Comebacks
Down 24-0 at halftime, this school came back to beat Arkansas 35-24 in the 2016 Belk Bowl
Virginia Tech
Teddy Bridgewater
Louisville
Cal
Name 3 teams in the PAC 12 North
Oregon, Oregon State, Cal, Washington, Washington State, Stanford
“All that stuff you write about how good we are, and all that stuff they hear on ESPN, it's like poison. It's like taking poison … like rat poison!"
Alabama
Led by future top-10 draft pick QB, this school won an opening-week thriller in 2017 after trailing 44-10 in the third quarter to an SEC foe. The comeback included perhaps the worst botched INT in recent history and, later, a fake-spike on the winning play.
UCLA
Gardner Minshew
Washington State
Jeff Teague
Wake Forest
Name 1 team in the Sun Belt East Division
Appalachian State, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Troy, Coastal Carolina
"I'm a man, I'm 40!"
Oklahoma State
Trailing 31-0 to Oregon at halftime of the 2016 Valero Alamo Bowl, this school's backup QB led them to a 3OT 47-41 comeback victory.
TCU
Blake Bortles
UCF
Ish Smith
Wake Forest
Name 2 teams from the Mountain West Mountain Division
Boise State, Air Force, Utah State, Wyoming, Colorado State, New Mexico
“That boy don’t know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don’t know the meaning of a lot of words.”
Florida State
Down 24-0 to their arch-rival, this school's eventual NFL MVP transfer QB led them to a historic comeback and upset victory in 2010.
Auburn
Mason Rudolph
Oklahoma State
Darren Collison
UCLA
Name 3 FBS Independents
Notre Dame, BYU, Liberty, Army, New Mexico State, UMass
“Most players don’t mind drug testing once they realize they don’t have to study for it.”
Texas
In the 2015 Armed Forces Bowl, this school was at one point down 25 points, and eventually scored 3 touchdowns and converted back-to-back onside kicks in the final three minutes to defeat Pitt.
Houston
Brian Hoyer
Michigan State
George Hill
IUPUI
Name 6 teams in Conference USA
FAU, Marshall, Western Kentucky, Charlotte, MTSU, FIU, ODU, UAB, Louisiana Tech, Southern Miss, Rice, North Texas, UTSA, UTEP
"Why did you go for two up 36 points in the 4th quarter"
"Because I couldn't go for three."
Ohio State