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It wasn't that long ago -- just five or six years -- that virtually every major college football team had only one helmet design. The main exception was Washington State, which had separate helmets for home and road (which was considered a major eccentricity at the time).
Things sure have changed. A college football team with only one or two helmets is now viewed as being somewhere between quaint and pathetic. Thanks to the explosion in helmet designs -- blackout, whiteout, gray, carbon fiber, camouflage, chrome, pride, stars and stripes, rivalry, matte-finish, throwback and more -- many programs have at least three different helmet colors that they can customize with various decals and face mask colors to create a near-endless array of designs. (As if to underscore this point, Oregon has just announced a new pink helmet.)
Uni Watch
With the helmet explosion showing no signs of abating, many Uni Watch readers have begun asking questions: How much do these helmets cost? Who pays for them? What happens to them all, especially the ones that are used only once or twice?Wendell Neal, director of equipment operations at the University of Arizona: Just ballpark, I would budget about 50 grand for a set of helmets. Now, we don't have the liquid chrome or anything like that -- those cost more. But we have four different color shells, and those would be about $50,000 for each set.Comment
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this shits getting out of hand. you can tell who the shit teams are in college because they are the ones who need to pull these gimmicks for noteriety. the powerhouses dont have to do this crap and thank god they dont.Comment
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I'll be honest, but those pink helmets actually looked pretty cool during the game. That blurry pic doesn't do it justice.Comment
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Memphis Tigers this week
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Really wish Nike would stop pushing that old Miami number font on these programs with smaller budgets. Instantly cheapens/dates the look. To make it worse, Nevada is using it too.
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