20 years ago today: Tshimanga Biakabutuka eviscerates Ohio State

at the game. I still remember Buckeye fans, pre-game, toting around homemade signs saying "Rose Bowl bound" and all that. It was a sweet Michigan victory over a very good Ohio State team, and Tim Biakabutuka ran like a madman that day. Weather was exceptional for that time of the year, too. A great experience.

Go Blue!

I was 15 and already a Michigan fan, but this was the game that launched me into fanatical obsession with M football. OSU just could not stop our running game. Tim played with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind. I remember he would break off a run and my dad and I would repeatedly yell Biakabatuka! Mom told us to quiet down but it didn't work.

TB is forever beloved by Northwestern fans as well, since he propelled us to a Rose Bowl that seemed impossible.

This light to be required viewing for all our RBs going forward. That was pure, straight domination.

So many future NFL players on both teams in that one

This game defines the Carr vs. Cooper years more than any other to me. I was 10 when it took place and I always expected Michigan to win The Game because we always did regardless of records while I was growing up. Here's to making Urban Cooper 2.0 starting this week. Go blue!

A freshman named Charles Woodson had a pretty good day as well.

I was at that game.  It was alot of fun listening to the announcers on the radio while sitting in the stands.

Was remarkable for a lot of reasons, but I've always been amazed by how close it was the whole game until Michigan broke it open in the 4th. The OSU D just ran out of gas after chasing #21 all game.

Another treasured memory from this game was Woodson's interception to ice it at the end. As I remember he picked it off near the eastern sideline and headed across the field to the the western sideline and was finally starting to head downfield when he was pushed out of bounds near the Michigan bench. The coaches had been motioning for him to take a knee the whole time. The celebration was on at that point. Easily the most memorable game I have ever attended.

I'm still thankful for this.

Maybe one of our running backs will have a day like this on Saturday, which was unexpected at that time, even from Tim B.

Ed-die!  Ed-die!  Ed-die!  I was in section 25 in the first row behind the band.  There is no M Stadium experience like an OSU win, especially with Tim going off and OSU absorbing their first loss.

Terry Glenn before this game: "We need to keep Michigan down here where dey belong...just like da rest of dem teams....and....kick der butt like we did everybody else." Every year with the trash talk and every year not being able to back it up. The Cooper years were just epic. There was also a great picture of Eddie George crying as the final seconds ticked off the clock that has, sadly, been removed from the Internet.

Nobody expected us to win that game... was so nice seeing Biakautuka (and the o-line) gash Ohio for run after run.   If you watch the video highlights you'll see it wasn't very long runs, but 5, 8, 10, 15 yards, again and again. 

of Buckeye fans. One of the most memorable games I ever attended at the Big House!

with the posting times on this thread,  I posted my earlier comment at about 11:30, not 3am.  I remember this since I was dropping a deuce (backing the motorhome out of the garage), so it was memorable.

Server upgrade?  Or something more strange?  Hmmm...

/puts on tin foil hat

 

EDIT:  Seems to be fixed now as this posting time is correct...but there is no way so many of the posts were in the wee hours...

I was watching on TV in Murfreesboro, TN where I was going to school at MTSU.   The entire bar was filled with Michigan-haters (as they are down there) yelling obscenities at the screen every time Tim got the football.  It was great. 

This was 2 years before Woodson-Manning, and when that happened....I knew that TN fans hated Michigan to begin with.... Woodson pushed them over the edge.

Senior year. Was at that game. Loved that game.