Ohio State's homage to '42 uniforms make list of five ugliest

Where are those guys from "What not to wear" when you need 'em?

Anytime you start with superlatives -- adjectives that end with "-est" -- you know you're asking for trouble. Could be the dumbEST thing going (and if so, the perfect writer is passing this along, eh?).

A website called unathletic.com is listing the five ugliest uniforms in college football. Guess what? The Buckeyes' fall of '42 uni, worn in this past weekend's crushing of Michigan in the Horseshoe, made the cut. The unkindest cut of all? (Sorry, Mr. Shakespeare). Fortunately, at least in this case, Ohio State is not No. 1.

So who IS No. 1? It's between Oregon, Boise State, Syracuse, West Virginia and Pitt. Let's just say mentioning the victor to Cleveland Browns legend Jim Brown probably would not be a good idea.

By the way, Starting Blocks is a bit curious about what uniforms you found ugliest in all of sport. We were tempted to go with the all-red outfits of the Cleveland Indians (they looked like someone was doing laundry in a slaughterhouse) or the Popeye-meets-Shirley-Temple-meets-The-Wonder-Years-Coach shorts of the 1976 Chicago White Sox.

We also considered the brown pants for the Browns, but decided they were just ridiculous, not ugly.

But in the end, we decided to go with the "We Are Family" era attire of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Also can't stand the Steelers' throwback unis. Hmm, can you say common denominator?