OT: Ohio State to wear 2014 CFP uniforms vs Michigan
https://twitter.com/AndrewMLind/status/1062510602327736321
At least they’re wearing somewhat traditional uniforms for The Game this year?
November 14th, 2018 at 9:53 AM ^
I'm surprised there hasn't been a lot more outrage over OSU wearing alternate uniforms for The Game. It's incredibly annoying tbh.
November 14th, 2018 at 9:56 AM ^
Agreed. Drives me nuts to no end. I’m actually relieved they’re going to be wearing somewhat traditional uniforms this year.
EDIT: Corrected to “uniforms” since ya know, that’s probably more appropriate here.
November 14th, 2018 at 11:12 AM ^
Uniforms. I hate that soccer fans have introduced the term “kits” on college football message boards. A few years ago for a few months it was all over this board and I’m glad it’s gone away for the most part.
November 14th, 2018 at 11:21 AM ^
Totally agree. If they start calling the game a "Match" and the field a "Pitch", I'm outta here.
November 14th, 2018 at 11:44 AM ^
Touchdowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnn...
November 14th, 2018 at 11:48 AM ^
I like soccer, but agree that using (English) soccer terms for American football is dumb. Next thing you know, when teams tie the game, they'll be talking about the "equalizer field goal."
November 14th, 2018 at 1:13 PM ^
Totally agree that American football has its terminology and it should be used.
What I think is funny is that soccer haters in America get bothered when soccer fans use (English) soccer terminology for soccer! People will be like, c'mon, we're not in England, it's a soccer game and a soccer field.
So do those same people think that American football played in England should use the terminology "match" and "pitch"? If they were at NFL games in London next to a Brit calling it a pitch, they'd lose their sh*t. They'd be like, it's football so use football terms (no matter where the football is being played!
Well, that argument could be made for soccer being played in America. It's fair to use the common terminology for the sport, no matter where it's being played. People aren't being snobs when they call a soccer field a pitch.
November 14th, 2018 at 3:32 PM ^
Hope the score ends in UM 21 OSU nil. 8-)
November 15th, 2018 at 10:54 AM ^
The fixture kicks off at 12.0
November 14th, 2018 at 11:49 AM ^
so who's going to the Match at the Loo this year?
November 14th, 2018 at 2:29 PM ^
I've heard the pitch is made out of turf? Is that true?
November 14th, 2018 at 2:11 PM ^
I actually like the term "pitch" no matter the sport played on grass. But I agree the word "kit" should be full body duct taped and shoved in the closet.
November 14th, 2018 at 11:53 AM ^
Oh no, someone used a different term for the same thing!!
HOW DARE THEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
November 14th, 2018 at 12:48 PM ^
You mad, soccer fan?
November 14th, 2018 at 12:54 PM ^
Don’t shoot me, just didn’t want to use the same term repetitively.
November 14th, 2018 at 11:26 AM ^
Mate, don't call them kits.
November 14th, 2018 at 10:08 AM ^
They are wearing their 1968 national championship unis. Not the 2014 ones.
November 14th, 2018 at 10:33 AM ^
The 2014 CoFoPoff unis were a throwback to 1968.
November 14th, 2018 at 10:53 AM ^
They could not have worn the pictured (on twitter) uniform during the 2014 Playoff, they were never the "home" team as they were the lowest seeded team. Correct?
November 14th, 2018 at 11:02 AM ^
They were the 4 seed, but Oregon chose to wear all white in the final game for some reason.
November 14th, 2018 at 11:09 AM ^
Yeah, I You Tubed it. Huh. I remember OSU in white for both those games. Misremembered I guess.
November 14th, 2018 at 12:02 PM ^
Most of us have probably tried to forget about those games haha
November 14th, 2018 at 11:16 AM ^
Why didn't they do throwbacks for the 1969 team?
November 14th, 2018 at 11:02 AM ^
Well, we are wearing the 1974 road jerseys for the remainder of the Harbaugh era.
November 14th, 2018 at 12:46 PM ^
Cool. That gives Harbaugh a great opportunity to explain how that year they went for 2 on a conversion late when they were up by 30 or so points.
November 14th, 2018 at 12:54 PM ^
Game results will more closely resemble 1969.
November 14th, 2018 at 10:10 AM ^
Agreed, this is one game that should have the traditional uniforms, at all times, forever.
I mean, they all should really, but this game more than any other.
I want maize pants for this game. And OSU really should bring back those gray sleeves permanently. Like them a lot better than the red ones they have now.
November 14th, 2018 at 10:27 AM ^
I know this sentiment will probably be as well-received around here as a fart in church but I really like their uniforms a lot and would say they are easily the second-best in the B1G behind ours. And gun to head I would probably admit I like their traditional road unis a bit better than ours.
I give my OSU buddies around here and all the Ohio sports people I follow on Twitter shit for OSU's seeming refusal to ever wear their "normal" jersey's when playing us anymore. They started screwing around with them when they were beating up on RichRod and havent stopped since.
November 14th, 2018 at 10:43 AM ^
I've always thought their uniforms were meh. There's nothing all that distinctive about them. At least ND has their golden helmets.
Having said that, the uniforms of pretty much every team not named Michigan are just meh. And that is an objective fact with no bias whatsoever, obviously.
November 14th, 2018 at 10:46 AM ^
Their uniforms are objectively good. Not as good as ours, but good. It's one of the things that's great about the rivalry--two great stadiums, two great bands, two great uniforms, two huge fanbases. (Only one ethical athletic department, but let's be positive for the time being).
I've been quite annoyed by their alternate duds over the last decade or so. The classic Michigan-Ohio State look is as good as anything in the sport, and they've been messing with it. This year it will look good.
