A New Era
The first year of Auburn’s Nike era has come to a close. With every program on campus receiving a brand new allotment of uniforms, it was a busy year for the Auburn Uniform Database. As always, this piece is a rundown of everything that happened uniform-wise for the eight programs covered on this site.
If you’d like to start from the beginning, you can check out the articles below detailing the releases of each uniform. Some items were concrete, others required a little guessing. Take a look back at the initial coverage and see if any of those predictions came true or not.
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Clint Richardson2025-07-14 08:00:382025-07-17 21:32:15Breaking Down Auburn’s Fall Nike UniformsThe beginning of the athletic year created a unique situation, where Auburn teams either needed to practice or create content, but the new gear wasn’t available. So many teams ended up placing an additional SEC patch, or a custom Nike patch, over the old equipment’s Under Armour logo. Many images from previous years were edited to have the UA logo scrubbed from existence.
There’s a fine line to balance here with Nike coming in and wanting only their logo present on content. I get that. But it feels like an overbearing injustice to force the creative teams to revise historic images. Again, I get it; it makes sense in some ways. But it’s a fraught exercise. Maybe moving forward, with all programs now having their full line of Nike apparel and equipment now, hopefully this issue won’t persist much longer.
Baseball
It was another special season for Auburn Baseball, with the Tigers ranked top 10 almost the entire season and hosting once again in the NCAA Tournament. Unfortunately, it would end the same way it did last year – falling in the Super Regionals in two games.
The baseball team might have had the biggest wardrobe updates across campus. For the full breakdown when the uniforms were initially revealed, check out this article.
Auburn introduced seven new jerseys this year, with three new hat designs. The all-navy blueberry look worn on Friday nights was now paired with a tone-on-tone AU hat, swapping the white AU for a white outlined AU logo. A new grey cap was introduced and paired with the road grey uniforms. It was the first time since 2009, and possibly the second time ever, that grey headwear was in the rotation. And a white ballcap returned to the wardrobe after being absent since 2021 (disregarding the throwback white hat from previous years).
When Auburn played host to the Savannah Bananas in October, the Tigers debuted the new 1970s powder blue throwback uniforms. The initial word was that this uniform was to be worn throughout the season. But they turned out to only be worn once, against Texas in a 7-6 loss. The cream uniforms – now featuring an AU logo on the chest rather than the script wordmark – were also worn only once. That was a 4-3 walk-off win against West Georgia in the second midweek game of the season.
Here’s a look at the final combinations worn throughout 2026 and how the team performed in each look:
You can view the historic catalog of Auburn Baseball uniforms dating back to 1935 here.
Men’s Basketball
What started with Bruce Pearl passing the torch to his son Steven ended with the Tigers hoisting the NIT trophy.
Auburn’s new 2025-26 uniforms from Nike were rather simple, featuring the Northwestern Stripe on the sides of the jersey and shorts and a double stripe around the collar, arm holes, and waistband. The center stripe on the sides was far too large, which created a visually unbalanced look, especially when viewing straight on to the side of the uniform.
After the NCAA recently began allowing all digits 0-9 for jersey numbers, Auburn has crossed off a few numbers that haven’t been worn before. For this season, Elyjah Freeman wore #6 and Filip Jović sported #38. Jović also likely became the first Auburn player to have an accent mark added to his name on the back of the jersey.
After missing out on the NCAA Tournament field, Auburn landed as the #1 seed for the NIT. With the top seed, Auburn was set to host NIT games until the final rounds of the tournament.
Auburn would wear the NIT patch for the first time. The logo would appear on the hardwood at Neville Arena as well. It’s the first time a post-season logo appeared on the court since the 2023 Women’s NIT and the first time for the men’s program since the 2008 NIT at Beard-Eaves. (You can view Auburn’s court design history here.)
Here are each of the Tigers’ uniforms worn this season and their final records:
Check out the Men’s Basketball uniform history dating back to the 1950-1951 season here. The Auburn Uniform Database also features NCAA Tournament court designs and uniform matchups.
Women’s Basketball
The Larry Vickers era began with a difficult 15-17 overall record. The Tigers started off strong, completing the non-conference portion of the season with a 12-4 record.
The Women’s uniforms were once again similar to the men’s, but with a solid color collar instead of the dual stripe look, and the shorts stripes running through the waistband.
Auburn once again sported a pink colorway, doing so in each season since 2010. Unlike previous versions, the new uniforms were on a navy base with pink trim. The design was mostly similar to the base uniforms, but with two stripes on the sides instead of the Northwestern stripes.
