This piece was originally written during the pandemic when no games were taking place and various outlets were filling their airtime by showing old games.
It turns out that when there are no sports to actually watch, we go to either watching old games or debating uniforms, both of which have been hot topics on almost all outlets of late.
With the Notre Dame media choosing to re-show the 1998 win over LSU on Saturday it got me thinking about the Tigers helmet that I had just seen getting big-time love in a “Ten Best Helmets” piece on Rivals.
The top 10 helmets in CFB. https://t.co/0nhSbsKY4i
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There is a lot I can debate.
How is the Princeton/Delaware knockoff seen as the best? Kidding, of course, the Michigan helmet is iconic. Even if they stole it.
How does Oregon qualify if the Ducks never wear the same helmet two weeks in a row?
There is a team from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, that has a case to be No. 1 and it not being top 10 is laughable.
Instead, I want to focus on LSU at No. 5 for a moment.
What do you notice about the LSU headgear compared to literally everyone else on this list and if you’re familiar enough, with almost all the rest of college football?
Do they really need to write out both the school name and have a logo of their mascot in the same helmet? The colors are fantastic together but let’s think about this for a second.
Would Notre Dame’s gold helmet be better if either “Notre Dame” or “ND” was written out and a shamrock or a leprechaun showed up below?
Or would the Alabama lid be better if they had “ALABAMA” written out and an elephant or their cursive “A” below?
Heck no to both questions. If you made a list of the 10 worst helmets in college football, LSU would have a very strong case for number one. How they don’t use the Tiger eye from their fifty-yard line, an iconic look in the college football world, is beyond me.
There are a lot of great helmets in college football, there really are. It just happens that LSU doesn’t have one of them.
So how do I rank the top 10 list of best helmets???
NEXT: MY TOP 10 HELMET COUNTDOWN