2000 Rose Bowl

The 2000 Rose Bowl was a

Wisconsin entered the game as the sole champions of the Big Ten Conference, their first untied conference championship season since 1962 when they played in the 1963 Rose Bowl, although they had been conference co-champions in 1993 and 1998, appearing in the 1994 and 1999 Rose Bowls. The Wisconsin offense featured a powerful running game with 1999 Heisman Trophy winner Ron Dayne at running back.

Stanford Cardinal

Stanford entered the game as the champions of the

• Stanford – Mike Biselli 28-yard field goal 13:26 3–0 Stanford
• Wisconsin – Vitaly Pisetsky 31-yard field goal 9:19 3–3
• Stanford – Kerry Carter 1-yard run (two-point conversion failed) 2:03 9–3 Stanford

Third quarter

• Wisconsin – Ron Dayne 4-yard run (Pisetsky kick) 12:57 10–9 UW

Fourth quarter

• Wisconsin – Brooks Bollinger 1-yard run (Pisetsky kick) 7:22 17–9 UW

Aftermath

The two teams would go on to face off again exactly thirteen years later in the 2013 Rose Bowl, with Barry Alvarez returning to serve as interim head coach for Wisconsin, but this time, Stanford would win 20–14.

2000 Rose Queen Sophia Bush went on to become a successful actress, starring for nine seasons as Brooke Davis on One Tree Hill, and later as Detective Erin Lindsay on Chicago P.D..

Cultural references

• The animated series Futurama occasionally references this game, as part of a running gag that the mother of Philip J. Fry is a devout football fan.
  • The episode "Jurassic Bark", in which the (incorrectly inversed) 2nd-quarter score is briefly shown on Fry's parents' television, while Fry's mother wears a "cheesehead" hat to show loyalty to Wisconsin.
  • The episode "The Luck of the Fryrish", in which Fry's mother mentions the day Wisconsin won the Rose Bowl 17–9 in reference to the day Fry disappeared.
  • The episode "Game of Tones" ends with a dream sequence of Fry and his mother watching the end of the game.

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