Hayden Fry's "Top 25" - #15

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GVGiant44

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OCTOBER 20TH, 1990 - IOWA 24, (at) Michigan 23: In their first season in the post–Bo Schembechler era, the Wolverines had already lost in the season-opener at #1 Notre Dame, and after winning four in a row, had just lost in East Lansing, by one point, the week before. Yet, somehow, even with a REALLY stupid foul–up just before halftime that left us inside the Michigan 5-yard-line without so much as getting even a field goal, we still won the game, and eventually ended up in Hayden’s third and final Rose Bowl. How good was Michigan? After this game, it was 1993 before they lost again to a team not ranked #1.

By the way, the final drive by Iowa was an absolute thing of beauty - the Hawkeyes did not even face a 3rd down as they drove the length of the field down six points in the games final five minutes. After the go-ahead TD, a Moses Santos sack on Elvis Grbac (THE first time he had been sacked all season, apparently), and a John Derby interception sealed it.

The game is here:
By the way #2, this wasn't even the season's top Hawkeye game highlight. Stay tuned.
 
Matt Rodgers was always underrated imo. The video was great. If you got the time, watch entire game, even commercials. Very trippy. Like a 30-year old time capsule. Man marketing and styles sure have changed since then.
 
Here's a 3 minute clip showing the INT to seal the game. During this, they also show Michigan faking an extra point to go for 2 which Iowa stops. Big play in the grand scheme of things. Victory formation in the Big House, with stand up TEs. :)

 
After finally watching entire game through, I really feel like this game should be higher than 15 for these reasons...
1)it’s at Mich, in Big House
2)Mich was coming off 2 straight loses in final seconds (ND & MSU), and had not lost 2 straight Big 10 games in a quarter century
3)Mich benefited from a blocked punt TD, before half we had first and goal at 1 with 20 secs and 2 timeouts and score nada, and we threw a TD pass that was called back that shouldn’t have been (and settled for a FG)

Don’t know how we pulled game off.
 
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