Recommended classic Michigan football/basketball games to watch.

Submitted by JDeanAuthor on March 22nd, 2020 at 4:39 PM

Which ones (let's say for sake of argument full games if possible) would you say were worth the rewatch over and over?

Give me your favorite football or basketball games.

Links appreciated but not required.

Sopwith

March 22nd, 2020 at 4:59 PM ^

Not in order, but I would say my football greatest hits album (of things available on YouTube) would be: (and I'm naming the season if it's a bowl, not the year it was played)

'92 Rose Bowl vs. Washington (the Ty Wheatley game)

'99 Orange Bowl vs. Bama (Brady previews his NFL career)

'02 MSU (Fire Bobby Beatdown)

'04 MSU (Braylonfest)

'07 Cap One Bowl (exiting Lloyd Carr beats Urban and Tebow)

'85 Ohio State (mostly I just skip to Harbaugh-to-Kolesar)

'97 Ohio State (I watch up to 20-0)

'96 Ohio State (Griese-to-Streets and the amazing 4th Q drives)

'95 Ohio State (Biakbatuka for all the yards)

'97 PSU ("Judgment Day")

'05 PSU (Henne-to-Manningham)

'18 PSU (good beatdown)

'09 WMU (Tate and Denard debut)

'91 Notre Dame (mostly just Grbac to Howard but rosters were like 2 NFL teams)

'94 Notre Dame (just the final Todd Collins led drive, Remy H with the winner)

'09 Notre Dame (A Star is Born... for now)

'10 Notre Dame (The Denardening)

'11 Notre Dame (Under the Lights I)

'15 Citrus Bowl (Rudock dominates Florida)

'16 Rutger (just for the sake of a purely fun beatdown)

True Blue Grit

March 23rd, 2020 at 6:54 AM ^

One of the networks showed the 2013 Kansas game last night. While I was watching it I kept saying "how did we win this game?" Michigan missed SO many open shots and whenever Michigan would hit a bigshot, Kansas would answer.  We were still behind by 10 with 2 1/2 minutes left. Then it was Trey Time. 

othernel

March 22nd, 2020 at 5:27 PM ^

There is a YouTube channel that basically posts all the condensed college football replays that get shown on ESPN U. 

Here is the playlist for Michigan. It seems like it’s basically every game since 2016 along with a couple notable games before that one (UTL, 2000 Citrus Bowl, etc), and they all take about 70-80 minutes. 

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8A0IwnmsW0bGxBvYZMUmb4vA73y-12JU

mfan_in_ohio

March 22nd, 2020 at 8:29 PM ^

2014: Michigan at the Trohl Center (the Stauskas stepback dagger)

2008: Michigan beats two top-5 teams (UCLA and Duke) in a two week span, Beilein's watershed moment at Michigan

1992: The Fab 5 Sweet 16 vs. OSU (ntOSU) and regional final vs. OSU (ytOSU)

Hensons Mobile…

March 22nd, 2020 at 9:12 PM ^

The top football game I don't think I saw mentioned is 2002 vs Washington (Brabbs).

Basketball, they're all beautiful, but the Syracuse semifinal is intense. For regular season, I can't get enough of watching Trey steal the ball from Appling.

We'll be Champions

March 22nd, 2020 at 9:31 PM ^

1) Moe Wagner going off at Breslin will always be a personal favorite in 2018

2) Burke stealing the ball from Appling

3) Stauskas and Derrick Walton Jr. leading the team to a road win at #3 Sparty 

4) Backing it up at Crisler later that year when Izzo cried about all the injuries in the first game with Stauskas going off

5) Beating MSU at MSG in the BTT in 2018 (Beilein really did have some great games in this rivalry)

6) Moe going off against Louisville in round 2 of the 2017 NCAA tournament 

7) 2018 at Villanova beating them by like 30 after losing to them in the national championship