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A crossroads season for Horns QBs past and present. Simms, Young, Snead, and McCoy all face important seasons.

1. Texas Longhorns

Not a shocking number one choice from a Texas Longhorns website but the Longhorns have the best overall uniforms in college football by a mile. They are Sports Illustrated’s favorite and of course ours too.

Burnt orange is unique, you’re not going to find another team in the country wearing that color. The longhorn logo on the helmet is the best and most recognizable icon in college sports. It is a perfect representation of the university and the state.

The home uniforms with the burnt orange jersey are great but the all white road unis are classic, simple, and perfect. When Texas in their road whites faced off against Michigan in their home blue uniforms in the 2005 Rose Bowl it was as good as it gets. I’m going to go watch that game on DVD now. Hook ’em!

College football’s best uniforms

1. Texas
2. Michigan
3. Florida State
4. Southern Cal
5. Notre Dame

Manzano & Hooker qualify for Beijing Olympics. Former Longhorns make it in men’s 1,500, women’s 200.

Once again someone in the vast world of the Interwebs has gone through the trouble of creating the complete 2008 college football schedule in Excel for our use and enjoyment. I still have no idea who makes it, just that someone does it while at work at Compass Bank. Thank you anonymous time waster!

Just like the previous two seasons each conference is broken down into separate tabs, including a simple matrix showing who is playing who. Find your favorite team and read across left to right to see in an easy visual way what team they’re playing each week. Enjoy.

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2. Michigan Wolverines

Classic colors, jerseys, and of course great helmets. There’s not a more iconic and distinctive helmet in college football than the winged maize and blue design the Wolverines have had since 1938. The white jerseys are good, but the dark blues are our favorite home uniform.

The Michigan uniforms are easily our second favorite out there and the top two on this list are a cut above any other team. The pants and jerseys have changed over the years (and may be changing again this season) but as long as the helmets stay the same they’ll remain at the top of any top uniforms list.

Check back Wednesday for the best college football uniform in the country.

College football’s best uniforms

1. Texas
2. Michigan
3. Florida State
4. Southern Cal
5. Notre Dame

Sunday Morning QB sees a resurgence in the wishbone in 2008 thanks to Army and coach Paul Johnson in the ACC.

7 Horns or ex-Horns are on swim team. It’s possible that the the 400 medley team could be composed entirely of Texas exes.

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3. Florida State Seminoles

My favorite non-traditional uniform. The spear on the side of the helmet and the garnet and gold (and Charlie Ward) made the Seminoles my second favorite team as a kid. It might just be the athletes they’ve had the last twenty years but even their bad teams of the last few years have looked like they could play. Just a supercool uniform.

Nike has had an impact on their uniforms but they haven’t really screwed them up like they did their instate rivals to the southeast. The only things I don’t like are the small merit decals on the helmets (those are always stupid) and the multi-colored jersey collar.

Check back tomorrow for the second best college football uniform.

College football’s best uniforms

1. Texas
2. Michigan
3. Florida State
4. Southern Cal
5. Notre Dame

I thought he’d be back at Texas when he dropped to the 7th round, but Jordan Danks is motivated to join his brother with White Sox.