Reply #61: It's still hard for me to accept the Fiesta Bowl defeat [View All]

[Awsi Dooger]

Not like the 2000 election, but sometimes I briefly put them in the same category. (on edit: as a letdown, not inequity. I didn't have much problem with the pass interference call, other than how late it came)

Damn, it just felt like 34 in a row should have been worth at least 2 titles, not one.

Especially the bizarre scheduling masochism that cost the 'Canes a BCS title shot in 2000. Almost no one is aware of it, even the most avid college football fans.

Miami was scheduled to open home vs. East Carolina. Even a revenge game after blowing a 20 point halftime lead at EC in '99. But East Carolina asked out of the game in April, with a scheduling conflict. Miami obliged, even though there was no Division 1 opponent available as a replacement. The 'Canes settled for McNeese St, and got ZERO points on the BCS computer. As it turned out, even a ONE POINT home victory over East Carolina would have put Miami in the Orange Bowl title game vs. Oklahoma.

That was the year FSU advanced despite the 27-24 loss to Miami and identical records.