Michigan Strikes Again and College Football's Most Legendary Pranks

Earlier today, NPR reported that students from the University of Michigan hacked the new DC Voting Website that was designed to allow soldiers and citizens to vote from abroad.

The students programmed the site to play the Michigan fight song. 

The stunt was done after the DC Board of Elections challenged outsiders to find faults with the system. Apparently there are many.

How does this rank in terms of college football pranks?

Here are a few other classic examples of college football pranks.

In 2005, Pete Carroll and LenDale White teamed up on Halloween to fool the players. They staged a fight about playing time, then White quit, Carroll pulled the team together to tell the team they could survive without him, and then they heard White screaming before throwing a dummy with a No. 21 jersey off a building by the practice facility. Everyone got a good scare and laugh. 

In 2004, undercover Yale students handed out cards to Harvard students telling them it would say, “Go Harvard” when it really spelled out, “We Suck.” Harvard won the game, but Yale stole the show.

In 1896, the night before the Auburn-Georgia Tech game, Auburn students greased the train tracks for miles (allegedly) so the train carrying the Georgia Tech football team could not stop at the station. Legend suggests the train stopped 10 miles outside of the city, and the players had to walk back to the field to play. Auburn won 45-0.

These pranks never get old.