Favorite All-Time Game
January 6th, 2012 at 7:38 AM ^
But the best for me has to be the MSU 3OT game. Braylon cemented his legacy that night!
January 6th, 2012 at 10:14 AM ^
my liver cemented its legacy that day
January 6th, 2012 at 11:45 AM ^
My liver got carpet-bombed that day too. That, plus the 30 degree temperature drop during the game, landed me on the sick bed for a week afterwards, but, it was well worth it.
The Top 3 games in person:
1. 3OT game vs MSU
2. 2003 @ Minnesota, the "Navarre throwback" game
3. 1998 Rose Bowl
January 6th, 2012 at 7:40 AM ^
1998 Rose Bowl.
1997 was the first year I actually paid attention to Michigan football (I was 7), and I cut out the clippings from the newspaper after every single game. The culmination of the first, and still best, season I've ever witnessed was an experience.
Charles Woodson will always be my favorite player because of that season.
January 6th, 2012 at 8:05 AM ^
Everything you said, except I was 12.
January 6th, 2012 at 8:13 AM ^
1997 Ohio State.
1993 vs. Washington Rose Bowl
2008 Capital One Bowl was a fun one, too.
January 6th, 2012 at 8:44 AM ^
1997 Ohio State - first time I attended The Game
1991 Notre Dame - first college game I attended
January 6th, 2012 at 8:19 AM ^
'96 vs. Ohio. The stunned look on their fans' faces after we ruined their season *again* was just priceless.
January 6th, 2012 at 8:24 AM ^
game, I was in the Army stationed in Bosnia and my Sgt. let me listen to the game on my headphones. A nice break from patrols and what not. Needless to say that game helped make my deployment, at least for that day, a little better. Go Blue!
January 6th, 2012 at 8:24 AM ^
Finally got a Rose Bowl win in my senior year in marching band.
January 6th, 2012 at 8:28 AM ^
1995 Pigskin Classic against Virginia and the Barber brothers. Dreisbach to Hayes for the win.
January 6th, 2012 at 8:44 AM ^
That game holds a special place in my heart as it was my first ever game in the Big House - I was 9 and had no idea what was going on other than that the ending was crazy exciting.
2005 Penn State may be my #1... sitting on the field with the marching band to witness that Manningham catch and then rushing the field was unforgettable.
January 6th, 2012 at 8:31 AM ^
Henne to Manningham.
There have been bigger, better, more significant, more entertaining games. But that was a magical night in the Big House. It's also the moment I went from casual fan to lifelong/diehard. Whenever I think of that game I smile and remember the chant--"It's great to be a Michigan Wolverine"--that seemed to go on forever.
January 6th, 2012 at 8:34 AM ^
'98 Rose Bowl... '91 OSU, '95? OSU (313 Biakabutuka), '03 OSU (SO!), '94 Notre Dame, '06 Notre Dame-- and probably the last two ND games as well, '03 OSU (Perry), '97 Penn State, and about a gazillion others...
January 6th, 2012 at 8:40 AM ^
at Penn State.
Michigan 34
Penn State 8
PSU crowd cleared out at halftime.
January 6th, 2012 at 10:57 AM ^
TOTAL domination of the top-ranked (IIRC) Nittany Lions. It was then that I knew how special the team was.
January 6th, 2012 at 8:44 AM ^
My first game ever, 14 rows back on the 20. Navarre to Edwards was classic!
January 6th, 2012 at 8:50 AM ^
I'll go with the 93 Rose Bowl. It was a great game and we got revenge on Washington for the prior year's Rose Bowl loss. Wheatley was a stud that game. The Biakabatuka OSU game is a close second.
January 6th, 2012 at 8:52 AM ^
09 ND and UTL this year because I was there! 97 OSU and 03 OSU!
January 6th, 2012 at 9:01 AM ^
Michigan wins, 31-3. The best thing was seeing the sea of scarlet and gray asses as they streamed toward the exits at the beginning of the fourth quarter. I remember almost having mixed emotions, but mostly thinking how great it was that Michigan was so superior to Ohio that the rivalry was in danger of becoming a joke.
The rivalry, of course, would turn around, but the 1990's were a great decade to watch Michigan pound Ohio to the tune of 7-2-1. It would be great to see those days return forthis decade.
January 6th, 2012 at 9:05 AM ^
- 1979 Indiana game. Wangler to Carter. "They won't ge able to kick the extra point! WHO GIVES A DAMN!!!!!!" I hugged people in the stadium that day I didn't particularly like.
- 1998 Rose Bowl. I will be able to die in peace when the time comes.
- 2012 Sugar Bowl. Far from the best team ever. But Molk, RVB, Martin, Koger and all of the guys that gutted out through the last three years.....damn, I'm happy for those kids.
January 6th, 2012 at 9:06 AM ^
I've got to go with 1979 vs. Indiana. AC's catch. Listening to replays of Ufer's call of the play all the way home. Incredible.
