with both teams in home jerseys) is the most aesthetically pleasing uniform matchup in CFB

I’m a Florida fan and I gotta say I like LSU’s uniforms. Complementary colors just work. Whether it’s orange and blue or purple and yellow, both are great.

I agree on every single one of these. All such tradition and history when seeing those uniforms

Thank you for giving the Clemson paw an honorable mention! Your list is solid. Lots of tradition and just straight up iconic.

Biased as a Michigan fan but I’d go 1. Michigan, I love all the looks except the all white and alternate all maize. Cant go wrong with tradition. 2. Ohio state, maybe that’s what makes the rivalry the best bc of the uniform clash. They’re traditional, but still look flashy bc of the silverish tint, the buckeye stickers look tremendous and thank heavens their secondary color isn’t white. 3. When Ok St. wears any combination of orange and white. I know that may seem hypocritical considering what I just said, but there’s still plenty of black trim in the uniform. They do a great job combining their traditional style with a sharp modern look. 4. Iowa, black and yellow is a great combo, they have a traditional design and the tiger hawk logo is really unique. 5. Oregon/TCU whenever they get the color scheme right. I’m not a big fan of Oregon’s candy apple green unless there’s enough yellow. Lack of a traditional look hurts them but when they pick the right design and right color scheme they are enticing. Props to TCU for making purple look mean. The collar design and the frog skin is so badass. When they add the red trim that’s a cool touch too, especially when they say it’s horned frog blood. Honorable mention: Ole miss powder blue

The worst are the ‘smurfs’ of Boise State and the ‘peeps’ of Oregon. I like LSU’s traditional that we wore when I was on team in ‘8o-‘83 with purple/white jerseys over gold pants.

1. Kansas state 2. Tennessee vols 3. Ole miss powder blue 4. Wazzou 5. The old school Seneca Wallace iowa st uniforms were sooo good. They need to bring them back -an Ohio st fan

I like your picks. Just letting you know. I'm a big fan of traditional stuff like you are. I would possibly put in LSU over one of these picks though. Sometimes they'll change it up and wear purple or wear a white helmet but man... They pretty much wear that white jersey to practically Every Game. Talk about not changing. lol.

Bama Home jersey is #1 by far....and Iam a USC fan from Los Angeles...#1. BAMA, 2. USC, 3. FLORIDA ST, 4. UGA, 5. ND, 6 TEXAS 7. LSU, 8. PENN ST

The Oregon UO classic throwback jersey is on of my all time favorites.

I like that OU stays traditional mostly. The crimson and cream combo is fire. No other team sports that cream color.

As an Oregon alum I getcha on not being able to pinpoint a uniform for the ducks. The thing with their uniforms is it’s really exciting showing up Saturday and anticipating the new threads.

USC? Ketchup and Mustard, must disagree with that one.

LSU's purple jerseys are just sick!!!

Josh your list says a lot about you, and I mean that as a compliment 😂. Here's mine not including UGA cause I'm biased. 1. FSU! - the garnet and gold is both clean and iconic. You gotta have them on your list. 2. LSU 3. Notre Dame 4. Michigan 5. Oregon

My top 5 are Alabama, Ole Miss, Penn State, USC, Auburn...

Some other great ones are Pitt, Ohio state, LSU, Florida, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Oregon, Clemson, Georgia, Michigan state and UCLA, Jackson state is pretty good too

What about best alternate jerseys? Example: Florida’s orange or Ole Miss’ powder blue with white helmet.

Ole Miss has the best traditional uniforms because it has options. And I ain’t talkin ANY of the powder blue garbage. Ole Miss cardinal red home, grey pants navy helmet is incredible

love this list

Those seem more like a list of the most iconic uniforms. Here are some that don't get enough love: Auburn (and I hate them as a UGA fan) has really sweet looking unis. Mississippi State's white uniform is pretty nice. If you go more pastel as your thing, then UCLA, UNC, Ole Miss and Tennessee's creamsicle orange's are pretty nice. Kentucky doesn't get enough credit for the royal blue unis.

