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#REDIRECT [[Michigan Wolverines football]]
The following is a '''list of historically significant Michigan football games'''. Games included on this list are single [[college football]] games that have historical impact to the sport of college football or on the tradition of the University of Michigan Wolverines.

Games are listed in chronological order.

==List of historically significant college football games==
:''Note: this list is incomplete. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.''
:''Note: winning team is in '''bold''' type.''
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| 1870 Freshmen v. Sophomores
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| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| ?
| Although there are accounts of football being played at the University of Michigan as early as 1866, the first game for which a record has been found occurred on April 23, 1870. The game, which at the time was "entirely a kicking game" with 30 players on each side, matched the school's freshmen against its sophomores. ''The Chronicle'' reported: "Football is a new institution on the campus, and bids fair to be popular, at least on cool days."<ref>The Michigan Book (Ann Arbor, 1898), by Edwin H. Humphrey, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/aba8039.0001.001/158?page=root;rgn=full+text;size=100;view=image;q1=football pages 158-159].</ref>
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| 1879 Racine
| '''[[1879 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[Racine College]]
| [[Chicago, Illinois]]
| 1-0
| On May 30, 1879, Michigan played its first intercollegiate football game against [[Racine College]] at White Stocking Park in Chicago. The ''Chicago Tribune'' called it "the first rugby-football game to be played west of the [[Allegheny Mountains|Alleghenies]]."<ref name="Will Perry: The Wolverines: A Story of Michigan Football 1974 27">{{cite book|author=Will Perry: The Wolverines: A Story of Michigan Football|publisher=The Strode Publishers|page=27|year=1974|isbn=873970551}}</ref> Midway through "the first 'inning',"<ref>{{cite book|author=Will Perry: The Wolverines: A Story of Michigan Football|publisher=The Strode Publishers|year=1974|isbn=873970551|pages = 24–25}}</ref> [[Irving Kane Pond]] scored the first touchdown for Michigan.<ref name=Wed>{{cite news|title=IRVING POND, YOUTH OF 72 YEARS, IS WED|newspaper=The News-Palladium (AP story)|date=1929-06-12}}</ref><ref name=Time>{{cite news|title=Milestones|work= [[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=1929-06-24|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,732530,00.html}}</ref> According to Will Perry's history of Michigan football, the crowd responded to Pond's plays with cheers of "Pond Forever."<ref name="Will Perry: The Wolverines: A Story of Michigan Football 1974 27"/>
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| 1880 Toronto
| '''[[1880 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| Toronto
| [[Toronto, Ontario]]
| 1-0
| The first college football game played outside the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigten/michigan/yearly_results.php?year=1880|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse|first=David|last=DeLassus|accessdate=November 27, 2011|title=Michigan Yearly Results (1880)}}</ref>
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| [[1881 Michigan Wolverines football team#October 31: Harvard 3, Michigan 0|1881 Harvard]]
| [[1881 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| '''Harvard'''
| [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]
| 4-0
| The first game between "western" and "eastern" teams marked the birth of intersectional foobtall.<ref>{{cite book|author=David M. Nelson|title=The Anatomy of a Game: Football, the Rules, and the Men who Made the Game, p. 48|publisher=University of Delaware Press|date=1994|isbn=0-87413-455-2}}</ref>. Western teams, including Michigan, played a more traditional form of rugby, while eastern teams played a more stylized predecessor to [[American football]].<ref>Michael Lisi (August 1987). "The Transformation of Rugby into Football at Michigan". Michigan Olde Blue Rugby.</ref> In its report on the game, ''The Boston Journal'' wrote: "The Western college boys have long wished a chance to try their powers with Eastern opponents . . . As it was, Harvard won more by luck than by superiority in strength or skill . . ."<ref name=Boston>{{cite news|title=Foot Ball: The Harvard Eleven Beat the University of Michigan – Score, One Touchdown to Nothing|publisher=Boston Journal|date=1881-11-01}}</ref>
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| 1883 Detroit Independents
| '''[[1883 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| Detroit Independents
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 40-5
| The first game played by the Wolverines in Ann Arbor. The game was played at the [[Ann Arbor Fairgrounds]].
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| 1885 Penninsulars
| Penninsulars
| [[1885 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| [[Detroit, Michigan]]
| 42-0
| The first Thanksgiving Day football game in [[Detroit]] (a tradition later revived by the [[Detroit Lions]]). Michigan made it a tradition to play annual Thanksgiving games, holding 19 such games from 1885 to 1905. The Thanksgiving Day games between Michigan and the Chicago Maroons in the 1890s have been cited as "The Beginning of Thanksgiving Day Football."<ref>{{cite news|title=Football on Thanksgiving: A Brief But Comprehensive History|date=November 23, 2011|publisher=Midwest Sports Fans|url=http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/2011/11/football-on-thanksgiving-a-brief-but-comprehensive-history/}}</ref> In fact, Yale and Princeton began an annual tradition of playing against each other on Thanksgiving Day starting in 1876.<ref>{{cite web|title=Yale vs Princeton (NJ)|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse|accessdate=December 2, 2011|url=http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/ivyleague/yale/opponents_records.php?teamid=2637}}</ref>
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| [[1887 Michigan Wolverines football team#Michigan 8, Notre Dame 0|1887 Notre Dame]]
| [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish football|Notre Dame]]
| '''[[1887 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[South Bend, Indiana]]
| 8-0
