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2002 Rose Bowl
88th Rose Bowl Game National Championship Game
Miami Hurricanes Nebraska Cornhuskers (11-0) (11-1) 37 14 Head coach:  Larry Coker Head coach:  Frank Solich AP Coaches BCS 1 1 1 AP Coaches BCS 4 4 2 1 2 3 4 Total Miami 7 27 0 3 37 Nebraska 0 0 7 7 14
Date	January 3, 2002
Season	2001
Stadium	Rose Bowl
Location	Pasadena, California
MVP	Ken Dorsey (Miami QB) and Andre Johnson (Miami WR)
Halftime show	Band of the Hour, University of Nebraska Cornhusker Marching Band
Attendance	93,781[1]
United States TV coverage
Network	ABC
Announcers	Keith Jackson, Tim Brant
Nielsen Ratings	13.8[2]
Rose Bowl  < 2001  2003 >

The 2002 Rose Bowl, played on January 3, 2002, was a college football bowl game. It was the 88th Rose Bowl game and was the BCS National Championship Game of the 2001 college football season. The game featured the Miami Hurricanes and the Nebraska Cornhuskers, marking the first time since the 1919 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.^{[3 ]} Ken Dorsey, the Miami Quarterback and Andre Johnson, a Miami wide receiver, were named the Rose Bowl Players Of The Game.^[4]

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.

Nebraska Cornhuskers and Miami Hurricanes

In yet another controversial season for the BCS, #4 Nebraska was chosen as the national title opponent despite not even having 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 the SEC 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. 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 the 2002 Fiesta Bowl, where they faced #3 ranked Colorado, who was #4 in the BCS poll. The Illinois Fighting Illini won the Big Ten Conference championship and were picked for the 2002 Sugar Bowl.

Scoring summary

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 the 2009 Rose Bowl, either a Pac-10 and/or Big Ten team has played in the game since the 2002 Rose Bowl.

References

External links

• Summary at Rosebowlhistory.org