Syriah Daniels had an additional patch on her jersey all year long. Daniels was named a Kay Yow Foundation Servant Leader before the season. Servant Leaders are “people who have, or will make an impact in the fight against cancer – improving lives and giving hope.” Daniels’s mother, Shana Askew Daniels, a former Auburn Women’s Basketball player from 1997 to 2001, died in 2023 at the age of 44 from breast cancer.
And here’s a look at the uniform records from the season:
The Women’s Basketball uniforms catalog dates back to the 2003-04 season. Those historic designs can be seen here.
Football
For a team that historically doesn’t change uniform designs, it was a busy season for Auburn Football. As I’ve always said, the details are where the changes live, and it’s always fun to dive into them.
Let’s start up top with the helmet. After sporting a throwback-style block font on the bumper decals, Auburn reverted back to Copperplate. For the first time since 2003, the player number decals were placed on the center orange stripe. Auburn added a memorial decal in honor of the late Chette Williams, the long-time team chaplain. Additionally, the Tigers made a minor adjustment to the helmet hardware, with the facemask and visor clips now matching the facemask color.
The new Nike Vapor F.U.S.E. jerseys featured a new captaincy patch, the fourth different design in as many years. Since debuting in 2022, Auburn hasn’t worn the same design for consecutive seasons.
When South Alabama came to Jordan-Hare Stadium in September, it marked two firsts. It was the first time the Tigers had ever faced the in-state Jaguars. It was also the first time since 2008, and only the third time since the 1970s, that Auburn would wear the white jerseys at home.
Auburn originally attempted to wear the white jerseys for the 2025 White Out against Cal, but, as the visiting team, Cal was already planning and packed to wear their traditional road jerseys on the Plains. Auburn was sure to work through the kinks of the plan with South Alabama a little earlier in the process.
The uniforms weren’t the only items to see a change for the 2025 season. Pat Dye Field at Jordan-Hare Stadium had its own fair share of updates.
A year after the NCAA approved advertisements on the playing surfaces, Auburn announced a partnership with YellaWood. Founder and former CEO Jimmy Rane agreed to the sponsorship but only if it included adding Pat Dye’s name to the turf. Dye’s name was previously featured on the field in 2005 for the dedication ceremony against Alabama.
For the final home game of the season, Auburn added another sponsorship to the field. As part of a year-long celebration of the country’s semiquincentennial, Auburn teamed up with the America 250 organization. The anniversary logo was added to the 50-yard line, underneath the AU logo, and behind the endzones in the orange border.
Here’s the Handy Dandy Side-By-Side Graphict™️ to showcase all of the differences between the outgoing Under Armour uniforms and the new Nike threads.
And here’s the final set of uniform combinations that Auburn wore during the 2025 season, complete with all three facemask colors.
The largest uniform collection on this site is the football program. You can view every uniform from 1921 to the present day here.
Gymnastics
It was a tough season for Auburn Gymnastics, which ended with the Tigers failing to advance out of the first round of the NCAA Tournament and parting ways with long-time head coach Jeff Graba.
Leotard-wise, it was a slower season than recent years. Auburn only debuted three new designs this year. “Valkyrie” was the first one revealed for the LSU meet. The leotard was all navy with orange and white rhinestones around the collar and sleeves, and light blue details.
A full month later, the second new design was debuted, “Revival.” This design is an evolution of the “Throwback” leotard last worn in 2025. What was previously a pretty accurate throwback, the new Revival leos featured a white and orange gradient on the sleeves with a rhinestone eagle silhouette on the chest. The following week saw “Bloom” worn during the SEC Championships, which featured a unique faux one-shoulder look.
Auburn Gymnastics is the newest addition to the Auburn Uniform Database. To see galleries of leotards worn since 2021, click here.
Soccer
The 2025 Auburn Soccer season was one of growing pains as James Armstrong took over as head coach after Karen Hoppa’s retirement. The Tigers finished the season 5-6-7 overall and 1-3-6 in conference play.
The Tigers kept the same overall kit design, sticking with the striped sash for the twelfth season. It was a simplified version compared to the previous uniforms, with the collar and sleeve cuff stripes removed. The white jerseys, for some reason, had a navy panel added to the sides. Last year’s goalkeeper jerseys were the first to introduce the tonal sash. That returned this year, but they were made a little more prominent.
Here’s a quick look at the differences between the last Under Armour design and the first Nike kits.
