LSU Fans: Has the home team ever made you wear your home Jersey?

Florida under Spurrier did a few times.

Ha, it didn't matter. They could have played us naked and still won in the 90s.

Don't yall have a weird thing with the purple jerseys..like you wear them the first home OOC game a year or something like that?

From LSU Tigers Pedia LINK

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White Jerseys — LSU is notable as one of the few college football teams that wears white jerseys for home games as opposed to their darker jerseys (in their case, purple). Most other NCAA football teams wear their darker jerseys in home games, even though football is one of the few college sports that do not require a specific jersey type for each respective team (for instance, college basketball requires home teams to wear white or light-colored jerseys while the away team wears their darker jerseys), and is similar to the NFL in letting the home team decide what to wear. The tradition started in 1958, when Coach Paul Dietzel decided that LSU would wear white jerseys for the home games. LSU went on to win the national championship that year. Since then, LSU continued to wear white jerseys at home games. Then in 1982, new NCAA rules prohibited teams from wearing white jerseys at home. Because of this, LSU wore purple jerseys during home games from 1983 to 1994. The team's fans believed wearing purple jerseys brought bad luck to the team and complained often from 1983 and through the 1994 seasons. In 1995, LSU's new coach, Gerry DiNardo, was determined to restore LSU's tradition of white home jerseys. DiNardo personally met with each member of the NCAA Football Rules Committee, lobbying LSU's case. DiNardo was successful, and LSU again began wearing white jerseys at home when the 1995 season began. In LSU's first home game with the white jerseys, unranked LSU prevailed in a 12-6 upset victory over #6 Auburn. In 2000, LSU's new coach, Nick Saban, altered the tradition of the white home jerseys: now LSU only wears white jerseys for the home opener and for home games against SEC opponents. Saban's successor, Les Miles, has continued this pattern. For non-SEC home games other than the home opener, LSU wears purple jerseys at home.

The rule allowing LSU to wear white at home has one stipulation: the visiting team must agree for non-conference games. On two occasions, LSU was forced to wear colored jerseys at home. The first time was in 1996 against Vanderbilt, who was still angry at LSU for hiring Gerry DiNardo, who left Vanderbilt to become LSU's head coach after the 1994 season. LSU wore gold jerseys for that game (a 35-0 LSU victory), and fans were encouraged to wear white in an effort to "white out" the Commodores. The next season, the SEC amended its rule to allow the home team its choice of jersey color for conference games without prior approval of the visiting team.

In 1998 and 2000, Florida coach Steve Spurrier exercised this option and forced LSU to don a colored jersey at Gainesville. The Tigers wore gold in 1998 under Gerry DiNardo (lost 22-10) and purple in 2000 under Nick Saban (lost 41-9). In 2009, LSU wore its purple jerseys at Mississippi State.

In 2004, Oregon State did want not to suffer in its black jerseys in the humid weather of Louisiana in late summer, forcing LSU to wear its purple jerseys for a nationally-televsied game on ESPN. However, by this time, LSU had worn its purple jerseys at home several times under Saban.

In 2009, the NCAA relaxed its rule that previously required most away teams to wear white. The rule now states that teams must simply wear contrasting colors.

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it has happened in the past. But now the home team has the say so, so it wont be happening again anytime soon.

Vandy did it back in 97(?) out of spite for them hiring away Gerry Dinardo.

I'm dead serious too - LOL. That really happened and Vandy even made some silly, childish comments about it.

Anway, LSU came out in gold jerseys all fired up and absolutely stomped the Dores.

It was a relatively new thing anyway. Dinardo was the guy that brought back the tradition of wearing white at home. During the 80s they mostly wore purple. I'm not sure why they switched to purple - if that was by rule or choice.

Don't forget - Vandy sued LSU or DiNardo over the hiring of DiNardo and received a settlement of several hundred thousand dollars. That was when people thought DiNardo could actually coach.

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Well couldnt the home team pick to wear the away jersey making the opposing team wear home...?

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They could, and for SEC games there is nothing that LSU could do about it.

But how many other SEC teams want to wear white at home?

Mississippi State did it in 2007 I believe. I was in the student section, and they started chanting "Purple jerseys, yellow britches, go to hell you sons of bitches!"

Our purple jerseys are so much better than the whites.