Texas Will Wear Burnt Orange at LSU on Saturday — Its First Time on the Road Since 1971
LSU wears white at home, so the Longhorns wear their home color in Baton Rouge. The last time Texas did that anywhere, it beat UCLA 28-10 in 1971.
AUSTIN — Saturday night in Baton Rouge will look wrong, in the best way. Because LSU wears white at home in SEC play, Texas will wear its burnt orange jerseys on the road — the first time the Longhorns have worn their home color away from home since 1971, Longhorns Wire reported.
The last occasion was at UCLA, in the Los Angeles Colosseum, where UCLA wore its powder blue home jerseys and Texas won 28-10. Colored jerseys on the road were unremarkable then; the NCAA's 1982 jersey rule, requiring school colors at home, ended the practice. LSU, which had always worn white at home, spent 1983 through 1994 in purple before coach Gerry DiNardo personally lobbied the NCAA Football Rules Committee and won the Tigers' whites back in 1995. LSU still wears purple at home once a year, for a non-conference game.
"All I've known is LSU in white jerseys. It always looks weird to me when they wear a purple jersey," Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian said Monday, as Longhorns Wire reported. Texas was supposed to wear burnt orange at LSU in 2020, but that season was disrupted by COVID-19, and the moment waited five more years.
The game itself needs no costume to sell it: No. 6 Texas (7-2) at No. 24 LSU, Saturday, Nov. 14, at 6:30 p.m. CT at Tiger Stadium, on ABC — the Longhorns' first trip to Baton Rouge since 1953, with Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit and Holly Rowe on the call, per UT Athletics. Texas will just be wearing the color its fans expect to see at home, 600 miles from it.
