The Michigan Daily - SportsMonday - December 9, 2002 - 7B Tradition lost in BCS shakeout GOING BOWLING With the unveiling of the Bowl Championship Series final standings yesterday, all the bowl games were finally able to offi- cially announce their matchups for 2002-03. Here's a look at where college football's best - and middle tier - will spend their holiday seasons. NEW YORK (AP) - No surprise in the Fiesta Bowl: It's No. 1 Miami vs. No. 2 Ohio State in the BCS national title game matching major college football's only undefeated teams. The final Bowl Championship Series standings released yesterday were just a formality in determining the title- game since the Hurricanes (12-0) and Buckeyes (13-0) had already accepted bids to the Jan. 3 Fiesta Bowl. But the three other BCS games took on a surprising look when the Orange Bowl pulled off a coup with a Rose Bowl-like matchup of No. 3 Iowa vs. No. 5 Southern Cal. on Jan. 2. Washington State, the Pac-10 cham- pion, will play Big 12 champion Okla- homa in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1. The Sugar Bowl on the same day will match SEC champion Georgia against ACC champion Florida State, a game featur- ing Bulldogs coach Mark Richt against his former boss, Bobby Bowden. Now that BCS bowl mystery has been cleared up, Notre Dame (10-2) ends up as the biggest loser. With Iowa and Southern Cal. chosen as the at- large teams, the Irish will play in the Gator Bowl against North Carolina State. Each BCS game team receives about $13 million, which is split among conference members. Notre Dame, as an independent, would have kept all the money. The Gator Bowl payout is $1.6 million per team. While each of the BCS games has regional tie-ins, the selection rules allowed the Orange Bowl to end up without one of six conference champi- ons. In doing so, the Orange Bowl is perhaps the most marquee bowl game outside the Fiesta Bowl. The Hawkeyes (11-1) and Trojans (10-2) feature two of the top quarter- backs in the nation. Brad Banks led Iowa to a share of the Big Ten title, while Carson Palmer directed USC to a co-Pac-10 championship with Wash- ington State. "It's ironic to have co-champs from the Big Ten and Pac-10 playing togeth- er on another coast," Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said. "But with the BCS, things change. What a great matchup, though. Two tremendous quarterbacks. South- ern Cal. may have the sexier name, but we think it will be a great game." By finishing fourth in the BCS standings, Southern Cal. was guaran- teed a BCS game, while Iowa was the only one-loss team available since Georgia was tied to the Sugar Bowl. The Orange Bowl landed Iowa- Southern Cal. thanks to a BCS rule concerning payouts. Since the Orange has a slightly higher payout than the Sugar, it got to pick the Trojans. Here's how: After the Fiesta Bowl matchup was made, the Orange had the next pick because its anchor team - Big East champion Miami - was- n't available. It chose Iowa. The Rose Bowl, which lost Big Ten champion Ohio State, went for Okla- homa (11-2) to play Pac- 10 champion Washington State (10-2). The Sugar, which had its anchor team in Georgia, then wanted Southern Cal. But so did the Orange. In that case, according to BCS rules, the bowl with the higher payoff gets first preference. So the Orange went for Southern Cal. and Iowa. "Traditionally, we want to go to the Rose bowl," Ferentz said. "But with the BCS, the traditions have been broken." Bowl (location) New Orleans Bowl GMAC Bowl (Mobile, Ala.) Mazda Tangerine Bowl (Orlando, Fla.) Sega Sports Las Vegas Bowl ConAgra Foods Hawaii Bowl (Honolulu) Motor City Bowl (Detroit) Insight Bowl (Phoenix) Houston Bowl MainStay Independence Bowl (Shreveport, La.) Pacific Life Holiday Bowl (San Diego) Continental Tire Bowl (Charlotte, N.C.) Alamo Bowl (San Antonio) Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl (Nashville, Tenn.) Seattle Bowl Crucial.com Humanitarian Bowl (Boise, Idaho) Wells Fargo Sun Bowl (El Paso, Texas) AXA Liberty Bowl (Memphis, Tenn.) Silicon Valley Football Classic (San Jose, Calif.) Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl (Atlanta) Diamond Walnut San Francisco Bowl Outback Bowl (Tampa, Fla.) SBC Cotton Bowl (Dallas) Toyota Gator Bowl (Jacksonville, Fla.) Capital One Bowl (Orlando, Fla.) Bowl Championship Series Rose Bowl (Pasadena, Calif.) Nokia Sugar Bowl (New Orleans) FedEx Orange Bowl (Miami) Tostitos Fiesta Bowl (Tempe, Ariz.) Date,Time,TV Dec. 17, 7 p.m., ESPN2 Dec. 18, 8 p.m., ESPN2 Dec. 23, 5:30 p.m., ESPN Dec. 25, 4:30 p.m., ESPN Dec. 25, 8 p.m., ESPN Dec. 26, 5 p.m., ESPN Dec. 26, 8:30 p.m., ESPN Dec. 27, 1 p.m., ESPN Dec. 27, 4:30 p.m., ESPN Dec. 27, 8 p.m., ESPN Dec. 28, 11 a.m., ESPN2 Dec. 28, 8 p.m., ESPN Dec. 30, 2 p.m., ESPN Dec. 30, 5:30 p.m., ESPN Dec. 31, Noon, ESPN Dec. 31, 2 p.m., CBS Dec. 31, 3:30 p.m., ESPN Dec. 31, 3:30 p.m., ESPN2 Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m., ESPN Dec. 31, 10:30 p.m., ESPN2 Jan. 1, 11 a.m., ESPN Jan. 1, 11 a.m., FOX Jan. 1, 12:30 p.m., NBC Jan. 1, 1 p.m., ABC Jan. 1, 5 p.m., ABC Jan. 1, 8:30 p.m., ABC Jan. 2, 8 p.m., ABC Jan. 3, 8 p.m., ABC Matchup Cincinnati vs. North Texas Marshall vs. Louisville Clemson vs. Texas Tech UCLA vs. New Mexico Hawaii vs. Tulane Boston College vs. Toledo Pittsburgh vs. Oregon State Southern Miss vs. Oklahoma State Nebraska vs. Mississippi Kansas State vs. Arizona State West Virginia vs. Virginia Colorado vs. Wisconsin Arkansas vs. Minnesota Oregon vs. Wake Forest Iowa State vs. Boise State Purdue vs. Washington Colorado State vs. Texas Christian Georgia Tech vs. Fresno State Tennessee vs. Maryland Air Force vs. Virginia Tech Florida vs. Michigan Texas vs. Louisiana State North Carolina State vs. Notre Dame Penn State vs. Auburn Oklahoma vs. Washington State Georgia vs. Florida State Iowa vs. Southern Cal. Ohio State vs. Miami PICK A CANE, ANY CANE As the college football season draws to a close, the Heisman candidates are making a final push for their case in the balloting. In particular, Miami (Fla.)'s Ken Dorsey and Willis McGahee took advantage of their opportunities on national television to show the nation - and their opponents - why they deserve college football's top award. KEN DORSEY, MIAMI (FLA.) Why Dorsey?: Miami offensive coordina-5 tor Rob Chudzinski tried his best to.get . his quarterback the Heisman Trophy. Chudzinski called "the Heisman play" - a pass from running back Jarrett Payton to quarterback Ken Dorsey - at the Vir- ginia Tech 1-yard line with the Hurricanes ahead 49-21. The play was designed with . the intent of giving Dorsey a touchdown i reception and Heisman voters something to remember. But unfortunately for Dorsey, the pass from Payton was picked off and returned for a 96-yard touchdown by Virginia Tech's Willie Pile. But forget the play. Dorsey and the Hurricanes are rolling into Tempe, Ariz. with a 34-game? winning streak. Miami's Ken Dorsey WILlIS MCGAIEE, MIAMI (FLA.) H Why McGahee?: While Dorsey was just being Dorsey, McGahee stole the spotlight in his final chance to play before the Heisman voting. The sopho- more slipped through the hands of Vir- ginia Tech tacklers all afternoon, scoring a school record six touch- - @ downs and rushing for 205 yards in Miami's 56-45 win over the Hokies. McGahee ran for scores of 1, 4, 3, 10, s 1 and 31 yards in his final Heisman audition to finish the season with school records in yards (1,686) and touchdowns (27). McGahee carried the ball 39 times in the game, show- Miami's Willis McGahee ing that he is not just a flashy back, AP PHOTOS but also a workhorse. I. I NEW AP TOP 25 (first-place votes in parentheses) TEAm PTS PVS 1. Miami (74) 1,850 1 2. Ohio State 1,773 2 3. Iowa 1,678 3 4. Georgia 1,627 4 5. Southern Cal. 1,559 5 6. Kansas State 1,397 6 7. Washington State 1,388 7 8. Oklahoma 1,371 8 9. Texas 1,297 9 10. Penn State 1,107 10 11. Notre Dame 1,104 11 12. Michigan 1,061 13 13. Alabama 984 14 14. Colorado 758 12 15. West Virginia 706 15 16. Florida State 661 16 17. North Carolina State 570 17 18. Boise State 505 19 19. Auburn 483 20 20. Maryland 446 21 21. Virginia Tech 409 18 22. Florida 309 23 23. Colorado State 277 24 24. Pittsburgh 255 25 25. Arkansas 160 22 OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: Louisiana State 109, Marshall 70, Tennessee 38, South Florida 26, Oklahoma State 20, Texas Christian 19. Cash for our KsIm- S S . Intro to Economics Intro to Psychology Intro to Calculus College Writing Skills Principles of Marketing Buy-Back Price -$-2 A.% -$r21.0& -$-100 -$ In.an. 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