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What uniform color combination will Oregon wear at Penn State for the White Out?

Greg Pickelby: Greg Pickel09/25/25GregPickel
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A general view of an end zone pylon during the second half between the Oregon Ducks and the Washington State Cougars at Autzen Stadium. (Mandatory Credit: Soobum Im-USA TODAY Sports)

The pick is in for Oregon regarding what uniform combination it will wear for Saturday’s White Out game with Penn State. The Ducks, who have long been known for mixing and matching yellow, green, and black apparel on game day, will play in their fifth different helmet/jersey/pants combination of the season, according to the team’s game notes.

Head coach Dan Lanning’s team will wear black helmets, a white uniform top, black pants, and white cleats that glow in the dark just like the sleeves will for those who wear them. The program put out a look at the gear on Wednesday night via its social media feed. You can also see the tweet with the photos in the embedded media field below.

Penn State, of course, will wear its traditional blue home uniforms with a white helmet featuring a blue stripe and white pants on game day. As Blue-White Illustrated noted earlier this week, there was never any consideration for the team to wear white gear from top to bottom as it is asking its fans to for its famed and iconic annual White Out spectacular.

“First of all, part of the Whiteout is the contrast. It helps us if everybody else is in white,” Lions coach James Franklin said back in 2019. “It helps our players stand out for our quarterback and those types of things. That’s the first thing. The other thing is, we can’t wear white at home. There’s NCAA rules. We can’t show up and wear whatever we want to wear.

“We would have to get permission from the opposing team to allow us wear white, and I would never do that for anybody else, so we would haven’t even kind of gone that route.”

Penn State-Oregon set for primetime

The Nittany Lions will welcome ESPN’s College GameDay to town before kickoff. The show will go off the air just after Noon ET on Saturday. Then, the teams meet across campus from the Old Main set at Beaver Stadium. Kickoff is at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBC. The game is one of many marquee matchups in Week 5 of the college football season. There are three other top 25 matchups on Saturday, including Alabama-Georgia, which kicks off at the same time as Penn State-Oregon. On3’s Andy Staples is picking the visitors to come into State College and win outright.

“At some point, Penn State has to start winning some of these games,” Staples writes. “The Ducks are ranked No. 6 in the Associated Press poll, so this one won’t count in the James Franklin vs. Top Five Teams stat, but for all intents and purposes it does. And given how Indiana looked against Illinois, it’s not a safe assumption that Penn State can lose to Oregon and Ohio State and still make the College Football Playoff.

“It’s time to find out if Drew Allar and Penn State’s receivers can make plays against a playoff-caliber defense. Meanwhile, Dante Moore and the Oregon offense will face the twin challenges of the Penn State defense and the deafening Whiteout crowd. This one should be all kinds of fun.”