These New NCAA Football Helmet Concept Designs Are Incredible
11 years ago

As the NFL scouting combine concludes today, it marks 66 days until the NFL Draft. There won’t be any competitive football played for another 191 days, when the NCAA season begins on the evening of Friday, Sept. 4, with several games. Technically, though, the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game, featuring the Louisville Cardinals and the Auburn Tigers, doesn’t take place until the following day, so we’ll call it 192 days until football resumes, because the Friday night match-ups are honestly less impressive than Jameis Winston’s 4.97-second 40 time.

Regardless, I think we can all agree, that many days is way too long to go without any football actually being played. Despite the fact that ESPN will air “NFL Live” literally every day until then attempting to fill the void, it just won’t be the same.

So, for the time being, we’re just left trying to find other ways to fill our football fix. Luckily, these NCAA helmet redesigns might just be enough for you to hold on to for now, along with some wishful thinking that maybe your alma mater will actually adapt one of these, because they’re awesome.

Coming courtesy of graphic designer Dylan Young, these hard hats would look excellent flying around NCAA football fields this fall. “Deeyung,” as he goes by, notes that the designs part of his “Fresh Football Helmets” collection certainly aren’t intended to replace helmets already donned by teams; rather, they’re just some inspiration for a third (or in Oregon’s case, like, 158th) uniform kit.

Here are some of the best designs I came across. It only feels right to lead off with the defending national champions and some of its Big Ten conference adversaries:

Ohio State Buckeyes

Penn State Nittany Lions

Michigan Wolverines

Maryland Terrapins

Wisconsin Badgers

Nebraska Cornhuskers

Minnesota Golden Gophers

The SEC is coming in hot as it usually does. Maybe these redesigns can take away the pain of heartbreak after faltering in the postseason. Then again, maybe not, but they’re impressive nonetheless.

Georgia Bulldogs

Texas A&M Aggies

Missouri Tigers

LSU Tigers

Mississippi State Bulldogs

Ole Miss Rebels

Kentucky Wildcats

Tennessee Volunteers

Alabama Crimson Tide

Arkansas Razorbacks

Florida Gators

They’re all really fresh, I know.

Deeyung created some pretty stellar designs for the Pac-12, too. Despite the conference already being known for having the most outlandish kits in the NCAA, he managed to find a way to improve upon some of them.

Oregon Ducks

California Golden Bears

USC Trojans

Arizona Wildcats

Washington Huskies

Hawaii Warriors

Oregon State Beavers

Arizona State Sun Devils

Stanford Cardinal

UCLA Bruins

No question these ACC mock-ups would definitely turn heads, too.

Florida State Seminoles

Miami Hurricanes

North Carolina Tar Heels

Duke Blue Devils

Boston College Eagles

Clemson Tigers

Virginia Cavaliers

Virginia Tech Hokies

Living up to its reputation, the Big 12 isn’t looking too shabby, either.

Oklahoma Sooners

Texas Longhorns

TCU Horned Frogs

Baylor Bears

Texas Tech Red Raiders

Iowa State Cyclones

West Virginia Mountaineers

Kansas Jayhawks

Oklahoma State Cowboys

Kansas State Wildcats

And who could argue that the service academies and classically independent Notre Dame are a bad way to round it out?

Army Black Knights

Navy Midshipmen

Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Some quality stuff here, right guys? I was straight blown away by most of the designs I came across. It’s always cool to see how someone else envisions a concept, and these renderings pretty easily one-up most of the helmets we currently (as in, 192 days from now) see on the fields every Saturday. It would be awesome to see some of them inspire some real-life products, too. The designs seem to be an ongoing project, so be sure to check out Deeyung’s Instagram page to see if your team receives a feature if it hasn’t already.

[via Instagram]

  2. unclesam12

    Ohio State, Penn State and Michigan would all go bankrupt before they changed their helmet designs. Don’t mess with tradition.

    11 years ago at 5:16 pm
      1. JudgeSmailsTFM

        Minor changes though, the core elements stay the same. You can’t put the block O on the side of the helmet because the buckeye leaf honor stickers would cover it up

        11 years ago at 7:11 pm
      2. RectumDamnNearKilledEm

        They could go around it. FSU uses tomahawk honor stickers and maneuvers around the spear. In the end though I agree most traditionalist schools would never use these.

        11 years ago at 11:28 pm
    1. Ashley Schaeffer BMW

      Shit, you’re right. Hard program to keep up with seeing as kickoff time is usually 12:30AM on a Sunday.

      11 years ago at 5:48 pm
    1. Ashley Schaeffer BMW

      If he had made a design for ’em, I would’ve included it, so just chill out before you get your ass shot out of the sky, Viper.

      11 years ago at 12:12 pm
  8. Lord Fratquaad

    Normally these concept helmet designs people post are fucking horrible, but most of these were pretty good. Nothing too outlandish….except for Georgia’s, fuck those.

    11 years ago at 5:53 pm
  11. Daddys Home

    No Michigan wings. No Notre Dame golden dome. No Tennessee T. No FSU spear. No Georgia G.

    Fuck you Dylan Young. These suck more than a baby on a binky. These suck more than a DG on formal. These suck more than an Oregon Duck in a bowl game that matters.

    I guess that’s what one should expect from a GDI bitch and his ideas about what should constitute a college football helmet.

    Fuck you Schaffer. Maybe write something original for once? Oh wait, you’re a Philly sports fan. That explains your inability to produce a genuine thought.

    11 years ago at 7:30 pm