re: Best standard helmet in the SEC...

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Auburn's helmet was better before the orange became metallic.

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Disagree it looks so much better with that now and they were already pretty great

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UGA (classic look, even if a Packers rip off)

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I can’t get over this.

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UGA (classic look, even if a Packers rip off)
I can’t get over this.

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My daughter taught school up north for awhile. On spirit day, she wore a UGA hoodie to class (she's a UGA grad). One of the kids raised her hand and asked where she got a red Packers hoodie?

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You do have awesome helmets and uniforms

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We look mahvelous, even when we play like crap.

I wont Rank LSU because even though it has everything I’m looking for I have An insane amount of bias

Top Tier - Elite

Florida- the script is something you don’t see outside the helmet and the blue pops on the orange. The white outline actually makes it look better even though I’m generally anti-outlines.

A&M - great use of a clean white logo on a dark background. No outlines. No fuss.

Arkansas- similar reasons to A&M. Logo isn’t as clean but it is more unique than just letters.

Great Helmets

Alabama- checks a lot of the boxes for good color contrast and a clean look. It unique now, but it wasn’t when it was designed so I dont Put it in the elite category. Still a great helmet.

Auburn- everyone loved this one and it’s just feels like more of a great logo than a great helmet. It’s not bad, or even mediocre but it’s not elite

Good not Great

Tennessee: checks a lot of boxes but a light orange T on a white background doesn’t pop. Hard to fix it (the black outline version is not a fix) but it’s still a good helmet

UGA: great helmet dropped to good because they stole the GreenBay G (I assume If some UGA fan wants to prove they had it first I’ll bump them to great)

South Carolina: gets points for being a unique logo, but it’s busy and it’s dark on dark. You lose the shape of gamecock.

Ole Miss classic Navy: like the scripts. I think It would be better without the outline. Idk. Maybe this should be in the great category.

Mediocre

Vandy- oh cool a star. Anchor is interesting but also busy, new school nonsense.

UK: logo slapped on a helmet. Not a super strong logo either. Drop the outline and it’s instantly better

Bad helmets

Missouri with any version of their new school tiger. Just sucks. Generic looking tiger.

Miss State: it’s an M. And a scroll. And the scroll has state. Oh and let’s add an outline. It’s a boring busy mess. Made even worse by the existence of the Baseball logo which is great.

All helmets in SEC look good except for those weird Mizzou ones (with the tiger face) though I do think Vandy should go back to gold helmets- black on black is way too hard to see

So the history behind Georgia's G is semi correct. We used the old Green Bay oval G originally in 1961, but then modified and trade-marked our own oval G in 1964.

Green Bay's remodeled G is actually based off of Georgia's modified 1964. So, Georgia copied Green Bay, then modified it a little, then Green Bay copied Georgia lol.

Here's a reference pic of the two logos.

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And here's a snippet from the Wiki:

"Vince Dooley was the first to incorporate a red helmet into the uniform in 1964, adopting the oval "G", a white stripe, and white facemasks. Anne Donaldson, who graduated from Georgia with a BFA degree and was married to Georgia assistant coach John Donaldson, was asked by Dooley to come up with a new helmet design to replace the previous silver helmet. Dooley liked the forward oriented stylized "G" Donaldson produced, and it was adopted by him. Since the Georgia "G" was similar to the Green Bay Packers' "G" used since 1961, Coach Dooley cleared its use with the Packers organization. Nonetheless, Georgia has a registered trademark for its "G" and the Packers' current, redesigned, "G" logo is modeled after the University of Georgia's redesign of Green Bay's original "G" logo. The helmet change was part of a drastic uniform redesign by Dooley, who also replaced the traditional silver pants with white pants that included a black-red-black stripe. The jerseys remained similar to the pre-1964 design, however, with a red jersey and white numbers."

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So the history behind Georgia's G is semi correct. We used the old Green Bay oval G originally in 1961, but then modified and trade-marked our own oval G in 1964.

Green Bay's remodeled G is actually based off of Georgia's modified 1964. So, Georgia copied Green Bay, then modified it a little, then Green Bay copied Georgia lol.

Here's a reference pic of the two logos.

LINK /

And here's a snippet from the Wiki:

"Vince Dooley was the first to incorporate a red helmet into the uniform in 1964, adopting the oval "G", a white stripe, and white facemasks. Anne Donaldson, who graduated from Georgia with a BFA degree and was married to Georgia assistant coach John Donaldson, was asked by Dooley to come up with a new helmet design to replace the previous silver helmet. Dooley liked the forward oriented stylized "G" Donaldson produced, and it was adopted by him. Since the Georgia "G" was similar to the Green Bay Packers' "G" used since 1961, Coach Dooley cleared its use with the Packers organization. Nonetheless, Georgia has a registered trademark for its "G" and the Packers' current, redesigned, "G" logo is modeled after the University of Georgia's redesign of Green Bay's original "G" logo. The helmet change was part of a drastic uniform redesign by Dooley, who also replaced the traditional silver pants with white pants that included a black-red-black stripe. The jerseys remained similar to the pre-1964 design, however, with a red jersey and white numbers."

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The color scheme is admittedly very good

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Whole heartedly believe that MSU/A&M color scheme is the WORST possible. If purple and brown had a god-awful love child it would be their color.