Lol, no, Nike did not “do these for a lot of teams”.Nike did these for a lot of teams - they all used the same font - they were not meant to evoke the late-80s/early 90s helmets
These are literally generic, non-school-branded Nike polos, where ISU worked with someone to DIY on a generic-ass Cyclones Brush Script font patch.
Sure, I’ll grant that other schools may also sometimes choose to DIY on their own logos to things, i.e. plain Nike gear. ISU however has a passion for this. And the fun part for fans is, it looks really cheap and obviously DIY’d too! Really cool going to a fan gear website and seeing how Iowa State now decided to reallllllly cheap out and not even offer the Nike elite level apparel anymore.