Greatest player ever, greatest coach ever, greatest dynasty ever. It’s amazing that even those grandiose, argument-igniting storylines can only sit parallel to the Patriots’ epic comeback.

For those of you who decided to go into sports hibernation until college football starts again next fall, or just choose not to be American and watch football on a Sunday, the Patriots erased a 28-3 deficit to beat the Falcons in Super Bowl LI.

The 25-point comeback is easily the biggest in Super Bowl history. In fact, the next-biggest was only 10 points, which was done multiple times.

Coincidentally, the largest in SEC bowl history is also 25 points. That game also went to overtime. It also included a future NFL Hall of Fame quarterback, and it also featured a team from the Peach State.

However, that team — Georgia — was on the right side of the rally when it climbed out of a 25-point hole to beat Drew Brees and Purdue 28-25 in the 2000 Outback Bowl.

First of all, let’s be clear. There’s no equating the magnitude of the games. Businesses aren’t paying $5 million for a 30-second commercial during the Outback Bowl, and Lady Gaga’s not coming to do a halftime performance either.

However, Sunday night’s shocking reversal of fortunes did get us reminiscing on the biggest postseason lead that an SEC team has ever overcome, and maybe it can help some Falcons/Bulldogs fans in the state to cope with the defeat.

Georgia has made it to 20 straight bowl games, and that run of consistency started with Jim Donnan, not Mark Richt. The Dawgs reached the postseason in each of Donnan’s last four seasons, winning each time.

In 1999, Georgia started 6-1 with the only loss coming at QB Tee Martin and No. 6 Tennessee, the defending national champs. UGA dropped three of its next four, though, the last of which was a 51-48 heartbreaker at Georgia Tech.

Every Bulldogs fan remembers getting to the Yellow Jackets’ 2-yard line with 20 seconds left and the game tied 48-48. Donnan chose to run another play, Jasper Sanks fumbled at the 1 and Tech recovered.

That sent the game into OT, where Georgia blocked a third-down field goal attempt only to see GT recover and make the game-winning 38-yarder on its fourth-down try.

That loss seemed to travel to Tampa with the Bulldogs as they took on the Boilermakers. Brees was on fire to start the game, tossing 3 TDs on each of the team’s first three possessions while connecting on 11-of-15 passes for 157 yards.

He added a fourth in the second quarter, a 32-yard throw to Chris James, to put Purdue up 25-0 (missed a PAT and two 2-point conversion tries).

Less than a minute later, Purdue’s train of positivity came to a screeching halt, thanks to a Georgia freshman receiver out of Tennille, Ga.

With a little less than 10 minutes left in the second quarter, Terrence Edwards took an end-around 74 yards to the end zone to give the sleepwalking Bulldogs the boost they needed. Georgia kicker Hap Hines tacked on a 32-yard field goal to make it a much more manageable 25-10 disadvantage at the break.

With a little less than five minutes left in the third quarter, Georgia QB Quincy Carter scored an 8-yard TD on a draw before Patrick Pass converted a successful 2-point conversion to bring the Bulldogs within 7 points.

It would take a while for Georgia to pull even, but Carter made it worth the wait for UGA fans in attendance at Raymond James Stadium.

Carter led the Dawgs on a colossal 13-play, 94-yard drive, during which Edwards came up big again with a first down reception on 4th-and-12. With about 1:20 left in regulation, Carter capped the incredible march by escaping two defenders and — with no room left to run on the right sideline — threw a jump ball to TE Randy McMichael, who came down with an 8-yard TD.

That score meant the contest, the first college football game of the new millennium, would also be the second bowl ever decided in overtime.

In the extra period, Purdue kicker Travis Dorsch, who missed all three of his field goal attempts in addition to an extra point in that first quarter, disappointed the Boilermakers a final time by missing a 43-yarder.

On the next possession, Hines easily drilled a 21-yarder to lift Georgia to the win.

Brees finished the game 36-of-60 with 378 passing yards along with his 4 TDs, tied for an Outback Bowl record. Carter went 20-for-33 with 243 yards and 41 more yards on 16 rushes.