CU Buffs debut new road uniforms against Nebraska

LINCOLN—We now know what the partners look like to the new set of uniforms the Colorado Buffaloes unveiled last week, as ahead of kickoff players showed off the gold-white-gold combo they’ll be rocking in Lincoln.

A closer look at the white tops for the Buffaloes. pic.twitter.com/GMTbuGSGYw

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The Buffs are sporting a full set of new uniforms this year after almost a decade in their old duds and this new look got a lot of input from their fashion icon coach Deion Sanders.

Coach Prime said back in January when talking about a new version of his Nike Air Diamond Turfs that it would inspire how CU would look. Two sets into the new uniforms and there’s a resemblance but not a true match, maybe there will be an alternate.

“We’re happy with our newfound relationship with Nike and what they’ve done for this school,” Sanders said in January. “The new uniforms for next season are phenomenal they (the shoes) match the uniforms as well. All the skill position players will be wearing those cleats as well as the tennis shoe version. It’s going to be good.”

In the season-opener against North Dakota State players showed a Saints-y look with black being primary and gold for numbers and white as the outlines. Against the Nebraska Cornhuskers, it’s back to a more classic look—though the Flatirons are still featured on the shoulders.

“Uniforms don’t win or lose games, it helps provoke selling more merchandise but everywhere we’ve gone we’ve enhanced the look,” Sanders said earlier this fall. “These kids are going to have a wonderful look.”

Sanders then said his signature line, when you look good, you feel good and when you feel good, you play good.

“Heavy-hand,” Sanders said of his input on the uniforms earlier this month.

In 2023, CU rocked different combinations of old uniforms and some very basic new looks as they tried to freshen things up for their style icon coach. Colorado hasn’t had a full set of new uniforms since 2015, which is when they dropped the current set you see in College Football 25.

Outside a few special releases mainly last year, the Buffaloes have been in black, silver or white tops with those three colors and gold as pants colors. They also had black, gold, silver and white helmets. Those jerseys are associated mainly with the 2016 “Rise” season.

Colorado has had a long-standing relationship with Nike and is one of the company’s signature “test schools” mainly due to the Buffaloes work on the track and in cross country. The football brand’s refresh in 2016 was done very tastefully to honor CU’s rich history.

Speaking of history, it’s cool to see Colorado in a traditional look against their old Big 12 rivals—while they’re now in the Big Ten, Nebraska and Colorado’s rivalry has felt like the old days recently. The Cornhuskers have been scorned against the Buffaloes since the two initially departed the conference. And there is no future game scheduled with the two teams meeting for a last known time on Saturday and thus maybe the only time Sanders will square off with Matt Rhule who are very much opposites.

We don’t yet know if there will be multiple helmets and alternates for the uniforms and how they will be mixed and matched. Surely, later this season we’ll get a gold-black-gold at Folsom Field, CU’s classic look that they’ve done some fun takes on for a a while now.

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