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In the first overtime, the teams traded field goals. Double overtime brought a pair of touchdowns and sent the rivalry into its first-ever triple-overtime game. No matter which team came out on top, the game would live in MSU/UM lore for generations. But the Michigan players weren’t going to settle. The season was at stake. Their state pride was on the line.

The offense fastened their chinstraps and strutted onto the field to start the third overtime. Henne found Edwards yet again, giving Edwards his third and final touchdown of the day. Michigan pulled ahead 45–37. If the defense held, sighs of relief would be heard all over the Lower Peninsula.

It did.

Michigan won in triple overtime because they wouldn’t give up. They fought until the end. Every coach and every player pulled together for a victory for the ages. Even when the stadium seats had begun to clear early in the fourth quarter because the Wolverines trailed by 17 on their home turf, the team still held together. They wouldn’t be deterred, and they wouldn’t let the Spartans upset them at home, in front of their crowd.