White headed ducks

The Ducks broke many a bad streak last weekend, with their victory at Ohio State! 

• First victory against tOSU EVER!
• First Pac-12 team to win on the road vs. a top-5 opponent since 1990
• Best victory since the 2015 Rose Bowl semi-final vs. #3 Florida State
• Many other longstanding miseries vs. top-5 teams in big games......
• Winning while wearing white helmets!?

This game was the first time a white helmet had been used since Mark Helfrich's final year in 2016. That year the Ducks wore them four times and lost three of those games. In the Helfrich-era, which was the heyday of white helmets, they wore them 11 times and lost 5 times.

The most memorable losses while wearing white helmets were in big games:

2015 Alamo Bowl loss (against TCU)

2015 National Championship loss (against tOSU)

2010 Rose Bowl loss (against tOSU)

So I hope that this represents a new era where white helmets in big games are lucky.