Derek Jeter watches Michigan win title alongside Michael Jordan, Stephen A. Smith in suite
One suite at NRG Stadium in Houston had plenty of hot takes and high-fives.
The CFP national championship game that saw Michigan beat Washington 34-13 on Monday brought out plenty of star power with the likes of Hall of Famers Michael Jordan and Derek Jeter sharing a luxury box with rapper Travis Scott and ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith.
Michigan is a Jordan Brand school.
“This is the place to be, look at this box,” ESPN’s Chris Fowler opined, pointing out Jeter’s white Michigan hoodie.
“That’s the box to be in!” analyst Kirk Herbstreit added.
The celebrity-filled suite was treated to the Wolverines’ ground game running amok against the Huskies.
Donovan Edwards and Blake Corus scored a pair of rushing touchdowns apiece, with Edwards opening the scoring on a 41-yard run and then adding another TD in a 46-yard scamper for a 14-3 lead in the first quarter.
Corum added a 12-yard touchdown and punched in a one-yard score — both in the fourth quarter — to punctuate the win.
It was a dominant rushing attack for the Wolverines, who racked up over 300 yards on the ground — which likely pleased Jeter, who grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan and earned a scholarship to play baseball for the Wolverines before the Yankees famously came calling.
Jeter embraced Smith with a handshake — one of many going on in the fame-filled box.
The Baseball Hall of Famer even lent his voice to Michigan for the team’s hype video ahead of kickoff.
“The team, the team, the team: that’s all it’s ever been about,” Jeter said in the video. That’s what this program is built on. For 373 days, you focused on one objective and together, you’ve stood on business — unfinished business — with a one-track mind.
“Trust in one another and seal your place in history. It all comes down to this, one last job, unfinished.”
Now that it’s finished, Jeter can start preparing his voice-over for the championship video.
