School Colors by BarkerC

A shirt made by this school pronounces this official color of the University of Michigan as a "bold, arrogant, shade of yellow". (Whether that yellow is highlighter yellow or more of an orangey-mustardy yellow is a long running fight among fans of the school and its athletic suppliers.)

This school has four official colors, based on the coats of arms of the Calverts and Crosslands families. Their recent partnership with Under Armour should make absolutely sure you know they are red, black, yellow, and white.

Georgia Tech, Purdue, Pitt, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Vanderbilt, and Wake Forest all "officially" share this color with a rhyming name, which varies from light olive or olive brown to deep or strong yellow.

This western school's official school colors are cherry and silver, but from 1973-1979, locally popular turquoise was added, until it was realized that it really clashed with cherry and silver and was dropped in 1980.

This Jesuit school selected the papal colors of maroon and gold to honor the papal colors (and traditional colors of the city of Rome) to distinguish itself from other Jesuit institutions like Holy Cross, Fordham, and Georgetown.

Virginia Tech's colors are burnt orange and a shade of maroon whose official name honors the "Western school" that had made it famous when VPI adopted it in 1896.

Pantone 292, also known as Jordy Blue, is a light shade of "sky blue" which takes its common name from this Ivy League university, which uses it to honor the Philolexian Society, the school's oldest student organization.

TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED: Ohio State initially adopted the school colors of black and orange, only to learn Princeton had adopted them. They then adopted this color scheme, which, to their knowledge, no other school had adopted. The official names are mentioned in the chorus of "Buckeye Battle Cry".

Cornell's "Big Red" is official this shade of red, named for a variety of the mineral chalcedony, which is noted for its rich shade of reddish-brown.

TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED: When DC's Columbian University became George Washington University in 1904, it adopted these two colors of the military uniform worn by George Washington during the Revolutionary War.

TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED: The University of Mississippi and Southern Methodist University both have, as their official colors, two shades named for the Ivy League universities that originated them. Name the specific shades adopted.

Developed by adidas in 2003, this specific shade of blue (Pantone 285) was chosen as a compromise to balance UCLA's football team's wearing of powder blue and the basketball team's wearing of royal blue.