LINCOLN, Neb. — It was a play you rarely see executed in football, let alone to close a first half.

With the game clock reading zero on Saturday and Michigan ready to hit the locker room with a touchdown lead, Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola let one last ball fly.

The Cornhuskers had called one last timeout with a second to spare, setting up the play that would see Raiola chuck the football 52 yards and allow his receiver, Jacory Barney, Jr., to come down with it. The touchdown would tie the game, 17-17, capping a wild first half that saw Michigan blow a double-digit lead.

And while the Wolverines would go on to win the game, 30-27 , the play would serve as a turning point for the team in blue and white.

“Sometimes those things happen,” Biff Poggi, Michigan’s interim head coach, sa

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