Each summer, the preseason buzz around football teams centers on what new looks they’ll show.

Usually, it’s referring to players and schemes. This summer, for Warren County’s teams, it’s taken a more literal turn.

All four county teams made notable changes to their uniforms in the offseason. The alterations range from Vicksburg’s subtle swap of bright green for a deeper shade, to Warren Central’s first major redesign of its jerseys in almost 40 years.

Warren Central’s new uniforms feature the “WC” logo on each sleeve, along with the word “Vikings” above the number on the front of the jersey. The team will still wear both red and white pants. The red color is also a slightly brighter shade than the previous version.

The old jerseys had no lettering and featured numbers on the shoulders. Other than adding players’ names to the back in the mid-2000s, the look has remained largely unchanged since the early 1970s.

“We’ve been thinking on it for a while. We didn’t want to get too far outside the box. It’s something we wanted to do without getting away from the traditional look,” WC coach Josh Morgan said. “It’s not too modernized. It’s the same scheme, just spiced up a little.”

Porters Chapel Academy is going for a more drastic redesign. The Eagles, who have worn black home jerseys and helmets the past three seasons, will use blue as a primary color this year.

The team will have blue jerseys and pants for home games, and new blue helmets with a matte finish. There are also black and white pants available to create different combinations.

“My biggest deal was, our school colors are blue and black. But at home, all you saw was all black. Our primary color is blue,” PCA coach Wade Patrick said. “I wanted to bring the blue back. When you looked at our uniforms, there wasn’t a stitch of blue in them.”

St. Aloysius’ changes aren’t as numerous, but definitely more obvious. The Flashes will wear gold helmets this season after sporting purple ones since 1961. The rest of St. Al’s uniform is the same as last year.

St. Al coach B.J. Smithhart said the idea came from his coaching staff.

“We just wanted to go with gold for a change. (Assistant) Coach (Jimmy) Salmon always wanted to have them, and I liked the idea,” Smithhart said. “The kids love it. It’s not like we’re going away from the school colors.”

Vicksburg High, meanwhile, is mixing old and new as it phases in new uniforms.

The Gators have toned down the green in their home jerseys, from a bright kelly green to a darker hunter green. It’s the same shade that’s used in their new helmets, which have a matte finish, and their pants.

The team’s white road jerseys and pants, however, will remain unchanged from last year. The Gators will also have last season’s alternate black jerseys and pants available.

First-year coach Tavares Johnson said the cost of two sets of new uniforms was too much to handle this year.

“We’ve got to do it piece by piece. I wanted to start at home,” Johnson said.

Another big change for Vicksburg is its helmet logo. Gone is the horizontal “VHS” sitting atop a snarling oval-encased Gator. In is a large, vertical “V” with a gator intertwined with the letter’s columns.

The same logo is emblazoned on players’ socks and T-shirts.

Previously, Vicksburg’s football team had as many as four different gator emblems on its uniforms. One of them, the “gator head,” caused the school in 2010 to receive a cease-and-desist letter from the University of Florida, which uses a similar logo.

Johnson said he was unaware of that controversy. The new logo, he said, was simply an effort to give his program its own identity.

“Everything you see now is going to be uniform,” Johnson said. “Vicksburg pride is what it’s about. It’s just something I like to do.”