Best comeback you've ever been part of?

We were down 35-12 with 7 minutes left in the game against the defending champs who were 6-1 coming in to play us. We were 3-3 at that time. In 7 minutes we scored 3 TD's (1st with a regular PAT kick, last 2 with 2-point conversions) all on clock management, execution, and FINALLY playing defense. No trick plays, no onside kicks, no fumble recoveries or INT's to help us.

We scored the final TD with less than 10 seconds, no T.O.'s left (used them all on defense) and no way to spike the ball because it was 4th down. We tied it up 35-35 and went into OT, which is a 10-yard fight scenario.

We got the ball first and scored on a run play up the gut on our first play. We went for 2 (obviously our PAT kicker was having a bad night...he was 1-for-3 at that point and we didn't want to put the game in his hands) and got it, so we're up 43-35 and we go on defense. Our opponent scores in 4 plays and also gets their 2-point conversion.

Now, because we went first in the first sequence, our opponent goes 1st in this next sequence (this is now double OT). We stop them on 4 downs. We get the ball back and score in 3 plays...GAME OVER! 49-43 upset in double OT...

Best game I've ever been involved with as a coach or as a player. It's considered one of the best come-back upsets in state history.

I didnt play in or coach this one, but probably the biggest comeback in High School History:

28 points in less than 3 minutes

Love the homer announcers, HS football at its finest.

On our Homecoming night in 2007 at Piedmont, we were tied 14 - 14, and we got the football back with 32 seconds left in the game. We had two timeouts, beginning from our own 18-yard line.

Play progression:

1. Piedmont QB rolled left and hit a 32 - yard pass over the middle and we went to our opponent's 48 - yard line or so, and we called timeout

2. Piedmont QB rolled right and connected on a 15 - yard comeback route to stop the clock

3. With 13 seconds remaining in the game, and the ball on the Opponent's 32-yard line, Piedmont QB Ran a perfect Draw Left and he scampered to our opponent's 15 - yard line.

4. Called our last timeout with 5 seconds remaining

5. Our Place Kicker then drilled a 32 - yard field goal to win the game on Homecoming and the Place went Nuts!

It was a magical night.

Kurt

The best comeback with a HS team, I've been a part of was with a "new to football" program, that came from 22-0 deficit at halftime... then eventually won 24-22. We were pretty terrible all year, this was the last game of a dismal 2-7 season to that point, but the coaches and players never quit trying, and it worked out for them.

2 years ago, the team I coach gets knocked out RD 1 of the playoffs, so the next week I drive out to go see my alma mater in their second rd game ( so technically I wasn't part of it but it was insane so here I go)...

Up by 6 the opposition (who I'll just call Team B) has the ball 1st and ten on my alma mater's (Team A) 2 yard line with under 45 seconds left; no time outs left. All they needed to do was kneel on the ball and take the victory; however, Team B's coach has a history of running up the score. He's often portrayed as kind of a jerk who runs up the score, i've never met him but a lot people I know say the same.

In any case Team B doesn't take the knee, they run it in and go up 13. Team A takes the kickoff, a few plays later the Qb scrambles about 35 yards for a TD, down only 6 but theres less than 10 seconds left.

You know how the story ends, team A recovers the onside kick, and with time for one play left hits their allstate receiver on a game winning hail mary; it was a big mistake by the defense, they left him single covered on the one cut side of a bunch open set.

I ran into some of the coaches later on that nite at a local casino and pointed out to them that they probably should go elsewhere as theyve used up all their luck earlier that evening.

Wow! Two nice ones Doc.

Two years ago, in the last game of the season. We came in with two wins, having lost our last four games. I coach 7th grade, so we have 8 minute quarters. We are down 20-6 going into the 4th quarter, and they have the ball.

This was a Wing-T team whose only good player was our FB/Sam LB. It seemed unlikely that we could muster fourteen-plus points in one quarter, when we could only get six in the previous three.

Anyway, our stud LB causes a fumble, recovers it, runs it back to almost the goal line, and we give it to him on Belly until we score. We don't convert the two point.

We have momentum, get the ball back, drive with our FB, score, and get the two point conversion.

Tie game.

As I'm going over the rules for overtime with one ref, another comes running in and says the other coach won't play overtime. In our league, both coaches have to agree.

Tying sucks, but it was an exciting way to end a pretty low season.

Three years ago I was an assistant. First round of the playoffs.

We take the lead 7-0 in the first or second quarter. We dominate their offense the whole game until about halfway through the 4th. They march the ball down the field and score a touchdown and get the PAT 7-7. We get the ball back with a few minutes left and run the ball to burn clock but try a pass on 3rd down to try to pick up a first down. The ball is picked off and taken back for a TD. 14-7

We get the ball back and go 3 and out and have to punt. They get the ball back and march down to about our 25. We get a HUGE stop on 4th and 1. They get the first down they can kill the clock. So we take over at our own 25 with about 45 seconds left. Kid makes a stretched out catch on the sideline to pick up about 20 yards. Then we hit our fake screen down the field for another 30. We score on a pass in the back of the endzone with about 10 seconds left. The kid that made the catch was a classic underachiever but made the play of his life.

So we have to make the PAT to tie the game. But, a kid isn't out there and we have to call time out to get the 11th player on the field. Coach says lets go for it. We run our fake field goal. Our QB always played the wing back on FG protection. Snap the ball to the holder while the QB peels off from that position. Kicker approaches like he is going to kick and the holder flips to the QB coming around behind. It is designed to be a pass to the wing on the other side in the back of the endzone but he is covered. So the QB heads for the corner and dives from literally the 4 yard line over two players and flips into the endzone for the 2 pts and the 15-14 win.

By far the most exciting game I have ever seen. It was great for our QB who had thrown a bad INT to redeem himself and take in that PAT.

LOL the greatest comback I was apart of we didnt win-we led the state semifinals two seasons ago 26-10 with 10 min left and lost 38-34. They had the ball down 16 on our 20, they threw us a pick in our own end zone, our DB tries to bring it out and fumbles on the 5. They get it back and score next play. We go three and out, they go three and out. They punt, our PR muffs the punt gives them the ball on the 50. They score quickly. 26-24. We get ball with 3 min to go. QB audibles at the line from a run to a pass (we are spread and he saw 7 in the box) WR doesnt turn in time, they pick it at our 20 and quickly score. 31-26. We get the ball with 2 min to go, and score in less than a minute and leader 34-31 with 1:19 to go. KO, and they return it for TD. We get stopped on their 10 when time runs out.

We also came back from a 35-7 halftime deficit to tie our archrival in the conference championship game 4 years ago only to lose on a last second hail mary 42-35

Reno versus Utah State in 92 or 93. I don't remember the score, but it was the the second or third greatest comeback. We (Reno) might have lost the game, so it may not have been considered a "comeback". I was just a crappy Freshman who watched it from the bleachers. I think I was watching the girls more than the game.