<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> BCS National Championship Game </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <2001 </Td> <Td> 2003> </Td> </Tr> <P> 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 . Miami quarterback Ken Dorsey and wide receiver Andre Johnson were named the Rose Bowl Players of the Game . </P> <P> 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 . However, this was actually the third Rose Bowl number one versus two pairing, with the first two in the 1963 and 1969 games . </P>

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