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Game of the year: Onside kick, fake spike lead Western Michigan to chaotic 41-38 victory over Toledo

Game of the year. Without a doubt. Featured on ESPN as Wednesday night’s premier sporting event, we witnessed pure, unadulterated MACtion in its finest form.

It was a 60-minute contest, but the final 3:30 of Wednesday night’s showdown rank among the most bizarre final minutes in college football history. Here is the anatomy of the most thrilling college football showdown of the 2020 season — Western Michigan’s unfathomable 41-38 victory over Toledo in Kalamazoo.

3:29 left on the clock, Toledo leads 31-28

Western Michigan exhausts its final timeout, so Toledo rolls the dice and aims for the punishing blow.