Most recognizable CFB helmets (no initials/name)

[scooter1369]

Bethune Cookman College!!!

 

[bearonu]

Also, don't mean to go too far off topic, but under the WLAF section on that helmet site, there was a team for one season ('92) named the Ohio Glory. I was in high school at the time, and don't really remember them at all. All I was able to find out was that they played their home games at Ohio Stadium and they won just one game in their only season. Did anybody watch any of these games? Did they have any local talent (i.e. ex-buckeyes, MAC, area high schools, etc.)?

 

[cincibuck]

...show all teams which do not have school initials/name on them...

the side view is the one that Pete Rozell turned into the icon for all football teams... but it doesn't show stripes, the most distinctive part of most team helmets which means only a distinctive color or logo works in which case why are UCLA and LSU out? A logo is a logo wether it's a single letter... like Nebraska's N for Knowledge... a word like 'Gators or Free Shoes Lance and Feathers boutique number... so we're really down to a handful of teams[/quote]

1. Michigan: regardless of how you feel about it/them, this helmet has got to have the highest brand recognition factor in all of football, college or pro.

2. Notre Dame: Yeah, lots of other gold helmets out there, but only Notre Dame's is painted with real gold, hand picked by Leprechauns in Bolivian Slave mines run by the Little Sisters of the Poor. Blah, blah, blah.

Admit it, no one looks at a gold helmet and thinks, "Oh, Navy!" Again, Brand recognition.

3. Ohio State: Distinctive color... no one else uses gray/silver excpet Wazoo and UNLV and the former can't decide which shade of red they want to use and the later only plays on ESPN after 2AM EST.

4. Southern Cal, distinctive color

5. Iowa, Steelers or Hawkeyes? I think most fans would think of Pittsburg first.

6. Michigan State. Well there just aren't that many teams that use green. Marshall, Baylor, Dartmouth, Tulane none of whom are likely to threaten MSU in a recognition contest.

7. Syracuse, Illinois, Clemson. Love for Three Oranges, " Program here! Get a program! you can't tell the team without a logo!" But 'cuse might win cause I think they dropped the S a long time ago.

That makes the following inelgible:

X. Texas: Bevo works, but that puts us back to the logo/initials controversy. It's just a white helmet like U Miami, Miami U, PSU, Wisconsin and half the known world.

X. Miami (Fl): It's the U logo that makes this helmet recognizible. see above

X. Penn State, ugly works too.

X. Florida State. Logo [/quote]

 

[jwinslow]

MSU is definitely NOT unique, their new helmets are USC ripoffs (I liked the 'S' much better)

Texas has the most unique logo out there, making it top-4 in brand recognition (their lesser status over the last 30 years hurts them, but their helmet might be the most unique in sports). ND is not recognizeable b/c of their wonderful helmets, but rather their visibility in the media, imo.