Auburn Tigers, Ball State Cardinals New Mexico State Aggies Lamar Cardinals The university objected to the company’s use of burnt orange, however, maintaining that the use of the color, and the use of UT in the name, could lead people to believe it was an official UT product. Alabama State Hornets South Dakota Coyotes The Horns switched back to a lighter dye, another yellowy orange that the regents made official on UT’s seal in 1950. SIUE Cougars 2.) The combination of a strong and wisened color on a no-nonsense uniform seems shorthand for UT, the athletic equivalent of the Tower lit orange. Texas-Arlington Mavericks These are the Tennessee Volunteers color codes if you need them for any of your digital projects. It’s hard to imagine burnt orange ever giving way. And so it was. They responded to the petition in favor of a lighter orange in true regental style, convening a faculty committee to create a report on the matter. UMBC Retrievers Miss Brown, of Orange, Texas, was the first to come up with the the idea that Texas should have team colors. It's an optical illusion. Georgia State Panthers Grand Canyon Antelopes It is the color that all die-hard Longhorns proverbially bleed. The colors were chosen because of the common American daisy which grew on The Hill, an area of campus surrounding UT's most notable building, Ayres Hall. Florida Gators Texas A&M Aggies Southern Jaguars For a brief time, students donned gold and white, inspired by the yellow pressed-brick-and-limestone buildings being constructed around campus (the Dorothy L. Gebauer building is a rare example still standing). Not only has burnt orange been a tradition, off and on, for nearly a century, but the color itself seems rooted in history. Orange and maroon received 310, royal blue 203, crimson 10, royal blue and crimson 11, with a handful of single-vote-getters. Detroit Mercy Titans It’s an oscillating—and at almost every turn contentious—wave of varying shades, from whatever was available at a dusty general store to a precise, legally-protected color. Defined by state law, these regions hold legal significance and each approximate about a third of the state. George Washington Colonials The University Of Tennessee's colors are orange and white, and are named the Volunteers. UNLV Rebels UNC Asheville Bulldogs Texas Longhorns Texas’ use of lighter orange was also mostly confined to the era of black-and-white photography, which makes it harder for those early shades to stick, or even appear, in memory. UMass Minutemen Norfolk State Spartans Milwaukee Panthers It’s strange to think, in a world saturated by Longhorn merchandise, that anyone (much less someone from as recently as 1966) could think of burnt orange as anything but traditional. It’s not an entirely unusual sojourn for Wilson, who estimates he’s been to 6,000 UT sporting events in the past 60 years—“a bunch,” as he calls it. Copyright © 2020 The Alcalde. The color change, according to research by UT historian Jim Nicar, is credited to Coach E. J. Littlefield recalled that O’Shea told him: “When you get the color of orange you like, we’re gonna establish it as your orange.”.