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Previewing Tonight’s CFP Championship Uniforms

The 2025 College Football Playoff Championship, featuring bluebloods Ohio State and Notre Dame, will be played this evening at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, in Atlanta, Georgia. As the higher seed, Notre Dame is the “home” team while THE OSU will serve as the visiting squad.

As was reported earlier, the Ohio State University Buckeyes will be wearing a special “Heritage Stripe” jersey for the game (something they have done in CFP games on numerous occasions). Notre Dame, who wore a school record six different uniforms throughout the season, will be taking the field in their “regular” gold helmets, blue jerseys, and gold pants. As is their tradition, Notre Dame has added player NOB for its post-season games, including tonight’s Championship.

Both uniforms will feature the “2025” patch, which is worn by the two teams to reach the CFP’s final game.

You’ll note the gold swoosh on the Ohio State University jersey. In prior years, teams who reached the CFP’s final four games and who were “Nike schools,” all received special jerseys with a silver swoosh. This year, the swoosh is gold, apparently to match the CFP’s color theme.

Here are some additional photos of both teams’ uniforms/helmets as they prepare for tonight’s game:

Note the special helmet decal seen on Ohio State’s helmets. Both teams will wear this on their helmets for the game.

Here’s an approximation of how both teams’ uniforms will look in action tonight.

This will no doubt be a very nice looking game (no matter who you’re pulling for — or against), with Notre Dame in their classic gold/blue/gold, and Ohio State keeping up with CFP tradition by wearing their special “Heritage Stripe” jerseys.

You can watch the CFP title game tonight beginning at 7:30 p.m. The game will be broadcast on ESPN.

 
  
 
Comments (10)

    It was a good looking game. As an Irish fan I want to leave it at that. No, the Buckeyes deserved to win and ND fought back valiantly. Under Armour is not my favorite supplier for the Irish (or any other team) but they do a decent job with the Irish in general (home, road and coaches gear) and they get the pants right. Nike should call Under Armour about that: how do you guys get it done?

    I agree, especially with the pant color. I don’t understand why Nike does not offer an “old gold” color. I’m sure it’s a money / not enough demand thing, but they offer brown as a fabric choice, and I would be willing to bet old gold is far more common than brown as far as school colors go.

    Under Armour’s “gold rush” that ND uses isn’t exactly spot-on, but close enough for those teams who use (or at one time used) old gold as a color. For years now, all schools that were once old gold have to choose between athletic gold (yellow), or vegas gold (pretty much khaki at this point)

    What do you mean by Nike not offering an “old gold” color? It just seems like their major schools all use lighter iterations and from what I can tell the pants all match to that (e.g. Florida State, Wake Forest, Vandy, Purdue, UW when with Nike, etc. are all matched to the school colors which are more Vegas gold).

    Notre dame is one of the only major schools coming to mind that use a more saturated “true gold” color. Notre Dame has gone back to more of the “mustard” pants recently but it’s still not a match to my eye while I do think it looks decent for them. Nike can make that same color, is it just they don’t have a school asking for it?

    I meant that if you compare many schools uniform colors today with say the 1980s, they have all split to one of the two color options offered by the big 3 manufacturers. For example, Purdue and Southern Miss both used to be old gold and black, now purdue uses the very light vegas gold, whereas Southern Miss chose the yellow route. Other teams like GA Tech, Colorado, Vanderbilt, and even FSU had much darker gold colors up until about 1990, then slowly started adopting the vegas gold as their school color. Some of them may still use a darker shade of gold on their helmets, but it no longer matches the gold on their uniforms.

    I’m sure if a big name team requested a different shade of a color they could get it (ie: Tennesse after switching to Nike) just an observation that many gold schools have gone with the same light color in recent years.

    This would have been a very nice color on color with the scarlet-navy and “silver”-gold.

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