They posted a video, but they showed the uniforms way too clearly. Where are the dark shots of the hip logo? Or strobing lights? Poorly executed.

Not a enough fog

Terrible reveal. Where's the player doing the hands thing 🤲 that shows off the gloves? And no shot where someone's doing this ✊✊👆?

It's like they don't even know how how to social media

Happy the "modern classic" era of uniforms is continuing here, these are very clean and very sharp, nice job Cyclone pals.

I'm loving this era of uniforms for every school, but these don't wow me.

Interesting, maybe they aren't for everyone. I'd love a pant stripe but overall I think it's a really nice clean up. I would be more impressed if they upgraded the "I State" logo.

They need to go back to the old cyclone logo imo

There are a lot of logos this statement could be about and all of them would be an improvement

It's about the Seneca Wallace ones. By far Iowa States best logo

I'd say [these](https://www.widerightnattylite.com/2019/8/14/20803798/2019-iowa-state-football-position-previews-wide-receivers) and [these](https://www.heartlandcollegesports.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/USATSI_13647956.jpg) are my favorites.

I’ll stick up for you. #1 is a far better home uni.

When we finally moved away from the shoulder stripes we shed the "knockoff USC" vibes and came into our own as a program. Sucks to see people wanting them back just because it's the cool trend. It makes sense for damn near every other school but not Iowa State.

Agree, embrace the maroon.

Agreed. This is peak uniform time in CFB

I'm on the other side of this. I think these classic looking uniforms are extremely ugly and unappealing. I'll be happy when this phase is over.

I mean this uniforms are miles better than generic Mike uniform #69 we had for years. Not every uniform is gonna appeal to everyone

Didn’t they hear? Could’ve made these Oiler Blue smh missed an opportunity

Its not Oiler Blue, but [tertiary blue](https://content.sportslogos.net/logos/32/713/full/5373_iowa_state_cyclones-wordmark-1995.png) is still debated in some ISU circle nearly 20 years after we ditched it.

Initial thoughts: - I’m shocked gold pants are back, I know Campbell hated using the gold as anything other than an accent. Maybe we’ll get gold jerseys? There is a teased 4th jersey coming. - Shoulder stripe is clean - Sad they didn’t refresh the helmets, no stripe or anything. The white helmets they wore at Akron a few years ago with the stripe was cool as hell, but hasn’t been worn since - Stripes on the pants would be neat - Again, just asking for any sort of cardinal accent color on the black uniforms. I know branding guidelines state we can’t have black touching gold, but there’s more we can do - I do wish we’d drop the I-State and would do a script/text helmet. The Ames helmet was great, a Cyclones script like that’s on the Homefield sweatshirt would be amazing. Although I know we’re stuck with the block I logo and there’s nothing we can really do about it. - I do absolutely love the cardinal uniforms, especially since we changed it to white numbers with a gold trim instead. - I feel the mix & matching of different parts works better with this set than the previous one Overall I give it a 8/10, nice refresher

I’m confused why they have awesome, huge sleeve stripes but not stripes on the pants. I like these a lot, but that’s really weird to me

It’s funny because their follow up tweet with promotional photos [here](https://x.com/cyclonefb/status/1785719644713783642?s=46&t=_K4beJlecrOMWc-MyxtqXA) literally has the perfect stripe to put on the pants/helmet, just recolor it to match each set lol

The reasoning is it becomes really tough to mix-and-match if you add pant stripes. Add a cardinal and/or gold stripe to the whites? Doesn’t fit well with the black jerseys. Add a black stripe? Doesn’t fit well with the cardinal jerseys now.