| The first game in the [[Michigan–Notre Dame football rivalry]]. Players from the Michigan came to Notre Dame to teach them football, and Notre Dame established its first team. In their first game, Notre Dame suffered a decisive loss as each point was both a touchdown and a field goal. Michigan now holds the #1 and Notre Dame the #2 position for winningest programs in college football. <ref> "2007 Notre Dame Media Guide: History and Records (pages 131-175)". und.cstv.com. Retrieved 2008-06-12.</ref>
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| 1890 Albion
| '''[[1890 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[Albion College]]
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 56-10
| Michigan's first racially integrated football game. Fullback [[George Jewett]] became the first African-American to play football at Michigan. After the game, ''The Chronicle-Argonaut'' wrote, "Jewett, '94, showed up in good form though his work was not entirely perfect."<ref>{{cite news|title=Athletics|newspaper=The Chronicle Argonaut|date=October 18, 1890|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=a0viAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=jewett&f=false}}</ref> Jewett was called "the Afro-American phenomenon of the University of Michigan."<ref name="Ref-1">{{cite web|title=African-Americans in the Sports Arena|url=http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaitsa.htm#football|publisher=Long Island University: B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library}}</ref> [[John Heisman]] described Jewett as a "superior athlete," and [[Amos Alonzo Stagg]] referred to him as "a very tough opponent."<ref name=Pioneer>{{cite web|title=Ann Arbor Pioneer Athletics: George Henry Jewett|publisher=Ann Arbor Pioneer High School|url=http://www.aaps.k12.mi.us/pioneer.ath_records/george_jewett}}</ref>
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| 1894 Cornell
| '''[[1894 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| Cornell
| [[Detroit, Michigan]]
| 12-4
| The "first time in collegiate football history that a western school defeated an established power from the east."<ref>{{cite web|title=University of Michigan Football Coaches: William L. McCauley|publisher=University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library|url=http://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/football/coaches/mccauley.htm}}</ref> (Teams from the [[Ivy League]] were recognized as the [[College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS#Yearly national championship selections from major selectors|national champions]] every year from 1869 to 1900.) Two-thousand students traveled to Detroit for the game, and Michigan players paraded down [[Woodward Avenue]].<ref name=Logan>{{cite news|title=Michigan-Cornell Game|newspaper=Logansport Journal|date=1894-11-25}}</ref> After the game, "the Michigan men went wild" as blue and yellow were "all the colors that could be seen."<ref name=Log>{{cite news|title=Joy in Michigan University|newspaper=Logansport Daily Pharos|date=1894-11-26}}</ref> An Indiana newspaper called it "the fiercest struggle at football that ever took place on Michigan soil" and opined that "the victory places Michigan in the position of worthy foeman of Yale, Harvard, Princeton or Pennsylvania."<ref name=Log/>
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|1895 Chicago
| '''[[Chicago Maroons football|Chicago]]'''
| [[1895 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| [[Chicago|Chicago, Illinois]]
| 12-0
| With a victory over Chicago, the [[1895 Michigan Wolverines football team|1895 team]] "clinched their claim to the Western championship."<ref name=World>{{cite news|title=Stagg's Players Beaten|publisher=The World (New York)|date=1895-11-29}}</ref> After the game, a Chicago newspaper wrote: "The Michigan team is the finest set of football players Ann Arbor has ever sent out and completely out-classes any team in the West. . . . [T]he local team appeared like school-boys before them. It seemed almost wonderful that these giants could be kept from sweeping down the field and scoring as they willed."<ref name=Take>{{cite news|title=Take It To Ann Arbor: Michigan Wins the Game and the Championship of the West; Make Twelve Points; Chicago Is Unable to Force the Ball Across the Line; But One Man Is Injured; Local Team Entirely Outclassed in Play and in Weight|newspaper=Daily Inter Ocean|date=1895-11-29}}</ref>
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|1896 Chicago
| '''[[Chicago Maroons football|Chicago]]'''
| [[1896 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| [[Chicago|Chicago, Illinois]]
| 7-6
| The first college football game played indoors occurred at the [[Chicago Coliseum]] on [[Thanksgiving Day]] with the added novelty of a field lit with electric lighting. After the game, a Chicago newspaper proclaimed "indoor football is literally and figuratively speaking a howling success," noting that the game had been played "on its merits, without the handicaps of a wet field or a strong wind."<ref name=Indoor>{{cite news|title=THE FOOTBALL GAMES: Results on the Gridiron From Ocean to Ocean; INDOOR GAME AT CHICAGO; The University of Chicago Defeats the University of Michigan In a Hard Contest — Games Played at Other Points|newspaper=Delphos Daily Herald|date=November 27, 1896}}</ref>
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| 1897 Ohio State
| '''[[1897 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| Ohio State
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 34-0
| First meeting in the [[Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry]] which is considered by many to be the fiercest in American sports. A newspaper account of the game reported that Michigan's points were scored in the first twenty minutes, "after which the play assumed the form of a practice game," as players were substituted and kicking and defense were the feature for the rest of the game. According to the report, the "Ohio players made no impression on the university of Michigan line."<ref name=Ohio>{{cite news|title=Gridirons Are Kept Hot|newspaper=Nebraska State Journal|date=1897-10-17}}</ref>
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| [[1898 Michigan Wolverines football team#Buildup to the Chicago game|1898 Chicago]]
| Chicago
| '''[[1898 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[Chicago, Illinois]]
| 12-11
| Michigan's Thanksgiving Day victory over Chicago capped a perfect 10-0 season and gave Michigan its first Western Conference (now the Big Ten) championship. After watching the game, Louis Elbel wrote Michigan's fight song "[[The Victors]]" celebrating Michigan's first turn as the "Champions of the West."
