Michigan football reveals uniform combination for rivalry game against Ohio State
Michigan Wolverines football will take on Ohio State for the 119th time in history Saturday at The Big House. U-M will wear its traditional blue jerseys with its less-traditional blue pants, the same look it rocked in a 42-27 win over the Buckeyes in 2021.
This is the fifth time this season that Michigan will wear blue pants, including the fourth occasion at home (Bowling Green, Indiana, Purdue). The Wolverines wore blue pants in their last home game, versus the Boilermakers.
Michigan will go with blue gloves, socks and accessories.
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This will be the 17th time in Michigan history that the Wolverines sport blue pants, including the 10th occurrence at home. They’re 15-1 overall and 8-0 at home with the look. The lone loss with blue pants came at a neutral site, a loss to Georgia in the 2021 College Football Playoff semifinal at the orange bowl.
Michigan games with blue pants
| Game | Location | Uniform | Result |
| Purdue (Nov. 4, 2023) | Home | Blue on blue | W, 41-13 |
| Michigan State (Oct. 21, 2023) | Away | White on blue | W, 49-0 |
| Indiana (Oct. 14, 2023) | Home | Blue on blue | W, 52-7 |
| Bowling Green (Sept. 16, 2023) | Home | Blue on blue | W, 31-6 |
| Purdue (Dec. 3, 2022) | Neutral | Blue on blue | W, 43-22 |
| Nebraska (Nov. 12, 2022) | Home | Blue on blue | W, 34-3 |
| Michigan State (Oct. 29, 2022) | Home | Blue on blue | W, 29-7 |
| Penn State (Oct. 15, 2022) | Home | Blue on blue | W, 41-17 |
| Iowa (Oct. 1, 2022) | Away | White on blue | W, 27-14 |
| Georgia (Dec. 31, 2021) | Neutral | Blue on blue | L, 34-11 |
| Iowa (Dec. 4, 2021) | Neutral | White on blue | W, 42-3 |
| Ohio State (Nov. 27, 2021) | Home | Blue on blue | W, 42-27 |
| Maryland (Nov. 20, 2021) | Away | White on blue | W, 59-18 |
| Wisconsin (Oct. 2, 2021) | Away | White on blue | W, 38-17 |
| Washington (Sept. 11, 2021) | Home | Blue on blue | W, 31-10 |
| Penn State (Oct. 11, 2014) | Home | Blue on blue | W, 18-13 |
The environment at Michigan Stadium for the 42-27 triumph in 2021, U-M’s first over Ohio State since 2011, was electric. Junior quarterback J.J. McCarthy said this week that he’s hoping for more of the same Saturday.
“It was cinema. It really was just a movie, with the snow falling, with the crowd,” McCarthy said. “I felt like the crowd, it was really one heartbeat that was meshed with the team. Everything about it was just magical, and I don’t expect anything less this weekend.”
McCarthy has never been a part of a Michigan loss at home. The Wolverines haven’t slipped up at The Big House since the 2020 season, when there were limited spectators allowed at Big Ten venues due to the response to a pandemic. Michigan has won 21 straight at home, the program’s longest streak since 1969-73 and the third-longest in program history.
It’s 11-0 Michigan vs. 11-0 Ohio State Saturday at noon.
