I would have got drafted higher and everything. The environment was pretty spectacular. I think they might have called us Michelin men because some of the guys when they first put clothes on, they literally look like the Michelin tire guy because they were loading up like they were going into a frickin' blizzard. However, the ball ricocheted off the leg of Miami cornerback Mike Rumph, landing in the hands of defensive end Matt Walters. I think it was kind of a weight off everybody's shoulders at the end. This Week in Miami Hurricanes Basketball: 2/27 Edition. Gonzalez 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. They remain the only team to have its first-, second-, third- and fourth-string running backs all later become running backs with a start in the NFL. 1. Miami jumped on Virginia Tech early, leading 203 at halftime, and 2610 in the fourth quarter. The way we were able to play, come out firing on all cylinders, was huge. Terms of Service If I slacked off at all, I wasn't going to play as much because Vince Wilfork is my backup. Led by twelfth-year head coach Jim Larraaga, they play their home games at the Watsco Center on the university's campus in Coral Gables, Florida as members of the Atlantic . We could see with our own eyes what made that team go. In interviews with players and coaches, here . 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. I think the next year, we had the mindset that, no matter what happens, we have to take care of business. But nobody wanted to waste the opportunity in front of them, either: A shot at the school's first national championship in 10 years. They always had a good running back and good offensive line, and that is a hostile environment. [4] After that, there are issues like roster. In all, 17 players from the team became first-round draft picks, and 38 players would be drafted, with stars like Vilma, Reed, Shockey, Wilfork and Portis earning multiple Pro Bowl bids. All rights reserved. Rumph We never got worried. The Hurricanes then defeated West Virginia, 453,[9] and Temple, 380,[10] before heading to Chestnut Hill to take on Boston College (BC). Then there was the first half against Nebraska in the BCS national championship game, in which Miami made the Cornhuskers look like a slow backyard team with no business being on the big stage. To go and win the game was quite an experience. It's not the individual talent. Guys rallied behind him. It really gave the players and the coaching staff somebody to rally behind. OT Joaquin Gonzalez The fourth quarter was fun for us, because at that point, the game was kind of in hand, and everybody got to enjoy and be part of it: first, second, third string guys, everybody was getting in and getting to play. When Miami offensive coordinator Rob Chudzinski wanted a more versatile player he went with Davenport. 2. Coker Every one of those games was a physical, physical affair. We blocked a kick and a punt and blocked a field goal that day. The same standings that kept Miami out of the 2000 national championship game. 1.". RB Najeh Davenport 14, proved to be a formidable opponent. I was tired. You know I'm hurt, yet we let them score two touchdowns. BC was certainly a good team, and it looked like we weren't supposed to win it, but somehow we did. The Hokies, ranked No. 2001 Miami (FL) Hurricanes Roster Previous Year Next Year Record: 12-0 (1st of 117) ( Schedule & Results ) Rank: 1st in the Final AP poll Conference: Big East Conference Record: 7-0 Coach: Larry Coker (12-0) Points For: 512 Points/G: 42.7 (3rd of 117) Points Against: 117 More Team Info Miami (FL) School History 2001 Miami (FL) Statistics 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. When Vince Wilfork took their All-American guard Toniu Fonoti and threw him five yards in the backfield and made a tackle for a loss, their whole sideline s--- their pants, and then all of a sudden Vilma started decapitating tight ends, and it became a whole different animal, and they weren't aware, used to it, privy to, they literally thought they were going to come in there and mop the floor with us. By choosing I Accept, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Davenport was also an effective weapon as a receiver catching 35 balls for 3 touchdowns in orange and green. "I said, 'Our difference is, we were gonna try to outhit you.' Chudzinski The 2001 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami during the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season. I have covered more national champions since 2001 Miami that could make their own claim, too. or thought they had just unlocked legendary status. The season began on the road against Penn State, a matchup Miami viewed as a "statement game.". 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. Nevertheless, Miami was left with a bitter sense of disappointment, believing they had been deprived of a shot at a potential national championship. Syracuse and Washington were not exactly nobodies. The atmosphere was too much for them. It was one of those games. Vilma We have the recipe, we have the tools, we have everything to be successful. Portis was an even bigger weapon in the NFL over his nine year career. But in the moment, as I wrote my recap of that game in January 2002, I was very much like the players. I wanted to win the national championship -- we wanted to win the national championship. Miami had zero touchdowns. 