Georgia Football: Uniforms Don’t Matter

Georgia football will take on Clemson on Sept. 4, and there has been some speculation about what the Bulldogs will wear.

Of course, fans are stepping closer to the ledge because, as Georgia fans, we all know what alternate uniforms have done to us in the past.

Looking at you Boise State game in 2011 and that terrible, terrible color choice.

As soon as someone mentions alternate uniforms, black jerseys or anything of the sort, Georgia fans start having PTSD symptoms— trust me, I  get it.

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To be as logical as possible, uniform schemes don’t matter, but what matters are the players on the field and how they perform.

Whether you like to admit it or not, uniform colors don’t do anything but get worn by the players.

They’re not unlucky even though sometimes they’re just downright ugly, but it’s not a luck thing.

The latest debacle in Georgia fans and uniform combinations comes from a tweet that claims the Bulldogs and Tigers sold their ability to replicate the NFL “Color Rush” style for recruiting purposes.

The tweet includes a photo with an all-red uniform on a Georgia photo and Clemson’s all-purple look.

Clemson has a schedule for their uniforms, and for the most part, they only wear the all-purple look for military appreciation day. Now I’m not saying they can’t change, but if this tweet and the author’s “inside sources” were correct, wouldn’t the Tigers wear their all-orange look they sometimes rock during the season?

To me, that’s what makes this post the most suspicious. As someone who’s been to a Clemson game, the average person would know that while purple is one of their primary colors, orange and white are the ones they use the most.

Even if Georgia has red pants in stock and recruits have worn them for photos, it doesn’t mean they’ll use them against Clemson or anyone else.

Remember Georgia rocked those red pants with they wore the throw-back jerseys last year, so of course, they still have them.

However, that’s not my point. What I’m getting at is the game doesn’t come down to who wears what. The game comes down to who prepped better and performed better on the field. Georgia could wear ballerina tutus, and I  wouldn’t care as long as they played well.

So much hype goes into what the team wears, and I  get it because I  used to care, but times are changing. Recruits like new things. Coaching staffs like impressing recruits so Georgia can continue to land four and five-star athletes.

Long as the team gets the win, who cares what they wear? Even if they lose, it’s not the jersey that lost. As easy as it is to blame wearing something different, the normal home and away uniforms have far more losses than the alternate ones do — and even far more wins.

So instead of freaking out and getting in the fetal position when someone with “inside sources” tells the Twitter-verse that Georgia is wearing all-red, embrace it.

Think about how good those recruits will look in the red and black when the Bulldogs beat Clemson wearing whatever they do.

And be glad Georgia isn’t the team that wears orange.