Greatest Comeback Ever Video - Stanford 2005?


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Posted by UCLAW on February 05, 2026 at 22:02:46

After the 2017 monumental comeback against Texas A&M, that rocketed to the top of everybody's greatest comeback list. But upon reflection, I might choose the 2005 game at Stanford instead for a number of reasons. First of all, it was an away game and I was there. Secondly the game did a relatively fast 180 degree turn. A not very good Stanford team lead a very good UCLA team with Drew Olson and Maurice Drew 24-3 halfway through the fourth quarter. Up until then the Bruin offensive effort might have been the worst in history, and if it were a home game I probably would have left. But since I drove up to the Bay Area, I wasn't about to leave early. So the Bruins score 3 TDs in 7 minutes to send the game into overtime and Olson throws a long TD pass in OT for the walkoff win. But on top of everything, there was the crowd. There may have been more Bruin fans there than Stanford, and at the end of the game and probably 15 minutes more, anyone walking outside the stadium would have assumed that the home team had scored a tremendous win. Anyway I uploaded the second half, but fast forward to the last 8 minutes of regulation (Stanford goes up 24-3 at about the 53 minute mark.)



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