(The Nike uniforms did not have player names added to the back of the jersey.)
And here is how all four uniforms performed on the season, followed by the team/keeper combinations.
The Auburn Uniform Database recently added all Under Armour uniform designs worn by Auburn Soccer to the archives. View all the designs worn on the pitch since 2008 here.
Softball
It was a difficult season for Auburn Softball. The team finished 27-28 overall, even after a strong run in the SEC Tournament to continue fighting for an NCAA Tournament bid. The Tigers were 4-20 in the SEC.
Auburn Softball has traditionally been one to mix and match to create as many uniform combinations as possible. That wasn’t the case this season. The Tigers only introduced five uniform sets and didn’t include a grey set for the first time since at least 2010. There were only 11 combinations this year, down from 21 the previous season.
The most notable feature of this year’s wardrobe was the addition of an all navy uniform with orange pinstripes. Auburn Softball initially adopted the white pinstripe uniforms for the 2018 season. The navy pinstripes are a unique look for this program, especially since they’re the only set to include the script Auburn wordmark on the chest.
The blue pinstripes were a part of three different combinations this season. All navy with orange belts and socks were worn multiple times. The Tigers swapped the blue tops for the orange jerseys for two games this year. And for the annual All for Alex Wilcox game, Auburn would sport a teal belt with the orange socks and blue pinstripe top and bottoms.
For many years now, Auburn Softball has had multiple batting helmet designs. For some seasons, they were mixed like the rest of the uniform elements. For others, one design was worn for non-conference play and another for SEC games (and sometimes another for postseason games). This year, it was one helmet for the entire season. The new Mizuno helmets were matte blue with orange facemasks and an orange/white AU 3D logo on the front. A Mike Cooper memorial decal was added to the back of the helmet (as with baseball), to honor the life of the Auburn superfan.
The Softball team wore 11 different combinations this season:
The Auburn Uniform Database features a near-complete history of Auburn Softball uniforms. See them all here.
Volleyball
Despite a 17-11 record, it was a disappointing season for the Auburn Volleyball team as they missed out on the NCAA Tournament.
The Tigers had four new uniforms from Nike this season. Much like previous seasons, the jerseys were a loose tank type style rather than the long-sleeve tops. All four colorways were the same design – AU logo on the center of the chest, player number underneath, and “AUBURN” on the back underneath the number. Each top was just a solid color – white, navy, orange, and powder blue – with no additional stripes or flair. The only addition of any design elements came with the optional compression sleeves, which carried the Northwestern stripes from the elbow to the wrist.
The most notable feature here is that white jerseys returned to the rotation for the first time since 2014.
Below are the final uniform records and how the team/libero combinations performed:
A decade of Auburn Volleyball uniforms was recently added to the Auburn Uniform Database archives. View the designs worn since 2006 here.
And that will wrap up the first season of the Nike era for Auburn Athletics. Across the board, it was a very safe, almost underwhelming at times, introduction to the Swoosh. Where volleyball and basketball were visually disappointing, baseball and softball added some necessary aesthetic appeal.
It was naturally a busy year here at the Auburn Uniform Database, covering all of these new uniform releases. Admittedly, I still wish I had done more at times. A team like Auburn changing uniform providers is such a big deal for a site like this. Auburn’s rollout was different than most schools, which threw off my initial plans. And, with some uniforms just not all that different (as we expected, honestly), there just wasn’t a whole lot to say at times.
The ending of the Under Armour was a definitive end, which made it easier to work towards. I was able to fully build out each program’s UA era uniforms and put together comprehensive guides through those 18 years (which I’m still very proud of). The beginning of the Nike era wasn’t nearly as concrete, and things had to be fluid as news and releases changed.
But that wasn’t the complete story here on the AUD. The site received some much-needed updates throughout. Most are going to go unnoticed – performance, colors, tweaks here and there. But one page got a complete overhaul.
The Football Uniform Matchups page is no longer a static list of images. It now includes a very handy-dandy filtering system, allowing you to filter by season, opponent, bowl games, color-on-color matchups, and Auburn’s facemask and jersey colors. The page will also display Auburn’s record in the games featured and automatically update according to your filters (this took forever to get correct).
I’m always looking for ways to improve this site and its contents. If you’d like to see this feature added to the other pages, or if you have suggestions for anything on the site, please feel free to reach out.
The Under Armour era is complete. The Nike era has just begun. And the Auburn Uniform Database will continue to document it all.
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