UCF to don helmets designed by pediatric patients in Week 2

UCF football will wear helmets designed by pediatric patients, featuring special decals, for their Week 2 matchup against the Sam Houston Bearkats.

This comes after UCF football players paid a visit to the patients of Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. The children were asked to help add designs to the decals that are placed on the players’ helmets during the spring game.

The UCF logo the team will be wearing was designed by the patients and each side of the white helmet will include a  logo of a different color. They appear on one side in several shades of blue and on the other side as more of a rainbow pattern.

Game 2 Helmets

Thanks to our friends at @APHospital 💛 pic.twitter.com/onsi1exdLn

— UCF Football (@UCF_Football) September 3, 2024

“We got such a good reaction from the spring game with the helmets that we really wanted to put this on the field for an actual game,” equipment manager Brad Anderson said. “Not just the spring game, but a game that counts towards us making the College Football Playoff.”

UCF and Sam Houston are set to kick off at 6:30 p.m. CT on the Knights’ home turf.

Crissy Froyd

Crissy covers SEC football news for Saturday Down South.