Louisiana Fans

Mardi Gras baw. It’s actually how LSU got its colorss.

I've been meaning to ask what's with the orange and black is that a Halloween thing? Trick or Treat!

To be fair, though, we are the only university in the state with orange and black. I know two now in Louisiana with a thing for purple. Wasn't sure if it was perhaps a Prince thing. What the heck happens when you play each other? Oh wait, no, I don't really want to know.

Every Cal state school is blue/yellow.

Editing to say except Fresneck.

It's the UC schools, not the Cal State schools. The Cal State schools have a variety of colors

Thanks for the clarification. I see what The Glove was getting at.

Orange is typically known as a pro-Protestant/anti-Catholic color.  Oregon State was founded by a group of largely insane Episcopalians.  For fun, you can read about the Episcopalian-State of Oregon lawsuits in the University's early history.  Ultimately the State of Oregon won the final lawsuit, but orange was already selected as the official color.  After the State of Oregon won the final lawsuit, the official color was not changed.  I believe that Oregon State's official color is orange because of the school's early Protestant associations.  However, the selection of orange may be in response to Oregon selecting green and yellow as colors, orange being seen as the most anti-green color.  (Of course, Oregon's original color was lemon yellow, not green, so I do not know how seriously I take this theory.)

As for black, Oregon State's baseball team often claims 1907 as a founding date, but the yearbook clearly references a team in 1894.  That baseball team wore black.  (Because black was inexpensive.)  The student body at the time, perhaps inspired by the baseball team, voted for black as a secondary color.  (However, black was never "officially" made the second color..............whatever the heck that means.)  The baseball team appears to have been discontinued in 1899 or before (in favor of indoor baseball).  No baseball, indoor or outdoor, was fielded by 1905.  The "founding" 1907 team were probably the first team in at least eight years but were not the first baseball team that Oregon State fielded.