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| [[1901 Michigan Wolverines football team#Michigan 128, Buffalo 0|1901 Buffalo]]
| '''[[1901 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| Buffalo
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 128-0
| In the first season under head coach [[Fielding H. Yost]], a lopsided victory over Buffalo drew national attention and marked the arrival of Yost's "Point-a-Minute" teams. The Buffalo team beat Ivy League power Columbia earlier in the year and was favored over a Michigan team the Buffalo newspapers had dubbed "Woolly Westerners."<ref name=WHE/> Michigan scored 22 touchdowns in 38 minutes of play, averaging a touchdown every one minute and 43 seconds. Buffalo quit 15 minutes before the game was scheduled to end.<ref name=WHE>{{cite book|author=William Hanford Edwards|title=Football Days: Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball|page=292|year=1916|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18048}}</ref> ''The New York Times'' reported that Michigan's margin of victory was "one of the most remarkable ever made in the history of football in the important colleges."<ref>{{cite news|title=MICHIGAN MADE HUGE SCORE; Buffalo Football Team, Conquerors of Columbia, Shut Out by Score of 128 to 0|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1901-10-27|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9505E2D91130E132A25754C2A9669D946097D6CF | format=PDF}}</ref>
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| [[1902 Rose Bowl]]
| Stanford
| '''[[1902 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[Pasadena, California]]
| 0–49
| First [[bowl game]] in American football history.<ref>{{cite web|first=Dan|last=O'Sullivan|url=http://espn.go.com/abcsports/bcs/rose/s/1902.html|title=Bowl Championship Series - 1902 - Michigan 49, Stanford 0|publisher=[[ESPN|ESPN.com/BCSfootball.com]]|date=December 13, 2002|accessdate=April 4, 2011}}</ref> Michigan dominated the game so thoroughly that Stanford's captain requested the game be called with eight minutes remaining. [[Neil Snow]] scored five touchdowns in the game, which is still the all-time Rose Bowl record.<ref name=HOF>{{cite web|title=Hall of Famer: Neil Snow|publisher=College Football Hall of Fame|url=http://www.collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=28}}</ref> The [[Pasadena Tournament of Roses|Tournament of Roses Association]] held chariot races and other events in lieu of a football game for the next 15 years. With the victory, Michigan secured its first of eleven National Championships. <ref>Bowl Games: College Football's Greatest Tradition, by Robert Ours, 2004, pgs. 3-4</ref>
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| [[1902 Michigan Wolverines football team#Michigan 6, Wisconsin 0|1902 Wisconsin]]
| Wisconsin
| '''[[1902 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[Chicago, Illinois]]
| 6-0
|The widely anticipated game matched teams that were undefeated since 1900 and drew the largest crowd (20,000-22,000) ever to watch a football game in the west.<ref name=HAC>{{cite news|title=Hall and Campus|newspaper=The Inlander|date=November 2000|page=49|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=xd3hAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref> During the first half, a temporary bleacher collapsed, throwing several hundred people to the ground. In the confusion, a crowd broke down the wire fence outside Marshall Field, and hundreds swarmed onto the field. "The few police were powerless to force them out, but the scrubs from both teams lined up against the crowd and shoved them away from the side lines so the game could be played."<ref name=WiscDFP/><ref>{{cite news|title=Three Badly Hurt in Grand Stand Wreck|newspaper=Detroit Free Press|date=November 2, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Stand fall on football field; Forty injured. Bleachers Collapse at Wisconsin-Michigan Game and Hundreds Are Thrown to Ground|newspaper=Chicago Daily Tribune|date=November 2, 1902|page=1|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/408761221.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+2,+1902&author=&pub=Chicago+Daily+Tribune+(1872-1922)&edition=&startpage=1&desc=STAND+FALLS+ON+FOOTBALL+FIELD;+FORTY+INJURED.}}</ref> The ''Detroit Free Press'' called it "the greatest football game ever played on a western gridiron."<ref name=WiscDFP>{{cite news|title=Michigan's one score enough: Gave Her Victory Over Wisconsin and Bright Hope of Championship' Superb defense of Badgers denied two other promised touchdowns' Only Points Made Were Made in First Seven Minutes, in Opening Onward Rush|newspaper=Detroit Free Press|page=1|date=November 2, 1902|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/freep/access/1749536592.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+2,+1902&author=A+Staff+Correspondent&pub=Detroit+Free+Press+(1858-1922)&edition=&startpage=1&desc=MICHIGAN'S+ONE+SCORE+ENOUGH}}</ref> The undefeated [[1902 Michigan Wolverines football team|1902 team]] outscored its opponents 644 to 12, earning Michigan's second national championship.<ref>{{cite web|title=1902 Football Team|publisher=University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library|accessdate=December 3, 2011|url=http://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/football/fbteam/1902fbt.htm}}</ref>
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| 1903 Minnesota
| Minnesota
| [[1903 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]]
| 6-6
| The game began the tradition of the [[Little Brown Jug (American football)|Little Brown Jug]], the oldest rivalry trophy in America. Fielding Yost sent a student assistant to purchase a five-gallon water jug from a local store. After the game ended in a tie, Yost forgot the jug in the locker room. Custodian Oscar Munson discovered it and brought it to [[L. J. Cooke]], who painted the jug brown and wrote "Michigan Jug - Captured by Oscar, October 31, 1903. Michigan 6, Minnesota 6." When Yost requested that the jug be returned, Cooke responded that "if you want it, you'll have to win it." Accepting the challenge, Michigan returned to Minnesota in 1909 and recaptured the jug 15-6. <ref>Gruver, 2002 pg. 50</ref>
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| 1904 West Virginia
| '''[[1904 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[West Virginia Mountaineers football|West Virginia]]
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 130-0
| The most lopsided score in Michigan football history. In a game consisting of 25 and 20-minute halves, the Wolverines scored 22 touchdowns and 20 extra points (which would have resulted in a margin of 152-0 under modern scoring rules). [[Joe Curtis]] alone accounted for 49 points with six touchdowns and 19 extra points. The undefeated [[1904 Michigan Wolverines football team|1904 team]] won Michigan's fourth national championship and scored 567 points in 476 minutes of football, averaging a point every 50.3 seconds.
