Record for Michigan All Blue Uniform
I have the sense that the all-blue uniform (blue pants, blue jersey) is going to really grow on me due to watching replays of certain games (e.g., the National Championship, Ohio State, etc.).
I'm trying to figure out what games we have worn it in. I'd also be curious as to what people think are the top fives games with all-blue uniforms.
I searched with google to see if this was posted here before, but can't find anything. I did find this article from Maize N Brew from the beginning of the season: "Michigan is 11-1 all-time and a perfect 7-0 at home when rocking both blue jerseys and blue pants. Most recently, the Wolverines wore their all-blue uniforms when they defeated Purdue, 43-22, in the Big Ten Championship Game last season."
https://www.maizenbrew.com/2023/9/15/23875561/university-of-michigan-football-announces-uniform-combo-for-night-game-against-bowling-green
And this article from right before the National Championship Game:
So, am I correct that we are now 16-1 in the all blues with the only loss to Georgia in the Orange Bowl? And the first time we wore it was against Washington in 2021?
Anyone want to rank those 17 games?
January 17th, 2024 at 5:17 PM ^
I’m definitely not researching all of that but wanted to chime in that I love the all blues!
January 17th, 2024 at 5:17 PM ^
1) OSU 21'
2) OSU 23'
3) National Championship.
January 17th, 2024 at 5:31 PM ^
I kind of hate that this is the correct answer, but it is.
The National Championship was against an inferior opponent that Michigan matched up very well against.
January 17th, 2024 at 5:35 PM ^
Yeah but we won the natty.
I'll give him '21 osu, but you can't pick '23 osu over the literal national championship.
January 17th, 2024 at 6:39 PM ^
Except insofar as without the win over osu in '23 Michigan doesn't get the chance to play in the cfp!
So beating osu has been the necessary step towards achieving any further goals. So I'm fine with the order osu '21, osu '23, NC game. Or with flipping the latter 2. But osu '21 is the game without which none of what Michigan has accomplished the past 3 years is possible!
I believe M & osu facing each other more than once per season will become a fairly common occurrence. So we'll see if the traditional season ender will keep it's all-important place in the new cfp format?!
January 18th, 2024 at 1:40 PM ^
If we lost to Bowling Green do we get selected over an undeteated FSU? So is the BGSU win bigger than the win over Washington?
January 17th, 2024 at 8:07 PM ^
The loser, by definition, is always the inferior opponent. At least that day.
January 17th, 2024 at 5:18 PM ^
Who doesn’t love the color blue?!
January 17th, 2024 at 5:24 PM ^
BGB for the win baby!
January 17th, 2024 at 5:37 PM ^
Me. I had to condition myself to love it. Green is my favorite and I love grey cars with red interiors.
January 17th, 2024 at 6:31 PM ^
What..... green is your favorite color???
Would have never guessed that 🤔.
I just bought a new car that is Pearl Grey with black interior.
Love all of the uniform color combinations except the all maize....
January 17th, 2024 at 6:41 PM ^
Yeesh 🤢😡
January 17th, 2024 at 5:42 PM ^
probably bloods
January 17th, 2024 at 6:14 PM ^
You must be an e-ricket, or cricket, as the bloods say about the crips.
OG
January 17th, 2024 at 6:50 PM ^
...but I thought we were a blue blood?
January 17th, 2024 at 6:17 PM ^
Pink Floyd tells me that Green is the colour.
January 17th, 2024 at 5:22 PM ^
Off top of my head I believe we wore all blue back in the Norfleet/Hoke days at home versus Penn State. I remember Dennis's dance while awaiting a punt return.
Side note, for me, the all blue with maize accessories really pops and looks outstanding , and our traditional home with blue accessories (rather than white socks) are my favorite combos.
January 17th, 2024 at 5:27 PM ^
Slightly different uniform design, but yeah.
January 17th, 2024 at 7:28 PM ^
Bunches of Funchess!
January 17th, 2024 at 7:44 PM ^
But still blue jersey with blue pants. So it counts.
January 17th, 2024 at 5:23 PM ^
Whoa, this is a challenging scenario. I love tradition and results.
