The Mountaineers Are Playing With New Uniforms

Full disclosure, our former site manager Mark Stickel pointed this out to me so I have to give him full credit. I didn’t catch the change until he pointed it out to me. I chose to wait until after the YSU game to write this because I wanted to confirm that it was full gallery change and not a one-off.

Here are the uniforms last year.

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And here is the same uniform combination from the season opener

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Do you spot the difference? The team has removed the underarm colored patch from the uniforms. In my opinion, it gives the uniform a cleaner look. To confirm this was a full removal of the patch, here is the B/B/W combination from 2017 against Texas and against Youngstown State.

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And here is the combination from Saturday. You can see the black patch under the arms has been removed which should be a delight to many fans who thought the uniforms looked strange with the patch.

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Personally, I’m really looking forward to when the team wears the all-white combination and the Y/W/Y combination because it should be a cleaner, crisper look.