College football, spring-style, is winding down, and for some teams, it wound down almost as soon as it started up. Here's the first look at the region's uniforms for the truncated season:
Maine won two games, lost two games and had ZERO COVID-19 cases, but its season ended early anyway when COVID forced New Hampshire and Rhode Island, Maine's last two opponents, to shut down. But the Black Bears managed to squeeze in four uniform styles in four games. Maine wore new jerseys with a smaller wordmark and a vintage Tennessee Titans-style number font (yay!) and also wore new helmets with a logo on one side and a number on the other (boo!). The pants remained the same from last year (by "last year," of course, I mean 2019).
New Hampshire played one game, a win over Albany, then called it a day after several weeks of postponements and cancelations. The Widcats did show off a new home jersey with a traditional number font, which matches the road version they started wearing in 2018.
The good news for Rhode Island? The Rams got off to a 2-1 start and cracked the FCS Top 25 polls. The bad news? That was the whole season, thanks to COVID issues. But Rhody did enjoy its second winning season out of three, a pretty fair accomplishment for a long- woebegone program, and defeated a pretty good Villanova team to open the season. After unveiling new white and light blue jerseys in 2019, the Rams added a matching navy jersey to the rotation this spring. Note the complete absence of light blue trim on the shirt.