So, the “traditional” maize lowers / blue upper always pleases my eye. The team may “love” the all blues even more. Who knows - but, you can’t argue with the results.
Maybe a player or two can interview members of the team and get the players’ perspective. This is similar to - if you had to choose between “Pump it Up” and Mr. Brightside - which would you pick?
January 17th, 2024 at 5:24 PM ^
Mr. Brightside. And it's not a close call.
January 17th, 2024 at 5:30 PM ^
‘07 - I saw and posted about a short (maybe five minute long) video where the question of Pump It Up vs Mr Brightside was posed to different members of the team.
It was a fun watch. The uniform question might yield similarly interesting responses.
I’m just glad we’re not a “uniform of the week” team.
January 17th, 2024 at 5:25 PM ^
I love tradition, but I also love to see new traditions started that have meaning and substance to them. To me, the all blues are a new tradition that coincided with the current three year run of excellence. I’m all for it continuing and running alongside the long time tradition of maize pants and blue jerseys.
January 18th, 2024 at 1:57 AM ^
The all-blues are indeed the official uni of the Michigan resurrection, just like Mr. Brightside is its official anthem.
I can't see the all-blue unis and not start humming Mr. Brightside in my head. I can't hear Mr. Brightside and not start visualizing Michigan in all-blue unis.
January 17th, 2024 at 5:37 PM ^
I've really been liking the all-Blue uniforms, and it definitely helps that it's a huge part of thr look of some of the biggest, most cathartic wins over the last few seasons. It's a really simple change, and I don't feel like it fundamentally changes the design of the uniform, since the helmet is left alone, and it doesn't add any sort of extra design details (looking at you, weird Adidas shoulder stripes). You can look at a black and white photo of the all-Blues and still know right away that it's Michigan football.
On top of that, I think the Uniform decisions they made for the end of this season were spot-on. The throwback Rose Bowl jerseys with the big M shoulder patches and rose details, with the Maize pants were just perfect, and u wouldn't have wanted us in anything else for the Rose Bowl. Then, since the CFP championship game is a relatively new tradition, I thought it was a great idea to go with the all-Blues for that. It felt like we went with a classic classic look for the Rose Bowl, and then a look that's becoming a modern classic for the finals.
January 17th, 2024 at 7:06 PM ^
I would love one of those Rose Bowl jerseys. Anyone seen any legitimate replicas out there?
January 17th, 2024 at 7:25 PM ^
Same here --- generally not a jersey guy (the only jerseys I have are a Tom Harmon 98 and a Lions Calvin Johnson jersey), but I would definitely be buying that Rose Bowl jersey if I could.
January 18th, 2024 at 2:04 AM ^
Me too. I want a #2 Corum Rose Bowl game jersey
I regret not getting the #2 Woodson Rose Bowl game jersey when I could in 1998. I don't want that to happen again.
January 17th, 2024 at 5:40 PM ^
My fave uniform combos are when they wear the maize socks/tights under the maize pants. Penn St. 2021. They did it at home recently too.
January 17th, 2024 at 5:45 PM ^
I think we’re 17-1 in blue pants.
12-1 all time in the all blue, 5-0 in white top/blue pants.
There is some conflicting information out there, and I don’t have time to follow up, so take it for what it’s worth.
Apologies for the formatting below.
GameLocationUniformResult
Ohio State (Nov. 25, 2023)HomeBlue on blueW, 30-24
Purdue (Nov. 4, 2023)HomeBlue on blueW, 41-13
Michigan State (Oct. 21, 2023)AwayWhite on blueW, 49-0
Indiana (Oct. 14, 2023)HomeBlue on blueW, 52-7
Bowling Green (Sept. 16, 2023)HomeBlue on blueW, 31-6
Purdue (Dec. 3, 2022)NeutralBlue on blueW, 43-22
Nebraska (Nov. 12, 2022)HomeBlue on blueW, 34-3
Michigan State (Oct. 29, 2022)HomeBlue on blueW, 29-7
Penn State (Oct. 15, 2022)HomeBlue on blueW, 41-17
Iowa (Oct. 1, 2022)AwayWhite on blueW, 27-14
Georgia (Dec. 31, 2021)NeutralBlue on blueL, 34-11
Iowa (Dec. 4, 2021)NeutralWhite on blueW, 42-3
Ohio State (Nov. 27, 2021)HomeBlue on blueW, 42-27
Maryland (Nov. 20, 2021)AwayWhite on blueW, 59-18
Wisconsin (Oct. 2, 2021)AwayWhite on blueW, 38-17
Washington (Sept. 11, 2021)HomeBlue on blueW, 31-10
Penn State (Oct. 11, 2014)HomeBlue on blueW, 18-
January 17th, 2024 at 5:49 PM ^
Thanks!