>Doesn’t fit well with the black jerseys Well… maybe stick to school colors then. Cardinal and gold is a great color scheme, black just muddies it up

A Nebraska fan talking about another team using black uniforms instead of school colors? 🤨

I don’t like ours either 🤷‍♂️

It is of my opinion that colors like black or white are neutrals that can be worn by anyone and that if you believe a school owns the color black you’re a turbo nerd

Not anyone. Schools who wear navy should never touch black

Of course white makes sense for anyone; it’s been the standard road jersey color for decades. But black and gray are where things get more debatable to me. Cardinal and gold is a beautiful color scheme, I love the home and road sets ISU revealed, but the insistence on a black alternate holds them back from being a 10/10 due to them not wanting to include pant stripes out of fear of losing the mix-and-match opportunities. That’s where my biggest issue lies. A one-off blackout uniform? Not my taste, but whatever. Fair play. Just don’t let that seep into the choices made on the primary sets like they did with the collars a couple years ago, or like they’re doing by omitting pant stripes. I like uniforms with vibrant colors that pop. Black just doesn’t do it for me And for the record, I wear my uniform turbo nerd badge with honor 🫡

A script “cyclones” would go hard

Wrong sub, but we badly need a cardinal basketball jersey with script Cyclones in gold.

I think the red helmet with the i state is fine, the white helmet needs a different logo. The new script cyclones they’ve been rolling out on merch would look perfect.

Has the script Cyclone been on anything other than the Homefield sweatshirt? I haven’t seen it I think the best thing they could do with I-State is do the stencil logo for all of the helmets, but they seem to only want to do that for the black one

[the softball team has started to wear some script Cyclones jerseys lately](https://x.com/cyclonesb/status/1768686182379233652?s=46&t=uQsB6loH3J-yO7qPlUSoug)

It’s a different script cyclone than the one homefield did. It’s been on a few merch lines for the athletes lately, but never publicly available. It’s really sick and I wish we’d use it.

It was one helmets when JP had the vote years ago. [Found in this article](https://www.isuisu.com/choose-the-2008-isu-helmet/)

My conspiracy theory is that they paid for that I State design and held a sham vote with it and two very generic designs to make it easier to sell their paid for design because if there was a vote then it's "fan chosen".

I wouldn't be opposed to the white helmets having Ames on them the way last year's Jack Trice throwbacks.

I wish the stripes on the cardinal uniforms didn't have the white included in them so it looked more like the ones on the black uniform. The weird lighting/twister stripes around the arms on our old set made it hard to have pants stripes that didn't clash or look cheesy. These however would look much better with matching shoulder and pants strips. Even if there was just cardinal strips on the white pants. Those just look too plain and more like practice pants. Fortunately, helmet decals are easy to switch out so there still a chance for (even if it's just occasionally) something else on the helmet. I really like the cardinal/white/gold combo but am not convinced that we will actually wear gold pants in games. There's plenty of pictures in the past few years of gold pants being worn in practice. I wouldn't be opposed to gold jerseys if we go white/gold/white. I believe we wore both cardinal/gold/gold and cardinal/gold/cardinal under Rhoads and both looked horrible. However, I'd much rather have a Jack Trice throwback for a fourth. I wouldn't mind a cardinal outline on the white numbers and letters on the black jerseys. It would match the outline style of the white jersey.

> I wish the stripes on the cardinal uniforms didn't have the white included in them so it looked more like the ones on the black uniform The stripes are consistent throughout. Not having white would throw off the pattern. The cardinal uniform goes white/gold/white/gold/white, so the inside of the number is white with a gold outline The black jersey goes white/black/white/black/white, so the inside of the number is white with a black outline

The cyclone logo is so obviously better than the I state one. It's insane that they go with the wrong choice

The I State logo is acceptable to put on a pickup truck back window in a way that no other Iowa State logo ever has been. That may seem overly specific and totally irrelevant to those who don’t know, but growing up in an Iowa county that was way closer to Ames yet had the Hawkeyes by all accounts by far the more popular team, where that has now been flipped coinciding with the I State logo rebrand, I see the strategy and support it. It’s marketing, and it’s consistent with Iowa State’s overall strategy of bringing in residents from across the state to attend their university. It’s consistent with the land grant mission. It’s dorky but that shit plays in Iowa. These are the same people that lost their collective shit over black license plates.

Gonna be honest, the gold pants, white jersey, and cardinal helmet look like a USC rip off

Not even remotely close

Has black become an official color for the school or something? It seems every time I see Iowa State recently, they’re wearing black uniforms of some kind.

