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Hot Take: It’s Time to Give the ‘88 Championship Throwback Uniforms Some Respect

My Shamrock Series take from last week got me thinking about another worthy alternate Notre Dame uniform. Yes, the 1988 Championship throwback from the 2019 season is fire, and we, as a society, just don’t talk about it often enough. The Irish took a “less is more” approach with these unis, and that’s why they earned my seal of approval.

For the 150th anniversary of college football in 2019, several teams introduced new alternates. While these unis didn’t mark that far of a rewind into Fighting Irish history, who doesn’t love

The mesh-effect numbers offered a subtle nod to the uniforms of the champions of the Irish heyday without straying too far from the classic Fighting Irish aesthetic.