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Fifty years later, Michigan's upset over Ohio State burns bright in Wolverines' lore

Bob Wojnowski and Angelique Chengelis preview the Michigan-Ohio State game and Michigan State Insider Nick Hill previews the MSU-Maryland game. The Detroit News

There was so much more than that final score, that upset of the most formidable of opponents, five decades ago. But in that moment they could not have know what it all really meant. On the simplest of levels, in real time, it was about celebrating and feeling like supermen who toppled a program that had been considered the greatest college football team.

Fifty years later, each play of that game can be recalled in detail by the Michigan players.