NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Independents

NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Independent Teams


MERRIMACK	SACRED HEART
"Warriors"	"Pioneers"
North Andover, MA	Fairfield, CT

Historical Helmets

MERRIMACK COLLEGE


1996 - 2004	2005	2006 - 2013


2014 - 2015	2016	2017 - 2018


2019 - 2023	2024	2025 -

The Merrimack football team played its first season in 1996; the college also had a football team from 1986 through 1989 which was apparently always a club-level team. The above are all of the "known" helmet designs used by this team thus far.

SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY


? - 1998?	1999? - 2003	2004 - 2007


	'A'	'B' (and 'B1')
2008 - 2012	2013 - 2015	2016 -
		*see note 1 below


'C'	'D'	'E'
2016	2017 -	2019


'F'	'G'
2024 -	2025 -

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

2024: F-F-B; B-B-B; B-B-B; B-B

2023: D-D-D; B-B-B; B-B-B; B-B

2022: D-D-B; B-B-B; B-B-B; B?-B

2021: B1-B1?-B; B-B?-?; B-B-B; B-B-B (the last game being an NCAA Division I-FCS playoff game at Holy Cross)

2020*: B (entire season)

2019: D-D-B; B-B-B; B-B-B; E-E-E

2018: D-D-B; B-B-B; B-B-B; B-B

2017: D-D-B; B-B-B; B-B-B; B-B

2016: B-C-B; B-B-B; B-B-B; B-?

2015: A-A-A; A-?-A; A-A-A; A-A

*1 Design 'B' has the 'SHU' logo on both sides; 'B1' has it on the left side only, while on the right side is a logo memorializing the victims of the September 2001 terrorist attacks (as depicted below).