January 18th, 2024 at 10:11 AM ^
I found WD's burner account!
January 17th, 2024 at 5:50 PM ^
I know, I know, but these uniforms still look wrong to me.
January 17th, 2024 at 6:27 PM ^
Aren't we undefeated with the white tops and blue pants?
January 17th, 2024 at 6:54 PM ^
I cannot think of a loss. That combination has not been worn that often. Beat Wisconsin in ‘21 and ‘21 Iowa title game. Won at Iowa ‘22. Won at MSU this past year. I have to be missing one or two. We probably wore it against Maryland at some point.
January 17th, 2024 at 8:07 PM ^
Yes, those are our only undefeated uniform combo (not counting goofy one-off Brandon/Hoke-era alternates, most of which were probably 0-1 anyways)
January 17th, 2024 at 6:51 PM ^
All of Michigan’s uniforms are awesome. At this point I will allow white pants with blue jersey at home if they want to give it a spin.
At this point, uniform choice can become less of a focus. They are all awesome and Michigan wins all the time in all of them.
January 17th, 2024 at 7:03 PM ^
Go to the uniform timeline at MVictors.
January 17th, 2024 at 7:34 PM ^
Great website page, thanks for posting this.
Scrolling down to the 2021 @Penn State game, I found this interesting tidbit:
"November 13, 2021 | State College, PA | vs. Penn State
GENERAL NOTE: Michigan’s request to wear an all-maize uniform (jersey and pants) is denied by Penn State officials. The team again wears maize pants (with traditional road white jerseys) for the second time in 2021 (the first at the October 30, 2021 game at Michigan State). In presumed defiance of the denial, the team also wears maize socks and arm sleeves."
January 17th, 2024 at 7:42 PM ^
While I am not a fan of the all-maize uniform, I do like the look of this white-over-maize with maize accessories combination. And if it's true we did the maize accessories in defiance of the Nits, even better.
But I didn't know that the home team has veto power over the uniform choice of the visiting team. So to this I say: F*** Penn State!
January 17th, 2024 at 8:09 PM ^
Don't disagree with eff Penn State on general principle, but in this case they were protecting us from ourselves.
January 18th, 2024 at 11:50 AM ^
21 - 17 Win for others with early onset ARMD. Frames denied despite vetoing the maize out on the field.
January 17th, 2024 at 7:45 PM ^
Going to try and do this from memory and not go back and research it:
1. 2021 OSU
2. 2023 National Championship
3. 2023 OSU
4. 2022 Penn St
5. 2021 Washington
6. 2022 B1G Championship
7. 2022 MSU
8. 2023 Indiana
9. 2023 Purdue
10. 2022 Nebraska
11. 2023 Bowling Green
12. 2014 Penn St
13. 2021 Georgia
That is the best I can do from memory.
January 17th, 2024 at 8:36 PM ^
Impressive
January 17th, 2024 at 7:54 PM ^
The all Blues rock!! Probably my favorite combo!
BTW, that Georgia playoff game was a mulligan - didn't nobody know what we were getting into! So we're still undefeated in them!!
January 17th, 2024 at 8:04 PM ^
Pull it down, big game blues! You did that!
January 17th, 2024 at 9:20 PM ^
I wonder what the record is for the all-maize uniforms?
January 17th, 2024 at 10:36 PM ^
I've been wondering what the record is with Stealth Bomber flyovers.
January 17th, 2024 at 11:56 PM ^
1-0. I think our win against Florida in 2017 was the first and last time we wore them. I kinda liked them, but they don’t touch the Big Game Blues.