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. #14. Or write about sports? Washington had beaten Miami the year before, but in 2001, it looked as if the Huskies wanted to be anywhere but playing in prime time in the Orange Bowl as the Hurricanes gleefully kept their foot on the gas to prove a point. Terms at draftkings.com/sportsbook. A total of 38 . RBs coach Don Soldinger Record: 12-0 (1st of 117) (Schedule & Results), Bowl Game: Won Rose Bowl 37-14 versus Nebraska. That gave us a chance. Williams The heart and soul of that team was our strength coach, Andreu Swasey. We felt very disrespected, for the simple fact that we were coming into the season highly ranked, and they had a White Out game. But a diving, game-saving interception by Ed Reed sealed the Miami victory, 2624. Larry wasn't a sexy hire at the time, and it's rare the players have that kind of influence over who gets hired. Gonzalez But the number of great players, first-round draft choices and players who got drafted, it's amazing really. Guess what: He's still not finished . It was a competitive culture and accountability was huge and he built a family environment. Williams; and defensive backs Ed Reed, Mike Rumph, and Phillip Buchanon. But there were a few things in the contract we were having a difficult time agreeing on. We hadn't been there. That game solidified our quest to dominate. The events of 9/11 caused a pause in college football, with games that weekend either being canceled or postponed, and Miami's game against Washington would be rescheduled for later that season. Sponsorship Opportunities Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Thursday, March 2, 12:48AM. I'm talking about the energy, the heat. However, they had to do so under a new head coach, Larry Coker, who was named to the post after Butch Davis left to become head coach of the NFL's Cleveland Browns. He was the guy that really knew how to push our buttons, that knew how to challenge us. It is through the support of Hurricane fans and alumni that we are able to make a difference. How many Miami Hurricanes are in the NFL Hall of Fame? "They were the hardest workouts we ever did," cornerback Mike Rumph said. We knew, we got them out here, with the weather, the physicality, they weren't going to be ready for that. We were really dialed in on character, on personality traits, do they love football? Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. And if you're not on board with this, you got to go. We lost the year before, and it kept us out of the national championship game. I don't know if this ever got released to the media, but Kenny [Dorsey] got hit and took a hard shot to the ribs. "But it was crucial to never show how much pain we were in. Coker Payton was on campus for five season and waiting his turn to be the starter which came after McGahees departure for the 2003 season. He made things happen. This was because Miami had lost to No. And I'll never forget seeing the wave of red of Nebraska fans pulling up that seemed like it went for miles. The guys suffer their worst loss of the season, but can still win the ACC. Women's Basketball. Our communication wasn't good. 13. We win, and we're in that locker room, and when you work for something for so long, and you achieve it, there's a certain sadness. We were just too big, strong and fast, and way too physical. I'm gonna run out of bounds." They were All-Pro NFL players," said Rick Neuheisel, who was Washington coach at the time. 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. It was so scary. Like you knew in your bones that we were going to pull it out. As a true freshman coming in, I'm all smiles. So I continue to stick with Miami as the greatest team of all time. They pushed each other to the limit, and the one thing that separates that group, they were super, super competitive. "It wasn't about elite, starters, pecking orders, all that other great stuff," center Brett Romberg said. They listened to us. / Miami needed one more win to clinch an undefeated regular season and a spot in the BCS national championship game: On the road, against Big East rival Virginia Tech. Were the backups better than the starter? Men's Sports . Williams, Antrel Rolle, Vince Wilfork, Frank Gore, Willis McGahee, Chris Myers, Andre Johnson No other team is even in the conversation. The deck was loaded. Dorsey Dorsey was also a Heisman finalist, finishing third. Nobody was too "big time" for anything. Najeh Davenport was in the three headed monster backfield of the 1998 season with Edgerrin James and James Jackson before injuring his knee. All rights reserved Williams The combined 1247 score is an NCAA record for largest margin of victory over consecutive ranked opponents. I'd agreed to a contract before Thanksgiving and my plan was to stay at the University of Miami for decades. We had 31 scholarships lost. One of the things that happened in practice, we caught a few guys in the stadium trying to record our practices, seeing how we were going to stop the triple option. We knew that was going to be a tough game. If Greg Schiano had not left and gone to Rutgers it would've been a potential for him to get the job, but I was glad for the staff and players that there wouldn't be a blow-up. There were moments in that season that we felt we deserved to win those close games, because we outworked those teams in that offseason. He was right. When he dropped the two-point conversion, I was like, I need some prayer right now. Please consider making a secure donation today by clicking the link below. Six players were drafted in the. Soon, that entire mentality took hold across the entire team. There's going to be some tremendous 3- or 4-yard runs. Kenny didn't have the strongest arm in football, but he was just a tremendous leader and just a playmaker. They were so dialed in on winning a national championship, so focused on leadership, accountability and -- as ridiculous as it sounds now -- proving themselves that it became impossible in the moment to assign this team a place in college football lore. Davis If you don't drive them, you're going to be in trouble. Rumph We just hope that this train just doesn't go off the track. That's how comical it became. 