He was right. The same standings that kept Miami out of the 2000 national championship game. Walters 1. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. In doing so, Portis ran for 1,200 and 10 touchdowns with a 5.5 yards per carry average for the Canes. A lot of people don't realize the rivalry between Miami and Virginia Tech. How deep was the 2001 Miami Hurricane roster? We had 31 scholarships lost. Take Ed Reed. In 2002, Miami again played for a national title, losing in overtime to Ohio State. I knew we'd have a good team, but there were a lot of questions because of the coaching changes. Guess what: He's still not finished . Williams You can make the argument it's the most talented team to ever play. The environment was pretty spectacular. And we went into the Hall of Fame together this past year. Rankings for the 2023 NFL draft: Top prospects at every position from Kiper, McShay, Miller, Reid, Kiper's new Big Board rankings for the 2023 NFL draft: Top 25 prospects, Syracuse QB Shrader to miss spring practice, Sources: Asst. So can 2016 Clemson, a team I covered throughout the season as an ACC reporter. .mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}. Whats taking Mario so long to find Coaches? 15 Washington 3429 on the road, while the Seminoles' lone loss was on the road to the #7 team in the country by 3. It has been estimated that the 2001 Hurricanes would cost nearly $120 million as an NFL team as early as 2009. There were moments in that season that we felt we deserved to win those close games, because we outworked those teams in that offseason. I'd smile every time when I'd see them before the game and say, "Yeah, we're going to go at it. Nobody was too "big time" for anything. "But it was crucial to never show how much pain we were in. The Hurricanes began the season with a nationally televised primetime win over Penn State in Beaver Stadium. Rankings from AP poll. That felt good for all of us. Frank Gore was also on the 2001 national title Hurricanes roster. You may win one, but we're gonna win 20 of them, and it's not gonna stop.'". ACC Network FAQs If you look at the film, at the last second as he's falling to the ground, he looks up to see if it's Ed, and he lets the ball go. As much as the 2001 team has been glorified in the years since it won the national title, the Hurricanes opened the year ranked No. They're just telling us we're No. But a diving, game-saving interception by Ed Reed sealed the Miami victory, 2624. We spread the ball around to a lot of different guys because, at that time, Andre Johnson wasn't a proven commodity -- or Ethenic Sands or Kevin Beard. Because we had that extra whatever. If I slacked off at all, I wasn't going to play as much because Vince Wilfork is my backup. You had Sean Taylor behind him. They're driving to win, the whole stadium thought they were about to win. He didn't want it to be close at all. There was a rumor that we were going to get that coach from Wisconsin, Barry Alvarez, and we were like, "We don't want him. Kenny was the perfect guy. Women's Basketball. / Download Our App, Achong, Harden & Hedley Earn ACC Postgraduate Scholarships, Newport News, Virginia/Hampton Roads Academy, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada/Vanier Academy, Windsor, Ontario, Canada/Belle River District. Miami followed up the victory with wins over Rutgers,[5] Pitt,[6] and Troy State.[7]. From the 2001 Miami Hurricanes football team alone, 42 players went on to be drafted into the NFL from (2002-2006), including 17 1st round picks. We didn't do anything right. And I'll never forget seeing the wave of red of Nebraska fans pulling up that seemed like it went for miles. Sports. Dorsey was also a Heisman finalist, finishing third. Eventually producing a record 38 NFL Draft picks, the 2001 Hurricanes are considered by many to be the best college football team of all time.[1][2][3]. They were driven by the snub they all felt the previous year, after Florida State got into the BCS national title game instead of Miami -- even though the Hurricanes won their regular-season matchup. Miami has two games remaining before the postseason begins and winning out has big implications for their place in the programs best all-time regular seasons. Portis was an even bigger weapon in the NFL over his nine year career. ", Flashback Friday pic.twitter.com/qCE9gnzI5E. I don't know how General Custer felt, but I felt like General Custer. Vilma There is history in nearly every corner of the University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame and the Tom Kearns Sports Hall of Fame Building. We were trying to showcase how tough we were. We weren't trying to sit here and showcase how fast and athletic we were. The way Miami broke the will of Syracuse and Washington in back-to-back games, outscoring them by a combined 124-7. When Miami offensive coordinator Rob Chudzinski wanted a more versatile player he went with Davenport. Call 1-800-GAMBLER. It was one of those games where the score just got run up. That's how comical it became. It was a competitive culture and accountability was huge and he built a family environment. I'd been at Oklahoma and Oklahoma State for years and we'd never beaten [Nebraska]. It is unreal how deep their roster was in 2001. Incognito told me at halftime, their coach basically said, "Guys let's just try to keep this thing close," and he said that right in front of the athletic director. But I wasn't leaving these guys. Rankings for the 2023 NFL draft: Top prospects at every position from Kiper, McShay, Miller, Reid, Kiper's new Big Board rankings for the 2023 NFL draft: Top 25 prospects, Syracuse QB Shrader to miss spring practice, Sources: Asst. We didn't know it was going to come down to a 2-point conversion, but the football Gods were with us on that day, and that kid dropped that ball. Walters A lot of people doubted if they should have made the championship. I'm gonna run out of bounds." You're sweating, you're bleeding, you're laying everything on the line for the guy next to you, and there was no envy." The eccentric Portis is said to have played mind games with his backups in order to hold them down and keep the football in his hands. / The Hokies, ranked No. University of Miami; UM Sports Hall of Fame; Tickets. I think it was kind of a weight off everybody's shoulders at the end. The motivation of being upset and disappointed, that played a huge role in going to the Sugar Bowl and what we did against Florida to make a statement that we probably should've been the champs. We were confident. Coker It was a program that was meant to sink or swim guys. