| 2001 Orange Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| BCS National Championship Game 67th Orange Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 3, 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Pro Player Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Miami Gardens, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Oklahoma LB Torrance Marshall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Florida State by 11.5 (56.5) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Toby Keith | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Dick Honig (Big Ten) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 76,835[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | ABC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Brad Nessler (play-by-play) Bob Griese (color) Lynn Swann (sideline) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nielsen ratings | 17.8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2001 Orange Bowl, designated as the BCS National Championship Game, was a college football bowl game played to determine a national champion in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) for the 2000 season. It was played at Pro Player Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, on January 3, 2001, with kickoff at 8:00 p.m. EST and television coverage by ABC. The 67th playing of the Orange Bowl, it was the culminating game of the 2000–01 bowl season.
The championship featured the top-ranked Oklahoma Sooners from the Big 12 Conference defeating the second-ranked and defending national champion Florida State Seminoles from the Atlantic Coast Conference in a defensive battle, 13–2. This was the first of only two times where a team failed to score a touchdown in the BCS National Championship, with the other being in 2012. The win gave Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops his first and only national championship, in just his second season as the coach of the Sooners.