LOOK AT UCF'S SICK SPACE-THEMED UNIFORMS
Hello, these are so beautiful.
Hi, I’m sorry for yelling earlier but these uniforms are so sick. On Tuesday afternoon, UCF football unveiled its “Space Game” uniforms that the Knights will wear this Saturday against East Carolina at 7 p.m. The team is honoring UCF’s past as Florida Technological University that originally partnered with nearby Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Base back in 1963.
We’ll start with the helmets and I mean, look at these bad boys.
The UCF logo on them is in a damn MOON PRINT, Y’ALL.
A closer look:
The moon-print logo looks greenish in one photo and white in the other, so maybe these glow in the dark? We’ll have to wait and see!
There’s a whole lot happening on the helmet stripe, too.
There are a number of different designs with galactic references all the way down it, and they are really unique and sweet. First, there’s an image of the last photograph taken by the Hubble Telescope, a Pegasus, which is a secondary logo for UCF, and a bull — which is actually a casual cast of shade towards one of the Knights’ biggest rivals, the USF Bulls.
UCF unveils "Space Game" uniforms for Saturday, with not-so-subtle celestial reference to a certain in-state rival. https://t.co/bwBQYS0P2p pic.twitter.com/Ypi3ZCFqsM
— Greg Auman (@gregauman) October 10, 2017
There’s also a hunter (hint: this hunter represents Orion, the one who struck the bull, and you know hunters kinda dress like knights — get it?) and two constellations. My personal favorite part, which is so cool: The stripe is cut into five uneven sections, representing the five sections that the Saturn V Rocket was designed with, which carried the first astronauts to the moon in 1968.
I mean seriously, the creativity and attention to detail here is awesome.
There’s “Mission Patch” on the left side of the jerseys, too.
You know, like an astronaut patch! The meaning behind it is pretty dang motivational, I have to say
BONUS: UCF is selling mission patch t-shirts at its bookstore and online!
As an Orlando native who grew up not too far from both UCF and the Kennedy Space Center, it’s awesome to see UCF honoring the space program like this with these dope unis. Also in the uniform release, UCF details the work it still does with space program, including:
UCF continues to push the frontiers of space research
UCF has been involved in eight (8) NASA missions, including the recently-concluded (Sept. 15) Cassini mission to Saturn and the active OSIRIS Rex mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid
UCF is home to NASA's Center for Lunar and Asteroid Science
In 2012 UCF had a planet named after it. UCF researchers discovered an exoplanet candidate they named UCF-1.01, which is only two-thirds the size of the Earth and 33 light-years away, with surface temperatures of more than 1,000 F.
UCF boasts two astronauts: Frank Caldiero (Class of ’95) and Nicole Stott (Class of ’92).
Bravo, UCF. I can’t wait to see these babies under the lights on Saturday night.

