Published 9/29/2008
by Wade Starnes
at Bleacher Report - College Football
For various reasons, some of which I will get to in later posts, I've been silent about the Wolverines. After Saturday's win, I'm feeling the need to say something.
How long will I stick with it? Who knows—hopefully for the rest of the season. We'll see.
Saturday's victory (highlights here ) was one of the greatest I've seen in a long time. In fact, it was the biggest comeback in the history of Michigan Stadium. Somewhat ironic that it came on the day the University celebrated its 500th game in the Big House's history.
I was lucky enough to attend the previous greatest comeback, the 17-point fourth quarter comeback against Virginia in 1995. (As an aside, GREAT YouTube highlights of that game here . Further aside, I totally forgot about the greatest drop in college football history by Butterfingers with about 10 seconds left.)
I still remember screaming and jumping up and down as Mercury Hayes caught that fade route from Scot Dreisbach in ...
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