Talk Football: Are there two consecutive plays in UM history bigger than Sainristil/Edwards against OSU
February 16th, 2023 at 11:16 AM ^
I'm not sure of the exact sequence, but the Edwards TD pass to Wilson in last year's B10 title game was pretty dope.
February 16th, 2023 at 12:15 PM ^
I was in the opposite endzone during that play! If I recall correctly, that was the point in the game where nobody in my section was worried about the outcome anymore.
February 16th, 2023 at 11:21 AM ^
Hardly a year worth remembering, BUT:
2008 Wisconsin, the largest comeback in Michigan history at the time (may still be?) in the 500th game at Michigan Stadium.
"Minor is MAJOR" TD to bring us back into the ball game, and then very next snap was the Thompson pick 6 with a convoy right back into the same endzone to eventually knock off Bert's Badgers.
February 16th, 2023 at 11:35 AM ^
Wow, 2008 Wisconsin game, Probably one of three highlight games from RR in his 3 years. After that win which made us 2-2, I thought we'd go 8-4 with road losses at PSU and Ohio. Ended up 3-9.
2009 (Tate) and 2010 (Denard) wins over ND were the only other highlights during RR's era.
February 16th, 2023 at 12:17 PM ^
2008 was my sophomore year and I remember that game vividly. I also remember my roommate being too hungover to go to the Toledo game and envying him afterwards.
February 16th, 2023 at 2:09 PM ^
2008 Wisconsin, the largest comeback in Michigan history at the time
It's the largest home comeback (19 points) in school history. Our largest overall comeback is 21 points, in the 2003 Minnesota game.
February 16th, 2023 at 7:00 PM ^
Biggest reason Wisconsin lost is that they started celebrating the win at halftime and didn't get their heads back into the game until it was too late.
February 16th, 2023 at 11:36 AM ^
Going back quite a ways, 1979's Wangler-to-Carter game ending TD was preceded by a brilliantly-executed Lawrence Reid-to-Lee Corso lateral that kept the clock from striking zero.
February 16th, 2023 at 11:38 AM ^
If you are talking strictly back-to-back, it's tough to think of a bigger pair. This year's OSU road win was probably our biggest win since 1997. There are certainly some memorable wins and huge plays in there, but I'm not sure that there'a a "back-to-back" that was more meaningful.
Edit -- the closest thing that I can think of is the 2004 MSU game -- three plays with an onside kick recovery, a run by Hart, and then a TD pass to Braylon.
February 16th, 2023 at 12:27 PM ^
This year's OSU road win was probably our biggest win since 1997.
Bigger than 2021? That was the one that ended the drought.
February 16th, 2023 at 12:56 PM ^
To go into their house and validate it that emphatically... I view them almost as two halves of the turning point in the rivlary. Not one person in their fanbase thought they would lose that game, and to go do it in Columbus for the first time since Henson and Co. in 2000? Hard not to argue it as equal to 2021 in importance.
2021 from a meaning and atmosphere etc will always be at the top, especially having been there that day, but I can see the argument for this past season as being just as important overall.
February 16th, 2023 at 1:58 PM ^
2022 was definitely a confirmation, and incredibly satisfying after two decades of frustration at their place. But the 2021 game was a massive turning point for this program (and maybe OSU's too). If we don't win that one, we're then going into 2022 with all the pressure on us.
February 16th, 2023 at 11:53 AM ^
The Henson TD run against OSU in the shoe
February 16th, 2023 at 12:33 PM ^
Henson's naked bootleg against OSU for the win? My avatar and username agree with this take.
February 16th, 2023 at 11:53 AM ^
For me, it's the fact we were at OSU, on their home turf, in favorable conditions that had them thinking there's no way they could possibly lose. Just when the seas were parting for them(or so they thought) to take the wind out of our sails with a huge momentum play they were absolutely DENIED by Sainristil. A smaller guy getting up to bat it out of the big guy's hands. Then Edwards just plunging the dagger deep into the heart of the OSU defense. It was such a beautiful series of moments I don't even know how else to describe it. I don't know where I'd place it but it's definitely up there considering it's a time in our rivalry where we needed it most.