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Payton ran for 985 yards and 7 touchdowns as a senior and averaged 5 yards per carry over his career. But that goes to the larger point: The focus was not on their talent, but on gaining the respect those players felt had been denied to them going back to high school. It was my first game ever to be a head coach and it was against Joe Paterno. 2. Starters are marked with an asterisk (*). That 2001 Miami team, led by head coach Larry Coker in his first season, went undefeated and had just two games finish within 20 points. In 2000, Miami was shut out of the Orange Bowl BCS National Championship Game by the BCS computers. Find out more. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. Some of our most beloved Canes shared a meeting room in 2001. I'll never forget the speed and tempo and competitiveness. S Ed Reed The 2001 Miami Hurricanes were the only team picked by fans to defeat the '05 Trojan squad, reflecting the esteem with which the 2001 Hurricanes are held in the college football world.[18]. The intangibles he had. They just accumulated so many good players that everybody was looking at them as like, 'How have they done this? [14] Defeating Virginia Tech earned the top-ranked Hurricanes an invitation to the Rose Bowl to take on BCS #2 Nebraska for the national championship. How good is that? All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. He made things happen. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. That was the first time, for a portion of the game at least, we let our gaze get to the horizon and not on the task at hand. The 2001 team featured six All-Americans, and Dorsey was a Heisman Trophy finalist. Buy Now. Romberg Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Miami clinched a spot in the national title game against Nebraska at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., and felt confident this game would be its crowning achievement. How about 2013 Florida State, a team so loaded with talent all 22 of its offensive and defensive starters that year ended up on an NFL roster? Three trades in a chaotic top five, The new law changing service academy football, and the coaches pushing back, Realignment chatter: How the Pac-12 holds the key to it all. including 17 first-rounders and at least one Hall of Famer in Ed Reed. It never seemed like Davenport recovered all of his speed after the knee injury, but he did run for 5.3 yards per carry and 13 touchdowns in his Miami career. They beat us 47-0, and I remember walking off the field and everyone was celebrating and he said, "As long as I have something to do with it, I will never be embarrassed by Florida State again." That gave us a chance. Dorsey Less than 24 hours to renew your football tickets! CB Markese Fitzgerald Miami (2001) Michigan (1947) Notre Dame (1947) Oklahoma (1956) How many NFL players came from Miami? Rumph This endowed scholarship was created in 1992, in the memory of beloved Hurricanes' Hall of Fame player and coach Walter Kichefski. The Canes became arguably the greatest team in CFB history 20 years ago, finishing 12-0, winning the national title and producing 38 NFL draft picks. The final hurdle to the Rose Bowl BCS National Championship Game was at Virginia Tech. It didn't really hit me until afterward. 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Rumph Walters 2001 Miami Hurricanes footballconsensus national champions, 2001 Big East Conference football standings, 2001 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, 2001 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team, 2001 Florida State Seminoles football team, 2001 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, would cost nearly $120 million as an NFL team, "CFB 150: Top 10 teams in college football history - Sporting News", "The 150 greatest teams in college football's 150-year history - ESPN", "The 2001 Miami Hurricanes Would Beat Any Team, Any Time - FanBuzz", "Hurricanes Roll Past Penn State, 33-7:: Ken Dorsey throws three touchdown passes to lead Miami", University of Miami (FL) Athletic Department, "No. Dorsey Miami hasn't won a title since 2001, although the Hurricanes have cause for debate about the next season's Fiesta Bowl loss to Ohio State. Chudzinski So the following year was definitely a salt-in-the-wound, chip-on-the-shoulder type of season where we wanted to obviously take no prisoners and rectify what happened the year before. OL Joel Rodriguez C Brett Romberg This was because Miami had lost to No. He basically announced to everybody, "This is our guy.". Twenty years later, the 2001 Miami Hurricanes are widely regarded as one of the greatest college football teams of all time. Former coach Butch Davis As I remember, the fans are standing right over the bench and they were yelling at our coaches, and they were throwing Skittles at us. Miami beat opponents by an average of 32.9 points per game, the largest margin in the school's history, and set the NCAA record for largest margin of victory over