WVU Football
New WVU Football 1965 Throwback Uniform Appears in Video Game
WVU fans can now witness the new football throwback uniform in a video game before even being able to see the Mountaineers debut it in a game.
The West Virginia program shared a video from EA Sports with highlights of WVU wearing the 1965 throwbacks just a few days after the official unveiling.
Had to check these out for ourselves 😮💨
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— West Virginia Football (@WVUfootball) May 7, 2025
On Monday, West Virginia revealed a fresh new take on the program’s helmet and uniform from the 1965 season. This announcement even makes a past comment from WVU director of athletics Wren Baker a reality.
Last May, Baker responded to fan’s post with old helmets by saying he’s a “massive” fan of the 1960s ear gold helmet with WVU over a baby blue state design and that the 2025 season would mark 60 years since 1965, one of the special seasons in the program’s history.
The Mountaineers won one of the program’s 15 conference titles in 1965, going 4-0 in Southern Conference play. And with the Backyard Brawl set to take place in Morgantown in 2025, it’s important to note West Virginia won the 1965 edition at old Mountaineer Field, 63-48.
It remains to be seen which home game WVU decides to wear this new throwback uniform.
Rich Rodriguez’s second tenure as head coach of the Mountaineers will officially kickoff at home on August 30 as West Virginia hosts Robert Morris.
For a related story, WVU goes into detail on what went into creating the 1965 throwbacks uniform.
jackson five
May 8, 2025 at 6:34 pm
i was a soph at wvu in 1965, and definitely setting in the old old stadium watching with pride , those mountaineers,,, and yes, let’s use those uni’s at one game and one game only…..old gold and blue, the real old gold, but i do like what don nehlen did to the uni’s in his era by getting away from the old gold and going to the mustard/ yellow blend… now not the full mustard uni’s , hate those, to they mustard bottoms and blue tops or the other way around and stil to those combos/