With Tennessee playing Ohio State in the first expanded College Football Playoff, that buckeye helmet sticker tradition is back in focus. By the end of the season, the backs and sides of players ...

If a helmet becomes full in a season, there becomes a running tally for notation purposes. The first time a Buckeye player receives a sticker, a member of Ohio State's equipment team places the ...

and so you needed to fit more on your helmet, so the Buckeye leaves got smaller and all of a sudden, it looks like a cluster,” Tressel said. Players receive stickers after coaches grade the game ...

Time, TV schedule to watch Week 14 game The objects on Ohio State’s helmet stickers are buckeye leaves. Buckeye leaves grow on buckeye trees, the official state tree of Ohio. The fruit of ...

In short, these white and dark green decals depict a buckeye leaf. Each buckeye sticker is awarded to players for "big plays and consistency on the field," the university says on its website.

Generally speaking, the buckeye leaf stickers are meant to signify ... Players kick off each season with a clean, sticker-less helmet. The team accumulates more stickers for every win.

An Ohio State football player's success can be pointed out relatively easily, by counting how many buckeye leaves he has on his helmet. In much of the first half of Saturday night's game against ...