Conference USA


CHARLOTTE FLORIDA ATLANTIC FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL
"49ers" "Owls" "Panthers"
Charlotte, NC Boca Raton, FL Miami, FL
LOUISIANA TECH MIDDLE TENNESSEE
STATE
NORTH TEXAS
"Bulldogs" "Blue Raiders" "Mean Green"
Ruston, LA Murfreesboro, TN Denton, TX
RICE UAB UTEP
"Owls" "Blazers" "Miners"
Houston, TX Birmingham, AL El Paso, TX
UTSA WESTERN KENTUCKY
"Roadrunners" "Hilltoppers"
San Antonio, TX Bowling Green, KY

Historical Helmets

CHARLOTTE

'B' 'C' 'A'
2014 - 2017 2014 - 2015 2013 - 2017
'D' 'E' 'F'
2015 - 2017 2016 2016 - 2017
'G' 'H' 'I'
2017 2018 2018 -
'J' 'K' 'L'
2018 2018 - 2018
*see note 1 below
'M' 'N' 'O'
2019 - 2019 - 2019 -
'P' 'Q' 'R'
2020 - 2020 - 2021 -
'S'
2021 -

The Charlotte football team played its first season in 2013 and has used the following sequences of helmet designs:

*1 This design has an asymmetrical stripe sequence - the white center stripe is flanked by a blue stripe on the left side, and by a red stripe on the right side. Along the stripe are small versions of the insignia of the five branches of the United States Armed Forces.


FLORIDA ATLANTIC

2001 - 2004 2005 - 2011 2012
'A'
2013 November 23, 2013 2014
*see note 1 below *see note 2 below
'B' 'C' 'D'
2014 2014 2015 -
'E' 'F' 'G' (and 'G1')
2015 - 2015 - 2015 -
*see note 3 below *see note 4 below
'H' 'I' 'J'
2016 - 2016 - 2017 -
*see note 5 below *see note 6 below *see note 7 below
'K' 'L'
2018 - 2020 -
*see note 8 below *see note 9 below

During recent years Florida Atlantic has used the following sequences of helmet designs:

2001 was the first football season for FAU.

*1 Numerals are present on the left side only of this design, with an "owl" logo on the right side (as shown below).

*2 Numerals are present on the left side of this design only, with an "owl" logo on the right side (as shown below).

*3 The state outline logo is worn on the left side only of this design; the right side features an "owl" logo (as shown below).

*4 Designs 'G' and 'G1' both have the state outline logo on the left side only; the right sides differ (as shown below).

'G' 'G1'

*5 The state outline logo is worn on the left side only of this design; the right side features an "owl" logo (as shown below).

*6 The state outline logo is worn on the left side only of this design; the right side has an "owl" logo and hence resembles design 'F' above.

*7 The state outline logo is worn on the left side only of this design; the right side has uniform numerals (as shown below).

*8 The state outline logo is worn on the left side only of this design; the right side has uniform numerals (as shown below).

*9 The state outline logo is worn on the left side only of this design; uniform numbers are worn on the right side (as shown below).


FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL

'A' 'B'
2002 - 2007 2008 - 2015 -
'C' 'D' 'E'
2016 2016 2017 -
'F' 'G' 'H'
2017 - 2017 - 2018 -
'I' 'J' 'K'
2018 - 2018 - 2019 -
*see note 1 below
'L' 'M' 'N'
2019 - 2019 - 2019 -
'O' 'P' 'Q'
2019 - 2020 2021 -
'R' 'S' 'T' (and 'T1')
2021 - 2022 - 2022 -
*see note 1 below
'U' 'V' 'W'
2022 - 2022 - 2022 -
*see note 1 below *see note 1 below
'X' 'Y' 'Z'
2022 - 2022 - 2022 -
*see note 1 below *see note 1 below
'AA'
2022 -

During recent years Florida International has used the following sequences of helmet designs:

FIU played its first season of football in 2002.

*1 The right side of each of these designs differs from the left side as depicted below.

'J' 'T1' 'V'
'W' 'X' 'Y'

LOUISIANA TECH

? - 1967 1969 1968 - c.early 1980s; c.1989
*see note 1 below
c.mid 1980s - 1988 c.early 1990s - 2006 2007
*see note 2 below
'B' 'C'
2008 - 2012 2013 - 2014 2014
'D' 'E' 'A'
2014 - 2015 2015 2013 - 2014
'F' 'G' 'H'
2015 - 2016 2016 - 2016
*see note 3 below
'I' 'J' 'K'
2016 - 2017 - 2018 -
*see note 3 below

During recent years Louisiana Tech has used the following sequences of helmet designs:

*1 The "100" logo was worn only on the left sides of the Louisiana Tech helmets in 1969, with the state outline logo worn on the right sides.

*2 The earliest and latest seasons from which I have seen photographs showing stripes on the red helmet are 1985 and 1988, respectively

*3 'F' and 'J' differ in that 'F' has two narrow red stripes between the middle blue stripe and the outer white stripes, while 'J' does not have these red stripes.


MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE

1960 - 1963 1964 1965 - 1966
1967 - 1968 1969 1970
1972 1971 - 1973 1974
*see note 1 below
1975 1976 1977
1978 1979 - 1981 1982 - 1998
'A' 'B'
1999 2000 - 2014 2012 - 2013
'C' 'D' 'E'
2013 2013 2014 -
'F' 'G' 'H'
2014 - 2014 - 2014
'I' 'J' 'K'
2014 - 2014 - 2015 -
'L' 'M' 'N'
2015 - 2015 - 2016 -
'O' 'P' 'Q'
2016 - 2016 - 2017 -
'R' 'S' 'T'
2017 - 2017 - 2017 -
'U' 'V' 'W'
2017 2018 2019 -
'X' 'Y'
2021 - 2021 -
*see note 2 below

During recent years MTSU has used the following sequences of helmet designs:

*1 MTSU used plain white helmets during at least games #3 and #7 of the 1972 season, but the design labelled "1971 - 1973" above was used during game #10.

*2 Six different sets of stripes were worn on design 'Y' representing the six branches of the United States Armed Forces; below are representations of these variations. Each of the stripes has left/right symmetry except for the Coast Guard design, which is blue-white-red (from left to right) with approximate width ratios of 1:1:5 for the three colors.

Air Force Army Coast Guard
Marine Corps Navy Space Force

NORTH TEXAS

? - c.1963 1964 - 1966
1967 c.1968 - 1971 1972
1973 - 1978 1979 - 1982 1983 - 1993
*see note 1 below
1994 1996 - 1997 1995; 1998 - 2000
*see note 2 below *see note 2 below
2001 - 2003 2003 - 2004 2005 - 2006
*see note 3 below
'A' 'B'
2007 - 2010 2011 - 2013 August 31, 2013
'C' 'D' 'E'
2013 2013 2014 - 2016
*see note 4 below
'F' 'G' 'H'
2014 - 2016 2015 - 2016 2016
*see note 4 below
'I' 'J' 'K'
2017 - 2017 - 2017 -
*see note 4 below
'L' 'M' 'N'
2017 - 2018 - 2019 -
'O' 'P'
2020 - 2021 -

During recent years North Texas has used the following sequences of helmet designs:

I do not yet have any information for North Texas for the years 1960 and 1961. In 1962, the team used white helmets with uniform numerals of some unknown color (probably green) on the sides; no stripes are visible in the photographs that I have from 1962. The team used plain white helmets during at least one game in 1963 (vs Cincinnati).

*1 During part of the period when this logo was in use, a completely white version of it, without the yellow parts, may have been used; this has been reported to me but not confirmed with photographic evidence.

*2 The difference between these two helmets is probably not readily apparent: the 1996 - 1997 helmet included two navy blue stripes flanking the central white stripe.

*3 Black facemasks were first used during the October 30 game against Troy State.

*4 Clarification of differences: 'D' (used only once - January 1, 2014 vs UNLV in the Heart of Dallas Bowl) is a shiny black helmet with a pattern of fine parallel lines and a highly-reflective green eagle logo; 'F' is a 'normal' shiny black helmet without the line texture of 'D' but with a very broad 'stripe' composed apparently of many tiny silver 'eagles' in rows and with a 'normal' green eagle logo; 'J' is a black helmet with no stripe and with a 'normal' green eagle. Below are photographs of these designs.


RICE

c.mid 1950s - 1964 1965 - 1966 1967 - 1970
1971 - 1975 1976 1977
1978 1979 - 1981 1982
1983 1984 1984
*see note 1 below
1985 1986 - 1989 1990 - 1993
1994 - 1996 1997 - 2005 2006
    'B'
October 16, 2010;
October 23, 2010;
October 22, 2011
September 10, 2011 2012
'C' 'D' (and 'D1') 'A'
2012 - 2017 2012 - 2007 - 2012
*see note 2 below
'E' 'F' 'G'
2012 December 31, 2013 2015 -
'H' 'I' 'J'
2016 - 2017 2018 - 2018 -
'K' 'L' 'M'
2018 - 2019 - 2019 -
'N' 'O' (and 'O1') 'P'
2020 - 2020 - 2021 -
*see note 3 below *see note 4 below
'Q' 'R' 'S'
2021 - 2021 - 2021 -
*see note 5 below
'T'
2022 -
*see note 6 below

During recent years Rice has used the following sequences of helmet designs:

To the best of my knowledge, the above are all of the different helmet designs used by Rice during the period covered by this site (1960 to present).

*1 The decal on this helmet was used for only the first two games of the 1984 season (vs Minnesota and Lamar); the logo was modified for the third game, and that version was used for the remainder of the 1984 season.

*2 Design 'D' has the 'R' logo on both sides; 'D1' has the 'R' on the left side only while the right side bears a logo commemorating those impacted by Hurricane Harvey, which hit the Houston area in late August 2017 (as depicted below).

*3 The left side of this design is "blank" but a logo is present on the right side (as depicted below).

*4 Uniform numbers are worn on the left side only of both designs 'O' and 'O1'. On the right side of 'O' is the logo worn on design 'D'; on the right side of 'O1' is the logo worn on design 'L'.

