Top Five Michigan Comebacks of Recent History

Brandon Graham had a monster day with three sacks and two forced fumbles and the entire defense should be hoisted on its shoulders after the way it played against the Badgers.

They were on the field for 20 minutes of the first half and still kept Michigan in the game. It looked like Michigan might never do anything offensively until it ripped off 27 unanswered points.

Then we were all held breathless as Wisconsin marched down and scored a late touchdown and set up a potential game tying two point conversion.

The air let out by fans after that miss could fill enough hot air balloons to stretch the length of the state of Michigan.

1. Friday, October 10, 2003 #20 Michigan 38, #17 Minnesota 35

I was kind of surprised to look up that Minnesota was actually ranked going into this game. I don't think they have been ranked since...Can anyone confirm that?

The largest comeback in Michigan history came in the 100th game of the oldest trophy in college football, the Little Brown Jug.

I made some of my best friends during this game. It was my first year at college and after chalking this game up as a loss after Michigan had gone down 28-7 in the third quarter, I left my apartment to go drink at a party. Across the hall of the apartment complex I was at, some guys were still watching. I joined and we've all been friends ever since.

This was perhaps John Navarre's greatest game ever. He finished with 353 yards, two touchdowns and even caught a touchdown pass from Steve Breaston.

He threw the lateral to Breaston who threw it back to Navarre who followed his blockers along the right sideline for the score.

Michigan had closed the gap to 28-21 when Minnesota quarterback (and if anyone know's where this guy is please let me know) Asad Abdul-Khaliq cut right through the Michigan defense on 52 yard run for a touchdown to go up 35-21.

We all thought the game was over. How little did we know.

Michigan needed just eight plays to tie the score after Navarre had hit Braylon for a 52 yard touchdown and Chris Perry scampered 10 yards to tie the game.

Perry had an amazing day accumulating 207 yards of total offense while Braylon had 93 yards and a touchdown.

Garret Rivas kicked the game-winning field goal wtih 47 seconds to go and Markus Curry (probably the only good play of his career) intercepted the ball with nine seconds to go.

It was weird enough that Michigan was playing on a Friday night but to comeback from a 21 point deficit was incredible.

I'll never forget that game and the lifelong friends I made during it.

Thanks for the memories Wolverines.

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