The Ducks face a College Football Playoff elimination game at Iowa Saturday, and their uniform choice suggests a return to their roots as a hard-running, physical, explosive football team born in the Rich Brooks and Mike Bellotti eras.
There are new touches including the silver wings on the helmets, but for the showdown against the CFP No. 20, 6-2 Hawkeyes Oregon chose green helmets, crisp white jerseys with green numerals trimmed in yellow, and green pants.
It's a clean look, but they'll have to match it with a dri-fit undershirt as the update gametime forecast calls for an 80 percent chance of rain, 45 degrees with wind gusts to 16 mph.