Officially licensed Riddell collectible.

The black shell at full authenticity is the most striking version of the Utes identity Riddell produces. The Riddell Authentic Speed Black brings Utah football to the top of the collector market in an all-black shell with the block U decal in crimson and white built to full game spec construction, the same standards as the helmets that came off the sideline when the Utes wear the alternate on the field at Rice-Eccles Stadium. At authentic level the black shell finish has a quality and precision that separates it immediately from anything in the replica lineup, and the crimson detail against it at authentic spec lands with a sharpness and depth that the replica format gestures toward but never fully reaches.

Authentic alternate colorways sit at a specific and serious intersection in the college collector market. The combination of full authentic construction and a non-primary shell colorway tied to a program with one of the more loyal and regionally passionate fanbases in the Big 12 creates a piece with a profile that the standard crimson authentic approaches from a completely different direction. For Utah collectors who already have the crimson authentic this is the piece that sits apart from it immediately and reframes the entire display around what the Utes identity looks like at its most visually aggressive.

The weight, the padding, the shell finish, the hardware, all of it present at game level quality beneath the darkest and most commanding version of the Utah identity available in the Riddell lineup. For collectors at the serious end of the market who want every major colorway the Utes have put on the field at full authenticity, the black authentic is the piece that completes that collection without compromise.