Are Miami's Hurricanes "the best team this sport has ever seen"? Might the Cornhuskers "downgrade to eight-man football"? These are some of the assertions and interrogatories posed by a few of the scribes who covered the Rose Bowl game.
To say that Nebraska was not generally treated kindly by the keyboard crowd would be an understatement worthy of one of those mythical Norwegian bachelor farmers from Lake Wobegon, Minnesota. A dumb one, at that. Here is a small sampling of some of the earliest game stories surveyed by StatePaper.com
The Miami Herald
Perfect? The adjective is insufficient, flimsy, understatement. It does not do this breathtaking University of Miami football team justice today. Is there anything better than perfect? Because the word "perfect,'' unlike these Hurricanes, feels imperfect right about now.
Miami completed a flawless championship season Thursday by ransacking and ravaging the University of Nebraska 37-14 in the Rose Bowl and sending a statement that echoed throughout college football's past and present:
Not only were we inarguably the best team in the country this season, but we may be the best team this sport has ever seen.
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The Los Angeles Times
The only real debate after Miami's 37-14 win over Nebraska before a crowd of 93,781 is where the Hurricanes will display their fifth national title trophy since 1983 and whether Nebraska will downgrade to eight-man football.
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The Dallas Morning News
Miami quarterback Ken Dorsey quickly took a knee on first-and-10 near midfield.
Then he stood the ball on the Rose Bowl turf and spun it like a top, leaving it whirling as the clock ran out and his teammates raced to the locker room in glory.
And it was only halftime.
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Rocky Mountain News
Instead of allowing a season of poll-inspired chaos to run its fitful course, No. 1 Miami stepped up and stopped the insanity Thursday night in the Rose Bowl.
The No. 1 Hurricanes capped an unbeaten season with a 37-14 demolition of No. 4 Nebraska, decisively winning the Bowl Championship Series national title game and eliminating the possibility of the 2001 season ending in a split national championship.
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