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Birmingham Stallions achieved a dramatic victory over Michigan Panthers in a UFL playoff preview

The Birmingham Cornerback, Shyheim Carter, set off a pass in the end zone at the last snapshot to keep the stallions 26-22 victory against the Michigan Panthers on Saturday.

Carter's Pass-Breakup was Birmingham's second in the end zone of the last 15 seconds in a dramatic and highly competitive end of a game that supposedly meant nothing.

The stallions and Panthers are 6: 3 for the management of the United Football League's USFL conference 6: 3 on a weekend in the regular season. The teams had already secured the two playoff places of the conference, and by completing a Michigan season, Birmingham would have locked up the right to organize the game of the USFL conference if they were tied through another game.

But that was not at stake on Saturday. Due to a planning conflict at Ford Field in Detroit, UFL Birmingham had already assigned the game of the USFL conference championship, regardless of how the teams ended in the overall classification.

This did not seem to influence the game, not as white, since the stallions took the lead twice in the fourth quarter and performed the second rally.

The quarterback from Birmingham, J'Mar Smith, completed 22 out of 31 passes for 307 yards with two touchdowns and without interceptions. Both touchdowns went 19 meters to the Wide Receiver deon Cain. The first, with 1:54 in the first half, allowed the stallions to bind the game 7: 7. The second with 2:22 in the game Birmingham brought 26: 22 after Cain twisted and turned over the goal line.

The Michigan Quarterback Danny Etling answered Cain's second TD with 8 -of-9 passes for 66 yards to bring the Panthers to the 9-yard line with 21 seconds before playing.

Etling first used a spike down to stop the clock. The Birmingham linacker Demarquis Gates broke the second pass from Etling. The broad recipient Jaylon Moore caught the third pass, but it was outside the borders. And Carter, a former defender in Alabama, triggered the fourth drop.

“The defense could get the stop,” said stallion trainer Skip Holtz. “I would have liked to get the stop with two minutes to go on the 30-yard line. But we still stopped.”

Of all games in the game, nothing about the Birmingham Wide Receiver Cade Johnson's catch of a third and 10 litter for winning 57 yards in the first game of the fourth quarter. With the stallions of 16-13, Johnson got a long throw from Smith in his hands, let the football foot of Cornerback Keni-H Lovely knocked away and catch the passport while he fell to the ground.

The candidate for the UFL-FANG of the year served as a springboard for Birmingham's first tour at 20-16 when Larry Rountree III returned, his second touchdown of the game scored 11:23 on a 1-yard fall to play. Rountree scored his first touchdown with a 14-yard run with 6:08 in the third quarter to achieve the score with 13-13.

After a second touchdown, a 45-yard-etling-toiaosis-mariner design cheered on a touchdown drive for Michigan. Back Toa Tauas 2-Yard bag brought the Panthers a lead from 22 to 20 with 7:47.

On the way to reconciling the lead for the last time, Birmingham changed two third-down snapshots and scored with a third Down throw. For the game, the stallions managed to win a first down at 11 of their 13-yard snapshots, including a 26-yard reception by Johnson on third and 26 and a 48-yard reception by Jalen Camp on third and 24th by Birminghams Touchdowns came to third place.

“I thought J'mar was standing and threw a few clutch balls,” said Holtz. “After the statistics, I don't know if this is exactly, but we were 11 out of 13 in third place, which is pretty stinking.”

The stallions close the regular season against the Memphis Showboats on June 1st on June 1st at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee. Fox is broadcast on TV.

“If we can continue what we do for another week,” said Holtz, “we don't play in Birmingham because we have to play in Birmingham because they deserve it.”

Michigan and Birmingham will meet again in the game of the USFL conference on June 8th at 2 p.m. in the Protective Stadium. The winner will rise to the UFL championship game, a competition that the stallions won last season.

The Wide Receiver Deon Cain in Birmingham will hold a touchdown reception in the Protective Stadium in Birmingham on Saturday, May 24th, 2025 during a game of the United Football League against the Michigan Panthers.(Photo by Butch Dill/Ufl/Getty Images)

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter of the Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X @Amarkg1.

Birmingham Stallions, the Larry Rountree III run back on Saturday, May 24, 2025, a touchdown in the Protective Stadium in Birmingham during a game of the United Football League against the Michigan Panthers.

Birmingham Stallions, the Larry Rountree III run back on Saturday, May 24, 2025, a touchdown in the Protective Stadium in Birmingham during a game of the United Football League against the Michigan Panthers.(Photo by Stew Milne/Ufl/Getty Images)

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