This is the best video on this topic!! You know what you're talking about!!!

One thing I respect about Dabo is he brought back the more traditional Clemson Uniform rules.

I think A&M should not only bring back the white helmets for alternates, but also the grey pants in rotation as well 🔥

I understand where you are coming from Josh Pate and can't disagree, it is cool to see some things not change. My favorite color scheme of my school was in the 70s when the white jersey's had red school name letters and the names on the back were in black. I don't know why that appealed to me or why we changed that, but yeah, I see why you have your list. Keep doing what you are doing, I love what you are doing, even when I disagree with you.

I was hoping would say Tennessee, and you did! Love my Vols! I agree with your list.

It is impossible to pick the top 5 college football uniforms for me! Most colleges have great, simple, traditional uniforms, and is one of the reasons I prefer cfb as a whole, over the nfl as a whole. Me personally, the all white Texas uni is the best in cfb. After that it’s all a toss up. I love the oranges of Tennessee and Clemson. Notre dame. The big10 teams like Michigan, OSU, Penn st, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. The crimson/red and white unis of Alabama, Oklahoma, and Stanford. Most of the SEC unis, except Mississippi st, Georgia, Vandy and Mizzou. And then some of those ACC teams, like FSU, NC, and VT. So much to choose from…

I love all the teams with original jerseys too. I’m a huge fan of USC, Penn St, and Bama jerseys too. It’s the classic and traditional I agree. I tend to lean away from jerseys like Oregon Ducks jerseys it’s just not my style it’s too much.

I don't have a preference but I like when schools keep a bit of tradition. At ASU since the 70s we had Arizona State across the chest, and the last few years they've gotten rid of it and I hate it. We have the state flag in it's place, that you can barely see. I love the traditional uniforms and schools that update them. What I am glad that is almost gone was having the lines down the sides. For whatever reason so many schools had lines going down the sides of their jersey and it never looked good.

I'm a Tennessee fan so I freely admit I'm biased when I put our unis at number one. I'd put Ohio State, Michigan, North Carolina, and UCLA's powder blues to round out my top five. Honorable mentions to LSU and the Ole Miss powder blues.

Those 5 are the best unis in College Football. I am very bias but I feel USC has the best unis in College Football. USC halmets are classic and look intimidating.

I know I'm a homer for this but as a UGA fan, I love our traditional uni's. The red helmets on red home uni's are so iconic and the white jersies with the black numbers, CLEAN. The black uniforms are probably coolest but we never wear them. Also can't forget the iconic silver britches.

You put so much detail into describing bland unis

ASU’s ‘Sparky’ helmet’s classic. I can’t argue with your take on tradition.

Was this a top 5 jersey conversation, or a top 5 most universally hated programs conversation?

Bama and Auburn both have really clean and classic away uniforms and their homes are both really good too, it's part of why the Iron Bowl is always so cool imo. LSU has great aways but they don't wear home jerseys much for a reason... Georgia has some of the best home unis and good aways too. Michigans homes are awesome but their aways are pretty meh, and Ohio State is kind of the opposite. Clemson's whites are solid. UCLA, Ole Miss, and Florida all have great blue home jerseys. I can't stand orange, though. Tennessee and Clemson's homes can all rot. Texas' rusty orange is a little better though.

Crimson helmet with a single white stripe and numbers on the side is instantly recognizable as Alabama. Lots of other great uniforms too

Tennessee, Pitt, UNC, LSU and Michigan imo

I'm an old-school guy and love college football tradition, so I don't have big issues with this list. I'm a Buckeye and 2 posters below say they love the scarlet & gray. But currently, the OSU home jersey has NO gray in it. The past ones with the gray sleeve stripes looked great, and they sometimes wear them for big games, but I'd like for them to wear them all the time.

I just tasted a little vomit in the back of my throat. "There are many varieties of ice cream but I am a classic guy. My favorite is vanilla." - Josh Pate. The powder blue from Ole Miss is the best.

Yea I like your list I also like LSUs and ole miss powder blue. Coming from an Alabama fan.

