Strange but True: Michigan improves to 14-3 all-time in OT(!!!)
Saw this stat during the broadcast and could not believe it was real: Michigan football is now 14-3 all-time in OT games since its addition to the sport in the 1995 bowl season.
Here's all of the games so you don't have to look them up:
- 2000 Orange Bowl vs. Alabama (W 35-34)
- 2002 vs. Penn State (W 27-24)
- 2004 Braylonfest vs. MSU (W 45-37 3OT)
- 2005 at MSU (W 34-31)
- 2005 at Iowa (W 23-20)
- 2009 at MSU (L 20-26)
- 2010 vs. Illinois (W 67-65 3OT)
- 2012 Sugar Bowl vs. Virginia Tech (W 23-20)
- 2012 vs. Northwestern (W 38-31)
- 2013 at Penn State (L 40-43 4OT)
- 2013 at Northwestern (W 27-19)
- 2015 at Indiana (W 48-41 2OT)
- 2016 at OSU (L 27-30 2OT)
- 2017 at Indiana (W 27-20)
- 2019 vs. Army (W 24-21)
- 2020 at Rutgers (W 48-42 3OT)
- 2024 Rose Bowl vs. Alabama (W 27-20)
Splits:
Home: 5-0
Road: 6-3
Bowl Game: 3-0
Notes:
- Did not know that 2000 Bama was the first OT game in school history! Very hilarious to win it in the weirdest possible way: walk-off missed extra point.
- Took 14 years after the creation of OT for Michigan to lose an OT game
- I easily remembered all 3 OT losses. While all of them felt devastating at the time, only 2016 OSU had any real consequence
Which game is your favorite? Which WIN is your least favorite? Going with Army because it was boring as sin and hotter than hell for the foreshadowing of a not-very-good-but-still-crushed-and-retired-Mark-Dantonio Michigan squad
January 2nd, 2024 at 6:07 AM ^
Yeah, I was surprised to hear that too.
Maybe it's the effect of BPONE: with losses in bowl games, and to msu and a osu—and being there for the 2016 loss—it's felt as if Michigan keeps losing important games.
But obviously that feeling misses the fact of many wins. After all, Michigan does have more than a few wins.
January 2nd, 2024 at 11:28 AM ^
what's funny is the JT was short and 4OT debacle in Happy Valley still bother me as losses....but a pretty solid record.
It never came to it but I was kind of wondering if Bama scored how funny it would be to see them shank the XP kick a la 2000 Orange Bowl.
January 2nd, 2024 at 6:09 AM ^
Did any Michigan fan NOT think of 2016 as soon as Bama went to 4th Down in OT? Beautiful to have our defense make that stop.
January 2nd, 2024 at 6:12 AM ^
I can safely say 2016 never entered my brain during OT.
January 2nd, 2024 at 8:30 AM ^
Damn straight. But 2000 did.
January 2nd, 2024 at 8:51 AM ^
2016 did not enter my mind because the officiating crew was not from the B1G. I did think of the 2000 game. I was very nervous so I did not think much of anything.
January 2nd, 2024 at 10:46 AM ^
Was convinced this game would be a revenge of the “missed extra point” Orange Bowl game once Michigan’s special teams unit forgot how to play football.
January 2nd, 2024 at 9:15 AM ^
No. I thought of the 2005 Rose Bowl with Vince Young.
Although seriously I really wasn't worried about the refs or a bad spot at this point. Aside from the two non-calls (running into the kicker they could have called against us and the out of bounds hit in the 4th they should have called against Alabama), it was a reasonably well officiated game.
And also I thought Milroe would either walk in or get sacked.
January 2nd, 2024 at 8:57 PM ^
I guess I’m showing my inexperience. I didn’t become a fan until 2008 and that 2016 game was a seminal moment in my fanhood.
January 2nd, 2024 at 8:47 PM ^
I thought of 2000 Bama. I also sensed that Milroe would run. Somehow the stop was confirmation of a feeling I had when Bama got to 4th Down. Today Michigan was clogging the gaps pretty well. I thought they might bring a double A-gap blitz. I guess Bama thought that as well.
January 2nd, 2024 at 6:19 AM ^
I don't know if I'm more surprised at Michigan's win %, or that last night was only the 17th OT game in program history. I realize OT rules are relatively new, but still.
January 2nd, 2024 at 7:13 AM ^
Still bitter about JT was short
January 2nd, 2024 at 7:26 AM ^
"Did not know that 2000 Bama was the first OT game in school history! Very hilarious to win it in the weirdest possible way: walk-off missed extra point."
As a note, I don't know that this would be all that surprising necessarily, for OT had only been around in college for a few seasons at this point, so 2-3 seasons of avoiding OT, especially when you've only played 14 or 15 such games in the last 20 years, is entirely plausible.