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| 1905 Chicago
| '''[[Chicago Maroons football|Chicago]]'''
| [[1905 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| [[Chicago, Illinois]]
| 2-0
| The game, dubbed "The First Greatest Game of the Century,"<ref name=LA84/> broke Michigan's 56-game unbeaten streak and marked the end of the "Point-a-Minute" years. The [[1905 Michigan Wolverines football team|1905 Michigan team]] had outscored opponents 495-0 in its first 12 games. The game was lost in the final ten minutes of play when [[William Dennison Clark|Denny Clark]] was tackled for a safety as he attempted to return a punt from behind the goal line. Newspapers described Clark's play as "the wretched blunder" and a "lapse of brain work."<ref name=LA84>{{cite news|author=Robin Lester|title=Michigan-Chicago 1905: The First Greatest Game of the Century|publisher=Journal of Sport History, Vol. 18, No. 2 |date=Summer, 1991|url=http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH1991/JSH1802/jsh1802f.pdf}}</ref> Clark transferred to [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|M.I.T.]] the following year and was haunted by the play for the rest of his life. In 1932, he shot himself, leaving a suicide note that reportedly expressed hope that his "final play" would atone for his error at [[Stagg Field|Marshall Field]] in 1905.<ref name=LA84/><ref name=LAT>{{cite news|title="DENNY" CLARK DEAD BY OWN HAND IN OREGON|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=June 2, 1932}}</ref>
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| 1908 Penn
| [[1908 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| Penn
| Ann Arbor, Michigan
| 29-0
| After leaving the Western Conference, Michigan played its annual rivalry game against Penn from 1906 to 1917. In 1908, both teams came into the game undefeated, and Penn went on to win the national championship. The game drew "the largest attendance which has been on Ferry Field".<ref name=Oshkosh>{{cite news| title=Michigan and Pennsylvania|work = The Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisc.)|date=1908-11-14|accessdate=2007-12-17}}</ref> The game was recounted for decades due to the performance of [[Germany Schulz]], rated the greatest [[Center (American footbal)|center]] in football history in a poll taken in 1951. Penn's players were instructed to pummel Schulz. Injured and limping, Schulz continued to take the beating until he was "literally dragged off the field, tears streaming down his mud-spattered cheeks as he frantically protested his removal from the game".<ref name=Carlson>{{cite news|author=Carlson, Art|title=Sport-Oddities: The Dramatic 'Breakdown' of 'Germany' Schulz in Penn-Michigan Game|publisher=The Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune|date=1923-03-17|accessdate=2007-12-17}}</ref> Fielding Yost called it "the greatest one-man exhibition of courage I ever saw on a football field".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/football/fballam/aaschulz.htm|publisher=The Regents of the University of Michigan|title=University of Michigan Football All-American, 1907, Team Captain, 1908; Adolph "Germany" Schulz|accessdate=2007-12-31|date=2007-02-10}}</ref> [[Grantland Rice]] wrote that Schulz held the Penn team in check for 50&nbsp;minutes and that the score was 0&ndash;0 when Schulz "left the field a battered wreck".<ref>{{cite news|author=Rice, Grantland|title=Spotlight by Grantland Rice|publisher=Rock Valley (Iowa) Bee|date=1942-12-25|accessdate=2007-12-17}}</ref>
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| 1909 Notre Dame
| [[1909 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| '''[[Notre Dame Fighting Irish football|Notre Dame]]'''
| Ann Arbor, Michigan
| 11-3
| Michigan's first loss to Notre Dame after eight straight victories. The victory was considered "the greatest athletic achievement to that point in Notre Dame history."<ref>{{cite book|author=John Kryk|title=Natural Enemies: Major College Football's Oldest, Fiercest Rivaly--Michigan vs. Notre Dame|page=48|publisher=Taylor Trade Publications|year=2004|isbn=1589790901}}</ref> The Notre Dame team was comprised predominantly of Irish players. Detroit sports writer [[Edward A. Batchelor|E. A. Batchelor]] opened his report on the game with this line that was embraced as the team's nickname: "Eleven fighting Irishmen wrecked the Yost machine this afternoon. These sons of Erin . . . not only beat the Michigan team, but they dashed some of Michigan's fondest hopes . . ."<ref>{{cite news|author=E.A. Batchelor|title=U. of M. Outplayed and Beaten by the Notre Dame Eleven|newspaper=Detroit Free Press|date=November 7, 1909|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/freep/access/1747993272.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+07%2C+1909&author=&pub=Detroit+Free+Press+(1858-1922)&desc=U.+OF+M.+OUTPLAYED+AND+BEATEN+BY+THE+NOTRE+DAME+ELEVEN&pqatl=google}}</ref> Yost refused to schedule another game against Notre Dame, and it was 33 years before the rivalry resumed in 1942.
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| 1918 Chicago
| Chicago
| '''[[1918 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[Chicago, Illinois]]
| 18-0
| After a month-long break in the season due to war-time travel restrictions and the [[1918 flu pandemic]], Michigan defeated [[Amos Alonzo Stagg]]'s [[Chicago Maroons]]. The game was played as negotiations were underway to end [[World War I]], and the ''[[Chicago Tribune|Chicago Daily Tribune]]'' wrote: "While the nations of the world are hoping for an armistice, the resumption of hostilities between forces guided by Gens. Yost and Stagg brought joy to thousands of football fans . . ."<ref>{{cite news|author=Joe Davis|title=MICHIGAN DOWNS CHICAGO AFTER 12 YEAR'S ARMISTICE, 13-0: OLD GRID RIVALS BATTLE BEFORE CROWD OF 7,000; Badly Wrecked Maroons Make Admirable Fight Before Strong Foe|newspaper=Chicago Daily Tribune|date=November 10, 1918|page=A5|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/380449281.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+10,+1918&author=JOE+DAVIS&pub=Chicago+Daily+Tribune+(1872-1922)&edition=&startpage=A5&desc=MICHIGAN+DOWNS+CHICAGO+AFTER+12+YEAR'S+ARMISTICE,+13-0.}}</ref> The game was also Michigan's first meeting against its traditional rival since the Wolverines withdrew from the Western Conference after the 1905 season.
