Villarreal has done individually airbrushed helmets for 12 programs since 2018, including Utah, UCF, Maryland, BYU, Michigan and Tennessee.

The Giles family celebrated one of college football's best rivalries by painting a BYU-Utah football field in their backyard.

They're wearing throwback sets, evocative of some of the first uniforms worn by the university's team, capped off by helmets imitating the leather caps used in the early days of football history.

According to the team, the throwback helmets were hand-painted to "match the look of ... the Fighting Illini football site says, "100 years and one day prior to this season's rededication ...

Throwback jerseys in college football ... in leather helmets or without facemasks, but they found the next best thing. The Fighting Illini will be wearing individually hand-painted helmets ...

The Illini will mark the occasion by donning hand-painted helmets to match the look of the leather helmets of Grange's era and throwback uniforms. The loser of the game will most likely drop out ...

CHAMPAIGN - Saturday's Michigan-at-Illinois football game will be a celebration ... will wear 1920s-themed throwback uniforms and hand-painted helmets that pay tribute to the uniforms worn ...

The Illini, dressed in old-school uniforms and hand-painted helmets, ran out from the tunnel ... “I knew this was a good football team that was going to do some things. Super respectful for Michigan ...

From individually hand-painted helmets to the top uniform technology in the world, our players will honor 100 years of tradition while being equipped with the best in football on Oct. 19.