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Colorado State Football Unveils New Orange “Ag Day” Uniform to Honor Aggie Roots

The Colorado State University Rams have unveiled their newest orange/green uniform, a tradition they’ve had for a number of years, to honor their roots when the school was first known as “Colorado Agricultural College” and later as “Colorado State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.” The school was renamed Colorado State University in 1957. For many years CSU has worn special “Orange Out” uniforms it has used for the annual Ag Day game.

Of course, the obligatory hype video, which shows some very good looks at this beautiful uniform.

CSU (then known by its long name) began wearing orange uniforms in 1940, and at the time the team was nicknamed the “Aggies.” They would bring back the orange uniforms for one game a season beginning in 2010, for their annual “Ag Day” celebration. According to that linked article…

Since 2010, CSU has emphasized the orange of the Aggie era with Orange Outs and orange jerseys, one of the original colors of the school when the first football team chose green and orange as the school colors in 1893. The official school colors have been green and gold since 1909, when then college president Charles Lory made the change. The orange in the school’s colors, a secondary color with green as the dominant color, was meant to represent pumpkin. Later, the gold was meant to represent the golden corn grown in Colorado by farmers attending the school, it had nothing to do with the mineral mined in the mountains of the great state.

Between 1909 and roughly 1957, that “gold” often appeared as an orange color on uniforms and other college material. These were the days when there were no guidelines to color, the green changed from dark green to light green and back to an exceptionally dark green that was nearly black. Yellow often represented gold as well, but frequently orange was used during the so-called Aggie era.

Lets take a look at the newest iteration of the Ag Day uniforms.

The 2024 Ag Day uniform features a white helmet, orange jersey, and white pants. The helmet features a green/orange/green center stripe, and the “old” CSU Aggie logo (featuring the mascot “CAM”) in green and orange is found on the side. The facemask is white, and the front bumper reads “Aggies” in orange script.

The jersey has a “COLORADO A&M” wordmark in white above green numbers, which are outlined in white. Sleeve caps have white/orange/green/orange/white stripes in a modified Northwestern pattern. There is a Mountain West Conference logo on the upper right of the jersey, and the maker’s mark is on the base of the collar.

The white pants feature full-length modified Northwestern stripes, in an orange/white/green/white/orange pattern.

The team also put together a “details” set of photos, meant to form one larger image.

We get a good look at the back of the jersey in that second slide — the back of the helmet is quite busy, with several decals and the word “STALWART” on the rear bumper, featuring the “Aggie A” in the middle of the slogan. That same Aggie A is located on the back of the jersey beneath the neck, and NOB will read “AGGIES.”

The team will debut the new Ag Day uniforms against UNC on September 7th.

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It should probably come as no surprise, given my love of orange, that I love the new jerseys, and the entire uniform is very good looking. Each year the team breaks out the Ag Day orange, so this isn’t especially radical, but this uniform is quite well done. CSU’s current colors are green and metallic/vegas gold, which are great colors — but unfortunately, most uni manufacturers have difficulty producing a decent metallic gold (UA is no exception), so I’ve always enjoyed when the team wear the orange Ag Day alternates.

I’m very much looking forward to seeing these on the field!

Your thoughts?

 
  
 
Comments (21)

    Colorado State seems to have a pretty good aesthetic sense. Solid regular unis/combos and alternates that look good and draw an actual connection with the school or state history, like these and that Colorado flag design.

    Have to give them credit for making alternates that aren’t wild color combos or BFBS/GFGS/whiteout.

    I wish they would have made the stripes all match. The helmet could have had the Northwestern Stripe, and all three pieces would have that. If the pants stripes matched the helmet, it would have the “Florida look” where all three stripe colors remain the same regardless of background color.

    I dig the unis, but I never like it when the helmet logo on one side (or any side for that matter) isn’t facing forward when it’s an animal, etc. Here, the ram logo on the players’ right side is facing back, not forward. I know that would require two different designs per side (here, they would have to reverse the CSU on the ram’s cap) and that this may not be worth it for a one-off per year, but…

    Nice uniform but would like to see a better logo on the helmet and block serif numbers. The overall look looks like the University of Miami.

    The Miami Hurricanes of Colorado checking in.

    I actually really like them.

    These looked so amazing with the green helmets and green pants, what a downgrade.

    I’ll admit I liked the retro ram helmets, but the green pants weren’t great (IMO)

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    But this year’s edition looks great too! And at least the pants have nice NU stripes and *don’t* have “RAMS” on the thighs.

    The best compromise was the green/orange helmet but with white pants.

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    Sleeve caps to these eyes look like white/orange/green/orange/white, not green/orange/white/orange/green.

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    Apparently they’ll be coming out with an updated State Pride (link) uni later this week too!

    I love this update, though I do with they would’ve kept the white outline around the “A” on the shoulder.

    I love the Colorado State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts’ (CSCAMA) unis, love the “Cam” logo and love how the whole thing comes together.

    I want to be the first to say these jerseys are OFOS. I don’t actually believe that (the unis look great), but I thought this might be one of the rare opportunities to type OFOS and I couldn’t let it pass.

    Great tradition, great uniform (even if the stripes do not match each other like they should) but I prefer them wearing green and gold. The old Ram logo is very good and should be used more often.

    Two North Carolina Tar Heel tidbits:

    1) The “UNC” that CSU is playing is Northern Colorado and not the University of North Carolina.

    2) Not sure of the era when CSU used that ram logo, but it is the same as the one UNC used at least in the 1960s-1970s. Could it have been some stock image with a “C” (for Carolina) or a “CSU” added?

    Yep. And both logos were part of the “Sailor _____” logo series.

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    UNC: link

    There were LOTS of those, including logos that weren’t goats…

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    Not sure which (if any) was first, nor whether they were even designed specifically for the schools that used them…

    I just don’t like that they didn’t even try with the font. They stole it directly from conference foe Utah State who is the Aggies. Like literally took the Utah State “Aggies” wordmark and changed the color. Lazy

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