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| 1922 Ohio State
| [[Ohio State Buckeyes football|Ohio State]]
| '''[[1922 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[Columbus, Ohio]]
| 19-0
| The official "Dedication Day" for [[Ohio Stadium]]. Ohio State fans recalled for years afterward how Michigan All-Americans [[Paul G. Goebel]] and [[Harry Kipke]], who scored the game's only points, turned Dedication Day sour.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ohio Stadium Dedication Day|url=http://www.wosu.org/archive/horseshoe/memories.htm}}</ref><ref name=Evans>{{cite news|author=Evans, Billy|title=Michigan Boasts Two Great Stars|publisher=The Star Publications (Chicago)|1927-05-03}}</ref> The rotunda at Ohio Stadium is painted with maize flowers on a blue background due to the outcome of the 1922 dedication game.<ref>[http://www.swerbsblurbs.com/article_detail.php?id=1010 The Five Greatest Traditions Of Ohio State Football], by Mike Furlan. Retrieved on November 20, 2006. {{Wayback|url=http://www.swerbsblurbs.com/article_detail.php?id=1010|date =20061202065926|bot=DASHBot}}</ref>
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| 1924 Illinois
| '''Illinois'''
| [[1924 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[Champaign, Illinois]]
| 39-14
| In the dedication game for [[Memorial Stadium (Champaign)|Memorial Stadium]], [[Red Grange]] gained national prominence by scoring six touchdowns (four in the first quarter), including a 95-yard touchdown return on the opening kickoff, to break Michigan's 20-game unbeaten streak.
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| 1925 Indiana
| '''[[1925 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[Indiana Hoosiers football|Indiana]]
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 63-0
| The [[1925 Michigan Wolverines football team|1925]] team featured a defense that gave up three points the entire season. The offense was led by quarterback [[Benny Friedman]], often considered the first modern quarterback, and end [[Bennie Oosterbaan]], considered one of the greatest athletes in Michigan history. The pair formed one of the best passing combinations in football history, and Fielding Yost began using the forward pass (legalized in 1906, but still used sparingly by most teams) not only in situations of desperation, but as a routine play. In a rout of Indiana, Friedman threw five touchdown passes, kicked eight extra points, and had a 55-yard touchdown run.<ref>{{cite book|title=Passing Game, Benny Friedman and the Transformation of Football|author=Murray Greenberg|publisher=Public Affairs|year=2008|page=71|isbn=158648477X}}</ref>
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| 1926 Minnesota
| Minnesota
| '''[[1926 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]]
| 7-6
| [[Fielding Yost]]'s last game as head coach of the Michigan Wolverines. He served the University for 25 years, with a combined record of 165-29-10, 10 Big Ten titles in only 15 years in the conference, and 6 National Championships. Additionally, he left an indelible mark on college football, with 40 men who had played or coached under him going on to become the head coach of a collegiate football squad.
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| 1927 Ohio Wesleyan
| '''[[1927 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[Wesleyan Battling Bishops football|Ohio Wesleyan]]
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 33-0
| The first game played in [[Michigan Stadium]]. Halfback [[Louis Gilbert]] had a hand in every point scored, rushing for two touchdowns, kicking three extra points, and throwing three touchdown passes in the game. In the official dedication game, played three weeks later, Gilbert scored the only points on three touchdown receptions and three extra points as Michigan defeated [[1927 Ohio State Buckeyes football team|Ohio State]], 21&ndash;0.<ref>{{cite web|title=Stadium Dedicated With 21-0 Victory: Michigan Air Attack Humbles Ohio State Before Monster Crowd|publisher=University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library|url=http://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/stadium/stadtext/aaosu27.htm}}</ref>
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| 1932 Minnesota
| Minnesota
| '''[[1932 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]]
| 3-0
| Michigan capped a perfect 8-0 season with a victory in the annual Little Brown Jug game with Minnesota. Led by [[College Football Hall of Fame]] inductees [[Harry Newman]] and [[Whitey Wistert]], the Wolverines won the game with a shutout. The 1932 team had six shutouts in eight games, concluding with the 3-0 victory over Minnesota.
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| 1934 Georgia Tech
| '''[[1934 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| Georgia Tech
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 9-2
| Georgia Tech refused to play if [[Willis Ward]], an African-American player, took the field for Michigan. When the Michigan administration capitulated to the demand, mass demonstrations ensued. Teammate [[Gerald R. Ford]] reportedly quit the team in protest, but agreed to play at Ward's urging. Playwright [[Arthur Miller]], then a reporter for ''The Michigan Daily'', appealed to the Georgia Tech players who responded by threatening to kill Ward if he set foot on the field. Miller's account of the incident was refused for publication. The game was the only victory for the worst team in Michigan history (season record of 1-7).
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| 1938 Michigan State
| '''[[1938 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| Michigan State
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 14-0
| The game marked the debut of Michigan's new [[winged football helmet]] and its new head coach [[Fritz Crisler]].<ref>[http://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/football/helmet/mhelmet.htm Michigan's Winged Helmet]</ref> Crisler had used similar winged helmets as the head coach at Princeton. He believed the design helped his halfbacks find receivers downfield. [In Crisler's [[Single-wing formation|single-wing offense]] the halfbacks did most of the passing. The quarterback was primarily a blocker or receiver.]
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| 1940 Ohio State
| [[Ohio State Buckeyes football|Ohio State]]
| '''[[1940 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[Columbus, Ohio]]
| 40-0
| In his final football game, 1940 [[Heisman Trophy]] winner [[Tom Harmon]] led the Wolverines to a 40-0 victory, scoring three rushing touchdowns, two passing touchdowns, four extra points, intercepting three passes, and punting three times for an average of 50 yards. In an unprecedented display of sportsmanship and appreciation, the Ohio State fans in Columbus gave Harmon a standing ovation at game's end. No Wolverine player had or has been so honored, before or since.
