Showing posts with label North Carolina Tar Heels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label North Carolina Tar Heels. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

My top 5 and bottom 2 looks for week 1 of college footbal season:

Best:
1) South Carolina at North Carolina

I absolutely love the South Carolina uniform template by Under Armour and believe it is by far the best that UA has to offer in all of football. Pair their all-white uniform with the North Carolina Tar Heels home Carolina Blue and this was an excellent match up on the eyes. 

2) Virginia at Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh finally dropped the Vegas Gold and Navy color scheme in 2019 and went back to the Game Royal and University Gold with a traditional style uniform set. The helmet is perfect with the blue facemask and the stripes on the legs pop. Pair this set with another semi-traditional look from the Virginia Cavaliers and you have a great traditional looking college football game. I only wish that Virginia would drop the ugly gray facemask and put their logo on both sides of the helmet. 


3) Miami at Florida

This was a beautiful game from with the Florida Gators wearing their traditional home uniform vs the Miami Hurricanes wearing their classic road uniform. 


4) UMass at Rutgers .

This ranking is most likely a shock to most people, but I love that Rutgers went back to a traditional looking uniform last year. The Scarlett Red helmet, the stripes on the jersey and pants make this damn near perfect uniform. The UMass Minutemen updated their uniform template this year and it is very basic but in a good way. There is uniformity in this simple design with the double stripes being on all major elements of the uniform (helmet, jersey, and pants). 


5) Miss. State at Louisiana

Monochrome is big deal these days in both college and pro football. I've liked the look for years when done right. By that I mean the uniform cannot be plain on all 3 major parts (like Oregon) and need detailed elements to highlight that there is not just one color from head to toe. For Louisiana, they accomplish this by using the stripes on all 3 major parts of the uniform. As for Miss. State, their uniform set is quickly becoming a favorite of mine. I love the stripe pattern and the uniformity of their entire set. 

Honorable Mention:
6) Boise State at Florida State
When the Seminoles first introduced their current uniform, I hated it as I was a drastic change from their traditional look. Over the last few years it has grown on me to the point of it being tolerable. But paired with the Boise State Broncos, I thought this match up popped. I love that the Broncos changed their facemask from white to blue for this game. I looked amazing with the bright blue pants.


Worst:
1) Ole Miss at Memphis

I love the Ole Miss Rebels uniforms, but the Memphis Tigers uniform is an abomination and should be burnt and never worn again. That is way too much gray and the pants are about as bad as any in college football. If anything, put some tiger stripes on the sides.



2) Northern Iowa at Iowa State 

I loved the previous uniform set of the Iowa State Cyclones, but this new set is garbae. In this match up, they should never wear white pants with the helmet and jersey as there is nothing white anywhere on the uniform. As for Northern Iowa, purple and gold looks good together, but when you add black it doesn't work. 

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Celebrating 150 Years of College Football - Day 65 - North Carolina Tar Heels


The Uni Watch Fans (Sports Aesthetics) Facebook page will be posting a minimum of 1 NCAA Football Team (Division I) a day to celebrate the 150 years of College Football. The teams will begin with the oldest team in their respective conference (Big Ten = Oldest Conference) until all the teams are listed. The team helmets will go back to the early 1960’s and their current logo will be used.
The North Carolina Tar Heels football team represents the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the sport of American football. The Tar Heels have played in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Being the oldest public university and oldest collegiate team in the Carolinas, the school is nicknamed "Carolina" in athletics. The program's title in football is "Carolina Football".
North Carolina has played in 31 bowl games in its history and won three Southern Conference championships and five Atlantic Coast Conference titles. Thirty Tar Heel players have been honored as first-team All-Americas on 38 occasions. Carolina had 32 All-Southern Conference selections when it played in that league until 1952 and since joining the ACC in 1953, has had 174 first-team All-ACC choices.[4] Since joining the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953, the team has won five conference championships, with the most recent title coming in 1980.
One very important contribution to the game of football by Carolina is the modern use of the forward pass; they were the first college team to use the play in 1895. Bob Quincy notes in his 1973 book They Made the Bell Tower Chime: "John Heisman, a noted historian, wrote 30 years later that, indeed, the Tar Heels had given birth to the forward pass against the Bulldogs (UGA). It was conceived to break a scoreless deadlock and give UNC a 6–0 win. The Tar Heels were in a punting situation and a Georgia rush seemed destined to block the ball. The punter, with an impromptu dash to his right, tossed the ball and it was caught by George Stephens, who ran 70 yards for a touchdown."

All-Time Record: 707–542–54 (.563)

Special thanks to:


Conference: ACC
Team: North Carolina Tar Heels
Founded: 1888
Joined Conference: 1953


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