I don't have much beef with Florida (uniform or branding wise, that is) because generally they do a terrific job with their look. I would say of all of the SEC teams, they are in the top two in knowing and sticking to their identity.
For me at least, this identity is within their striping pattern. In the photo to the left, much of their identity is wrapped into these stripes. For this to work, they need to be consistent, and for the most part, are. |
As you can see, the striping pattern here is 100% consistent in an "ORANGE | BLUE | WHITE | BLUE | ORANGE" order. Florida does an excellent job maintaining this, even with the Orange helmet design with Orange outer striping disappearing against the Orange helmet (in theory).
As great as their branding is with these stripes and as close to perfection as they are, they do fall short (of course). Most notably this error can be seen on the Orange pants and jersey. |
There is absolutely no reason the striping on these two pieces flip deliberately flip the Orange and Blue striping order from every other piece they own. It has to be a gaffe, an oversight. It needs to be fixed yesterday.
The bottom line here is that they botched this Orange sleeve and pants design, likely because they were throwing them together quickly to try and get them in. I know this is the case because they got them right in the 2015 Sugar Bowl. |
They have since fixed the striping pattern on their White helmet to match the pattern on the White jersey and pants, so I don't need to go in on that anymore. No uniform mock-up is needed, either, because everything else truly is that good. Some will complain about the custom number font as opposed to the old block, but they will complain wrongly. College teams should always use custom number fonts that match their identity. This isn't the 70s and 80s anymore where you just had to order the stock numbers and stripes the company offered and hope it all came back matching. Come on Florida, you are so close.