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| 1943 Notre Dame
| [[1943 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| '''Notre Dame'''
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 12–35
| First [[college football]] game between the #1 (Notre Dame) and #2 (Michigan) teams in the nation, as determined by the [[AP Poll]].<ref name=AP_1v2>{{cite web|url=http://www.kiko13.com/cflrankings/aponevstwo.htm|title=Games Where #1 Faced #2}}</ref>
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| 1945 Army
| '''Army'''
| [[1945 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| [[New York, New York]]
| 28-7
| To compete with #1 Army's dominance of college football, coach [[Fritz Crisler]] innovated the platoon system that separated offense and defense and allowed for substitutions throughout the game. This format was quickly adopted by teams throughout American football. <ref>Bacon, John. Three and Out, Chapter 1, 2011.</ref>
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| [[1948 Rose Bowl]]
| [[USC Trojans football|USC Trojans]]
| '''[[1947 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[Pasadena, California]]
| 49-0
| The [[1947 Michigan Wolverines football team|1947 team]], nicknamed the "Mad Magicians", finished the regular season undefeated and untied. Although ranked #2 in the [[Associated Press poll|AP poll]] at the end of the regular season, the Wolverines defeated USC 49&ndash;0 in the Rose Bowl. In an unprecedented post-bowl AP poll, Michigan was selected #1 by a 226&ndash;119 margin over Notre Dame. The 1947 team has been selected as the best team in the history of Michigan football.<ref>{{cite book | last = Jones | first = Todd | editor= MacCambridge, Michael | title = ESPN Big Ten College Football Encyclopedia |chapter=Michigan | publisher = ESPN Enterprises | year = 2007 | isbn = 1-933060-49-2 |pages=60 }}</ref> Michigan's victory in the 1948 Rose Bowl still is tied for the most points scored, and the largest margin of victory, in [[Rose Bowl Game|Rose Bowl]] history.
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| 1948 Northwestern
| '''[[1948 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| Northwestern
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 28-0
| Michigan's decisive victory over #3 Northwestern propelled Michigan to #1 in the AP Poll and put [[Bennie Oosterbaan]]'s Michigan Wolverines on track to go undefeated, 9-0-0, and capture the National Championship.
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| [[Snow Bowl (1950)]]
| Ohio State
| '''[[1950 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[Columbus, Ohio]]
| 9-3
| The game was played in a blizzard with heavy snow and strong winds. The conditions dramatically altered the game, with the teams punting 45 times, sometimes on first down under the theory that it would be better to force a fumble near the end zone. Michigan won the game despite never getting a first down and failing on all nine pass attempts. Michigan's points came on a blocked kick that rolled out of the end zone for a safety and a blocked punt recovered by [[Tony Momsen]] in the end zone for a touchdown. The game determined the Big Ten title and sent Michigan to the [[1951 Rose Bowl]].
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| 1964 Purdue
| [[1964 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| '''Purdue'''
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 21-20
| The 5th ranked Wolverines came into the game undefeated on the heels of victories over #6 Navy and #9 Michigan State. With a chance to tie the game at the last minute, Michigan coach [[Bump Elliott]] called for a two-point conversion, which [[Bob Timberlake (football player)|Bob Timberlake]] failed to carry over the goal-line. It would be the 9-1 Wolverines' only loss of the season that included a decisive 34-7 victory over #8 Oregon State in the [[1965 Rose Bowl]].
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| 1969 Vanderbilt
| '''[[1969 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| Vanderbilt
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 45-7
| Michigan's first game coached by [[Bo Schembechler]].
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| [[1969 Michigan vs. Ohio State football game|1969 Ohio State]]
| '''[[1969 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| Ohio State
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 24-12
| The 12th ranked Wolverines upset the undefeated, 1st ranked Buckeyes by 12 points, derailing Ohio State's National Title hopes and sparking the beginning of The Ten-Year War.
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| [[1972 Rose Bowl]]
| '''Stanford'''
| [[1971 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| [[Pasadena, California]]
| 13-12
| After completing a perfect 11-0 season, [[Bo Schembechler]]'s Wolverines looked poised to capture their first National Championship since 1948, being favored by 10 1/2 points, just three years into Bo's tenure. This was also the first meeting between the two schools since Michigan's 1902 49-0 dismantling of Stanford. Down 10-3 in the fourth quarter and facing 4th and 10 from their own 33 yard line, Stanford ran a fake punt for a 33 yard gain and a first down. Stanford scored a touchdown a minute later to tie the game, then sealed the victory with 31-yard field goal with 12 seconds left.
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| [[1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game|1973 Ohio State]]
| [[1973 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| Ohio State
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 10-10
| One of the most controversial games in NCAA history, the #1 Buckeyes came to Michigan Stadium to face the #4 Wolverines, with both teams undefeated. A then-NCAA record crowd of 105,233 people gathered to see this game with National Title implications. With heavy rain, OSU failed to achieve a single first down in the first quarter, but took a 3-0 lead in the second. The Wolverines responded in the second half, outgaining the Buckeyes 209-91 in the second half to tie the game. With the tie, it was unclear who would represent the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl, and so a vote of Big Ten Athletic Directors was held, in which it is believed that Michigan State cast the deciding vote to send Ohio State to the bowl in retaliation against Michigan's 1949 vote against admitting them to the Big Ten.
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| 1975 Purdue
| '''[[1975 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| Purdue
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 28-0
| The first game in Michigan's ongoing record streak of more than 100,000 people in home crowd attendance.
