What is Your Favorite Michigan Bowl Game?

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What is Your Favorite Michigan Bowl Game?

All of us here have seen some pretty spectacular bowl games that Michigan has played in and either won or come close only to fall by just a few. For me I have seen (in my teen years) the Wolverines play in quite a few Rose Bowls sadly to fall to both USC and Texas in 2005 which in my opinion is one of the greatest Rose Bowl games I've ever seen despite the loss. I was only 8 in 1997 but so my memories of the Rose Bowl game between Michigan and Wash St is still embeded in my brain and always will be. I consider that game to be part of my childhood but for me the greatest bowl win in my memory was the 2000 Orange Bowl vs Alabama. I was only 11 years old at the time but I remembered watching that game with my dad and how close it was at the end. Tom Brady blew us away in that game and seeing Anthony Thomas in his final game was also special. I loved the A Train. My first Michigan jersey was a blue #32. Beating OSU then going on to win against Bama. I went nuts when they missed the PTA as Michigan won in OT. One of the greatest games in Michigan history and my favorite bowl game.

The 2003 Outback Bowl, 2005 Rose Bowl and 2008 Capital One Bowl and of course the 2012 Sugar Bowl are in my top 5.

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June 29th, 2012 at 4:05 PM | 2000 ala vs mich  1997 wash (Score:2)
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2000 ala vs mich 

1997 wash vs mich

Go Blue

June 29th, 2012 at 4:15 PM | I cannot argue with you (Score:2)
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that is the game I had on my mind immediately after reading your thread title. Others I would consider would include the 93 & 98 Rose Bowls.  

The Browns drafted a QB in the 6th round in 2000. I was hoping it would be Tom Brady, but they opted for Spergeon Wynn instead. Probably better for Tom in the long run. But I often wonder if maybe he would have been able to make the Browns respectable.

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June 29th, 2012 at 4:28 PM | You my friend are a dreamer. (Score:2)
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You my friend are a dreamer.  It would have taken a lot more than Brady to make them respectable.  

“When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing” - Bo Schembechler

June 29th, 2012 at 6:04 PM | 1997 Rose Bowl, changed my (Score:2)
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1997 Rose Bowl, changed my life for the better. I still want a lifesize poster of Woodsons interception from the behind the endzone.

You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in 'Nam of course.

June 29th, 2012 at 4:15 PM | 2000 Orange Bowl, because it (Score:3 Normal)
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2000 Orange Bowl, because it was awesome, and 2012 Sugar Bowl, because I was there.

June 29th, 2012 at 4:15 PM | 97 Rose 00 Orange 05 Rose - A (Score:3 Normal)
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97 Rose

00 Orange

05 Rose - A loss but a great game that I watched at a bar with my UT alum brother in law. If you are going to lose a bowl game to Texas it fits that you lose on a FG to a kicker named Dusty Mangum.

Who is Jon Falk?
June 29th, 2012 at 4:15 PM | The 1989 Rose Bowl (Score:4 Normal)
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Michigan beat USC 22-14.  Bo accepted the Rose Bowl trophy "on behalf of some great Wolverines!" 

I was a kid when I watched that, and it's tough for a game now to match the excitement I felt then.

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. -- Yogi Berra

                         

June 29th, 2012 at 4:20 PM | I was born in 1989 but I watched (Score:2 Normal)
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highlights of that game years later and I must admit I had tears rolling down my cheeks seeing Bo win for the last time. I wish I was old enough to appreciate that game that year.

We hate Michigan State. We don't like Penn State too. We don't care for Minnesota, Wisconsin or Notre Dame but we all hate O-S-U.

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June 29th, 2012 at 5:11 PM | Damn... (Score:1)
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...that game was awesome.  How sweet it was to enjoy beating USC in a Rose Bowl because you just know that isn't something that will happen very often.  I'd actually argue that it was an even better feeling than winning the Rose Bowl to cap the undefeated 97 season.

June 29th, 2012 at 9:47 PM | I was at that Rose Bowl Game (Score:1)
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It was a great experience.  I took my Dad to the game.  We tail-gated on the golf course outside the stadium, after going to the parade.  Of course the best part was we won the game. 

"You owe it to every man, woman, and child in the State of Michigan to beat the Buckeyes and silence their fans!  Now go out there and make it happen!"

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June 29th, 2012 at 4:15 PM | Ones that I actually remember (Score:2)
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Ones that I actually remember watching would rank: 2008 Capital One Bowl (beating Tebow is a great memory), 2012 Sugar Bowl and then the 2005 Rose Bowl. I was too young to really remember watching the 1998 Rose Bowl (for the NC), but if I could it would be #1, no doubt.

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June 29th, 2012 at 6:21 PM | 2008 (Score:2 Normal)
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2008 capitol one bowl was my favorite game ever.  That offense was beautiful/perfect with jake long, henne, mario, arrington and of course hart.  They just played so damn hard that game and executed so well.  It being Carr's last game only made it even more awesome.

June 29th, 2012 at 4:35 PM | huh? (Score:2 Normal)
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huh?

