{"id":466663,"date":"2026-09-17T10:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466663\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:44:18","slug":"san-diego-state-aztecs-unveil-new-age-of-the-jaguar-alternate-football-uniforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466663\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego State Aztecs Unveil New “Age Of The Jaguar” Alternate Football Uniforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The San Diego State football program unveiled new \u201cAge of the Jaguar\u201d alternate uniforms<\/a> this week that will make their on-field debut when the Aztecs host James Madison on Saturday evening (10 p.m. ET on The CW).<\/p>\n

The red jerseys and pants feature the same design as their black home and white road looks, which were updated ahead of the 2025 season<\/a> and feature the Aztec calendar on the sleeve caps and down the sides of the pants, a contrasting collar and custom number font.<\/p>\n

It marks the first time since 1980 that San Diego State has worn red jerseys, as well as the first time in program history that they\u2019ll be paired with red pants. The Aztecs went 2-4 at home that season and promptly returned to an all-black design after firing head coach Claude Gilbert.<\/p>\n

The black helmets, meanwhile, feature an Ocelotl \u2013 the Aztec word for jaguar \u2013 on one side and the player\u2019s number on the other. According to Aztec mythology, the Ocelotl represents Tezcatlipoca, the god of the night sky, memory and time, as well as the warriors who wore jaguar pelts into battle because they believed the animal\u2019s strength and spirit would transfer to them.<\/p>\n

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The Ocelotl was one of three glyphs introduced by San Diego State last year<\/a> as the university worked with Mesoamerican scholars and an artist from Mexico to further integrate Aztec iconography to its athletics branding. It was joined by Ehecatl (wind) \u2013 which represents Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent and god of intelligence and self-reflection \u2013 and Calli (house), which represents Tepeyollotl, the god of animals, caves, echoes and earthquakes.<\/p>\n

This is also the first time since 1980 that the Aztecs will wear black helmets, not including the red-to-black gradient designs they wore from 2001-05. They\u2019ve notably worn their iconic red Aztec calendar (or Sun Stone) helmets in every game since the start of the 2015 season, though they moved from a high-gloss to low-gloss finish in 2021<\/a> to make the design more prominent.<\/p>\n

\u201c(I\u2019m) excited for it,\u201d head coach Sean Lewis told reporters during his media availability on Wednesday morning<\/a>. \u201cWith the new glyphs, there was an opportunity to do something special that had never been done. We felt the timing was right with, obviously, the first year in the Pac-12.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll wear it for special times, denote a special game to wear the Jaguars, the \u2018Blood In, Blood Out\u2019 reds. Then maybe for championship opportunities to make that color palette very, very special to us \u2026 To intertwine all of that and have the support of the administration and backing to have a powerful idea come to life was cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photos courtesy of @AztecFB on X\/Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Diego State football program unveiled new \u201cAge of the Jaguar\u201d alternate uniforms this week that will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-466663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}