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Saturday, December 1, 2001
ABC's College Football Saturday

No. 1 Miami 26, Virginia Tech 24


	Jeremy Shockey and the 'Canes are headed to Pasadena.

There's no stopping Miami. The Hurricanes are headed to Pasadena to play for their fifth national championship. They have a little luck to thank for that after hanging on for a 26-24 victory over Virginia Tech when Ernest Wilford dropped a pass from Grant Noel on a two-point conversion with six minutes left that would have tied it for the Hokies. From there, the 'Canes defense tightened up and Ed Reed picked off his second pass of the game to complete a perfect 11-0 regular season and secure a bid to the Rose Bowl.

Box score
ABC Sports Online bowl projections

BCS standings

Big 12 Championship game: No. 7 Colorado 39, No. 3 Texas 37
Schedule Statistics Roster Team page	Just call the Colorado Buffaloes the Rose Bowl elimination squad. One week after erasing Nebraska's road to the national title game, they knocked Texas out of the way, too. Chris Brown ran for three touchdowns as the Buffs turned Texas quarterback Chris Simms' four first-half turnovers into 22 points, then held off a rally to beat the Longhorns 39-37 Saturday night for their first Big 12 championship. Major Applewhite nearly rallied the 'Horns to victory, but a costly running into the kicker penalty with four minutes to go ended their chances. Box score Jammer diary: Our chance Bowden Show: Mack Brown Big 12 flashbacks: 1998 \| 1999	Schedule Statistics Roster Team page

No. 5 Oregon 17, Oregon State 14
Schedule Statistics Roster Team page	Keenan Howry returned a punt 70 yards for a touchdown, and Maurice Morris added an 8-yard scoring run with 4:36 left as Oregon kept its slim national title hopes alive with a rainswept 17-14 victory over Oregon State in the 105th Civil War. Oregon already had secured a spot in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, but the victory gave the Ducks their first outright Pac-10 title since 1994, and with Florida losing, they still have a chance to go to Pasadena. UO held Ken Simonton to 86 yards, keeping him short of 1,000 for the year for the first time in his career. Box score Harrington: Who knows about the BCS? Harris: Joey's trusty sidekick	Schedule Statistics Roster Team page

Notre Dame 24, Purdue 18
Schedule Statistics Roster Team page	Vontez Duff scored on a 96-yard kickoff return and Jason Beckstrom returned an interception 29 yards for a score as Notre Dame beat Purdue 24-18 in what could be Bob Davie's last game as coach after five seasons in South Bend. The victory may have been the last for Davie, whose job status has been questioned during most of the Irish's disappointing 5-6 season and reports said he would be fired shortly after the game. Davie, who was given a five-year extension last year, said he would never resign as coach. Box score Cunningham: Don't do it, Jon Big Ten notebook	Schedule Statistics Roster Team page

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ABC's 2001-2002 college football schedule

ABC Announcer Pick 'Em

College football Sights and Sounds

Week 1: Nebraska, Ga. Tech prevail

Week 2 - Happy Valley hit by a major Hurricane

Week 3 - ND falls flat in Lincoln, while the Huskies do another old trick

Week 5 - The Chapel Hill Stunner

Week 6 - OU survives a Wildcat visit

Week 7- OU runs down Longhorns

Week 8 - Miami and UCLA state their cases

Week 9 - JoePa does it

Week 10 - Nebraska's No-Name Defense shuts down Oklahoma

Week 11 - Duckett's score sinks Wolverines

Week 12 -- Huskers and 'Canes stay perfect

Week 13 - Miami storms past Syracuse

Week 14 - A Buffalo Stampede

Miami's Jeremy Shockey hauls in a 14-yard TD pass from Ken Dorsey.
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Miami's Clinton Portis cuts back and runs into the end zone.
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Eric Green blocks a Miami punt, and Brandon Manning is there to take it in for a Hokie touchdown.
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Virginia Tech's Jarrett Ferguson goes straight over the pile for a touchdown.
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Ken Dorsey was expecting a tough game against the Hokies.
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Larry Coker talks to ABC Sport's Lynn Swann following Miami's win over Virginia Tech.
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Colorado's final drive continues when Texas gets penalized for roughing the punter (Courtesy: ABC Sports).
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Aaron Killion's interception return brings the ball inside the fifteen and sets up a Chris Brown TD (Courtesy: ABC Sports).
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Colorado's Bobby Purify scampers 51 yards setting a short TD by Chris Brown (Courtesy: ABC Sports).
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Marcus Moore intercepts Chris Simms and returns it 64 yards for the score (Courtesy: ABC Sports).
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Major Applewhite finds a wide-open B.J. Johnson for a 79-yard touchdown strike (Courtesy: ABC Sports).
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Roderick Babers intercepts a fake punt attempt and takes it back 54 yards for the touch (Courtesy: ABC Sports).
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Gary Barnett details Colorado's Big 12 Championship win with ABC's Jack Arute.
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Oregon's Keenan Howry finds a seam and takes a punt back 69 yards.
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Oregon's Maurice Morris drags a couple defenders into the end zone on his nine-yard TD run.
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Oregon State's Jonathan Smith finds Josh Hawkins in the end zone for a 24-yard TD.
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Oregon's Rashad Bauman lays a hit on Ken Simonton that knocks Simonton's helmet off.
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