January 6th, 2012 at 9:13 AM ^
1976 Ohio game. We hadn't won since 1971 and we beat them in Columbus 22-0.
January 6th, 2012 at 9:15 AM ^
Any win vs Ohio, MSU or Notre Dame
But in all seriousness, I think the 2005 MSU-U of M game
January 6th, 2012 at 9:20 AM ^
If you were around for it, nothing can top the 1969 upset of the "greatest team ever assembled," the 1969 reigning national champion Buckeyes. The fact Woody never got over it is strong evidence this deserves to be at the top. And talk about stunned disbelief? The manhandling of the vaunted Ohio offense by the Wolverines left the Bucks' fans almost speechless. I watch that game whenever it is on BTN.
January 6th, 2012 at 11:19 AM ^
but since then, 24-12 is the easy answer. I know folks who smile when you say nothing more than 24-12 (and others who cringe; yes, they root for Ohio).
January 6th, 2012 at 12:42 PM ^
My high school gym teacher had a "24-12. Remember Ann Arbor" sign on his office door. (He was an Ohio grad.)
January 6th, 2012 at 9:25 AM ^
in god's name are your parents?
January 6th, 2012 at 10:32 AM ^
Who mine?
January 6th, 2012 at 9:28 AM ^
Very difficult to choose one but I'd have to say the 1995 Ohio game. Biakabutuka’s performance that day was so spectacular and so unexpected that it elevates the game to all time favorite status in my eyes. His 313 rushing yards was just about triple Ohio’s output and it’s still our second best rushing performance in 132 years of football. I also loved the way future Heisman winner Chuck Woodson emerged in that game with two interceptions including one with a minute to go to ice the victory. The entire coaching staff, which included first year DC Greg Mattison were all trying to get Woodson to take a knee after making the final interception but Woodson ran it back around the right end before finally being pushed out of bounds into a wildly celebrating Michigan bench. After that it was victory formation and a 31-23 win.
January 6th, 2012 at 9:30 AM ^
2008 Wisconsin comeback win
2011 UTL Game had to be the most exciting game ever tho
January 6th, 2012 at 9:53 AM ^
I cant believe I forgot the UTL game. I was there and forgot to add it to my post. Please STONE me.
January 6th, 2012 at 9:40 AM ^
It's funny: the games that stand out in my memory aren't the big wins in bowl games or over Ohio but the miracle escapes in games that were supposed to be won. Emotionally I don't think I've ever escaped the true big 2 and little 8 days of the early 70s, when the worst thing that could possibly happen was a loss to some crappy team that would ruin the season before it had started.
No, I take that back. The games that really stand out in my memory are the losses, especially that incredible run of frustration from 1970-1975, made nearly unbearable by the fact that the '71 Ohio game was not on television so I missed the only win. So...
1. '76 Ohio. It was about time.
2. '79 Indiana.
3. '81 Illinois. Getting absolutely shredded by Eason, it was about to be 28-7 early in the second quarter but Burgei intercepted a pass in the endzone and Michigan ran off 63 unanswered.
4. '03 Minnesota.
5. '77 @ Purdue. First game I ever saw live. Temperature must have dropped 40 degrees at least during the game and the fans froze their butts off, or at least the small handful of us that were still in the stands at the end of an otherwise unmemorable slaughter.
January 6th, 2012 at 9:50 AM ^
1991 Notre Dame (Desmond's catch, my freshman year)
1991 OSU (Desmond in a pose, destroyed OSU)
1993 Rose Bowl
1995 OSU
1997 OSU
1998 Rose Bowl
2000 Orange Bowl
2003 Minnesota
2006 OSU (yeah, we lost, but what a buildup, great game)
2008 Capital One Bowl
2011 OSU (End the streak)
January 6th, 2012 at 9:58 AM ^
2008 Wisconsin
sitting in the student's section, texting my friend who left to watch some Celine Dion concert instead of the game
felt so good, legs were shaking after the game
January 6th, 2012 at 10:02 AM ^
Well since everybody picked a bunch I get more than one too.
'79 Indiana, my Dad's favorite sports memory ever. (He was there)
'88 Rose Bowl v. USC
'96 Ohio (Keeping the ball for the last 7 min of the game to close it out was awesome)
'97 PSU (that game is now a verb to me: when we are whipping some ass we are PSU 97'em)
Y2k Orange Bowl
Go Blue!
January 6th, 2012 at 10:09 AM ^
Only counting ones I attended, and in no particular order:
2007 at Northwestern
2007 at MSU
2008 Capital One Bowl
2008 Wisconsin
2009 Notre Dame
2010 Illinois
2011 Notre Dame
2012 Sugar Bowl
January 6th, 2012 at 10:12 AM ^
That was the best game I have ever watched out of any sport. Im 18 years old, and I believe i had about 10 heart attacks during those last few minutes.
