2000–01_NCAA_football_bowl_games
The 2000–01 NCAA football bowl games concluded the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. In the third year of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) era, Oklahoma defeated Florida State in the 2001 Orange Bowl, designated as the BCS National Championship Game for the 2000 season.
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| Season | 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of bowls | 25 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowl games | December 20, 2000 – January 3, 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National Championship | Orange Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location of Championship | Pro Player Stadium Miami Gardens, FL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Champions | Oklahoma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A total of 25 bowl games were played between December 20, 2000, and January 3, 2001, by 50 bowl-eligible teams.[1] Two short-lived bowl games were established for the 2000–01 season: the galleryfurniture.com Bowl (dissolved after its 2005 iteration as the Houston Bowl), and the Silicon Valley Football Classic (dissolved after its 2004 iteration).
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Each of the games in the following table was televised by ABC.
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| Date | Game | Site | Teams | Affiliations | Results | Reference |
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| Jan. 1 | Rose Bowl | Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA 4:30 pm |
No. 4 Washington Huskies (10–1) No. 14 Purdue Boilermakers (8–3) |
Pac-10 Big Ten |
Washington 34 Purdue 24 |
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| Fiesta Bowl | Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, AZ 8:30 pm |
No. 5 Oregon State Beavers (10–1) No. 10 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (9–2) |
Pac-10 Independent |
Oregon State 41 Notre Dame 9 |
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| Jan. 2 | Sugar Bowl | Louisiana Superdome New Orleans, LA 8:00 pm |
No. 2 Miami Hurricanes (10–1) No. 7 Florida Gators (10–2) |
Big East SEC |
Miami (FL) 37 Florida 20 |
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| Jan. 3 | Orange Bowl (BCS National Championship Game) |
Pro Player Stadium Miami Gardens, FL 8:00 pm |
No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners (12–0) No. 3 Florida State Seminoles (11–1) |
Big 12 ACC |
Oklahoma 13 Florida State 2 |
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| Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game. All times are in Eastern Time.[2][5] | ||||||
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- "2000 College Football Bowl Games". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
- "Bowl Schedule". Philadelphia Daily News. December 1, 2000 – via Newspapers.com.
- Rodman, Bob (January 2, 2001). "Fiesta fireworks". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 1E.
- Baum, Bob (January 2, 2001). "Brash Beavers bash the Irish". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. p. C1.
- "Game facts". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). January 1, 2001. p. 6E.