Photos: The best (and worst) Montana Grizzly football uniforms
Football uniform combinations are becoming as varied as snowflakes and the Griz have had a lot of them recently.
Here's a look back at the best -- and worst -- Griz uniforms of the past 20+ years.
Montana unveiled its latest home uniform against Southern Utah on Oct. 1, 2016. The traditional jersey is maroon and features Montana in white across the chest with each jersey's number in white with silver around the outside.
Montana's most traditional home uniform, seen here on Joey Counts as he scores the game winning touchdown against North Dakota State to open the 2015 season, features the maroon jersey with silver pants and helmet. The maroon Griz script logo is the team's primary logo.
Montana linebacker Herbert Gamboa sprints for a fumble return touchdown against Eastern Washington in 2015. The Griz wore their typical maroon home uniform with black pants and a silver helmet, complete with bear paw logo.
John Nguyen showcases Montana's home maroons that feature a silver script Griz logo on the maroon helmet. Complete with black pants, the Griz wore this gear against San Diego in 2014's playoff game.
Montana's Ellis Henderson, wearing the team's home maroon jersey with silver pants and helmet, fights off a tackler against Weber State in 2015. The game was also the Grizzlies' "pink game," with splashes of the vibrant color mixed in to support breast cancer awareness.
The Griz went full maroon at home against North Dakota in 2015 adding a silver helmet to the maroon jersey/pants combo. Receiver Ellis Henderson is pictured here in the gear.
Receiver Chase Naccarato dives to the end zone wearing Montana's "throwback" jerseys against Northern Arizona during homecoming in 2015. The copper-and-gold jerseys imitate UM's colors during its 1995 national title season.
Receiver Lane Hovey sports Montana's "granite" home jerseys against Saint Francis in the 2016 season opener. The Griz also wore the granites in last season's Cal Poly game.
Decked out in Montana's road whites with a white helmet to match, Jerry Louie-McGee runs against Northern Iowa last week.
Montana's road white helmets have come with several different helmet decals. Jamaal Jones scores at North Dakota State in the playoffs in 2015 with a maroon script Griz logo on his white helmet.
The Griz paired a road white uniform with maroon pants and a chrome helmet at Idaho State in 2015, here worn by Jamal Wilson.
Former Montana head coach Mick Delaney hugs Josh Homer after 2015's clash with the Bobcats in Bozeman. The Griz wore their alternate helmet featuring the outline of the state of Montana.
Sometimes the road whites and maroon pants were paired with a white helmet, as shown on running back John Nguyen in 2015's Portland State game.
Among the specialty decals the Griz have used on their helmets in recent years were the camouflage script logos seen against Sac State in 2014.
An early appearance of the Montana-state-outline logo on helmets appeared during the 2014 Cat-Griz game in Missoula.
Montana's 2014 "pink game" uniforms included a pink Griz script logo on a silver helmet along with a pink face mask like the one worn by Jamaal Jones here against UC Davis.
Teammates congratulate Alex Bienemann (92) in Montana's 2013 season opener against Appalachian State. The Griz wore maroon matte helmets that featured a silver bear paw logo on the back of the helmet and clean sides with to match their maroon jerseys and pants.
A silver bear paw logo shines on Jordan Canada's maroon matte helmet against UC Davis in 2013 when UM wore its road white uniforms.
Montana's home maroon jerseys from 2010-12, like that worn by Greg Hardy here against Montana State in '12, featured a black stripe up the side and black accents on each sleeve.
Montana's road white uniform from 2010-12 wasn't much different than today's. Where the Grizzlies' current whites feature a bear paw on the shoulder, those from three years ago had the player's number, as seen here on Peter Nguyen against Weber State in 2012.
The Grizzlies wore bizarre black-and-orange alternate uniforms for their bout with the Bobcats in Missoula in 2010, seen here on Chase Reynolds
Andrew Selle sports Montana's home maroon uniforms they wore from 2007-09, seen here in the Grizzlies' playoff game against South Dakota State in '09.
Montana's road whites from 2007-09 were striped across the shoulder pads. In the FCS championship game against Villanova in 2009, the Griz matched that jersey with silver pants and helmets like that worn here by Marc Mariani.
Montana thrilled its home crowd in 2008 when the Griz wore these throwback uniforms against the Bobcats, the first appearance of the copper and gold since UM's 1995 national championship game.
Kicker Dan Carpenter shows off the home uniform Montana wore from 2004-06, a maroon jersey with a horizontal white stripe from shoulder to shoulder like the this one from 2006.
Montana's road white uniform mirrors its home jerseys from 2004-06 with a similar maroon stripe across the front, as seen here against Weber State in '06.
Griz running back Yohance Humphery runs against Idaho in 2001 wearing the type of home maroon jerseys Montana sported from 2001-03.
The team's road white uniforms from 2001-03 are seen here on Grizzly Kenneth Qualls in Bozeman against Montana State in the '03 rivalry game.
Griz running back Yohance Humphery is seen here against Richmond in the FCS quarterfinals in 2000 wearing the team's home maroon uniforms that they had from 1998-2000.
Montana's road white jerseys from 1998-2000 are seen on linebacker Adam Boomer and his teammates during a game at Portland State in 2000.
The classic copper and gold uniforms were Montana's traditional colors from 1968 through the 1995. Quarterback Dave Dickenson is pictured here after the Grizzlies' win over Marshall in that year's national championship game.
Montana went with a crisp, clean all-white uniform/helmet look when it played at Montana State in 2015. The result was a 54-35 win in the 115th Brawl of the Wild. In this photo, former Griz Jamaal Jones catches a pass over ex-Bobcat Dylan Stenseth. Jones scored on the play.
Montana went with a traditional maroon and silver look in last year's Brawl of the Wild. In this photo, center Cody Meyer reacts after running back Adam Eastwood fumbled the ball on the goal line to lose the game. Based on the outcome, you have to wonder if the Grizzlies will change things up with their uniforms Saturday in Bozeman.