When long-suffering Indiana football fans reminisce about the 1987 win over Michigan, they talk about two things.
First? Crowd noise. The 51,000 full-throated fans packed into Memorial Stadium that day created a raucous, deafening atmosphere in Bloomington. It was so loud that, at one point late in the game, Michigan coach Bo Schembechler paused play to complain to the officiating crew about the decibel level. Imagine that.
The second thing? The wind. Oct. 24, 1987 was a wet and blustery day in Monroe County. Or, in other words, postcard Big Ten weather. Late in the third quarter, IU had the wind at its back as it engineered a 14-play, 65-yard scoring drive that ate eight minutes off the clock.