In the first round, half the Big-10 teams invited to bowl games played: three playoff games and three lower tier Bowl Games. In the first weekend of playoff games, Penn State wore its "Generations of Greatness" alternate set at home and Ohio State wore its all-scarlet outfit at home. Indiana went mostly all white in loss at Notre Dame. All three games were won easily by the favorites.
Oregon vs. Penn State for the Big 10 Championship. Generic, all-white tradition vs. ever-changing black, bright green and chrome.
Rivalry week in the Big-10!
Iowa went all-black—kinda late in the season to the black bandwagon, especially for a team that has black as a school color! But a good combo vs. the always classic red/white Nebraska.
Northwestern went all-purple for the first time this season, which is also surprising since they have gone all-black and all-white several times this season! Illinois had a spacial Wrigley Field themed ivy covered helmet logo.
Purdue went all-white in an actual snow game at Indiana.
MSU went all-green with S block logo against red and white Rutgers-a festive start to December in another snow game.
Washington and Michigan looked like twins in the normal helmet with all-white jersey and pants. Penn State and Maryland a pretty red, white and blue affair.
The least nice looking matchup were the Oregon Raiders vs the too-white— but not all-white— Huskies.
In a game of Big-10 bottom dwellers on a cold dreary Friday night, Purdue went black and white vs Michigan State who mixed and matched its darker parts, and went black-green-black. Northwestern went mono-white at classic blue Michigan.
In my opinion, the best color-on-color game in the FBS.... USC and UCLA met for the first time"Battle of LA" or the other "bottom of the Big-10".
The Big-10 has a lot of great red and white teams and this week the matchups made classic use of both colors:
Several of the teams who were on the road over Halloween, pulled out their black costumes this week: Both of the purple teams went all-black with purple and gold highlights: Washington debuted their "Eclipse/World of Warcraft" uniform; Northwestern reinvigorated its annual "Gothic" all-black uniform. Maryland wore a vibrant yellow jersey with their black.
Oregon went for black and white, while MSU went retro stormtrooper with Gruff helmet logo.
USC pulled out its 1972 throwback. Did you even notice? The numbers and shoulder stripes are slightly different than current look.
The other teams were classic and good looking, but I wish Rutgers and UCLA wore colored pants. I really only like white pants if the helmet is white.
Being the weekend before Veterans Day, several teams highlighted the military. Iowa draped their Hawkeye logo, and Rutgers their R logo in the flag. Both, kinda meh if I'm being honest. Indiana used flag themed gloves as well.
UCLA wore their throwback lightER blue uniforms with no helmet logo, while Oregon brought out its most traditional throwback-ish combo this season. Ironically Maryland (to UA as Oregon is to Nike) went futuristic with shiny/puffy looking color-changing numbers and logos on all-white.
It's a couple days past Halloween, but a few teams pulled out appropriate costumes. Illinois went full-pumpkin in all-orange. Their helmet was a military appreciation helmet with 10 stars that represent football players killed in action. Iowa and Michigan State went "blackout" while Oregon pulled out its new "Warp Speed" all-white with chrome set.
