Recently Rivals took a shot at ranking the best football uniforms in the Big Ten and frankly, they did a bad job. The list is all over the place. Parts of it seem to be put together by human embodiments of an Encyclopedia Britannica circa 1937 and some of it by millennials. They also take some alternate uniforms into account while ignoring others. It’s a mess.
Today I’m going to fix their errors and come up with a uniform ranking that surely not a single person on this beautiful planet of ours will disagree with. NOT ONE. That may seem like an impossible mission, and if so, consider me Tom Cruise. I’ll get it done with Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames at my side.
I’ll be ranking based on standard uniforms used for home and away games during the 2019 season. No crazy alternates. No fuss. If it’s not part of the regular rotation, it’s outta here. With that said, let’s start by making fun of Maryland.
14. Maryland
Maryland has been taking huge Ls in the uniform game since they revamped their look a handful of years ago. Outside of the Terps, the Big Ten is a really solid conference when it comes to uniforms. The helmets are always doing too much and while I respect them for trying to incorporate such a unique state flag into their look, it just rarely ever works. The black on black on black look is their best and it’s still held down by the lid. The rest is just blahhhhhhhhhwful.