Top Five Michigan Comebacks of Recent History

Brady struck right away for the Wolverines on a 25-yard touchdown pass to tight end Shawn Thompson. Alabama answered on their second play in overtime with a 21-yard touchdown throw but Alabama kicker Ryan Pflugner pushed the extra point wide right and Michigan won.

Gotta love it whenever Michigan beats an SEC school while Ohio State is now 0-9.

3. October 30, 2004 #12 Michigan 45, Michigan State 37

I was at this game and it was the most memorable experience in my life. It was the first time I had ever been to the rivalry game and it will forever be ingrained in my memory. I will tell my grandchildren about this game one day.

Michigan trailed by 17 in the fourth quarter and my buddy and I almost left when Michigan went on a tear and ripped off 17 unanswered points in the final 6:27 of regulation.

Braylon Edwards opened a wide receivers clinic at that point and put on a show, catching two Chad Henne touchdowns, including a 21-yarder to tie the game with three minutes remaining.

At this point I would say about 15,000 fans had left the stadium in disgust with how Michigan was playing, but when Braylon tied the game I had never heard Michigan Stadium get any louder. The stadium was simply out of control.

Michigan State had dominated most of the game and was shredding the Wolverines of their pride. But Lamarr Woodley had destroyed Drew Stanton and the Spartys had Damon Dowdell as the backup.

Dowdell was, well, plain ineffective. Jason Teague gave MSU the lead in the second overtime on a three yard run but Jason Avant tied the game again on a five yard pass from Henne.

Braylon caught the game winner in triple overtime on a beautiful 24-yard pass from Henne and MSU ended the game with an incomplete pass.

It was Michigan State's best chance to win at Michigan Stadium for the first time since 1990 and, in classic Sparty fashion, they blew it.

2. September 27, 2008 Michigan 27, #8 Wisconsin 25

I've never heard of such a big turnaround before in Michigan history. Now I wasn't able to watch, but the text messages and calls I got from friends were great.

Constant updates were fed to me and I could not be more thankful to those that did that for me. But at one point during the first half, one friend told me to be thankful that I wasn't watching and that if I was I'd probably want to commit suicide.

One friend called me at halftime and was already proclaiming the Rich Rodriguez was the wrong hire and that he needs to go.

After four games already he wants RichRod fired. I made him eat his words after the game.

I'm sure a lot of friends of Michigan fans were on suicide watch Saturday but the end result was the most amazing comeback in Michigan Stadium history and how fitting that it happened during the 500th game in the stadium's history.

John Thompson pulled a Prescott Burgess and totally redeemed himself for past transgressions, Kevin Koger is now the best tight end we've had since Bennie Joppru and Steven Threet will always be the guy who brought Michigan back from a 19-point deficit.

I still can't believe it really. The Wolverines had mustered just 21 yards of total offense in the first half. Fans were booing and the only time they cheered was when a Michigan kick/punt returner didn't fumble the ball.

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