It's time to watch another classic football game. Jarrett Irons and Rod Payne are joining and Dr. Sap and me to watch Michigan-Ohio State 1995. You can watch in the frame below or you can join us on my twitch stream. We'll be taking questions from the chat window.

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Here's some context if you weren't around yet: Ohio State was ranked #2 in both polls, and hadn't had a close game since a trip through #12 Penn State and then-#21 Wisconsin in early October. John Cooper, in his 8th season, appeared to finally have his program back to its previous standards. But the last time they'd come to Ann Arbor undefeated, in 1993, Gary Moeller's Wolverines had rolled them 28-0.

But Moeller was gone, a drunken incident at metro-Detroit restaurant in the '95 offseason having cost him his job. Offensive assistant Fred Jackson was named to Moeller's other job of offensive coordinator, DL coach Greg Mattison was promoted to defensive coordinator, and erstwhile DC Lloyd Carr was named to the top job on an interim basis, but not a candidate in the search about to commence. That search went well into November. With just two games left in the season—at Penn State, and the other—Michigan athletic director Joe Roberson named Carr the 17th head coach of Michigan football.

But a loss in Happy Valley had dropped Michigan to 8-3, and combined with losses to Northwestern and Michigan State earlier in the season to put Michigan out of the running for the Big Ten championship. Northwestern, led by star linebacker Pat Fitzgerald, was undefeated in-conference, but hadn't played Ohio State and had lost to a MAC school in September, so they needed an Ohio State loss to go to the Rose Bowl.

The likelihood of that didn't seem high. The Buckeyes had all-Big Ten QB Bobby Hoying, freak of nature Orlando Pace, basketball star convert TE Rickey Dudley, indomitable DE Mike Vrabel, All-American CB Shawn Springs, and Heisman frontrunner Eddie George. Michigan had former walk-on Brian Griese, freshman stick RT Jon Jansen, quarterback convert TE Jay Riemersma, borrowed DT Glen Steele at End, true freshman CB Charles Woodson, and was matching Eddie George with a no-stars kid from Quebec named Tshimanga Biakabutuka.

Said Ohio State star receiver Terry Glenn, "Michigan's nobody."

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