Ohio State University is no longer allowed to refer to its school colors as scarlet and gray, thanks to a surprising legal settlement announced Thursday night.
Effective today, the colors are officially known as “ruby and porpoise,” university officials said.
“It’s mostly semantics,” OSU spokeswoman April Uno said. “The new colors are just slightly different from the old ones.”
The settlement ends a 13-year court battle between OSU and tiny Philo Olmsted College in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Fans aren’t prevented from identifying the OSU colors as scarlet and gray, but no OSU website, publication or even song is permitted to use the terms.