"When a team enters the fourth quarter behind 41-21 against the 5th ranked team in college football, after being behind on all but the first possession of the game, and giving up more yards than any team that ever played in the Cotton Bowl, the expectation is that they would lose the game – beat by a better team.
Add then, by the way, that the only other FBS playoff teams they played this season (Oregon and Ohio State) beat them just as expected, like the better team.
For future bowl games in this new playoff era, the expectations under similar facts and circumstances would be met 99.9% of the time.
But when mostly teenagers have a few 20-somthings with high-level leadership skills, taught by a mature coaching staff, and a very talented quarterback and receivers, a win is still possible.
The team of deficit is Michigan State.
That deficit was erased by a stunning three touchdown comeback in the final quarter against the very talented Baylor Bears.
The referenced quarterback is Connor Cook.
He was last year’s Rose Bowl MVP but entered the fourth quarter as just the opposite in this year’s Cotton Bowl.
The comeback was completed only after a series of improbabilities became realities.
Michigan State would have to hold Baylor to zero points in the fourth quarter.
Baylor had more yards than any other team ever to play in this storied bowl game.
But that first improbability became reality......."
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