The Uni Watch CFB season preview

— -- There's a new playoff system, some new conference assignments, and some new schools, but one thing hasn't changed: College football teams are adding new uniforms at a dizzying pace.

But fear not -- the annual Uni Watch season-preview column is here to help you make sense of what you'll be seeing out there on the gridiron.

As usual, we've prepared a comprehensive team-by-team rundown of all the FBS uniform news, broken down by conference. If a team isn't listed here, it means they don't have any changes this year, at least that we're aware of.

Ready? Deep breath -- here we go (for embedded tweets, you can click on the photo to get to a separate Twitter page and then click on the photo again to see a larger version of the image).

Pick a conference: American | ACC | Big Ten | Big 12 | Conference USA | Independents | MAC | Mountain West | Pac-12 | SEC | Sun Belt

American

• Cincinnati has changed its uni numbers from gray to white, and has also added an American flag patch.

• East Carolina has a new helmet, a new font for the chest lettering on the jersey, and a new midfield logo:

• Houston has cleaned up its look -- an upgrade. Also, the Cougars have a new turf design, which includes an 11-yard marker for former Heisman winner Andre Ware (further info on that here).

• SMU is going back to a more traditional look, complete with the block lettering and, even better, a blue jersey option.

• Nothing new yet for Temple, but the team's equipment staff recently hinted that something is in the works.

• Lots of changes for Tulane. First, the color scheme on the team's logo has been updated, so the Green Wave is now greener than ever. That updated logo appears on a new helmet:

And then there are the new jerseys. And a new turf design to boot!

• USF has two new helmets -- gold chrome and matte green:

There was also talk of USF replacing the players' names on the back of the jerseys with "The Team," but that plan was scrapped because it would violate NCAA regulations.