West Virginia Mountaineers Football - Uniforms

Uniforms

Since 1980, West Virginia's standard uniform has consisted of a dark blue jersey (home) or a white jersey (away) with gold pants and a dark blue helmet adorned by the gold "Flying WV" logo on both sides. West Virginia's uniform scheme has also included a gold helmet, white helmet, gold jersey, dark blue pants, and white pants at various stages throughout its history. WVU also added a gray uniform and helmet combination to its rotation exclusively for the 2012 season.

WVU introduced new uniforms for the 2013 season. The helmets, jerseys, and pants each feature blue, gold, and white primary color sets, creating 27 different possible uniform combinations. The reintroduction of the gold and white helmets to the uniform scheme marked the first time each have been used since the late 1970s. All of the helmets feature a matte, non-glossy paint finish and the "Flying WV" logo adorned on the sides. The West Virginia state motto, Montani Semper Liberi, (“Mountaineers are Always Free”), is stitched inside the back collar of all three jerseys. A canary image is stitched inside the front collar, representative of West Virginia’s coal mining heritage for their use in testing toxicity levels in the mines. The jerseys also have a unique number style exclusive to WVU, featuring sharp points and edges inspired by a miner’s pickaxe.

The Mountaineers wore a Nike Pro Combat uniform, specifically designed to pay tribute to West Virginia's coal mining industry, for the 2010 season edition of the Backyard Brawl. The uniform consisted of a shade of white accented by a layer of coal dust, along with accents of university gold that referenced canaries utilized in coal mining. The helmet also implemented the coal dust accent, along with a yellow line down the center designed to embody the beam of light emitted by a miner's headlamp. West Virginia also donned the Pro Combat uniforms later that season for its Champs Sports Bowl match up with North Carolina State.