- 2002 Rose Bowl
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Name=2002 Rose Bowl
Date=January 3 ,2002
Year=2001
Visitor School=University of Miami
Visitor Name Short=Miami
Visitor Nickname=Hurricanes
Visitor Record=11-0
Visitor
Visitor Coaches=1
Visitor BCS=1
Visitor Coach=Larry Coker
Visitor1=7
Visitor2=27
Visitor3=0
Visitor4=3
Visitor5=
Visitor Total=37
Home School= University of Nebraska
Home Name Short=Nebraska
Home Nickname=Cornhuskers
Home Record=11-1
Home
Home Coaches=4
Home BCS=2
Home Coach=Frank Solich
Home1=0
Home2=0
Home3=7
Home4=7
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Home Total=14
Type=ncg
Stadium=Rose Bowl
City=Pasadena,California
US Network=ABC
US Announcers=Keith Jackson ,Tim Brant
Ratings=13.8cite news | url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/college_football/20080108-1255-fbc-bcs-ratings.html | title=BCS title game ratings down from last year | publisher=signonsandiego.com | date=January 8 ,2008 | accessdate=2008-01-09]
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Halftime=Band of the Hour ,University of Nebraska Cornhusker Marching Band
MVP=Ken Dorsey (Miami QB) andAndre Johnson (Miami SE)The 2002 Rose Bowl, played onJanuary 3 ,2002 , was a college football bowl game. It was the 88thRose Bowl game and was theBCS National Championship Game of the 2001 college football season. The game featured the Miami Hurricanes and the Nebraska Cornhuskers, marking the first time since the1919 Rose Bowl , and only the third time in the game's history, that neither the Big Ten nor the Pac-10 Conferences had a representative in this game. The Hurricanes won the game, 37–14, for their fifth national title.cite web|title = Cane Whuppin'|url = http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/news/2002/01/04/miami_bowl/|publisher = SI.com|date = 2002-01-07|accessdate = 2007-12-29]Ken Dorsey , the Miami Quarterback andAndre Johnson , a Miami wide receiver, were named the Rose Bowl Players Of The Game. [http://www.bowlprograms.com/rosebowl/?pg=182 2008 Rose Bowl Program] ,2008 Rose Bowl . AccessedJanuary 26 ,2008 .]Teams
Because the Rose Bowl was hosting the BCS Championship game as part of the agreement begun in the 1998 season, the Tournament of Roses committee would get the number one and number two ranked teams in the
Bowl Championship Series system.coring Summary
Nebraska Cornhuskers and Miami Hurricanes
In yet another controversial season for the BCS, #4 Nebraska was chosen as the national title opponent despite not having even played in the Big 12 championship game. The Huskers went into their last regularly scheduled game at Colorado undefeated, but left Boulder at the short end of a 62-36 pasting. The Huskers tumbled from #2 to #6 in the wire service polls. #2 Florida lost to Tennessee. The Colorado Buffaloes went on to win the
Big 12 Championship Game over #3 Texas. In theSEC Championship Game , #2 Tennessee was stunned by LSU. This left undefeated and undisputed #1 Miami vs. any number of teams.The BCS computers did not take into account time of loss. There were also components for strength of schedule, quality win and margin of victory. There was no provision, which was added later, that the BCS representative also must be a conference champion. With this calculation, one-loss Nebraska came out ahead of two-loss Colorado and one-loss, second-ranked Oregon. Nebraska had appeared in the
1941 Rose Bowl in a 21-13 loss to Stanford. This was the first appearance for the Miami Hurricanes in the Rose Bowl.Pac-10 and Big 10
Oregon was the champion of the
Pacific 10 Conference and was ranked #2 in the AP Poll. They were selected for the2002 Fiesta Bowl , where they faced #3 ranked Colorado, who was #4 in the BCS poll. The Illinois Fighting Illini won theBig Ten Conference championship and were picked for the2002 Sugar Bowl .Aftermath
Oregon defeated Colorado in the 2002 Fiesta Bowl. In the final AP poll Miami was the unanimous #1 team, Oregon was #2. The next time that the Rose Bowl hosted the BCS championship, the
2006 Rose Bowl , the USC Trojans would be a participant. As of the2008 Rose Bowl , either a PAC-10 and/or Big Ten team has played in the game since the 2002 Rose Bowl.References
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