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. Cleveland scored . It's a fun debate, but at the same time, the competitor in you has no doubt about where we stood. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. One of the greatest safeties in college football history, Reed twice earned first-team All-America honors while guiding the Hurricanes to a national championship in 2001Led the Hurricanes to four consecutive bowl victories, ending career with perfect 12-0 record and 2001 national championship win over Nebraska2001 BIG EAST Defensive Co-Player In the NFL he ran for 8,474 yards and 65 touchdowns over his career. Vilma Joaquin said dominate, and we're not doing it! / We had a player [backup LB Marlin Barnes] murdered on campus. / A stacked defensive line room, with Vince Wilfork as a backup, too. We were winning, but we left a lot of points on the field. You had Phillip Buchanon and Mike Rumph, and you had Antrel Rolle behind them. As the 2001 Miami Hurricanes celebrated a fifth national championship in the Rose Bowl locker room 20 years ago, not one person screamed, 'GOAT!' They were big boys, all positions, not just the offensive line. The 2001 Miami Hurricanes are considered the greatest college football team in college football history. .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}. Romberg Instead, they played their backups and won 37-14, a score that does not reflect the sheer dominance of that game. But with a chance to tie the game with another two-point conversion, Virginia Tech sophomore Ernest Wilford dropped a pass in the endzone. Romberg They're wearing hoodies and sweatshirts and jackets all up underneath their shoulder pads and the coaches were like, "How are you going to function and play football?" Given all the challenges associated with the 2020 season, the Crimson Tide could easily make their case. I'll never forget the year before, we beat Florida State and guys were celebrating, and Ed Reed told Dorsey to stand up and told everyone to start cheering for Ken Dorsey. Shannon We saw a guy in the 55th row laying down with a camera, and we started pointing him out, and he gets up and runs to one of the exits. And to stand up at the podium with guys like Andre Johnson, who was my suite mate since my freshman year, and hold up that trophy -- that was special. The 2001 Miami Hurricanes have been called "the single most talented college roster" ever. I remember the doctor saying he couldn't really throw the ball. But I did have the feeling that we were going to win the national championship and we were going to do whatever it took to make it happen. Matt! We were trying to showcase how tough we were. In the 2002 Rose Bowl against Nebraska, Portis ran for 104 yards and a touchdown with another long touchdown run called back for a phantom holding. Vilma played for the 2001 Hurricanes . "We felt like we couldn't miss on anyone in recruiting," said Andreu Swasey, who was the strength and conditioning coach at Miami in 2001. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. Less than 24 hours to renew your football tickets! Wayne and Moss were Seniors on that . It is only now, with the perspective of history and time that those who suited up in 2001 understand -- and brag about -- what they accomplished in one magical season. We knew when I was there, but in 2001, it became reality. It wasn't like we were living at the top of the AP poll. Truly perfected that.". Washington coach Rick Neuheisel Rumph In addition, Vilma, Shockey, Wilfork, Joseph, Rolle, McKinnie, and Reed have won the Super Bowl. What players and coaches insist set this team apart was their camaraderie, accountability and willingness to do whatever it took to win a championship -- especially those afternoon workouts. Larry coming in, two new coordinators, there were a lot of questions. Williams Miami may have cost themselves an ACC title with their first home loss of the season. I still have visions of Tommie Frazier leaving Gator defenders in his wake. With Coker in place as head coach and key players like Reed and McKinnie returning for their senior seasons, the Hurricanes knew what was in front of them. [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. But despite being outgained by the Hurricanes by 134 yards and being dominated in time-of-possession, the Hokies never quit. Chudzinski 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. Ed was definitely yelling my name, "Matt! Williams So a lot of times when I hear his voice, I can sense that disappointment that he felt with that being his last go around. We want somebody from in-house who knows us, and that's Coach Coker." Employment A lot of us came back just for this game. After a Virginia Tech touchdown and two-point conversion cut Miami's lead to 2618, the Hokies blocked a Miami punt and returned it for another score, cutting Miami's lead to just two points. Walters We all felt that that Sugar Bowl game against Florida, we knew that we should have been playing for a national title. Back then, we had availabilities three times a week with players, an open locker room after games and access to practice, too. [1] The Hurricanes scored 512 (42.6 points per game) points while yielding only 117 (9.75 points allowed per game). Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. "Dominate" had started the year before, breaking down the team before going into the locker room right before we came out for the game. They dominated nearly everyone on their schedule, culminating in a resounding 37-14 win over Nebraska in the BCS National Championship Game in the Rose Bowl. And we're in the buses going right through this wave of red, and it seemed like they all flipped us off in unison. The Panthers had six first-round draft picks on its '01 roster while Miami's '01 team eventually 1 in both polls -- was sitting at No. 