Over the last two seasons, there have been a few tweaks to the Michigan Stadium game-day experience, most of which have been met with various levels of resistance.

Many Michigan football traditionalists hated the piped-in music played during last Saturday's win over Western Michigan, and we all know the fiasco surrounding the construction of the giant luxury boxes, most of which has subsided by now.

But there's one up-and-coming tradition that came without controversy. During last year's epic 27-25 comeback win over Wisconsin, students wore T-shirts to create a giant, blue block 'M' amidst the rolling maize sea of the student section. No one had ever seen anything like it in Michigan Stadium history, and from the aerial view of the ABC cameras, it was a striking site on national TV.

And if you're in the Big House on Saturday for the Notre Dame game, you'll see that 'M' tower over the playing field during a September home game for the second straight year.

"I think was a success the first time, and it was also the second biggest comeback in Michigan football history — so who knows? I guess we’ll find out Saturday," said MSA representative Andrew Chinsky, the mastermind behind the complicated stunt.

Chinsky is from Pennsylvania, and many of his friends at Penn State told him about the Nittany Lion Club — if you've ever seen a Penn State home football game, you've seen the giant block 'S' in the student section during a White Out. He said his friends told him the atmosphere at games increased dramatically when they successfully pulled off the 'S,' so Chinsky wanted to replicate that in Ann Arbor. In the fall of his freshman year, Chinsky called the Michigan Athletic Department about the idea.

But with the season already half over at the time, it would have been impossible to do. Instead, Chinsky kept in contact with people in the Athletic Department and started talking with some friends in the School of Engineering to come up with some block 'M' schematics.

"I think everyone involved was pretty nervous about it, because it’s important for it to go right the first time in order to get to do it a second time," Chinsky said. "You know, Michigan has a very rich tradition, obviously, and if things don’t go right, then people get nervous about what’s going to end up."

The preparation has been much easier this season, since Chinsky kept the blueprints they created for the 'M' last season, but they have made some changes. Instead of in the middle of the student section, where the curve of the bowl warped it a little last year, the 'M' will be moved behind the band.

Last September, in the weeks leading up to the Wisconsin game, you were more likely to see Chinsky and his friends sprinting across the stadium than varsity athletes using the massive structure for stair training.

On the tunnel side of the Big House, there's a giant yellow 'M' painted in the bleachers. Chinsky and his Engineering buddies ran from the student section to the 'M' to meticulously measure it, scale it down and use it as a measuring stick for their eventual 'M.'

The bowl, which steepens as you get farther from the field, presented logistical issues as well, and the whole time, he wanted to make sure everything was just right.

"We knew we wanted the block 'M,' not just an M," Chinsky said. "At Michigan, we don't have just an M."

In the future, the responsibilities of the stunt will be passed onto the newly created Athletic Relations sect of the Michigan Student Assembly, of which Chinsky is currently the chair. That way, it could become a big tradition in the Big House.

"So 25 years from now, when I’m sitting home on my couch one Saturday in September or October, I’ll see a full maize stadium, including the alumni, and also the Block ‘M,' " Chinsky said.