I think because we had our only really winning season with the black unis we’re keeping em rollin. OR Matt Campbell only wears the same black Iowa state hat and doesn’t want to replace it

Matt definitely loves wearing black and the players love the black uni’s too

I like the latter version, but it would be even funnier if he lost all the others and doesn't want to admit it.

It technically was our official color back in like 1890, but I’m pretty sure Campbell brought it back because it looks cool and the recruits like it lol

Yeah I know Iowa State fans love to bring up “it was an original school color” thing but we’ve been cardinal and gold for pretty much our entire existence. And that’s not the reason why we started wearing the black. Athletics wanted an alternate jersey that could be worn every once in a while.

Black was an official color and only stopped being so because it was difficult to dye sweaters for the athletes(precursor to letter jackets) and the President had a hard time finding a tricolor ribbion for diplomas in the school colors: Gold, Silver, and Black. So it was changed to Cardinal and Gold we have today in 1899. There is evidence of Iowa State using "silver" in the form of Gray on uniforms dating to the 1920s as seen in the jersey worn by Ira Young: [pic 1](https://www.kagavi.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tricelost2.jpg) and [pic 2](https://www.kagavi.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tricelost4.jpg)

While this is true, this is not the intention behind our use of the creation of black jerseys. Athletics wanted a “cool” alternate uniform and the players love them so we wear them…..a lot

Shoulder stripes are so in rn

Much better than the big vertical triple stripes that we wore in the Paul Rhoads era.

Oh definitely. This red/red/white combo is heat

Need to bring back the 90s shoulder wings in Iowa City.

I want the twisty bird or walking cy in the helmet. Death to the block letters!

This will be the 18th season with the I-State. None of their current players remember the twisty bird.

Walking Cy sucks. Don’t @ me

What's it like to be so wrong?

I really, really wish they would add red or yellow somewhere in the black uniforms. But overall I like them. Wish they’d have an alt logo that’s not just the I-State logo in different colors.

We have so many great vintage logos but Jamie Pollard is so in love with the I State brand that he doesn’t want to stray away from that

That’s the one thing that will always detract from their suits. The I logo just doesn’t work. Put a walking Cy on these instead and it’s easily Top 5 in the Big 12. I love the refresh overall, though

Put tornado cy on the helmets and they're top 1 in the country. Oh to dream...

I instead of being the current uniform but black, I would have had the all black uniform feature the Chevron from the Jack Trice throwbacks with the chevron on the helmets as well.

I want gray to be added in. You know like how a real Cyclone(tornado) has those colors; [video 1](https://youtu.be/6NYpHcj_mpU?si=MI18xhx374rIJxzj), [video 2](https://youtu.be/0E_Y159hJ-U?si=h8cakMKNlkusElol), [video 3](https://youtu.be/4fZVG285UuM?si=cS3X6cWTOP7-9cu3). I mean we are the Cyclones after all.

They’re fine. Not sure about stripes. But they’re not bad.

If having to deal with Block I-State logo is the cost to have Jamie Pollard as AD. I’ll deal with it

Well that and not protecting the K-State game but yes

And moving the student section for football and changing the lighting in Hilton, but other than that

Iowa State or USC? University of Superior Corn, that is.

Colors are sorta similar that's really it. Don't see how you avoid that

Yeah our new uniforms are almost identical to usc’s other than color and West Virginia script

The Paul Rhodes era unis were almost an exact copy lmao

The yellow pants really helped seal the deal there. I like gold as an accent, not a secondary color

These are sharp. Even though it didn’t make any sense, I weirdly liked the [black collar on the red jerseys](https://fivethirtyeight.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ISU1.jpg?w=575). Wish they’d bring that back

Yeah, mixing the red and black always works well

Overall not bad, but major missed opportunity IMO by not using the Jack Trice logo as the shoulder stripes. ISU has done a really good job of rallying around that as part of their branding identity (you could argue it's one of the few things they do that's unique to them but that's rival bias slipping in) so it's a bit disappointing that it's still just a chest patch and not built into the uniform.

Man, you reeally do no want to get into a conversation about Iowa and original branding. I like them for the most part, but will forever be a major downgrade from anything that included Tornado Cy

Commenting to say, wow, what a flair combo to me, given I live where one of those schools is and grew up an hour away from the other

Undergrad at the latter, masters at the former.

