Michigan - SEC Bowl Games: 10 memorable plays
December 29th, 2017 at 7:58 AM ^
so granted he had some interception problems but I remember him having a rocket arm and making some amazing throws (clip #2 above and the one to beat OSU in '88 stand out) in his time at QB. He was also the first UM QB to win back to back bowl games.
December 29th, 2017 at 8:23 AM ^
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December 29th, 2017 at 8:17 AM ^
There are a 100 plays from that UM-Bama Orange Bowl that rang in 2000 that could have made this list!
December 29th, 2017 at 9:25 AM ^
I expected the missed PAT to actually make the cut.
December 29th, 2017 at 11:09 AM ^
Is it really weird that the Orange Bowl win feels/ felt a little unsatisfying because of the way it was won? When it happened it was so anticlimactic, as I was anticipating the game continuing... and then it was over.
I guess it felt that Michigan fell into the victory instead of flatout making a play to win (as Bama had just scored a TD).
Don't get me wrong, I'm very glad we won, and very glad that Ian Gold, Tom Brady, and the rest of the seniors went out with a win.
December 29th, 2017 at 8:53 AM ^
Fun video to watch, I'd probably take Odoms off though and put in Hemingway's catch at the sugar bowl. A game we won.
EDIT: It's vs SEC Teams, I'm an idiot
December 29th, 2017 at 9:57 AM ^
Where is the swagger today that those 90s and 00s teams had?
Jake Rudock was pretty good in his one year.
i was going to say "what no Harbaugh plays?", but then remembered he was probably playing all Rose bowls back then.
December 29th, 2017 at 10:51 AM ^
he beat nebraska his junior year in the fiesta bowl. we ended up #2. then lost to asu in the rose bowl his senior year. he was hurt his soph year when we lost to nat'l champion byu.
December 29th, 2017 at 10:00 AM ^
Thoughts:
- Would Kolesar's catch have been overturned if it happened today. The ball moves a bit when he hits the ground, and by that point he's already out of bounds.
- The crowd in that '88 HOF Game (and many of the other clips) just show how much more sacred bowls were back in the day. Not many bowls didn't sell out, and the fanbases loved them! The '87 season was sandwiched between 2 Rose Bowl years, and yet the Michigan faithful was as supportive as ever.
- Oh I wish I wish I wish you had left out any clip from that Gator Bowl against Mississippi State. Easily the most embarrassing bowl showing from the team in my lifetime.
December 29th, 2017 at 10:46 AM ^
Without looking it up, I'm going to say there wee about half as many bowl games in the late 80s as there are today. Back then making a bowl game was a pretty good accomplishment. Now, as long as you go 500 (and sometimes even worse) you make a bowl game.
December 29th, 2017 at 3:56 PM ^
December 29th, 2017 at 11:19 AM ^
Other than reminding me that the 2011 Gator Bowl happened, good video!
December 29th, 2017 at 12:00 PM ^
Suck it SEC!!! We beat a damn good Bama team that year.
December 29th, 2017 at 12:41 PM ^
Amazingly good! It just shows you how important good QB play is!
December 29th, 2017 at 12:43 PM ^
Some personal favorites:
-Adrian Arrington making Florida's secondary look like a bunch of low-grade circus clowns in that Capital One Bowl. That one-handed catch was a thing of absolute beauty.
-Jehu Chesson essentially doing the same thing to Vernon Hargreaves in the Citrus Bowl two years ago. Made a top-10 pick look like a third stringer on the JV team.
-Watching Tebow pick chunks of dirt and grass out of his helmet after getting drilled to the ground in the Capital One Bowl. Then later on in the game, watching Tebow attempt a QB draw and then get stopped dead in his tracks by Jamar Adams. It was like watching Tebow try to run into a wall of adamantium.
Guess all of my favorite memories happened against Florida. For as good as that program has been over time, we've had their number each time we've played them. The last three times we met them in either football or basketball, they were beatdowns where even the score, as lopsided as it was, didn't tell the whole story.
December 29th, 2017 at 5:17 PM ^
I was at the game so I'm biased but the Brady pass to Aaron Shea in OT sticks in my mind. That plus the missed PAT, which is a weird way to win but memorable.