Pac-12 uniform watch: Week 14

Rivalry week means that the philosophical debate between tradition against new-age fashion takes a front seat alongside the outcomes of the games themselves. UCLA and USC are expected to continue their tradition of both wearing their home jerseys in their rivalry matchup at the Coliseum. Meanwhile, the Arizona schools are going with something a little more black and white.

In this week's Pac-12 teleconference call, Bruins coach Jim Mora said he was proud that neither USC or UCLA are "dilly-dallying" with their traditional uniforms. On Saturday, UCLA and USC are both wearing their home combos at The Coliseum.

Stanford is hosting Notre Dame wearing white lids, white pants and red jerseys.

RichRod's crew will wear white jerseys and pants in the Territorial Cup in Tempe. The Wildcats are also opting for their copper helmets. A quick history lesson: the state of Arizona's early economy relied upon the five Cs – copper, cotton, cattle, citrus and climate (because of tourism).

Gold and maroon clashing with cardinal and navy isn't much of a thing in this year's Duel in the Desert. ASU is wearing black jerseys and pants to offset Arizona's all-whites. The Sun Devils are also keeping the checkerboard theme alive with white tops. Territorial Cup, more like Checkerboard Cup ... am I right?

The Buffs visit the Utes and will don white jerseys and pants to pair with black helmets.

The Trojans will wear their home jerseys at home in the battle for Los Angeles. Fun fact: this week leading into their final regular season game, Ed Orgeron let his seniors wear their high school jerseys during practice.

The Beavs countered the Ducks' green and yellow on Friday with full-on orange uniforms with black accents. The orange helmets featured numbering and black racing-stripes – if a Beaver were to ever have racing stripes.

Fashion-wise, the story for Oregon State might have been what kicker Trevor Romaine was sporting in pregame warmups.

Classic Oregon for a classic game. The Ducks went won their Civil War matchup in the closing moments Friday wearing their old-school green and yellow uniforms with emerald helmets adorned with silver wings.

Washington won the Apple Cup in style with black on black to go with metallic gold tops.