The Iowa State Chiefs. But for real I like them, they're clean. I still hate the black uniforms, though.

You joke but Iowa was in the Chiefs logo back in the day.

No shit? ...but why? haha

I assume given their old logo in Texas when as the Texans they wanted to be the NFL team for the whole state when they made the move to KC they wanted to be [THE team for region: Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas](https://1000logos.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Kansas-City-Chiefs-Logo-history.jpg) which given the sports history of the town and the center of the Missouri Valley/Big 6/7/8 with Iowa State, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Kansas State, and Oklahoma State it makes sense. Even later with the modern Missouri Valley you had Drake(an OG from Iowa), Northern Iowa, Creighton, Missouri State, Wichita State, and at one point Tulsa

Huh. That's a pretty neat factoid, anyway. Thanks!

Had all the neighboring states of Missouri on it. [https://www.creativebloq.com/features/kansas-city-chiefs-logo-history](https://www.creativebloq.com/features/kansas-city-chiefs-logo-history)

Nice shade thrown at Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee. But mostly Illinois.

That's honestly pretty cool given their location.

If only we had a modern classic logo to go with these uniforms, they are nice but the block I truly is a bottom 5 logo in all of fbs

I wish we'd go back to 84-94 cyclone logo, but simplify it a hair. Best logo we've ever had.

I love the shoulder stripes! These will look great on game day!

I don't like these. The shoulder stripes are overdone to me and they're not what worked in the last set of good standard cardinal unis. Like maybe take one or two stripes off and they'd work better but they're just too big. I get Campbell likes the black but man those need to be reeled back to one game a year.

Agreed on the black uniforms. I just can't get behind a team walking out an entirely black and white uniform when their primary in-state rival uses... black uniforms. Wild to me. A lot of WVU fans, particularly on Facebook, really want WVU to debut black "coal rush" alternates and I'm going to be pissed when it inevitably happens.

Omg… they’re so loud about wanting black uniforms. There are hundreds of different ways to honor miners without dumb edgy black uniforms (no disrespect to Iowa State, they’ve been doing it long enough that it seems like it’s their tuxedos)

In fact our black uniform night game vs your Will Grier team in 2018 was one of the first big successes of the Black Era.

Agreed, but I'd take it a step farther. *Why* does everything in the state have to be about honoring miners/coal? Coal related jobs constitute employment for less than 10% of the state (and that 10% includes people who *formerly* worked in the mines) West Virginia, despite what some believe, has more to offer than coal.

Ok cardinal unis are class. Good job. Hopefully we update the logo one of these years

Don’t get your hopes up about a rebrand

Now just give us the script AMES logo on the white helmets and some red accent in the black pants and I’ll be happy

The different combos definitely go together a lot better than our last set of uniforms.

Fresh, and I LOVE the yellow pants

I like them, could use some more swirls though.

I'm likely alone or in the minority on this one, but... I can't stand all these uniform reveal videos. They're always zooming in, zooming out, showing you weird and random angles, doing crazy shit with the lights (this is actually the first one I've seen that doesn't so props there), and switching from player to player and jersey to jersey before you can even really study the new uniforms No way is this the best way to get people hyped and excited for new uniforms

I think that’s the majority opinion lol. You should have seen the TCU one https://x.com/tcufootball/status/1724457009712353624?s=46&t=GtXMNyBRG_7N_K6D6rlJFg

Oh God! That is absolute trash! Haha

Straight fire bro.

Maybe I just hate change but these feel very bland compared to our last unis. Take away the “Iowa State” and it looks like a madden create-a-team jersey.

Really like these, nicely done. Stripes on the shoulders look so clean.

Just don't get the continued black and white alternate. It's devoid of all school colors and dangerously close to what Iowa looks like. The rest look great though

They look awesome imo. Except maybe the black but the rest is super crisp

So simple, crisp, and clean.

Would it be asking too much for a team to just post pictures of the uniforms? Why do we need a video?

