Unfashionable openers in our university team (3)
I believe the answer is:
out
'unfashionable' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)
'university team' is the wordplay.
'university' becomes 'ou'.
'team' becomes 't' (this might be a standard abbreviation I've not previously seen).
'ou'+'t'='OUT'
'openers in our' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for out that I've seen before include "Escaped" , "not acceptable" , "See 19" , "A way to escape" , "Defeated" .)