RTT's Create Your Own UT Uniform Contest - And The Winner Is...

by Will Shelton on Jul 14, 2009 8:00 AM EDT in Tennessee Volunteer Football

...Tradition!

Many thanks again to all who participated and voted in our Create Your Own Uniform Contest using EA Sports TeamBuilder software for NCAA Football 10, which hits stores today. Our voting among eleven finalists showed a fair amount of interest across the board, with eight unis receiving at least 20 votes.

But the big winners today are devildogutk...and tradition.

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With almost all the other entrants going with black as a primary color, devildogutk's subtle enhancements to the road whites - including a return to the early 90's orange outlined numerals - won the majority over. This uniform also included the popular (and perhaps adidas inspired) tri-stripe helmet, and carries that "fast" look. Well done.

20% of the vote went to devildogutk, giving him the honors and his choice of Meat Market by Bruce Feldman, or the Rocky Top Tennessee 2009 annual. The race for second place was much tighter, with checkerboard pants in a dead heat with black unis. In the end, kidbourbon had the most popular of the black uniforms and takes home second place with 13% of the vote:

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Thanks again to all who participated - winners can email Joel at rockytoptalk@gmail.com with your contact information to get your prizes sent to you. Having witnessed the power of tradition with a no-black entry winning, while still realizing that 80% of you did vote for an alternate uni with some black in it, we thought we'd try and narrow down what you're really after...

Poll

How much black would you be in favor of on alternate Tennessee uniforms?

No black, only orange...TRADITION!

41 votes

Some black trim, but only on the road (current unis)

18 votes

Some black trim home & away

18 votes

Black as a primary color on the jersey or the pants

15 votes

The Blackout (jerseys & pants)

25 votes

117 votes | Poll has closed

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WOO!!! to devidogutk and kidbourbon!

I assume that many people had the same feeling about this as I did – that I wish we could have voted on several of them. It’s a shame that the SBNation polls don’t allow for multiple-response voting, but there we are.

by David Hooper on Jul 14, 2009 8:21 AM EDT reply actions

I demand a recount!!!!!!!

;-)

Honestly though, we just need to add the checkboard pants to the winner and send it on up the ladder…

Tennessee WILL beat Georgia on the way to 9+ wins in '09!!!

by VolBrian on Jul 14, 2009 8:38 AM EDT reply actions

So, here's what I'm going to say about this:

I love the “Tennessee Orange” color. It’s jarring, to be sure, but it’s our color. My girlfriend’s family supports the following teams:

Clemson, from her dad’s side of things, so you get the whole “conservative” orange showing up all over the place.
South Carolina, who doesn’t use orange at all, but maybe they should to hit a 10-win season at some point in their history
Florida, with that ugly, ugly, “off” orange “I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-puke” color. (They only cheer for Florida because Brandon Spikes is a hometown kid for them, which I really can’t blame them for. But still, it’s like living with the devil every autumn .. except we don’t live together quite yet)

While I like black uniforms and all, and agree they can look BA on a field (I also am a big fan of the Appalachian State Mountaineers, who have black & gold home uni’s) I must say I would shudder to see black replace white or orange as a color on our jerseys. A bit of black trim here and there is fine, but ya’ll, I’ve never met a fan of any other school who likes our color orange, just like I’ve never met a fan of any other school who likes hearing “Rocky Top.” (well, I know a few of the latter, but still.)

So, I voted for the worst case scenario in THIS poll, being “bit of black trim” but really, I think we should change our away jerseys to have as much orange as our home jerseys (NCAA rules not withstanding — is it just a secondary violation to do this? ;) )

Oh, but no orange pants. Please god no orange pants.

by bobo_the_vol on Jul 14, 2009 8:41 AM EDT reply actions

The NCAA just changed the rule on away uniforms.

So long as the hosting team is fine with it, the visiting team can wear colored jerseys. This was a concession to Pete Carroll realizing that a timeout was worth the home-and-home look. It should have been a concession to the death of black and white TV sometime before 1990. (The rule was first in place specifically to help people recognize teams in the B&W days.)

by David Hooper on Jul 14, 2009 9:02 AM EDT up reply actions

I second

This:

Oh, but no orange pants. Please god no orange pants

a jinx every single time we put those on.

Tennessee WILL beat Georgia on the way to 9+ wins in '09!!!

by VolBrian on Jul 14, 2009 8:43 AM EDT reply actions

You know...

With all the Halloween-y orange and black uniforms going around, it’s a shame UT just fired the Great Pumpkin!

What? OW! Stop throwing stuff at me!

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by Year2 on Jul 14, 2009 9:00 AM EDT reply actions

I would think that a Florida fan would regret that…

by David Hooper on Jul 14, 2009 9:03 AM EDT up reply actions

Worst. Comeback. Ever.

;)

by bobo_the_vol on Jul 14, 2009 9:06 AM EDT up reply actions

pretty much, yes

And I’m quite alright with that.

;-)

by David Hooper on Jul 14, 2009 9:15 AM EDT up reply actions

But hey

We ran off Steve, whereas it took Florida AND Bama to get Fulmer Fired.

Isn’t that some kind of reconcilliation?

by bobo_the_vol on Jul 14, 2009 9:22 AM EDT up reply actions

Oh, this could get FUN.

I prefer to imagine that it wasn’t losing to Florida and Bama so much as losing to Georgia and South Carolina…

by David Hooper on Jul 14, 2009 9:25 AM EDT up reply actions

Thank You

As always it’s not about the winning but about having fun…oh who am I kidding it feels good to win! ; )

Seriously though my hats off to everyone who submitted designs. I think everyone did a fantastic job and came up w/ some really neat design elements we’d like to see incorporated into the uniforms (cough..three stripped helmets..cough). Thanks to RTT for hosting a fun competition too.

Go Vols!

by devildogutk on Jul 14, 2009 9:38 AM EDT reply actions