consecutive ranked teams (1247). You're gonna to fight. After that, there are issues like roster. I wanted to play more. Syracuse and Washington were not exactly nobodies. When I look back at our workouts, and the pressure that we put on each other of not letting each other down, there was so much pressure that I would think twice about skipping a workout, I would think twice about skipping a rep, I would think twice about letting my brother down because there was so much invested into it. Davis I remember when I recruited him, his coach told me, "You don't really know what you're getting." As a true freshman coming in, I'm all smiles. For whatever reason, we always played them close in my four years there. We all loved Dorsey, but we knew we had other skill sets and talent on that team. As one of the younger players on the team, that competition only made me better. But I feel like if you look at the history, every team that's won a national title has had a game like that, where it comes down to the last minute and if you lose, your season's over. This team, who kept us out of the national championship, beat us our freshman year slammed the quarterback in the goal post that's what that was all about. I have covered more national champions since 2001 Miami that could make their own claim, too. Led by quarterback Ken Dorsey, free safety Ed Reed, running back Clinton Portis, wide receiver Andre Johnson, tight end Jeremy Shockey, offensive tackle Bryant McKinnie, and linebacker Jonathan Vilma, Miami won the 2001 national championship. They listened to us. The scholarship recipient is chosen each year by the football coaches . If you weren't doing all the right things, if you weren't going to class, making your grades, if you weren't showing up to work out or something like that, you could easily be cast out. Or write about sports? All I could think as I looked on from the press box was, "I can't believe they're about to blow this," knowing full well a trip to the national championship and the Rose Bowl was on the line. I turned around, and the next thing you know, the ball is floating to me in slow motion. Additional contributors included future stars Kellen Winslow II, Sean Taylor, Antrel Rolle, Vernon Carey, and Rocky McIntosh. Some felt that Miami got snubbed in a chance to compete for the BCS Championship game. But I remember a few days before the game we did a two-minute drill, our No. Hurricanes basketball coach Jim Larraaga highlights a 10-member University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame class. Record: 12-0 (1st of 117) (Schedule & Results), Bowl Game: Won Rose Bowl 37-14 versus Nebraska. . While the 2001 squad only won a single national championship; they had NFL legends, All-Americans and Pro Bowlers in their film sessions. If you didn't put in the work, there was somebody behind you ready to take over. Gore was a true freshman that got Hurricanes fans excited for the future as he averaged 9.1 yards per carry with 5 touchdowns in his first year on-campus. Strength coach Andreu Swasey I don't know a single person that wasn't pissed headed into that game. Miami beat Florida State 49-27 to remain undefeated, but a bigger test awaited Nov. 10 on a cold day at Boston College. Williams When Miami needed to pick up a 3rd and short the bigger bodied Cobia was on the field to run iso from Miamis 21 personnel base offense at the time. Barry Jackson. My knee went between my hands, and hit the tip of the ball and it flipped to Matt Walters. Yea I've been hurt. He was the guy that really knew how to push our buttons, that knew how to challenge us. Vilma played for the 2001 Hurricanes . The dominance of the team during its 2001 campaign combined with the legacy those players left -- both in college and the pros -- makes a strong argument that this is the best college football team ever assembled. 14, proved to be a formidable opponent. In an article I wrote in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that October, quarterback Ken Dorsey said, "People around the country don't really respect our talent or our capabilities as a team. On Sept. 27, Miami returned to play at Pitt with a determination to press forward, resulting in a 43-21 win. You go into the locker room and everybody is just elated. The year before, Miami lost at Washington 34-29 -- and that loss ultimately kept the Hurricanes out of the national title game they felt they deserved. See our list of forfeits and vacated games for more details. Truly perfected that.". Miami took a 34-0 halftime lead before cruising to a 37-14 victory, winning the school's fifth national championship. Vilma got into a debate several years ago with former USC running back Reggie Bush when the two played for the New Orleans Saints. Dorsey and Johnson were named Rose Bowl co-Most Valuable Players. It gives us extra incentive to go out and perform well every week.". A lot of people don't know how close that was, but he was a huge leader for us, and he wasn't coming out of that game. Najeh Davenport was in the three headed monster backfield of the 1998 season with Edgerrin James and James Jackson before injuring his knee. Rumph Truthfully, the players and coaches felt relief that they had reached the goal they set for themselves 12 months earlier. That drive starts with where this team started: in 1997, when Miami was at its lowest point as a football program, in the midst of NCAA sanctions that reduced its scholarship total to 15 in that signing class. He was probably the most hated guy in all of Blacksburg that night, but at the same time thank you so much, because you just kind of saved us some heartache. The thing that was most impressive about that team is that, at any point in time, a younger player could take your position. We'd signed a great class. (gofundme.com) I was thinking in