Michigan football reveals uniform choice for game at Indiana
Michigan Wolverines football will take on No. 8 Indiana Saturday afternoon in Bloomington. The Wolverines will wear their white uniforms with blue pants, the team announced on social media Friday afternoon.
This is Michigan’s third of four road games this regular season, and the second time it’s gone with this uniform combination. The Wolverines wore blue pants at Illinois Oct. 19, after sporting maize pants Oct. 5 at Washington.
Michigan has only worn blue pants 21 times in program history. The Wolverines are 18-3 with blue pants, with the only losses coming against Georgia in the 2021 Orange Bowl, versus Texas Sept. 7 and at Illinois Oct. 19.
U-M started switching up the pant color choice much more so in 2021, debuting the blue pants on the road in a win at Wisconsin that season. Here’s what Michigan has worn in every road game since 2021:
| Game | Pants Color | Result |
| Wisconsin (Oct. 2, 2021) | Blue | W, 38-17 |
| Nebraska (Oct. 9, 2021) | White | W, 32-29 |
| Michigan State (Oct. 30, 2021) | Maize | L, 37-33 |
| Penn State (Nov. 13, 2021) | Maize | W, 21-17 |
| Maryland (Nov. 20, 2021) | Blue | W, 59-18 |
| Iowa (B1G championship Dec. 4, 2021) | Blue | W, 42-3 |
| Iowa (Oct. 1, 2022) | Blue | W, 27-14 |
| Indiana (Oct. 8, 2022) | Maize | W, 31-10 |
| Rutgers (Nov. 5, 2022) | White | W, 52-17 |
| Ohio State (Nov. 26, 2022) | White | W, 45-23 |
| Nebraska (Sept. 30, 2023) | Maize | W, 45-7 |
| Minnesota (Oct. 7, 2023) | White | W, 52-10 |
| Michigan State (Oct. 21, 2023) | Blue | W, 49-0 |
| Penn State (Nov. 11, 2023) | Maize | W, 24-15 |
| Maryland (Nov. 18, 2023) | White | W, 31-24 |
| Iowa (Dec. 2, 2023) | White | W, 26-0 |
| Washington (Oct. 5, 2024) | Maize | L, 27-17 |
| Illinois (Oct. 19, 2024) | Blue | L, 21-7 |
Indiana is 9-0 for the first time ever, and they’ve already tied the program record for wins in a season. This is one of three campaigns in which Indiana has reached nine victories, joining 1967 (9-2) and 1945 (9-0-1). That’s all after winning a total of nine games over a three-year span from 2021-23. Indiana is 6-0 in the Big Ten following a 3-24 stretch in conference play the previous three years.
Head coach Curt Cignetti’s club has been dominant, winning by an average of 32.8 points per game. The Hoosiers haven’t exactly faced a murderer’s row, though, with their opponents combining for a 34-45 record. Only two of them have five wins on the season (the amount Michigan has) — Washington and Nebraska.
Still, winning is winning. And the Hoosiers aren’t just doing that — they’re covering spreads. They’re 8-1 against the spread this season, covering in eight-straight outings. Per Action Network, that’s the longest straight-up/against-the-spread streak in the country. The only teams to be on that long of a streak since 2000 are the 2024 Hoosiers, 2019 Ohio State and 2002 Notre Dame.
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Michigan is 2-7 against the spread this season, only beating it in victories over Southern California (27-24 win as four-point underdogs) and Michigan State (24-17 win as three-point favorites).
The Wolverines are one win away from bowl eligibility, looking to avoid missing postseason possibilities for the first time since 2014, Brady Hoke‘s last season before being fired as head coach.
An Indiana win over Michigan wouldn’t just be another one in a long list of them this season — it would mark a rare feat. The Wolverines have won 42 of the last 44 meetings between the two schools and lead the all-time series 62-10. The Hoosiers’ last win came in 2020 (38-21 in Bloomington) but before that they hadn’t beaten the Maize and Blue since 1987.
Typically, Indiana has come in hoping to become bowl eligible, while Michigan oftentimes has bigger goals ahead. This season, that’s flipped.
