I hope Saturday's game ends something like the last one Michigan played coming off two consecutive shutouts. I also wonder how long it will take for the tape of Sam Simmons' skinny post touchdown to show up on Saturday's broadcast.
Michigan pitching consecutive shutouts
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I'm shocked we are underdogs. Very disrespectful. I don't think Ruddock has merited such high acclaim. Still,very good team and we need to be ready
Wow! Thanks for posting that, I remember that game fondly. Kustok, Anderson and Simmons!
It's an unusual day when about half of your offensive plays are good enough to make the highlight reel and you still need 4th quarter heroics to win. That was one ludicrous football game! It was as if some kind of new exhilarating sport I barely recognized was invented that day. That game probably did more to cement the spread offense as the future of college football than any other.
However, I'm glad we're back to playing a little defense again...
"a little" defense, indeed!!
Matt, you should post your recollections of the 1995 game in the Big (out)House. You must have some great memories of that one!! Wasn't that the game where one of our linemen noticed a very slight tendency in a Michigan players' stance that telegraphed when a pass was being called?
I believe it was another game where the 'Cats brought back the victory when Michigan was heavily favored. Great stuff!!
Unknown to me while I was in attendance at that game with one of my now NU alum sons, the Alaska high school football coach who coached the football team that two of my other sons had and would play on was also in attendance. I recall how much he raved about the opportunity to see such a great game. In the course of our conversation he asked if I could get him a sound clip of the "Growl" that he kept hearing on the P.A. system as the high school's mascot, The Lynx, was also a feline and he wanted to use it for his games. The NU sports department accommodated the request.
I was at that game so this is the first time I was able to watch the highlights.
Lou could you pin this video for the week?
MR, I often tell people that the 95 game was "the best time I've ever had outdoors..."
Even though you guys had won some games going into it, I had more than a decade of skepticism built in so I feared the worst. I was in the opposite endzone from the thin purple line of Cats fans in the other end zone. Cheering for the Cats (loudly) all along, but when Fitz clobbered Griese late in the game and the outcome was no longer in doubt, I leapt to my feet screaming. then looked around and there was not one other person in any of the nearby sections of me standing. Kinda surreal. Reminded me of the end of this commercial with Jason Alexander shouting and everyone else quiet
That reminds me of the B Smith pick six game at Minnesota in 08. It was after that brutal loss at Indiana with the backwards pass by Kafka when we were big favorites, thereby messing up a potentially great year. So the rod crowd turnout wasn't that great. We basically had one section worth of cats fans in the upper deck. For some reason the Gophs decided to throw it up on 3rd and forever in a tie game with almost no time left from near their own end zone, with almost no chance of getting into FG range.
When Smith picked it our section went nuts. When he made a cut to return it into FG range the level went from nuts to bedlam. And then when he stepped through the last leg tackle to trot into the end zone it was just complete chaos in our section. Everyone jumping, screaming nonstop, hugging everyone. It's a wonder that no one fell off the upper deck.
The funny part is that the entire rest of the stadium was just eerily silent, it was hilarious. One section going absolutely nuts while everyone else files out glumly in silence.
When Smith picked it our section went nuts. When he made a cut to return it into FG range the level went from nuts to bedlam. And then when he stepped through the last leg tackle to trot into the end zone it was just complete chaos in our section. Everyone jumping, screaming nonstop, hugging everyone. It's a wonder that no one fell off the upper deck.
The funny part is that the entire rest of the stadium was just eerily silent, it was hilarious. One section going absolutely nuts while everyone else files out glumly in silence.
Man, that never gets old. Only the crustiest of Michigan fans could not appreciate that game. Might be the greatest game in college history in terms of drama.
I had forgotten how fast DA2 was. Ran a 4.4 IIRC, and it certainly showed on the field. Glad he was not remembered for that dropped pass. He was such a great Wildcat.
Although the 2000 game surely exceeds it in term of its place history, last year's win at Notre Dame matches it in terms of improbability and drama. Have you watched the highlights again this year to see just HOW MANY things had to happen exactly as they did for us to win the game?
There were so many fun plays throughout the day, but the final couple of minutes all by itself is like an opera.
It is at MICH and it is betting lines which are based on getting equal bets on both sides. More Michigan fans than NU. Don't know what you expect.
I think we were fortunate that he dropped the pass. Otherwise Mich would have had far too much time to get down the field to try to tie/win.
Spoiler alert re: "The Martian"
Thanks again for posting that highlight reel from the 54-51 game. Watching it I was impressed with that game having had all the drama of a Hollywood movie. So many twists and turns. One challenge after another being faced by the Wildcats. In his closing commentary Brent Musburger provided the plot summary line, "College football is all about how you respond." Just saw "The Martian" and couldn't help but draw the parallel to the plot summary line voiced by the returned to earth "Martian" as he instructed a class of would be astronauts pointing out that a successful mission is made up of overcoming one problem after another.
I know sometimes the coaches have the team watch an inspirational movie the night before a game. "The Martian" would be a great one if they could arrange it.
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Apologies. I thought all had already seen a replay by now of the 54-51 NU v. Michigan game.
The line is set by Vegas to get people to bet on the game. That's all the line is
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