Ohio State football reveals new scarlet alternate uniforms

The Ohio State football team has gone through various alternate uniforms over the years. Under Urban Meyer, the Buckeyes rolled out brand new alternates nearly every single season. Over the past couple of seasons, Ohio State has used their past all-black uniforms as its main alternate.

Monday afternoon, OSU unveiled an all-new alternate uniform for this season’s Penn State showdown on Halloween weekend. The reveal came as a surprise since it felt like the all-black uniforms were now the yearly alternate uniform. This year’s alternate is all-scarlet and will be appropriately worn against Penn State, Ohio State has already called upon fans to scarlet out The Shoe against Penn State.

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It looks like the Buckeye faithful is going to attempt to do their own twist on Penn State’s famous whiteouts. It will be very interesting to see how the scarlet out goes. If it’s successful, the Ohio State football team could have found their new yearly tradition to electrify The Shoe.

Past blackouts with the Ohio State football team wearing all-black alternates turned out okay. It could have gone better, simply put, most OSU fans are always going to rep scarlet. The scarlet out has the chance to work very well and be a new special tradition in college football.

Now about the new alternates, most seem to like the new uniforms quite well. Personally, I am a big fan of the all-scarlet alternates. The scarlet pants go well with the traditional scarlet uniform, and the all-scarlet socks and cleats go along with the theme.

These new alternates also go along with tradition. In the past, some fans have not liked alternates since it goes against the traditional uniforms. This was a way to wear the traditional helmets and jerseys while putting a twist on them. If the new uniforms are received well, the Buckeyes could eventually look to do some all-white alternates using the traditional helmet and white jerseys.

As of now, no time for the Penn State game has been announced. Hopefully, the Buckeyes can dodge a Noon kickoff and have a scarlet out at night. The scarlet out in The Shoe with the Ohio State football team wearing all-scarlet uniforms has the potential to be awesome.