Another week with mostly home teams so colorful and mostly traditional. Minnesota went full-mono for second week, this time maroon with giant gopher logo on one side of the helmet. Oregon went all green. MSU went black and white, Northwestern went with black pants, and UCLA wore white pants.
All but two of the teams were at home, so a colorful and traditional look across the board for the 2025 opener, even with Oregon wearing about as old-school look as they muster. Minnesota and Northwestern were the only team to go full-mono.
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:
