Uniforms. Rocking the All White
December 1st, 2023 at 1:21 PM ^
Yes. White with the blue pants is a cool look. But at this point, lets WIN THE GAME.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:45 PM ^
I feel like the white makes the most sense for this game.
- if they were the maize, everyone's legs kind of match, and that seems weird
- they wore blue in 2021, so if they do something different in this game you will immediately be able to differentiate the games from still pictures or clips
December 1st, 2023 at 12:48 PM ^
I really like all of Michigan's road uniforms. They can't go wrong.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:01 PM ^
Agree 100%.
December 1st, 2023 at 12:48 PM ^
It will be a nice contrast to Iowa's black and yellow unis.
Our receivers will really stand out for that one time that JJ is allowed to throw downfield.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:23 PM ^
I think Iowa will go all black.
December 1st, 2023 at 4:16 PM ^
Cool. Then we'll throw twice.
December 1st, 2023 at 12:49 PM ^
While I’m not a huge fan of the all whites, those will look good on stage accepting another conference championship trophy.
December 1st, 2023 at 12:51 PM ^
Not my favorite look, but it is nice that should Michigan win, it immediately has a visual frame of reference of which year the photo is based on the pants' color.
December 1st, 2023 at 12:53 PM ^
The goal is to win the Big Ten enough so that you finally can't tell what year it is by the uniform combos.
December 1st, 2023 at 12:51 PM ^
Need white shoes - Blasphemy for Bo.
December 1st, 2023 at 12:57 PM ^
Assuming the Hawkeyes are wearing yellow pants and black jerseys, I don’t see why Michigan couldn’t wear their blue pants and maize jerseys. No one cares how the game looks on monochrome tv, it’s 2023.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:01 PM ^
The only reason I can think of to not wear maize jerseys is because they look terrible.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:03 PM ^
maize jerseys should never see the light of day.
Love the all white combo
December 1st, 2023 at 1:03 PM ^
Many people will probably take issue with your suggestion of wearing maize jerseys, but to your larger point, it's unbelievable that our uniform choices are constrained by the limits of...*checks notes*...black and white tv...
December 1st, 2023 at 1:27 PM ^
Your opinion is bad, and you should feel bad.
Maize jerzeez... hell no.
Just no.
December 1st, 2023 at 12:59 PM ^
I'm probably in the minority, but I'm just not a fan of the all-whites. Would have much preferred maize pants, or the blue pants like we did in 2021.
I guess I should be thankful that at least we wear blue jerseys at home for football. I'll never understand sports where the home team routinely wears white (my understanding is that it goes back to home teams being better able to launder their jerseys, which ceased to be a relevant factor decades ago). If one of your colors is white, or you have a tradition with white jerseys, fine (LSU, PSU, teams like that). But for teams like M, wear maize or blue and make the visiting team wear that shit...
December 1st, 2023 at 1:05 PM ^
The white jersey? I think it's a good "upper" for a team that plays under a hot sun, a noon / 3:30 kickoff - and, force the opponent to wear "dark" - so their uni absorbs more heat, etc.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:15 PM ^
Which is fair. Doesn't really apply to us--we maybe have a few weeks where the weather could conceivably be hot enough to merit something like that, and we're usually playing tomato cans those weeks anyway.
But I'm talking other sports (LSU is the only football team I can think of that routinely wears white at home; I could see PSU doing it for a whiteout, too, etc.). I can't tell you how many times I've seen our hockey and basketball teams wear white jerseys at home. There's no sun or heat to deal with in an arena...
December 1st, 2023 at 1:19 PM ^
Agreed. I think that we look like a bunch of tampons running around in all whites.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:41 PM ^
Well it's a good thing we wore maize pants to PSU then...
December 1st, 2023 at 1:08 PM ^
Love the all whites road uniform. Hope there’s the stripe down the side of the pants.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:14 PM ^
Oh yes, a stripe...that would be lovely.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:08 PM ^
A week ago - there was a post that Michigan would wear the traditional home uni for the Ohio State game. The team played in the all blues.
I don't care what they wear - as long as they play their game and wind up with a "W" after facing the Hawkeyes.
As for my apparel - I have worn my maize 3/4 zip long sleeved Nike Jumpman pullover every game this year - it's yielded positive results - and, I'll be in that tomorrow night.
Go Blue!
December 1st, 2023 at 1:30 PM ^
That was me. I'm a uniform junkie. I saw a pic for a hype post for the game and thought it was their Friday uniform post. I duped myself.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:12 PM ^
Sad. It sucks that we only see the traditional maize pants at a minority of games. I'd guess about a quarter of them at this point.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:18 PM ^
Yeah, I agree. I guess the way I look at it is that it's a Harbaugh thing (he has nostalgia for Bo teams wearing all white when he was a kid). If that and helmet stickers, which I'm also not crazy about, are the price we have to pay to have Harbaugh coaching, so be it...
December 1st, 2023 at 2:18 PM ^
My understanding is that the Players' Council decides which uniforms (from the list of those allowed) to wear for a given game. If so, then it's not Harbaugh that likes the all-whites, it is the team. I think they should wear whatever the players think smells like victory.
December 1st, 2023 at 3:49 PM ^
Maybe, but Harbaugh is the reason that all whites are even an option. My understanding is that prior to Harbaugh's hiring in 2015, we had only ever worn all whites for a few years in the early-mid 70s (looking it up, it seems to be 1973-75), which happened to be the first three years of Jack Harbaugh's tenure as an assistant here, and a pretty formative time in Jim's football and Michigan fandom (he was 10-12 years old over this span). I'm pretty sure he mentioned as much when he reintroduced the all whites back in 2015.
So yeah, maybe the players pick now, but no Harbaugh, and white pants likely aren't even an option...
December 1st, 2023 at 4:22 PM ^
Harbaugh like the all-whites because of the '70s Michigan teams that wore them. But the irony is that Michigan never beat Ohio State in them until Harbaugh was the coach.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:15 PM ^
We wore blue pants in 2021 and 2022 in Indy. I hope we know what we're doing.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:16 PM ^
With the Wimbledon whites, I’m changing my score prediction to 40 - love.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:18 PM ^
I waMt to see the all maize
December 1st, 2023 at 1:31 PM ^
West Virginia entered the chat.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:20 PM ^
Love the all white.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:23 PM ^
+1 for the "GOOD GUYS", All White and tight!
GO BLUE!
December 1st, 2023 at 1:27 PM ^
This is dumb. The higher ranked team should be the home team. Oh well, let the white panted warriors obliterate the Black and Gold on Saturday.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:40 PM ^
While I’ll always love the maize pants and white jersey combo, the all white look is tight
December 1st, 2023 at 1:40 PM ^
The helmets have Wings.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:42 PM ^
But wait, I thought you couldn't wear white after Labor Day? 🙃
December 1st, 2023 at 1:46 PM ^
That's for women, and people who identify as women.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:42 PM ^
Can't believe I'm saying this but I prefer the all-whites, all-blues, and white top/blue bottoms to any of the maize pants combinations.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:45 PM ^
Wear all white so your enemies can see their blood on you.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:47 PM ^
Really liked blue pants and white jersey the last time we played them in Big Ten championship.
That said, let's just WIN THE GAME.
Go Blue!
December 1st, 2023 at 1:47 PM ^
I'm surprised nobody has weighed in with the classic "I don't care what they wear, they can wear pink tutus for all I care blah blah blah" horseshit
December 1st, 2023 at 4:24 PM ^
On second thought . . .
December 1st, 2023 at 1:50 PM ^
I was hoping we would be going white tops and blue pants. We are undefeated all-time with that uniform combo.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:58 PM ^
These look clean!
Gary Hazelitt (Director of Equipment and Internal Operations) was speaking at U of M club of Ann Arbor for the Monday Luncheon at Weber’s. He mentioned the all white uniforms. He also indicated Mike Sanristil had a big say in picking the uniform colors this week!
December 1st, 2023 at 2:18 PM ^
I love our all whites. They're so clean.