*5 Uniform numbers are worn on the left side only of this design; a logo adorns the right side (as depicted below).

*6 Uniform numbers are worn on the left side only of this design; the school name is present on the right side (as depicted below).


UAB

1991 1992 1993
1994 1995 1996 - 2002
2003 - 2007 2008 - 2011 November 17, 2012
'I' 'J' 'B'
2012 - 2013 2013 2014
'A' 'C' 'D'
2014 2017 - 2018 2017 - 2018
'E' 'F' 'G'
2017 - 2017 - 2017
'H' 'K' 'L'
2017 2018 - 2019 -

During recent years UAB has used the following sequences of helmet designs:

1991 was the first football season for the UAB football team.


UTEP

1960 - 1961 1962 1963 - 1964
1965 1966 1967 - 1970
1971 1972 1973
1974 - 1976 1977 1978 - 1979
1980 - 1981 1982 (early season) 1982 - 1985
*see note 1 below
1986 - 1987 1988 - 1990 1991
'E' 'A'
1992 - 1998 1999; 2018 - 2000 - 2017
'B' 'C' 'D'
2014 - 2017 2016 - 2017; 2019 - 2017 -
'F' 'G' 'H'
2018 2018 2018
'I' 'J' 'K'
2018 - 2021 - 2021 -
'L' 'M' 'N'
2022 - 2022 - 2022 -

During recent years UTEP has used the following sequences of helmet designs:

*1 UTEP did not use a helmet logo during at least its first five games in 1982; a new 'UTEP' logo was used by at least game #7 (October 16 at Arizona State). No information has yet been located for game #6 (October 9 at UNLV).


UTSA

'A'
2011 - 2012 November 9, 2013 November 24 2012;
2013 -
'B' 'C' 'D'
2014 - 2012 2014 - 2015 2014
*see note 1 below *see note 1 below
'E' 'F' 'G'
2015 2015 2016 -
'H' 'I' 'J'
2016 2017 - 2017 -
'K' 'L' 'M'
2019 - 2019 - 2020 -
'N' 'O' 'P'
2020 - 2021 - 2021 -
*see note 1 below *see note 1 below
'Q'
2022 -
*see note 1 below

During recent years UTSA has used the following sequences of helmet designs:

  • 2021: M-K-M; K-K-K; K-M-K; K-O-P; K-P (the last two games being vs Western Kentucky in the Conference USA championship game at San Antonio, TX, and vs San Diego State in the Frisco Bowl at Frisco, TX)
  • 2020: M-M-K; K-M-K; K-K-M; M-M-N (the last game being vs Louisiana in the First Responders Bowl at Dallas, TX)
  • 2019: A-J-L; A-A-A; J-J-G; G-K-A
  • 2018: A-G-A; G-A-G; G-A-J; A-A-J
  • 2017: G-G-A; G-A-G; A-I-G; A-J
  • 2016: A-G-A; G-A-A; A-H-A; A-A-A; A (the last game being vs New Mexico in the New Mexico Bowl at Albuquerque, NM)
  • 2015: B-A-A; A-B-A; A-C-A; C-E-F
  • 2014: B-A-A; B-B-A; A-B-C; D-B-A

UTSA played its first season of football in 2011.

*1 The right side of each of these designs differs from the left side as depicted below.

'B' 'C' 'O'
'P' 'Q'

WESTERN KENTUCKY

c.1970s c.1980s c.1997
? - 2002 September 10, 2005 2003 - 2006
*see note 1 below
2007 - 2010 September 10, 2011 2011 - 2012
'A' 'B' 'C'
2013 - 2016 - 2016 -
'D' 'E' 'F'
2018 - 2018 - 2018 -
'G' 'H' 'I'
2020 - 2020 - 2020 -
'J' 'K' 'L'
2021 - 2021 - 2022 -
'M' 'N'
2022 - 2022-

During recent years WKU has used the following sequences of helmet designs:

  • 2021: J-G-G; G-G-G; G-K-G; G-G-G; G-G (the last two games being vs UTSA in the Conference USA championship game at San Antonio, TX, and vs Appalachian State in the Boca Raton Bowl at Boca Raton, FL)
  • 2020: G-G-H; I-G-H; G-G-G; G-G-G (the last game being vs Georgia State in the LendingTree Bowl at Mobile, AL)
  • 2019: A-A-A; F-A-D; A-A-A; A-A-A; A (the last game being vs Western Michigan in the First Responder Bowl at Dalls, TX)
  • 2018: A-A-A; A-A-A; D-E-A; A-A-F
  • 2017: A-A-A; B-B-A; A-A-A; B-A-A; A (the last game being vs Georgia State in the Cure Bowl at Orlando, FL)
  • 2016: A-B-A; A-A-A; B-A-A; C-A-A; A-A (the last two games being vs Louisiana Tech in the Conference USA championship game at Bowling Green, KY, and vs Memphis in the Boca Raton Bowl at Boca Raton, FL)

*1 This design was used during the 2005 home game against Eastern Kentucky and reportedly several other games that year (which ones?).