My first trip to Bloomington was for the 1999 match-up. The game went back and forth as many of the games did in Tom Brady's final season.
Michigan jumped out to a 17-0 lead midway through the second quarter - right about the time Memorial Stadium ran out of hotdogs.
IU cut it to 17-10 at halftime and after a scoreless 3rd quarter, Antwaan Randle El hit 2 TD passes within the first 3 minutes of the t4th quarter to give the Hoosiers a 24-17 lead.
The Wolverines answered back - Brady engineered 4 and 8 play scoring drives to put M back in front 31-24 with less than 7 minutes to go.
Randle El struck quickly to tie the score with a 70 yard scoring strike to Jerry Dorsey to knot the game again at 31.
Brady led a nearly perfect 4 minute drill ending in a Hayden Epstein chip shot field goal with 18 seconds remaining.
That was just enough time for IU to get into Hail Mary Range and with 4 seconds left Randle El rolled to his left and sent one to the end-zone - I remember calling my dad at the time to see if thought M could find a defensive play for once in the 4th quarter. The pass fell incomplete and M secured a 34-31 victory.
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