NC State football creatively unveils uniforms for Thursday
The uniform craze in college football can probably be attributed to Oregon’s colorful combinations that were mixed and matched starting around the 1996 season. Now every team, No. 12/16-ranked NC State football included, tries to vary the combinations of the school colors on a seemingly weekly basis.
NC State unveiled their uniform combinations for Thursday’s primetime showdown in Raleigh against Virginia Tech. The kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Carter-Finley Stadium on ESPN, and the Pack is a 13.5-point favorite.
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With Halloween around the corner, the NC State football creative media department paid homage to a horror classic to unveil the uniforms for Thursday evening in a video starring the Wolfpack tight ends room.
Fifth-year redshirt junior Trent Pennix and redshirt freshman twins Cedric Seabrough and Fredrick Seabrough did the honors of recreating a famous scene from “The Shining.” Ultimately, the uniforms showed a look that NC State football has used once previously: white helmets and pants with black jerseys.
That is the same uniform combination that NC State wore during a 23-13 regular-season ending win over Georgia Tech in 2020.
However, NC State has obviously broken out the black jerseys on numerous occasions since 2014. That included earlier this season, when the Wolfpack went all black during a 27-14 home win over Texas Tech.
Overall, NC State football is 6-3 when wearing the black jerseys since debuting in 2014 in a home win over Old Dominion in 2014.
Most of the time, that was an all-black look, including the ODU victory.
In 2021, NC State used that all-black combination during a home game against Louisiana Tech. A week after the thrilling double-overtime victory over Clemson, the Pack needed to hold off LaTech for a 34-27 win that required an interception from safety (and birthday boy) Jakeen Harris in the end zone with 5 seconds remaining to prevent a potential overtime.
The year before, NC State hosted No. 11 Miami for a Thursday night game during the height of the pandemic restrictions and led 41-31 in the fourth quarter before the Hurricanes rallied for 44-41 victory over the all-black wearing Pack.
In 2019, the Wolfpack went all black during a 34-23 victory over Ball State. NC State also wore black jerseys but with red helmets and pants in a 34-20 home loss to Louisville.
The season prior, NC State lost a heartbreaker in the all-black combination to Wake Forest, dropping the contest 27-23 after the Demon Deacons scored 2 unanswered touchdowns in the final 6-plus minutes, the second of which came with 30 seconds left.
One of the highlights all the all-black uniforms came in 2017, when NC State knocked off Lamar Jackson and No. 17 Louisville, 39-25, on a Thursday night ESPN game.
In 2015, NC State routed Eastern Kentucky in all black but lost, 20-13, to Louisville in the red helmet and pants look with the black jerseys.
That red-black-red combo was used in a lopsided win over Wake Forest in 2014.
