Toledo took down Pitt, 48-46, in Thursday's GameAbove Sports Bowl in Detroit that took six overtimes to complete, the most in bowl game history.
Bowl season is always crazy, but on the day after Christmas, college football fans saw something they had never seen before. Thursday's GameAbove Sports Bowl between Pittsburgh and Toledo took nearly five hours to finish because of a bowl game first. The contest saw six overtimes, the most ever in a bowl game, en route to Toledo's 48-46 victory.
Overtime was established in college football in 1996, and it was just a month ago that we saw Georgia and Georgia Tech go to eight overtimes. The most in any game is nine from an Illinois-Penn State battle in 2021. In the first half, Toledo was down 12-6 but scored two touchdowns in a 14-second span – a 67-yard pass and then a 40-yard pick-six – to take a 20-12 lead. Pitt rallied to go up 30-20 at a point, but Pitt tied the game with just under five minutes to go in regulation.
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