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. My AC [joint] was sprained, and everybody came and asked me if I'm hurt. Reed They signed players such as two-star safety Ed Reed, out of Louisiana, and Joaquin Gonzalez, an under-the-radar offensive lineman from Miami, and overlooked junior college transfers such as Jeremy Shockey and Bryant McKinnie. He was that father figure we were all afraid to disappoint. That goes for everybody. The intelligence he had. Years later in the NFL, I'm hearing people like, "Man, I listened to that song.". 4 in the Bowl Championship Series standings. 1 Miami Flattens No. Johnson was a member of the Hurricanes' most recent national championship team in 2001. It was the perfect storm for us. I told Mike they ought to bronze your knee and put it in the Hall of Fame, because if that didn't happen, we wouldn't have played for a national championship. Rumph 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. Open Menu. Davis Coker Reed has been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Davis It was one of those games where the score just got run up. If you dominate your responsibility and enough guys do that, then we'll be OK. A lot of people don't understand the context. We were exhausted. It's something we're used to playing with is that lack of respect. This 2001 Miami team crushed Nebraska for the title in the Rose Bowl. Dorsey and Johnson were named Rose Bowl co-Most Valuable Players. You're sweating, you're bleeding, you're laying everything on the line for the guy next to you, and there was no envy." All rights reserved It didn't matter who stood in the way, they didn't stand a chance against us. McGahee single handedly beat the Florida Gators in 2002 rushing for over 200 yards in the contest. That's what you love about great leaders is they respect their teammates, they love their teammates, but they're going to hold their teammates accountable. "Those guys were not just NFL players. / You had to work. Kenny was the perfect guy. 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. The way Miami broke the will of Syracuse and Washington in back-to-back games, outscoring them by a combined 124-7. 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. Imagine that, a team with 38 future NFL picks feeling disrespected. / We were pissed. Last edited by a moderator: Jan 7, 2009. Portis ran for 9.923 career yards and 75 touchdowns for Washington and the Denver Broncos while making two Pro Bowl rosters. I was chasing Ed, and Ed did some little backyard football by running zig zags in order not to get caught, and then he spikes the ball to put the emphasis on that play. 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. As cliche as it sounds, Miami wanted revenge. If we needed to win it on defense, let's go win it on defense. After an interception, Ed Reed strips the ball from his teammate and takes it for a touchdown to seal Miami's win vs. Boston College during the 2001 season. Dorsey Purchase Tickets. We liked what we had already, and we really wanted to just keep what we had. ACC Network FAQs Ed Reed, Kenny Dorsey -- they took ownership of everything: Lifting, the workouts in the summer, coming in to watch film. They just accumulated so many good players that everybody was looking at them as like, 'How have they done this? We thought we had a great team, but you don't know until the bullets start flying. Let's go, man! Read more about our data coverage. Walters It pushes you through those workouts and the offseason, and it was a huge motivator for me, because guys like Reggie Wayne and Santana Moss put their heart and soul into the program, to not be able to give them a national championship when you thought you could've -- it's one of those things that sticks with you. . Two Hurricanes have won the Heisman Trophy and nine have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. It gives us extra incentive to go out and perform well every week.". I don't know a single person that wasn't pissed headed into that game. It's one of those weird ones you can't explain, but you've got to get through. The scholarship recipient is chosen each year by the football coaches . As did what happened in October, when Miami -- ranked No. Former Miami Dolphin and Pro Football Hall of Famer Jason Taylor and defensive ends coach Rod Wright talk on the field during practice at Greentree . 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. It was grit and toughness for him, and it was important he was in there the whole time. At that point, it was like, all right, the last game then we're going to ship. 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. Payton spent time in NFL Europe as well as the Canadian Football League. Media Requests But the defense came through, as Mike Rumph, Matt Walters and Reed combined to save the day with one of the most iconic plays in Miami history -- a Walters interception, deflected off Rumph's knee, that ended up in Reed's hands for the defensive score. The leadership. That served as motivation. Everything in Ed wanted to destroy Florida State for so many reasons. Privacy Policy I remember Ed coming up next to me. I helped cover that team, too. Vilma got into a debate several years ago with former USC running back Reggie Bush when the two played for the New Orleans Saints. CB Markese Fitzgerald There's something about a night game in the Orange Bowl, there's something about that mystique. Davenport went on to a seven year NFL career with the Packers, Steelers, and Colts, while averaging 4.6 yards per rush and scoring 13 touchdowns as a pro. Call 1-800-GAMBLER. Additional contributors included future stars Kellen Winslow II, Sean Taylor, Antrel Rolle, Vernon Carey, and Rocky McIntosh. Jan 7, 2009. Sponsorship Opportunities 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. 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