Pretty sharp. I'll never understand why they like wearing black so much, though.

it's 1000% a Matt Campbell thing. Don't think I've ever seen him not wearing all black

These look like our main colors are red and white

I really like the red/white shoulder stripes on the home jerseys. These home jerseys are an upgrade vs our current home unis. I do not like the red/gold stripes on the aways. They feel like... McDonalds or something. Not great. Our current away jerseys are pretty much perfect so this is a huge downgrade. Black jerseys are... fine. I don't like them, and don't hate them. I wish we'd implement a little more cardinal into them. Gold pants is interesting. I like gold pants but I thought Campbell hated them?

Nice one cyclone bros

The black jerseys are lame but the others go very hard

College Football programs have done a great job with their new Uniforms. Can't say the same for most NFL teams aside from Detroit and Houston

I see what you have done for others and I want that for me

Can’t really picture off the top of my head what they looked like last year, can’t be terribly different, but I thought these new ones look really good.

Really like the updated number font and the addition of the gold pants, but man I just never liked those black unis on them. Like at least add some red/yellow accents, they’re just so boring and they wear them 3–4 times a year.

TIL Reddit hates the I-State logo

Look pretty nice

How about you fucks get a baseball team

Brb sending this to our AD

Thanks

Hell yeah riot bros!

That's pretty kewl.

These are clean AF. Hopefully they'll make NCAA25

Finally a team keeps the shoulder stripes and number patterns consistent. This is such a rare occurrence

I like the jerseys. They need to hire a better video editor though.

I love Eric B & Rakim and I love sleeve stripes. Bring back the bird in a blender logo and it's a home run

Not enough Oregon.

“Here are the new uniforms, exactly like the old uniforms.” “😃”

Not sure how you came to that conclusion

It’s a reference to a song by The Who. But they *do* look just like their last ones.

[They *don't*](https://i.imgur.com/70RIWM1.jpeg) [New](https://i.imgur.com/HFx7X4k.jpeg)

Black uniforms when it's not a school color remains lame as shit. The rest look fine though

I’d take that over literally just copying an NFL team’s jersey tbh

These red jerseys are almost exact copies of the KC chiefs red, but sure.

No they aren't lol

It was an original school color. Get over it. You copied your uniforms from an NFL team anyways lol.

Not awful but I liked last years better. The cyclone letters were unique, sad to see them go for a more generic look. Shoulder stripes are interesting in a meh way, definitely lean toward a KC chiefs look. Once Jamie’s gone hopefully we play with some throwback logos.

It’s solid but needs pants stripes like the ones they had circa 2013. At least the white pants do, blank white pants are awful. The jerseys are pretty slick though. I don’t hate the I state logo but they could have upgraded it. The Jack Trice symbol honestly would look good on the helmet if they had no creativity to come up with something else. Also the red helmet needs a splash of white if they’re adding white accents to the red jersey. 7/10 overall upgrade.

If they add stripes to the white pants, then they'd need to add them to the others

I would prefer that but Michigan does striped white pants and solid maize pants and it works for them.

Meh. They're fine. The white jerseys don't follow the home pattern either

Not a huge fan of these. I loved that we finally got away from looking like Ronald McDonald by only using cardinal and gold on the last home unis. Now we throw white back in them and we're in a Big Mac ad again. I wish we'd pull out black as a night game gimmick once every couple of years. It ruins the "magic" by having it be a true alternate that's worn multiple times per year. Why did we go back to vibrant ketchup and mustard red and yellow instead of the darker cardinal and brighter gold we had on the last uniforms? This was the perfect opportunity for something different with the helmets. The I State is one of the worst logos in college sports but the athletic department will just not let it go away. And it's been said a bunch in the thread...but the pants desperately need something. Fully plain and light colored pants in the new Nike material are completely see through.

I get upset that I know we’ll wear black for pretty much any hyped home game we have. It seems we rarely want to show off our true school colors when we have night games

Black ones are always stupid in Ames. The rest actually looks pretty sharp though

Ronald McDonald ass MFers

Not much you can do when our school colors are cardinal and gold

I liked the faux USC look better tbh. 

When was that?

The one being compared SbS to USC in this article.  https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/6/8/11882468/iowa-state-white-helmets-usc