McNeese Cowboys Football Unveil New All White Uniform

With Week 0 of the NCAA football season set to kick off tomorrow, the McNeese Cowboys — an FCS team who play in the Southland Conference — have unveiled a new all-white uniform for their season opener tomorrow against Tarleton State. And they didn’t want to be left out of the Icy White party.

The team unveiled the new uniform via — what else — a social media video, and while they didn’t use “Icy Whites” in their description, they did post a blue snowflake emoji. Sometimes “Icy Whites” is best left unwritten…

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— McNeese Football (@McNeeseFB) August 21, 2024

Ah…I miss when hype videos showed teams with their players sitting in meetings are interrupted by a special guest player wearing a new uniform and the team seeing it for the first time (and being genuinely hyped upon gazing at the new swag). Actually, no I don’t. But it did bring back memories of some of the first video reveals of new unis schools used to put up on social.

And the video did show some decent views of the new uniforms despite suffering from the “quick cut” style that is so prevalent today.

So, let’s look at the new unis.

As noted, this is an all-white uniform. The white helmet features the silhouette of a blue horse and rider with a gold “M” (McNeese’s logo) on the sides. The cage is royal blue.

The jersey is white and pretty plain — there are no stripes or other adornments — and contains only the conference patch and maker’s mark, in addition to the McNeese logo below the base of the collar and a “western” font for the blue numbers, which have gold outlines.

While the odd-shaped collar pushes the logo/wordmark fairly low onto the jersey chest, the spacing doesn’t make the numbers feel cramped. The jersey sleeve caps feature TV numbers in the same style as the front numbers.

The rear of the jersey has “McNEESE” (with a small cap font for the “c”) for the NOB, which also seems to be pushed lower than we’re used to due to the collar style. Numbers are blue outlined in gold.

(That “McNEESE” NOB style isn’t a placeholder — the team uses that as their team-wide NOB styling.)

Mercifully, the white pants have stripes, in a pleasing royal/gold/royal pattern. The socks — at least as shown in the video — will be solid white.

If you couldn’t already tell, McNeese’s colors are royal and gold (a most aesthetically pleasing combination), and their home/road uniforms featured ample quantities of each. Their normal road attire has a gold helmet and pants with the white jersey.

So with their new all-white uniforms, they join the increasing ranks of schools who have added a WFWS Icy White all-white option.

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I think these new all-whites are fine but unnecessary — especially when the team already had an even better road uniform with the gold hat and britches. But with more and more teams hopping on the WFWS bandwagon, and with the players clearly “hyped” to wear the new all-whites, this will most certainly not be the last we see of the Icy White look.

Your thoughts?