February 16th, 2023 at 11:59 AM ^
Mine is the 1997 season opener. UM is ranked 13th and opening the season with #7 Colorado. Lee Corso is on ESPN GameDay with a very young Herbie. Lee has already picked Colorado to win this game as well as the national championship. Fortunately, we have Keith Jackson and Bob Griese in the booth.
Michigan opens with a drive that ends stalled and then a missed field goal. Ghosts of Kordell Stewart from 3 years earlier are already starting to feel like they are coming back to haunt us. However, on the 2nd play of Colorado's drive, Charles Woodson makes a leaping fingertip interception on our own 43. The very next play, Brian Griese rolls out and throws a strike to a wide open Jerame Tuman who is tackled at the 1 yard line.
We of course punch it in, but those 2 plays set the tone for the game as Brian Griese solidified the starting job with 2 TDs on 21 of 28 passing and 258 yards while Charles Woodson began his Heisman campaign and the defense holds Colorado to 3 points for a 27-3 rout.
February 16th, 2023 at 12:08 PM ^
Yep and I was at the game. UofM's Thom Darden went over the top of an OSU offensive player to intercept the ball and thwart an OSU drive near the end of the game. It caused Woody Hayes to rip up a sideline marker. At the time of the interception, my eyes were on Woody. Everyone who could stepped away from him, fearing what he might do. The poor guy holding the sidline marker couldn't move. Hilarious. I can still laugh as I recall what happened.
February 16th, 2023 at 12:17 PM ^
The catch and the pose. Consecutive if you take out about 8 games in between.
February 16th, 2023 at 12:24 PM ^
Wangler to Carter, after the ball was chucked out of bounds from the left hash mark the play before.
February 16th, 2023 at 12:42 PM ^
Technically these weren’t consecutive. There was a FG and a kickoff in between. I would maybe consider it consecutive if it was only the kick off, but not a FG.
February 16th, 2023 at 1:54 PM ^
I believe I was clear. Consecutive non-special teams plays. I get to select the criteria. Make your own thread with different criteria.
February 16th, 2023 at 12:55 PM ^
I believe there may have been one play between them but 1988 M v OSU Kolesar running the kick to the OSU 40 than catching a 40 Yd pass - won that game at the end almost all by himself
February 17th, 2023 at 1:46 PM ^
I also forgot his freshman year he caught the game winning TD against the Buckeyes as well. He is underrated when people talk of great recievers in Michigan history
February 16th, 2023 at 2:00 PM ^
That game to me was unlike any other. The emotional highs were fucking euphoric, damn what a rush yelling and jumping around with friends and family.
February 16th, 2023 at 2:13 PM ^
There was one play in-between, but this sequence was pretty good:
February 16th, 2023 at 2:17 PM ^
I don’t know what came before the botched punt against MSU but those 2 plays were impactful
February 16th, 2023 at 2:17 PM ^
I don’t know what came before the botched punt against MSU but those 2 plays were impactful
February 16th, 2023 at 2:21 PM ^
You can't call them consecutive if there were two plays in between.
February 16th, 2023 at 7:07 PM ^
No one remembers the play in between.
February 16th, 2023 at 2:40 PM ^
I hope you're not taking anything away from the Hassan Haskins 4th quarter stomping in 2021. Maybe that's a separate category for best drive ever?
February 16th, 2023 at 4:28 PM ^
Kolesar return. Kolesar reception.
February 16th, 2023 at 7:03 PM ^
Oh, YES! I thought Michigan was the better team all game long and then somehow the Buckeyes battled to take the lead late in the game only to have the game snatched away in two (non-consucutive) plays.
February 16th, 2023 at 5:24 PM ^
Rumeal Robinson overtime free throw #1
Rumeal Robinson overtime free throw #2
1989 National Champion!