TCU Uniforms: Even with the Stripper Pants It Looks Cool

The current BCS standings: #1 Florida, #2 Alabama, #3 Texas, #4 TC - Who? In the wake of Texas Christian University's unlikely rise to the upper-echelon of the college football rankings, Nike created new uniforms for TCU's battle with #16 Utah on Saturday. Nike selected TCU as one of 10 schools to debut the new Nike Pro Combat uniform, which the company calls "football's lightest system of dress ever created."

It's freakin' cool stuff. The jersey's four-way stretch twill wicks away sweat and water, and is 25 percent lighter than TCU's normal game day uniform. Each jersey and pant has digitally sublimated Horned Frog skin print, and each jersey collar has the Frogs' 2009 battle cry "Don't Back Down" embroidered on the inner collar.

Another added benefit is the uniform's four-way stretch Lycra pants which holds strategically placed padded zones in Nike's Deflex shorts. Sure, the lizard-skin pants look like something a mid-day dancer at the Lusty Lady would wear, but Nike believes flexible material enhances player mobility.

While the idea of a horned frog mascot sounds only one-step above the "ferocious" Banana Slugs of UC Santa Cruz, Nike adds a special TCU moniker to get the players fired up. The helmet (also painted in a lizard-skin print) has two red stripes running down the center to symbolize the blood an agitated horned frog blasts out of its eyes to avert a predator.

Absolutely. Bad. Ass.