January 2nd, 2024 at 8:40 AM ^
Just looked it up. 1995 bowl season was when OT started. 1996 was the first full season. So Michigan played nearly 4 full seasons without one.
January 2nd, 2024 at 7:51 AM ^
2002 PSU is my favorite because I was there.
Yesterday‘s game was pretty great, too
January 2nd, 2024 at 8:37 AM ^
That game is not often remembered but was a great, great game.
January 2nd, 2024 at 7:56 AM ^
yeah they showed that stat on TV during OT it gave me a jolt of confidence
"Alabama 7-9 in OT
Michigan 13-3"
January 2nd, 2024 at 8:28 AM ^
I think we all know that 2016 OT game was a win. They're 15-2.
January 2nd, 2024 at 8:30 AM ^
I remember the 2000 Orange Bowl like it was yesterday (maybe because I've watched it on YouTube once or twice). I just knew that TB would find a way to win that game.
Unfortunately, I also remember 2016. JT was short.
January 2nd, 2024 at 9:22 AM ^
I didn’t think at all about 2016 OSU game. I thought a lot about the 2000 Orange bowl pretty much all month and a lot yesterday. I remember it clearly. Especially how stuck to the couch we all were and unable to even take our eyes off the tv.
January 2nd, 2024 at 10:03 AM ^
That Orange Bowl was another game where they could have won in regulation. Anthony Thomas fumbled at the Alabama 1 and Alabama blocked Hayden Epstein's field goal at the end of regulation.
I see mgoblue.com has improved football stats--they have a box score for the game now complete with play-by-play. Which I have to admit is like candy for me.
January 2nd, 2024 at 8:33 AM ^
The missed extra point in the Orange Bowl honestly made that win feel a tiny bit empty. Much better to stuff them at the three yard-line on the final play.
January 2nd, 2024 at 12:03 PM ^
Not empty. It was poetic justice. That game never should have gone to overtime. With the score tied at 28-28, we had a 1st & goal at the 1 yard line and A-Train fumbled into the end zone. Then on the last play of regulation, Hayden Epstein had a very makable game winning field goal blocked.
With Bama dodging two huge bullets in the 4th quarter, that was well deserved karma for them to lose on an extra point.
January 2nd, 2024 at 8:50 PM ^
Bama also went up by 2 tds, twice.
January 2nd, 2024 at 8:36 AM ^
Favorite game on the list? Braylon-fest I guess. Maybe Orange Bowl. But favorite OT? Illinois.
Least favorite win? The 2013 Northwestern game was actually triple OT. That was 9-9 at the end of regulation. That's the one where Dileo had to slide into the holder position to get off the kick. That play itself was amazing (though technically I think we were never actually set) but the game was OMG horrible. Basically M00N bad.
Not a huge fan of the 2020 Rutgers one either.
January 2nd, 2024 at 8:42 AM ^
My favorite? This one. In fact, it takes the #1 spot of any game, ever, all-time. Even if we win a national title, I still think this game will forever be my favorite.
January 2nd, 2024 at 8:51 AM ^
Sorry if I'm being negative, but does such a great OT record possibly mean we played down to the competition several times and let a lesser team stayed tied with us at the end of regulation? I think that was the case for most of the Rutgers, Indiana, Northwestern games on the list. Sugar Bowl against Virginia Tech, seems like the opposite, outplayed for most of the game and lucky to get to OT and win it.
I wonder how Michigan would have finished in 1992 if there was OT.
January 2nd, 2024 at 8:57 AM ^
Not really. A lot of those were Hoke games. Army, IU 2015 and 2017 I'll agree. Rutgers was 2020, so, a 2-4 team. The win over Rutgers was our last win.
2005 we were better than MSU but remember, that's the Year of Infinite Pain (we were so naive then).
January 2nd, 2024 at 8:55 AM ^
I just remember 2013 Penn State because the overtime was a poster child for a Brady Hoke coaching brain fart. That game should have been won more than once and we gave it away.
January 2nd, 2024 at 8:58 AM ^
I felt in the 4th quarter that if we could get the game to OT, we'd win. Now I see why -- reverse BPONE
January 2nd, 2024 at 9:02 AM ^
I was at that 2013 PSU game in happy valley. That was a brutal loss. Allen f’ing Robinson.
January 2nd, 2024 at 9:30 AM ^
I would have expected more OT games by now. Still nice.
January 2nd, 2024 at 10:35 AM ^
Compare this to our OT record in the NCAA hockey tournament....I like this stat better.
January 2nd, 2024 at 6:53 PM ^
The terrible bowl record vs. the amazing OT record. One of them had to give. I am happy which one it was.
It surprises me how many of these games I have little to no recollection of (and also some of the ones that have no reason to be but are in this old brain of mine)