If the teams want to go radical, they should both wear their normal home jerseys. That would look great.
November 14th, 2018 at 11:05 AM ^
I would love to see both teams wear their home (traditional) unis. I think USC/UCLA did that one year, and it looked awesome. Both UM's and OSU's unis are far better.
November 14th, 2018 at 12:03 PM ^
I agree completely. I'd like to see red vs. blue. Anybody who's still using a black and white television can just look at the helmets. ;)
(Yes -- that was actually one of the original reasons for the high-contrast rule).
November 14th, 2018 at 10:51 AM ^
I actually agree with you. My first game at the Big House was The Game and I thought their unis were pretty nice. I would still prefer ours if we had the maize pants.
Not sure why, but every time I see our white pants, it reminds of the RB from Florida that has an "accident" during the bowl game.
November 14th, 2018 at 11:07 AM ^
I like our traditional road unis much better than theirs. Meaning maize pants.
I also tend to like Iowa's look better than OSU's, when it comes to second-best in the conference. Northwestern may be third, as long as they're wearing purple helmets with white Ns (I didn't like the cat-head logo they wore in our game this year.)
But the really neat thing about rivalry weekend games is that the uniforms just seem to fit like jigsaw puzzles, like they belong on the field together in a way that other matchups do not. Screwing that up with alternate uniformzz crap is a sacrilege.
November 14th, 2018 at 11:19 AM ^
Define "traditional."
Michigan's away uniforms are an exact replica from the 1970s. Nothing more "traditional" than that.
November 14th, 2018 at 11:29 AM ^
Meh. They were worn for like three years. The maize horns lasted longer. That doesn't make them "traditional" just because that period happened to be some time ago. That's like someone in the year 2035 calling the Pistons' teal outfit "traditional." It might be throwback, but it ain't traditional.
November 14th, 2018 at 11:44 AM ^
Michigan started wearing maize pants in 1940. They wore them through 2014, except for 1973-75.
That's 71 years of maize pants
3 years of white pants
And you say there is nothing more traditional than white football pants? Can YOU define "traditional"?
November 14th, 2018 at 11:53 AM ^
The maize pants had become highlighter yellow pants, our road jerseys had gone through several different irritating alterations with different kinds of stripes, piping, etc. They were a shit show, and there was nothing traditional about them. There were a couple of years under Hoke where not all players even had the same uniform.
I think Harbaugh went to white just to scrap all of that shit and just get back to "a traditional" look even if it was not "Michigan's traditional look." I think we could see the maize pants worn every now and then on the road like last year against Penn State but compared to the road BS that Michigan was sporting for almost every year under Adidas the current uniforms are a stark upgrade.
November 14th, 2018 at 12:01 PM ^
It's funny, I actually was on board when Adidas started going highlighter with the maize. That was around the time when Oregon went bonkers and everybody started getting loose with their uniforms. The loud maize was a fun change for those times.
And I'm glad that's done. Neat fad. Now back to a standard yellow color and I'm more than content.
I don't know what Harbaugh's reasoning was. Maybe he fell in love with the all-white look from his playing days in Indianapolis or coaching Stanford. Either way, it's the one thing on which I disagree with coach. Give me that Penn State look from last year every single time.
November 14th, 2018 at 12:15 PM ^
I agree that all the road jersey frippery (not to mention the ugly-ass alternatzz we were subjected to) was becoming a shit-show. But white pants were around for such a short time in the 70s that it seems to me they should go in the same "experimental frippery" category. Even if the color shade slightly changed, that's not the same as wearing different colors entirely.
Jim Harbaugh was 10 when they put white pants on. I think the white pants are really nothing more than a reflection of the fact that's what we happened to wear during his very formative years.
November 14th, 2018 at 12:23 PM ^
#pwned
November 14th, 2018 at 12:25 PM ^
Maryland is shocked and mortified by your comment!!!
November 14th, 2018 at 10:58 AM ^
No thanks on the maize pants. I have liked the all white road unis from day one. I realized how much more I liked them after I saw us take the field against PSU last season with the maize pants.
November 14th, 2018 at 11:39 AM ^
Interestingly, I realized how much I missed the maize pants when I saw them last season against PSU.
In general, the less all-one-color you do on a football uniform, the better. I think pants should nearly always be a different color than jerseys.
November 14th, 2018 at 11:03 AM ^
I really wish the schools could come to an agreement to always have both teams wear their home jersey's in this game. There is no color conflict and they are two of college football's absolute classics. USC and UCLA do it, no reason why we couldn't.
November 14th, 2018 at 12:10 PM ^
Just logged in to Upvote, but I can't. So, this.
November 14th, 2018 at 10:14 AM ^
Better wear sliver gloves for the DB's..
Ohio State’s throwback uniform will follow the same design as that worn during the Buckeyes’ run to the 2014 national title (and as an alternate during the 2015 and 2016 seasons), but on the Vapor Untouchable template instead of Mach Speed. pic.twitter.com/RIDCWkKaDD
— Andrew Lind (@AndrewMLind) November 14, 2018
November 14th, 2018 at 10:28 AM ^
You haven't been hanging around me apparently. I find alternates for The Game disgusting and disrespectful and have been voicing it loudly. My dog is pretty tired of hearing about it.
Good news that things will look legit this year.
November 14th, 2018 at 11:07 AM ^
I agree that it's disrespectful but they've also beaten us more than not this century. Hope that finally changes this year. Maybe then the alternates will stop.
November 14th, 2018 at 11:06 AM ^
It's because they're undefeated against us wearing alternates. Hopefully we change that this year