BATON ROUGE, La. -- Prepare to see your team’s uniform of the future on Saturday, LSU fans.
Not the throwback gold jerseys or the white helmets with shiny gold numerals, but the nuts and bolts of the uniform itself.
The Tigers’ 2017 uniform still will feature the traditional purple-and-gold markings that LSU fans know and love, but the outfits the Tigers will wear Saturday versus Mississippi State will feature the same upgrades as next season’s duds.
“What will be different is the pattern of the uniform,” LSU director of equipment Greg Stringfellow said. “You can see it’s got a lot less seams in it.