“When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing” - Bo Schembechler

June 29th, 2012 at 5:14 PM | Hmm... (Score:4 Normal)
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...I think he's refering the "bowl" he smoked that day.  That's my best guess.

June 30th, 2012 at 11:14 AM | Holy Jeebus. Your bong must (Score:3 Normal)
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Holy Jeebus. Your bong must be laced with snow because now your jaw has locked up.

What does 'they didnt wont to c a reply' mean? 'They didn't want to c a replay'?

Who is Jon Falk?
June 29th, 2012 at 5:40 PM | Mr. Mario86's brother must (Score:5 Normal)
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Mr. Mario86's brother must have an account

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June 29th, 2012 at 4:22 PM | 1997 Rose Bowl 2000 Orange (Score:1 Normal)
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1997 Rose Bowl

2000 Orange Bowl

2005 Rose Bowl (even though we lost, it was an awesome game)

2007 Outback Bowl (Lloyd's going away party)

1993 Rose Bowl (again, another loss, but Wheatley was amazing)\

2012 Sugar Bowl

June 29th, 2012 at 4:29 PM | 1993 (Score:4 Normal)
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We won the '93 game.  One of the best Rose Bowls ever.

June 29th, 2012 at 4:40 PM | I think he meant the 1992 Rose Bowl (Score:2 Normal)
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but then again I'm not sure why he would? We were killed 34-14 in that game. I think it was typo? :/ I hope!

We hate Michigan State. We don't like Penn State too. We don't care for Minnesota, Wisconsin or Notre Dame but we all hate O-S-U.

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June 29th, 2012 at 5:04 PM | you mean the 2008 Capital One (Score:2 Normal)
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you mean the 2008 Capital One Bowl as Lloyd's going away party.

We lost to USC in the 2007 Rose Bowl

 

The 2007 Outback bowl featured a 8-4 Penn State team beating a 9-3 Tennessee team 20 to 10.

June 29th, 2012 at 6:00 PM | You're telling me... (Score:3 Normal)
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the 2007 Outback Bowl didn't rank on your all-time favorites?!?  That thrilling 22-yard Kevin Kelly field goal to seal the game with just over 3 minutes left will always be one of my fondest memories of college football.

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June 30th, 2012 at 9:54 AM | Hahaha, I definitely got my (Score:1)
Willhouse
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Hahaha, I definitely got my years messed up. 1993 was what I was thinking of, but yeah, we won that. And of course, Lloyd's going away was 2008

June 29th, 2012 at 4:25 PM | '89 Rose... my freshman year (Score:3 Normal)
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'89 Rose... my freshman year at Michigan... Bo's last game.... beating USC.  Special stuff.

June 29th, 2012 at 4:33 PM | that wasn't Bo's last game (Score:3 Normal)
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He coached the next year too and lost 17-10 to USC in his final game...The '89 game was great, though.   

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. -- Yogi Berra

                         

June 29th, 2012 at 5:21 PM | The holding call, (Score:3 Normal)
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on Michigan's fake punt in the fourth quarter was a bad call.  Very disappointing.

Taking it one week at a time

June 29th, 2012 at 5:58 PM | Agree (Score:1)
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Totally robbed. It was brutal.

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June 29th, 2012 at 6:23 PM | I read (Score:2 Normal)
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here on some post or another long ago that Bo claimed he heard the officials gloating about throwing the game (on purpose). Disturbing they can get away with it if true.

June 29th, 2012 at 10:49 PM | If memory serves, one of the (Score:2)
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If memory serves, one of the Pac 10 refs on that joint-Big Ten/Pac 10 crew later reported that the Big Ten refs were celebrating screwing Bo over with that holding call.

June 29th, 2012 at 11:45 PM | It's all in BO (Score:2)
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By Bo and Mitch Albom.

"I love him, he's a great coach, he's a great mentor, he's a great friend. He's every single thing you want a college coach to be, and he does it flawlessly." -David Molk

June 29th, 2012 at 9:19 PM | Was a Junior that year. (Score:2)
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Broke the lamp in my bedroom after the BS holding call.  Never did see the finish to that game.

June 29th, 2012 at 4:29 PM | Two words: (Score:1)
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Tyrone Wheatley.

 

 

 

June 29th, 2012 at 4:43 PM | He looked like he was shot (Score:3 Normal)
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He looked like he was shot out of a cannon vs Washington.



The youngsters here need to watch the highlights. Pure speed.

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June 29th, 2012 at 4:32 PM | 2012 Sugar Bowl. (Score:3 Normal)
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2012 Sugar Bowl.  Just graduated from UM a few weeks earlier, first attended bowl game, drank at the game, and partied with my g/f (a brunette).

June 29th, 2012 at 4:33 PM | Dreaded double post. (Score:5 Normal)
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Dreaded double post. titties...

June 29th, 2012 at 4:36 PM | +1 for your quote and use of (Score:1 Normal)
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+1 for your quote and use of tities

“When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing” - Bo Schembechler

June 29th, 2012 at 4:46 PM | The 2008 Capital One Bowl has (Score:3 Normal)
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The 2008 Capital One Bowl has to be my favorite recent one.  Just with the circumstances surronding Lloyd and the three seniors and how they were 0-3 against Ohio and in bowl games.  Not to mention that nobody gave us a chance in that game. 