I've thought that it would be interesting to see teams wear modern versions of their earlier uniforms occasionally.

Bama and Oklahoma have the same jerseys. Even Indiana too. So if you have Bama there I guess you’d have to put Oklahoma’s up there as well.

The five jerseys I like and it’s hard to pick just 5. UCLA, Tennessee, Notre Dame, Auburn, Michigan.

I'll put in my 2c worth. South Carolina & Texas Tech very sharp .

That Ole Miss powder blue uniforms are hard to ignore

I've always thought this was an interesting subject. I think your uniform should represent your identity as a school and program. For example, I think Oregon's uniforms are cool because we associate Oregon with Nike, an up-tempo offense, and the West Coast. Alabama's uniforms are cool because we associate them with old-school, smash-mouth, southern football. The worst uniforms are when teams try to be something that they're not, like Maryland or Ohio State when they wear their all-red uniforms. BTW, LSU has the best unis in the country 😂

Can't argue with that top 5. But lsu and Nebraska are great as well. Texas has a cool uniform also. Georgia looks like a spring league uniform.

Oregon has the most state of the art uniform styles, but I do agree the classic football uniform might be the best. I would prefer if they didn't have names on the jersey, because then you really have too know who the players are.

Josh you say white exactly the same way that Stewie from family guy when he says cool whip 😂😂

One thing I've always hated in a school's uniforms is when the jersey and pants (excluding white uniforms) are the same color. The all orange Clemson and all blue Kentucky uniforms aren't appealing to me. Some people may love them but I think they provide no contrast in color. I do agree that the all white Alabama uniforms are awesome. In the 60s & 70s Bama would sometime wear a white helmet with the road whites and that combination really looked good. Another thing I really like is when UCLA & USC play, each school wears their home uniform. The powder blue of UCLA up against dark red of USC really looks fantastic to see.

Great video

I agree. Can’t imagine why. 😁

I would love to see Alabama and Tennessee play a TSIO in all whites.

Ahhhhh a man after my own heart. I love the traditional uniforms. Any list of uni’s that doesn’t include Bama, PSU, and UM is a travesty.

I love my Vols, but I can't argue with that list. All of them are great and the UCLA powder blues are legit. Also the Carolina blues are pretty ice cold ❄️

I prefer the uniforms (and helmets) to remain the same. Some colleges change helmets almost every year and I find that very annoying. Flipping channels of games one used to be able to know who was playing in an instant. Now with uniform and helmet changes, you have sometimes wait for the score graphic in order to know. IMO, UCLA has the best uniform, adding that it is their long traditional uniform still. I don't care for the school but that uniform has been great for decades.

My personal favorites are probably Iowa's. I am an UGA fan but the yellow and black always spoke to me.

I may be a homer, but the Razorbacks uniform from 2006 is the best ever.

Once again you nailed it, Josh! Roll Tide!

I think you are mixing Top 5 uniforms with Top 5 Teams with good uniforms with better Tradition. If we are going on straight uniforms 1. Ohio State 2. LSU 3. Florida 4. Oregon 5. Notre Dame

Bama fan here can't argue with any of those picks but I love Iowa, black and gold is classic

Gosh, put in a word for VT. I like our colors but we never really settle on a "traditional" design, every year sees new combinations, solids, primary maroon, primary burnt orange, shoulder stripes, cartoon hokiebirds on helmets, VT even had the Nike pro combats way back when.

UCLA home Jersey is my favorite and I really like the Ole Miss baby blue. The traditional Ohio State scarlet with gray plus those Buckeyes stickers on the helmets looks great. Probably Texas with the burnt Orange would be next. A base color with white is too bland for my taste (Alabama, Penn State or Oklahoma).

Auburn is my #1. Notre Dame is #2. Oregon #3. Shout out to a HBCU, #4 Jackson State.

I'm surprised LSU's tradition of wearing the white uniforms at most/games wasn't even mentioned

Michigan’s unis are the best imo. When they went to the blue face mask, that made them look more menacing.

Once again perfect list Josh. Michigan is my personal favorite, due to growing up a big Wolverine fan