FSU Football should always wear gold helmets with any uniform combo

FSU football will go with a new uniform combination for Saturday’s game against Louisville, and it’s one that has an element that should be there.

This season, much has been made about all of the new things in the atmosphere surrounding the FSU football program. I, as someone who technically is on the fringe of that whole millennial thing, loves most of them: I love the newer music being played, I love the actually having fun (though it would work better with more wins) and I don’t have a problem with different uniform combos.

While as an old school fan and later alum of the school, I grew up with the traditional – and what many see as the best – look of the gold helmet with the garnet jersey and gold pants. That being said, I also have a soft spot for the all garnet unis, the white jersey and garnet pants uni and didn’t even honestly mind the all black look until we got blown out by Virginia Tech.

This week, the Seminoles will be rocking their fourth different uniform combo of this early season – and it’s a look that FSU football has never gone with before.

That’s right, for the first time in at least the last half century the garnet helmet will be going with something other than an all-black uniform – and for just the fifth game since the beginning of the 1966 season, the Seminoles will be wearing something other than a gold helmet.

For that, I turn into Mr. “Get Off My Lawn” because there is no reason why FSU football should wear anything other than the garnet and white spear on a gold helmet with a garnet face mask – a helmet that has been voted one of the most iconic things about college football in the past and has survived a variety of uniform changes over the past decades.

Listen, when it comes right down to it we all know that a uniform or helmet color is not what is going to win or lose a game for the Noles – but the gold helmet is the one that goes with everything. From garnet on gold to all garnet to all white to even the 2006 and 2008 Boston College and 2007 Duke games with the all black unis, the traditional helmet worked.

Head coach Willie Taggart made it clear when he came in that new uniform combinations were going to take place – and as a proud Seminoles, I’m going to ride with Taggart and whatever makes the players happy. But it will be a little bit different watching Saturday’s game and not seeing the best helmet in the sport on that field.