Remember the days when Disney and GE allowed major bowls to play their games on the same day? When USF&G and Sunkist served as title sponsors? I do. Anyway, the day began at 11am EST with the Heath Shuler led Tennessee Vols running over Glen Foley and Boston College in the Hall of fame bowl ; it concluded after midnight with Alabama ending Miami's decade long run of dominance, but what happened in between?
--Citrus Bowl: Ohio State and UGA squared off in the 1st ever Big Ten-SEC Citrus Bowl. Scholars claim this might have been the beginning of the conference fan. Kirk Herbstriet fumbled near the goal line late in the game. Final Score UGA 21 OSU 14. S-E-C... S-E-C... S-E-C
--Cotton Bowl: Notre Dame-Texas AM. Remember Texas AM QB Corey Pullig?Of course you don't. Nonetheless, he orchestrated an undefeated regular season for the Aggies while averaging less than a 100 yards passing through the air. The aggies ran into a superior ND team led by Rick Mirer, Jerome Bettis, Lake Dawon and Reggie Brooks. ND 28 TexAM 3
--Blockbuster Bowl: Stanford-Penn State. The other New Year's day bowl game in Miami. It drew less than 30,000 fans. The nittany lions ended their era of independence and ushered in the Big Ten era in appropriate Big Ten fashion--by getting blown out by a member of the PAC 10. Stanford 24 PSU 3.
--Fiesta Bowl: Syr - CU . The pre-game fight no one remembers and the classic fiesta bowl game everyone forgot about because everyone was watching the Rose Bowl. Kirby Dar Dar went wild and Qaudry Ismail(Rocket's brother) returned a kickoff for a TD. Syr 26 CU22
--Rose Bowl: UW-Mich. Michigan avenged the 34-14 thrashing UW put on them the year before. Tyrone Wheatley rushed for 700 yards(ok it was more like 280), Elvis Grbac threw beautiful spirals and Derrick Alexander looked graceful catching them. Mich 38 UW 31.
--Orange Bowl: As if NBC didn't have enough problems with a fiesta bowl that drew 7 viewers, the Orange Bowl had to go up against ABC and the Sugar Bowl's defacto national championship game. Nothing significant here. In a rain soaked orange bowl, Florida State shut down the vaunted option again. Tommie Frazier and Lawrence Phillips played as freshman. "Will Osbourne ever win a bowl game again" we thought to ourselves. FSU 27 NU 14
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