Greatest third down conversion evah

There’s a great post over at EDSBS about the worst offensive series in the history of offensive series – and, yeah, when you wind up fourth and sixty one, that’s a pretty good indication of awfulness – that got me wondering what the longest successful third down conversion in college football might be.

That in turn reminded me about one of my favorite single plays ever, Miami’s conversion of a third and forty three deep in its own territory against Granny Holtz’ Fighting Irish in ’89.

Can anyone think of a deeper hole that a team dug itself out of (conversion by penalty doesn’t count)?  Especially in a big game like that one?

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