And I am pretty sure that when people say 1997 Rose Bowl, they mean the 1998 Rose Bowl...

June 29th, 2012 at 6:27 PM | I lived in Florida at that time. (Score:3 Normal)
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it was great to go back to work after the holidays and face all the dejected UF fans. I love that we sent Lloyd out the way we did.

June 29th, 2012 at 4:51 PM | Some Of My Favorites (Score:2)
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1) January 1st,1998 - Rose Bowl win over Washington State - awesome cap to an awesome season and a great excuse to be late to the first day of Winter Semester that January. 

2) January 1st, 2000 - Orange Bowl win over Alabama. Coming back  from 14 down twice, as I recall, with Tom Brady leading the way. Great, great comeback win.

3) January 3rd, 2012 - Sugar Bowl win over Virginia Tech - did not end up going (I was at the first two that I listed), but it was a great end to Hoke's first season and I still managed to function the next day at work. 

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June 29th, 2012 at 4:51 PM | For me, it's the 2012 Sugar (Score:1)
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For me, it's the 2012 Sugar Bowl.  Yes, it has as much to do with New Orleans, and all that entailed.  But it also has to do with it being such a surprise that Michigan had a solid season in 2011, and seeming so far-fetched afer a just horrible '08, a disappointing '09, and a mediocre '10 that ended in the most humiliating Michigan game ever.  I felt a lot of that weight lifted just by getting to the Sugar Bowl.  There were more thrilling bowl games, and more meaningful ones (I was at the '98 Rose Bowl and rushed the field afterward), but the Sugar Bowl is my favorite. 

Missing Ann Arbor

June 29th, 2012 at 5:03 PM | Has to be the 2012 Sugar (Score:2)
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Has to be the 2012 Sugar Bowl, as it's the only Michigan bowl game I've attended, and I took my oldest son. My older brother lives in New Orleans and he treated us to some excellent food.



Other favorites -



1981 Rose Bowl. Bo finally broke through with a victory.



1986 Fiesta Bowl. Beat Nebraska.



1998 Rose Bowl. National Championship.



Least favorite was the 1979 Rose Bowl where we got hosed big-time on Charles White's phantom touchdown.

June 29th, 2012 at 6:41 PM | You named two of my nominees. (Score:1)
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1.) 1981 -- Bo's first Rose Bowl win, and M's first since 1965. thank God almighty, free at at last.

2.) 1986 Fiesta -- the championship game that should have happened in 1997/8.

I would add the 1988 Hall-of-Fame Bowl win over Alabama because, although both teams were not the most successful that year, it was M's first encounter with Bama and it ended with a win to offset the loss to Auburn in the 1984 Sugar Bowl.

And of course, the '08 Cap One Bowl. Revenge for Meyer's victory in the whine wars of '06, and a satisfactory matchup with the Heismann Trophy winner.

Michigan was hosed more than once in the Rose Bowl. On balance, I would have been happier with no Rose Bowl. I never understood the B10's strange marriage with the Pac8, which was a very unhappy one for us from 1970-92.

June 29th, 2012 at 5:12 PM | 2013 national championship (Score:3 Normal)
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2013 national championship game

903 wins most in college football

June 29th, 2012 at 5:19 PM | 1998 Rose Bowl (Score:1)
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... the only bowl game I have attended.   21-16, whooooooooo!

Taking it one week at a time

June 29th, 2012 at 6:45 PM | Orange Bowl Michigan 35 Alabama 34 (Score:1)
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Oh the inhumanity!!!

June 29th, 2012 at 5:41 PM | 1991 gator bowl (Score:0 Overrated)
June 29th, 2012 at 6:19 PM | That was my fave.... (Score:2)
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Only one I have been to, but the MVP was the entire offensive line.  awesome!

June 29th, 2012 at 6:21 PM | I think... (Score:2)
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that's the game I'm thinking of....but I'm pretty old. 

June 29th, 2012 at 5:44 PM | '93 Rose Bowl- Everitt, (Score:3 Normal)
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'93 Rose Bowl- Everitt, Wheatley, 88 yards......nuff said.

2000 Orange Bowl and 98 Rose honorable mentions

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June 29th, 2012 at 5:58 PM | Any Rose Bowl victory... (Score:3 Normal)
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...especially if you have attended it.

1) For me, the 1/1/98 Rose Bowl has to be the standard.

2) Beating #5 USC in the 1/1/89 Rose Bowl has to be right up there. A great Bo team, lost to the #1 and #2 teams that year by less than 5 points total, and we were ranked #11 going into the game. That team was so close to a national championship season, they certainly had the talent.

3) 1/1/2000 Orange Bowl. That game was unbelievably epic despite the strange ending.

4) 1/1/2008 Capital One Bowl. At the time we desperately needed that win after the way that season started, as a good end to LC's career, and to shut up the SEC homers again.

 

June 29th, 2012 at 6:20 PM | Same Again (Score:2)
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The above post saved me time and allowed me to get another beer.

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