my mind, "There's not a lot of time left in this game. Williams Ed Reed, a free safety, is in the Hall of Fame (elected in 2019), and his backup was Sean Taylor, arguably the greatest safety who ever played the game. Media Requests They were cracking jokes at us, and they thought that they were gonna just drag us all over the football field and just pound us. Despite Miami beating Florida State head-to-head that season and being higher ranked in both human polls, it was Florida State, and not Miami, that BCS computers selected to challenge the Oklahoma Sooners for the national championship (Oklahoma would win, 132). The team's first-, second- and third-string running backs all later became running backs with a start in the NFL, a feat only done at least five other times. [6] [7] The Hurricanes have had at least one former player make the Pro Bowl every season since 1985, 31 years in a row. Rumph Our team was beat up and tired and the kids wanted to go home for Thanksgiving, and now we're having to go to Miami, a team that I knew was gonna want revenge. Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer I didn't know at the time that this would be talked about as one of the best teams in college football. Sure enough, they run a slant, I go in to pick it off, and I spread my fingertips, and had my hands below my knee. McGahee also was a consensus All-American in 2002. Sponsorship Opportunities And obviously you can point out all the talented guys on the team, but at the time, they weren't the biggest recruits and the five-star guys. So I continue to stick with Miami as the greatest team of all time. We were winning, but we left a lot of points on the field. The University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame contributes in many ways to the University and its athletic programs. With BC on the verge of a momentous upset, St. Pierre attempted to pass to receiver Ryan Read at the Miami 2-yard line. It was so scary. "Those guys were not just NFL players. College Football at Sports-Reference.com Blog and Articles. In interviews with players and coaches, here . If we needed to win it on defense, let's go win it on defense. A stacked defensive backs room, with Sean Taylor and Antrel Rolle as backups. Renew Now Close Topbar. I put my heart in this (expletive) dog. I don't want to sound disrespectful, but we were five steps faster than them, 10 pounds hungrier, much more violent, which is a different style of football. Williams [15] Miami won its fifth national championship in the last 18 years, and put the finishing touches on a perfect 120 season. Portis is now a member of the Miami Hurricanes Hall of Fame. I still have visions of Tommie Frazier leaving Gator defenders in his wake. All rights reserved Renew Now , University of Miami 2023. Miami won 187.[11]. It seems like that every year. I got you over the top." Reed is seen shouting at his teammates, "I'm hurt dog! And I did that, and I was like, "Oh, man, that felt good." CB Mike Rumph . A stacked running back room, which featured Frank Gore as the No. Clinton Portis was one of the many future NFL stars who led the Hurricanes to the 2001 title -- and a place in football lore. We all had our careers that take off from there, but from my eyes, I was like, "What now?" I said, "Coach, they're slow as hell.". Where . Like Portis, McGahee was a two-time Pro Bowl player and a national champion in 2001. OT Joaquin Gonzalez The Hurricanes led 34-0 at halftime and could have easily won 59-0 had they decided to play their starters the majority of the second half. Dorsey The 26-point margin tied for Penn State's worst home loss under Joe Paterno. This Week in Miami Hurricanes Basketball: 2/27 Edition. ET on Feb. 10. Miami also holds a number of NFL Draft records, including most first-round selections in a single draft and most consecutive drafts with at least one first-round selection. The offense was terrible. Internships ", Rumph And I felt like I was a chess piece to that. or thought they had just unlocked legendary status. It got a lot of attention. It's Ed!". The toughness, the mental toughness. We watched that, perfected that. As did what happened in October, when Miami -- ranked No. The same standings that kept Miami out of the 2000 national championship game. It was one of those things where it was kind of like inevitable for us, you know what I mean? Because when Jimmy [Johnson] left after winning two national championships, they really changed the whole program, and I didn't want that to happen to those kids. / That atmosphere was crazy. He almost had to come out of the game. Romberg "I said, 'Our difference is, we were gonna try to outhit you.' I would have got drafted higher and everything. Rumph Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. But the number of great players, first-round draft choices and players who got drafted, it's amazing really. The 2001 Hurricanes, who are . You were getting into a street fight when you went and played those guys. We were pissed. Johnson was a member of the Hurricanes' most recent national championship team in 2001. [17] Additionally, the Hurricane defense scored eight touchdowns of its own. Randy Shannon told me, "If you come back to school, I'm not going to promise you or guarantee it, but there's a good chance you will never lose another college football game.". When we recruited him in high school, when I actually went to see him in person it was at a basketball game. We let the country know what this whole season was going to be about. It goes beyond the talent, which speaks for itself: 38 NFL draft picks, including 17 first-rounders and at least one Hall of Famer in Ed Reed. Though Miami dominated nearly every team it played, it had to survive a close one at Boston College in November. 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