Best 4th Quarters: Huge Texas Tech Comeback (2006 Insight Bowl Minnesota vs. Texas Tech)
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- The 2006 Insight Bowl, a college football bowl game held on December 29 at Sun Devil Stadium on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, pitted the Texas Tech Red Raiders against the Minnesota Golden Gophers. This game is tied for the biggest comeback in NCAA Division I FBS bowl history. The Red Raiders, after falling behind 38-7 with 7:47 remaining in the third quarter, rallied to score 31 unanswered points to send the game to overtime. The Gophers scored a field goal in overtime, but the Red Raiders responded with a touchdown to win.
The other record bowl comeback was a 31-point comeback by TCU against Oregon in the January 2016 Alamo Bowl.
The game was televised by the NFL Network, which as of December 31, 2006 has made the game available free for online viewing.
Harrell, who threw for 445 yards and two touchdowns while also running for a touchdown, was chosen as the offensive MVP. Tech cornerback Antonio Huffman was defensive MVP. Other top performers for Tech included Woods (109 yards and three touchdowns rushing) and Filani (nine catches for 144 yards and a touchdown).
In addition to Pinnix, other leading performers for Minnesota included Cupito (263 yards and three touchdowns passing) and Simmons (seven catches for 134 yards and a touchdown). Simmons was filling in for the injured Matt Spaeth, the winner of the John Mackey Award as the nation's leading tight end. The Gophers set a school bowl scoring record, and Cupito tied the Minnesota career record for touchdown passes with 55.
Two days after his team's loss in the Insight Bowl, Minnesota head coach Glen Mason was fired. Minnesota athletic director Joel Maturi did not publicly detail the reasons for the firing, but strongly hinted that the Gophers' collapse was the proverbial last straw, saying "If we had not lost the way we lost, we probably wouldn't be here today." This was the latest in a series of Minnesota second-half collapses under Mason, which also included one of the previous three biggest bowl collapses in Division I-A history. - Sport
Those years when Mike Leach was at Texas Tech must have been fun, exciting times to be a Red Raider fan.
It was great. Kent Hanse made a huge mistake by railroading Mike Leach out of Lubbock. We Raiders could be down, but we were NEVER out!
It was! The Jones was rockin
We still miss that man
They were, but for every game like this Leach also had a head-scratcher. Losing 30-6 in Boulder to a 1-7 Colorado team comes to mind.
@@nathank556 Yes. Head-scratcher indeed. I began to follow him a little at Kentucky. Then in Leach's 1st year as oc, OU went from the 3rd best offense in the state of Oklahoma to one of the 10 best in the country. After that, I began to try and catch all his games. He's a lotta fun.
RIP Coach Leach!
I still can't believe his last victory was over Ole Miss, I bought a shirt to honor him for that.
I had a group of buddies over to watch this game. They all left at halftime. I called them in the 4th quarter.l to turn the game on. What a comeback.
I got tickets to this for Christmas that year. Was surrounded by Gopher fans (who were all incredibly pleasant) and it was a very painful 2 and 1/2 quarters. Amazing what happened after that, though.
I remember watching this game on TV when I was like in 5th grade. Me and my family were all excited and tech started to loose and I got sooo pissed off because they were never consistent. Either they would be bad ass or they would suck. Well, I got mad and took off all my tech stuff and gave up and played video games. Well, my parents called me back when they started to come back and wow!! What a game. Glad I saw this happen live.
I love Leach's interview at the end of this. He cared about this team.
The thumbnail makes this even better
The original they had us in the first half I ain't gon lie lol
Awesome!
Texas tech red raiders vs Minnesota golden gophers football
Best game ever
It was a great game, but I think the Texas game in Lubbock two years later tops this one.
Leach put Tech on the National stage..could never count them out with that offense..just never had a defense. The Texas game 2 years later at Jones Stadium was really something..Texas came in ranked #2..I swear there were more Longhorn fans there than Tech fans even on the home side. We were completely surrounded and they were loud and boisterous..But the Tech put on one hellava fireworks show and the Loudhorns just faded away. Miss those days..looking forward to the next few seasons with the recruiting they have in place now.#gunzup👆
@@Technogeek-rc6usabsolutely. I was at that game!!!
And Glen Mason was fired because he allowed this comeback. Pirate 🏴☠️ is greater than a gopher haha
Texas Tech likes to toy with Thier aponteants