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| 1978 Indiana
| '''[[1978 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| Indiana
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 27-21
| The game ended with what has been called "the greatest single play in the 100-year history of Michigan football."<ref>{{cite web|title=Bob Ufer - The Voice of Michigan Football|publisher=University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library|url=http://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/stadium/stadtext/ufer.htm}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=John U. Bacon|title=The Greatest Play I've Ever Heard: Bob Ufer's call of 1979 Michigan-Indiana matchup unforgettable|newspaper=Ann Arbor Chronicle|date=August 18, 2010|url=http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/09/25/column-the-greatest-play-ive-ever-heard/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Jeff Arnold|title=30 years later, John Wangler to Anthony Carter still the talk of the town|publisher=annarbor.com|url=http://www.annarbor.com/sports/30-years-later-john-wrangler-to-anthony-carter-still-the-talk-of-the-town/}}</ref> With the game tied and six seconds remaining, [[John Wangler]] connected with [[Anthony Carter (American football)|Anthony Carter]] on play made famous by [[Bob Ufer]]'s emotional radio narration: "Under center is Wangler at the 45, he goes back. He's looking for a receiver. He throws downfield to Carter. Carter has it. [unintellibible screaming] Carter scores. . . . I have never seen anything like this in all my 40 years of covering Michigan football. . . . I hope you can hear me – because I've never been so happy in all my cotton-picking 59 years! . . . Johnny Wangler to Anthony Carter will be heard until another 100 years of Michigan football is played! . . . Meeeshigan wins, 27 to 21. They aren't even going to try the extra point. Who cares? Who gives a damn?"<ref>{{cite web|title=Original audio of Ufer's play-calling of Wangler's touchdown pass to Carter against Indiana|publisher=Bob Ufer - Five Decades of UofM Football|date=1979-10-27|url=http://www.ufer.org/sounds/Wrangler_Carter.mp3}}</ref>
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| [[1981 Rose Bowl]]
| Washington
| '''[[1980 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[Pasadena, California]]
| 23-6
| The victory over Washington was the first bowl victory for Bo Schembechler after seven prior bowl game losses. Michigan did not allow a touchdown in the game, extending the [[1980 Michigan Wolverines football team|1980 team]]'s streak to 22 consecutive quarters without allowing a touchdown. [[Butch Woolfolk]] was named the game's Most Valuable Player after rushing for 182 yards.
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| [[1984 Holiday Bowl]]
| '''[[1984 BYU Cougars football team|BYU]]'''
| [[1984 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| [[San Diego, California]]
| 24-17
| As the only undefeated team in [[Division I-A]], BYU won its first and only national championship by defeating a 6-5 Michigan team in the Holiday Bowl. The game marked the only time in college football history that the eventual national champion played its bowl game in December.
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| 1985 Iowa
| '''[[Iowa Hawkeyes football|Iowa]]'''
| [[1985 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| [[Iowa City, Iowa]]
| 12-10
| In a game matching #1 Iowa against #2 Michigan, Iowa won the game with a Rob Houghtlin field goal as time ran out.
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| [[1986 Fiesta Bowl]]
| [[1985 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team|Nebraska]]
| [[1985 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| [[Tempe, Arizona]]
| 27-23
| Michigan concluded a 10-1-1 season ranked #2 in the [[Associated Press poll]] after a Fiesta Bowl victory that matched coaching legends Bo Schembechler and [[Tom Osborne]]. The win gave Michigan its highest ranking at the end of a season since its national championship in 1948. [[Jamie Morris]] and [[Mark Messner]] were named the co-MVPs of the game. Quarterback [[Jim Harbaugh]] scored two rushing touchdowns in the game.
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| 1991 Ohio State
| '''[[1991 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| Ohio State
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 31-3
| Michigan went into the game ranked #4 in the AP poll and secured a Rose Bowl bid by defeating Ohio State. [[Heisman Trophy]] winner [[Desmond Howard]] returned a punt 93 yards for a touchdown and struck "The Pose" in the endzone, indicating his belief that he had sealed his campaign for the Heisman with the return.
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| 1993 Ohio State
| '''[[1993 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| Ohio State
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 28-0
| The Ohio State Buckeyes entered the game undefeated with national championship hopes, but were shut-out by a Michigan team that went 5-3-0 in conference.
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| [[The Miracle at Michigan]]
| '''Colorado'''
| [[1994 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| [[Columbus, Ohio]]
| 27-26
| The game ended with the play that became known as "[[The Miracle at Michigan]]." Colorado trailed Michigan 26–21 with six seconds left when Colorado quarterback [[Kordell Stewart]] heaved the ball more than 70 yards in the air into the end zone where [[Michael Westbrook]] caught it on a deflection from Blake Anderson for the game-winning touchdown.<ref name="Maisel">{{cite news |url=http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=maisel_ivan&id=2896389 |author= Ivan Maisel |publisher = ESPN |title=Stewart to Westbrook silenced Big House crowd |date=11 June 11 2007 |accessdate= 4 August 2011}}</ref> The play was Colorado's second touchdown in the last 2:16 of the game.<ref name="Maisel"/> The game was described as one of the two wildest finishes in Michigan football history.<ref name=ESPNB10>{{cite book | last = Jones | first = Todd | editor= MacCambridge, Michael | title = ESPN Big Ten College Football Encyclopedia |chapter=Michigan | publisher = ESPN Enterprises | year = 2007 | isbn = 1-933060-49-2 |page=62 }}</ref>
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| 1995 Virginia
| '''[[1995 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[Virginia Cavaliers football|Virginia]]
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 18-17
| In the first game under [[College Football Hall of Fame]] coach [[Lloyd Carr]], the Wolverines fell behind 17-0. The nationally televised season opener in August 1995 was one of the greatest comebacks in Michigan history. On the last play of the game, [[Scott Dreisbach]] completed a pass to [[Mercury Hayes]] in the endzone to give Carr his first victory as a head coach.
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| 1995 Ohio State
| '''[[1995 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| Ohio State
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| 31-23
| Ohio State compiled an excellent 11-0 record going into the game, before Michigan played spoiler to their national title aspirations for the second time during [[John Cooper]]'s stewardship of the Buckeyes. Michigan running back [[Tshimanga Biakabutuka]], a native of [[Zaire]] who grew up near [[Montreal]], rushed for 313 yards in the game, the second highest single-game total in Michigan history.
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| 1996 Ohio State
| Ohio State
| '''[[1996 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[Columbus, Ohio]]
| 13-9
| For the third time in four years, Ohio State entered the game undefeated with high hopes for a national championship. Throughout the season, the Buckeyes outscored opponents 455-131. However, #21 Michigan pulled off a narrow victory. Ohio State fired Cooper in 2000, despite his strong teams because of his 2-10-1 record against Michigan.
