Tom Brady’s top 3 moments with Michigan Football: The comeback kid

1. 2000 Orange Bowl

The 2000 Orange Bowl, one of the great comebacks in college football history, led by none other than Tom Brady. After trailing 14-0 early in the first half to the Alabama Crimson Tide, and 28-14 in the second half, the Wolverines were able to force overtime on a late drive led by Tom Brady.

In overtime, Brady made his last throw in the Maize and Blue, running a bootleg, Brady fired to Sean Thompson, who then ran across the goal line to put the Wolverines up seven. The Crimson Tide was unable to convert on a PAT that would have forced a second overtime.

Brady’s teammate Aaron Shea made a statement in an interview looking back on the heroic performance at the Orange Bowl, “Make no mistake, Tom Brady carried us through that game.”

Tom Brady put on one of the most excellent quarterback performances anyone had ever seen before, which is why the Orange Bowl victory, and his last game as a Michigan Wolverine, was the most significant moment in Tom Brady’s roller-coaster career in Ann Arbor.

Who would have thought that the seventh man on the depth chart coming into his freshman year, would soon be pulling off an upset against a dominant Alabama Crimson Tide football team? He wasn’t the fastest, he wasn’t the strongest, he wasn’t the most accurate, but he had the hardest work ethic of any athlete on the field.