January 6th, 2012 at 10:12 AM ^
1991 Notre Dame game. My junior year. Desmond's catch was right in front of us although on the other side of the endzone. Notre Dame had dominated the series recently, winning four straight, including a couple wins that were either super flukes or else extremely irritating special teams nightmares. I can still see the faces of the people I went to the game with that day, jumping up and down, hugging and smiling in the stands, after that 4th-and-1 catch. So good.
January 6th, 2012 at 10:19 AM ^
Under The Lights is my favorite game that I've ever been to, but I've only been going to games since 2007. The atmosphere was unbelievable; I've never seen the Big House so fired up, not even for the 2011 Ohio game.
January 6th, 2012 at 10:20 AM ^
Any win over OSU. However, one that I enjoy watching on BTN in recent years is the 2007 win at MSU. The Spartans actually tasted victory for a brief second when they went up by 2 scores in the 4th (which prompted Dantonio to break out his signature shit-eating smirk) only to have their hopes shit on by Mario Manningham. Love it.
January 6th, 2012 at 11:03 AM ^
'71 OSU @ Michigan. One of the very best games of the ten-year war, and the scene of Woody's tearing up the down-marker.
'76 Michigan @ OSU. 22-0 in Ohio Stadium. Doesn't get much better. It was my first time in Columbus.
'79 Indiana @ Michigan. Anthony Carter's human torpedo play gets all the attention, but the entire last minutes of that game were amazingly, incredibly tense. (I have to wonder about myself, picking a routine win over Indiana, over last year's UTL game. I guess that I'd say the end of UTL was less astonishing than the time-expiring play with AC. It is certainly an arguable point.)
I watched, but was not at, the miracle comeback win over Minnesota in 2003; I am only counting the games I was at.
I'd add the basketball game of December 7, 1991 against Eastern Michigan. And ordinary game to start, we saw after a few minutes into the first half the first appearance of all of the Fab Five together on the floor. (And actually, I do remember being only a little more excited than I was when seeing Rose, Webber and Howard as starters earlier that season. Jalen Rose as a freshman point-guard was electrifying. He came into the Big Ten like he was a senior All-American. I don't think I have ever seen such an attitude with a freshman. Not OSU's greg Oden, not Aaron Kraft; nobody. Magic Johnson? Maybe; I'm not so sure).
January 6th, 2012 at 11:04 AM ^
Oh, that type of game. I'd have to say the 2012 Sugar Bowl because it was the first big win that I've ever been at the game.
January 6th, 2012 at 11:44 AM ^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvkXJH54VI4
Cemented at 5:57...
This one is fun too
http://www.umhoops.com/2011/03/05/video-tom-izzo-after-michigan-loss/
at 2:15 you get to hear Izzo crying about running up the score.
Sometimes I'll listen to it on a rough day...
January 6th, 2012 at 12:20 PM ^
A few stand out: my first ever game in '84 (beating YTM w/ Bernie Kosar), ND '91, a few OSU games in the 90s where we dashed their hopes, 3 OT MSU, UVa Pigskin Classic (good God it was hot for that game), Manningham beating PSU, and so on. An oddball on the list would be the '94 or so 5-0 Purdue game I toughed out in its entirety with 100,000 (**cough, 50 or 60,000, cough cough **) dedicated Michigan fans.
If I had to pick one, I'd say ND '91.
January 6th, 2012 at 12:29 PM ^
First place: 1969 ~ UM 24, OSU 12
Seven years before I was born, but I would have given anything to be there to watch the REBIRTH of Michigan football. What an amazing day that must have been.
Other Favorites:
Touchdown Tim
Elvis to Desmond
Any win over MSU
and
1/1/98 Rose Bowl.... beat it Ryan Leaf
January 6th, 2012 at 1:01 PM ^
Both the ND and OSU wins this year were amazing. I might have a short-memory but man I really enjoyed watching this year's team.
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<br>Others:
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<br>Henne to Manningjam vs. PSU
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<br>2007 Capital One Bowl
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<br>1995 UVA
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<br>Woodson's last game vs. OSU
January 6th, 2012 at 1:21 PM ^
I will go older school. 1977 Michigan vs Texas A&M. This was a magical memorable game. One of the best non Ohio State wins of the Bo era. Great names abound, Leach, Huckleby, Russel Davis, AC. Nice pre-game intro by a young Keith Jackson. also great to see Bo's halftime interview with Bill Fleming at the end of Part 1.
January 6th, 2012 at 3:56 PM ^
That game was so impressive in that Texas A&M was ranked #5 at that time.
My favorite is still the 1986 Ohio State game in Columbus, the Harbaugh guaranteed win. Followed by the Notre Dame game of this year and the 2003 Minnesota comeback win.
January 7th, 2012 at 3:10 AM ^
in 1977.