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| [[1997 Michigan Wolverines football team#Week 11: Ohio State|1997 Ohio State]]
| '''[[1997 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| Ohio State
| Ann Arbor, Michigan
| 20-14
| The game, pitting #1 Michigan against #4 Ohio State, drew a record crowd of 106,982 to Michigan Stadium. [[Charles Woodson]] clinched the 1997 [[Heisman Trophy]] with his performance in The Game, catching a 37-yard pass from [[Brian Griese]] to set up Michigan's first touchdown, returning a punt 78 yards for a touchdown, and intercepting a pass in the third quarter after Ohio State drove to Michigan's seven-yard line.
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| [[1998 Rose Bowl]]
| Washington State
| '''Michigan'''
| [[Pasadena, California]]
| 21-16
| Michigan defeated Washington State to close out a 12-0 1997 season and capture Michigan's first national championship since 1948.
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| [[2000 Orange Bowl]]
| Alabama
| '''[[1999 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[Miami, Florida]]
| 35-34
| The game was third meeting of the two traditional football powers, the first [[Bowl Championship Series|BCS]] bowl game for both teams, the first BCS bowl game to go into overtime, and the first overtime game in Michigan history. It was also [[Tom Brady]]'s last game for Michigan. Brady threw four touchdown passes and passed for a Michigan bowl record 369 yards.<ref>[http://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/football/bowls/2000orng.htm Michigan's Bowl Game History: 2000 Orange Bowl]</ref>
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| [[2001 Michigan vs. Michigan State football game|2001 Michigan State]]
| '''Michigan State'''
| [[2001 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| [[East Lansing, Michigan]]
| 26-24
| In a game known as "Clockgate" or the "Clock Game", Michigan State quarterback [[Jeff Smoker]] ran the ball with 17 seconds remaining and was tackled inbounds, allowing the clock to run. After the Spartans frantically lined up and spiked the ball, the stadium clock showed one second remaining. Michigan argued that time had expired and that the timekeeper, thereafter known as "Spartan Bob", stopped the clock prematurely. On the ensuing play, Smoker threw a touchdown pass to [[T. J. Duckett]], giving the Spartans a 26-24 victory. The controversy led the Big Ten to require time to kept by a neutral official and was one of the factors leading the conference to adopt instant replay in 2004.
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| [[2006 Michigan vs. Ohio State football game|2006 Ohio State]]
| '''[[2006 Ohio State Buckeyes football team|Ohio State]]'''
| [[2006 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| [[Columbus, Ohio]]
| 42-39
| Undefeated #1 Ohio State faced off against undefeated #2 Michigan for the first time in the history of "The Game." Two days before the game, former coach Bo Schembechler addressed the team and urged the players to work hard, listen to their coaches, stick together as teammates, so that one day they might be as good a Michigan man as [[Tom Slade]], whose funeral Schembechler had attended earlier in the day. Schembechler died the next morning before taping his weekly television show.
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| [[2007 Appalachian State vs. Michigan football game|2007 Appalachian State]]
| [[2007 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| '''[[2007 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team|Appalachian State]]'''
| Ann Arbor, Michigan
| 32–34
| First ever win of a NCAA Division I-AA/FCS team over a ranked Division I-A/FBS opponent. Hailed as one of the biggest [[upset]]s in the history of American sports.<ref name=Wetzel>{{cite web|url=http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=dw-appstate090107&prov=yhoo&type=lgns |title=Hail to the victors |publisher=[[Yahoo!|Yahoo! Sports]] |first=Dan |last=Wetzel |authorlink=Dan Wetzel |date=2007-09-01 |accessdate=2007-09-01}}</ref><ref name=Mandel>{{cite news|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_blogs/football/ncaa/2007/09/mother-of-all-upsets.html |title=College Football Blog by Stewart Mandel: The Mother of All Upsets |publisher=''[[Sports Illustrated|SportsIllustrated.com]]'' |first=Stewart |last=Mandel |authorlink=Stewart Mandel |date=2007-09-01 |accessdate=2007-09-01}}</ref> Sometimes referred to by Michigan fans as "The Horror." <ref name=Wetzel/>
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| [[2008 Capital One Bowl]]
| [[2007 Florida Gators football team|Florida]]
| '''[[2007 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[Orlando, Florida]]
| 41-35
| The game was Lloyd Carr's last as head coach. The Florida Gators, coached by [[Urban Meyer]] and featuring [[Heisman Trophy]] winner [[Tim Tebow]], won the national championship the previous year and were heavily favored. Michigan's offense, led by [[Chad Henne]], [[Mike Hart]], and [[Jake Long]], compiled 524 yards of total offense.
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| 2010 Illinois
| '''[[2010 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[2010 Illinois Fighting Illini football team|Illinois]]
| Ann Arbor, Michigan
| 67-65
| The combined total of 132 points score was the highest-scoring game in both the history of Michigan football and in the history of the Big Ten. The Illini's 65 points were also the most ever allowed by Michigan.
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| 2011 Notre Dame
| '''[[2011 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
| [[2011 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame]]
| Ann Arbor, Michigan
| 35–31
| Largest regular-season single-game attendance in NCAA history, with 114,804. Also the first night game ever played at [[Michigan Stadium]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=312530130 |title=Michigan scores with 2 seconds left, stuns Irish |author=Associated Press |work=ESPN.com |date=September 10, 2011 |accessdate=September 29, 2011}}</ref> Trailing by 17 points at the start of the fourth quarter, [[Denard Robinson]] led Michigan to a victory with four touchdowns in the final 15 minutes. With 30 seconds remaining, Michigan drove 80 yards in 28 seconds. [[Roy Roundtree]] scored the game-winning touchdown with two seconds left in the game.<ref>{{cite web|title=Michigan scores with 2 seconds left, stuns Irish|publisher=ESPN|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=312530130|accessdate=September 11, 2011|date=September 10, 2011}}</ref> The game is tied for the second-biggest comeback in Michigan Stadium history.
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==See also==
* [[Michigan Wolverines football]]
* [[History of American football]]
* [[List of Michigan Wolverines football seasons]]
* [[Lists of Michigan Wolverines football statistical leaders]]

==References==
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