Curse of the Orange Pants

The Curse of the Orange Pants has weighed much on my mind since last season. I refer to our white jersey/orange pants combo as the Creamsicle uniform,and, indeed, it seems our talent melts every time within them. Every game after donning this uniform, message boards will be aflame with quandry: is our poor performance due to the pants?

I'd like to do a thorough researching job on this issue, but, alas, my grad school status requires me researching literary issues, not fashion ones. According to Wikipedia, Majors introduced orange pants in 1977, Fulmer 86'ed them, except 1999 v Memphis and 2008 v Cal. Kiffin brought them back full force and the UT Photo Gallery confirms he clad us in the cursed pants against Florida, Auburn (at home), Alabama, South Carolina (at home), and Ole Miss. Team Dooley donned the dreaded pants against Georgia, South Carolina, Memphis, and Vandy.

Clearly, more precise digging is required, but accroding to this data, since the Fulmer era, the Orange Pants have earned a 4-7 record; half of those wins stem from the baby-new Dooley era.

Some try to defend the Orange Pants by noting we wear orange pants at away games, thence stems the problem. I'd like to compare away in white v orange pants, and I daresay oru white pants have a better record. Remember the Clausen era when we owned away stadiums? Also, thanks to the Kiffin experiment I bet we have data to prove we've lost a disporportional amount of home games in orange pants as well.

I promise during Christmas break, I'll pursue this work further. In the meantime, the only safe course of action is to indefinitely halt the use of the Orange Pants.