{"id":77378,"date":"2025-09-10T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/?p=77378"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:41:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:41:32","slug":"ohio-state-announces-helmet-stripe-game-for-fans-vs-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2025\/09\/10\/ohio-state-announces-helmet-stripe-game-for-fans-vs-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State Announces &#8220;Helmet Stripe Game&#8221; For Fans vs. Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the preseason, Ohio State announced <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2025\/08\/06\/wear-black-ohio-state-announces-crowd-themes-for-home-schedule\/\" target=\"_self\">a handful of game themes<\/a> for its fans. In Week One against Texas, it was &#8220;Scarlet the Shoe,&#8221; where all of the fans were instructed to wear the school&#8217;s primary color. Last week, there was no theme for the fans against Grambling State. Now, under the lights against the Ohio Bobcats, Ohio State is set to unveil the &#8220;Helmet Stripe Game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Initially, we thought the idea was going to be, &#8220;most of the stadium, on the north and south ends, will be decked out in gray\/silver, while the sections on the 50-yard line will be scarlet with white sections on either side.&#8221; As it turns out, that prediction was a little off the mark. Instead, the official Ohio State Football Twitter account posted a short video portraying the vision:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud835\udddb\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddf9\ud835\uddfa\ud835\uddf2\ud835\ude01 \ud835\udde6\ud835\ude01\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddf6\ud835\uddfd\ud835\uddf2 \ud835\uddda\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddfa\ud835\uddf2 in the \ud83d\udc5f Saturday \ud83c\udf30 <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yTkIINdqEx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/yTkIINdqEx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OhioStateFB\/status\/1965476793974161853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Ohio State Announces &#8220;Helmet Stripe Game&#8221; For Fans vs. Ohio<\/h2>\n<p>Instead of our vision that mimicked what Penn State has done, Ohio State will do something a little different. Everyone in the Horseshoe portion of the stadium will wear gray, while the seats in the south end of the stadium will have specific colors.<\/p>\n<p>So, if your tickets have you in section AA, A1-A30, B1-B28, C, or D, you&#8217;ll be suiting up in the Buckeyes&#8217; secondary color of <strong>gray<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re sitting in a seat in sections A31-A34 or B31-B34, <strong>black<\/strong> is the expectation.<\/p>\n<p>Folks sitting in sections A35, A36, B35, and B36 will be asked to wear <strong>white<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the <strong>scarlet<\/strong> section of the helmet stripe game will be those in sections A37, A38, A39, B37, B38, and B39.<\/p>\n<p>Of all of the traditions out there, this one looks to be one or more unique. Everyone loves a scarlet-out, white-out, black-out, or any variation thereof. In the past, there has been pushback from more established Ohio State fans regarding these requests. Specifically, older fans don&#8217;t like the black aspect, arguing that black isn&#8217;t an official color of the program.<\/p>\n<p>Considering gray is one of the official colors, there should be little issue here. The south end of the stadium is usually filled with students. If the students cooperate, it&#8217;ll be a very unique look that will provide an awesome atmosphere for the Buckeyes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Image: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio State&#8217;s &#8220;Helmet Stripe Game&#8221; is nearly here. The program has released its own vision and expectation for fans for the prime time matchup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4051,"featured_media":72462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,17],"tags":[63,73],"class_list":["post-77378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bigten","category-featured","category-news","tag-ohio-bobcats","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes"],"modified_by":"Maggie Yarnell, Senior Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4051"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77398,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77378\/revisions\/77398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}