I am superstitious like every single person who has ever played any sport at any level in their lifetime. I was curious to see if the numbers lead to anything, so I took an hour to map everything out.

The things that interested me in particular were white helmets, striped helmets with white on them, and uniforms with no blue in them. Like many of our fans on the board, seeing a white helmet or a striped helmet with white in it, or those ugly white uniforms with black or gray numbers with no blue, give me a bad feeling. It seems like we play like crap in those combos and I wanted to put our gut feelings to the test.

So here it is. Data for our games from 2018, 2019 and our first two games this year.

NOTABLE
- 21-9 Overall
- 14-1 Home
- 7-6 Away
- 0-2 Neutral
- We are 14-1 at home, so whatever we wear at home doesn't matter
- In our only home loss to UCF we wore blue and white striped helmets, blue jerseys and white pants

JERSEYS/PANTS
3-0 Blue/Blue
3-0 Blue Gray
2-0 Black/Black
1-0 Black/Blue (only Navy at home)
1-0 White/Blue (only @ ECU)
1-0 Black/Gray (only Tulsa at home)
4-1 Gray/Gray (only loss to Penn State)
2-1 Blue/White
4-4 White/White
0-3 White/Gray (probably retired after 2018, not worn last year)

HELMETS
3-0 Blue/Gray stripes
1-0 Blue/Black stripes
1-0 Black/Grey stripes
1-0 Black
6-1 Blue
5-1 Gray
2-1 Blue/White stripes
1-1 Gray/White stripes
1-3 White
0-2 White/Black stripes

17-2 No White (home loss to UCF)
4-7 White or white with stripes

STRIPES VS. NO STRIPES
13-5 No stripes
8-4 Stripes

NO BLUE (White with black or gray numbers) (3-4)
L Navy A
L Wake Forest N
W ULM H
L Temple A
W Tulsa A
W USF A
L SMU A

GOOD GAMES WITH WHITE HELMETS
L UCF Home
W USF Away
W Arkansas State Home

BAD GAMES WITH WHITE HELMETS
L Navy Away
L Tulane Away
L Missouri Away
L Wake Forest Neutral
L Temple Away
L SMU Away

BEST ITEMS
5-0 Striped helmets no white
4-0 Black jersey
2-0 Black jersey/black pants
2-0 Black pants
1-0 Black helmet
8-1 Blue jersey
6-1 Blue helmet
6-1 Blue pants
5-1 Gray helmet
4-1 Gray jersey
13-5 Helmet no stripes
8-4 Helmet with stripes

WORST ITEMS
0-2 Black/White stripes, White jerseys, white pants, black numbers
1-3 White helmet
4-7 White jersey
4-7 Helmet with white (solid or striped)
1-2 Black numbers (win at USF with solid white helmet)
3-4 Striped helmet with white

CONCLUSION
We should never EVER wear a helmet that has any white on it under any circumstances, and especially a solid white helmet. Arguably our two worst games in the last two seasons at Tulane and at Missouri were played with solid white helmets, as was the loss to Wake Forest.

The striped helmets with white aren't much better. We have our only home loss to UCF along with the disasters at Navy and Temple wearing them. Navy, Temple and at SMU were all heartbreakers wearing them.

So when myself and others saw that hideous looking black and white thing we wore against SMU, many of us thought of Temple. Same uniform, same crappy ending. IF it was up to me, I would go with all gray uniforms with a solid blue or gray helmet on the road.

The bottom line is that we aren't dreaming it when we see helmets with white in them or uniforms with no blue in them, and think that we might not play very well. Historically, in the last two plus seasons, we haven't.