The best part of the Florida Gators’ new white helmets, revealed to much fanfare on Sunday night (and mentioned in Chomping at Bits this morning), is obviously that they maintain maybe the classic element of Florida’s helmets — one of the best elements of Florida’s style as a whole, for my money — and do so on both sides of the skull this time.
Apart from getting the script Gators on both sides of a white helmet, though, the reintroduction of a white helmet after the mixed results and reaction the lids got during the Jim McElwain era shows that Florida is willing to experiment with different sartorial choices without going radical to the point of ridiculousness.