Tennessee Football: Vols Unveil New Nike Uniforms

After more than a decade of Adidas uniforms and a year of speculation, Tennessee football entered a new era Wednesday with the unveiling of its new Nike uniforms.

The three new Mach Speed uniforms, which are part of a department-wide contract with Nike that was announced in 2014, introduces a taller, sleeker number font and striping that is half-checkerboard—matching the famous end-zone art at Neyland Stadium.

Tennessee showcased four possible combinations of home and away uniforms, including the all-orange home look and the all-white "Stormtrooper" set.

In addition to the traditional orange and white sets, Tennessee will also have a grey alternate uniform that represents the Great Smoky Mountains.

The alternate helmet has a mountain pattern to go along with the iconic Power T logos and new half-checkerboard stripe.

Tennessee's smoky alternate set has a darker grey on the jersey's shoulders.

One of the unveiled set of gloves has the Power T logo on the palms.

"It's extremely fitting that this partnership be formed," Tennessee athletic director Dave Hart said in a press release. "Nike excels as it relates to branding and marketing. Their level of expertise in that space is nationally renowned, Nike does that as well or better than anyone. We feel blessed to be aligned with Nike and are excited to form this tremendous partnership."

Volunteers head coach Butch Jones and sophomore running back Jalen Hurd also spoke highly of the new partnership with Nike:

Hurd was one of the few Tennessee athletes who got the opportunity to wear the uniforms at the unveiling event.

"It's amazing," Hurd told the school's website. "Not many people get to say that they [were one of the first to wear new uniforms], especially transferring over to Nike. We're making this move and I'm one of the people that gets to show it off, it's pretty cool."

Justin Ferguson is an on-call college football writer at Bleacher Report. You can follow him on Twitter @JFergusonBR.