2006 BCS National Championship Game
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| presented by Citi BCS National Championship Game 92nd Rose Bowl Game |
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| Date | January 4, 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Rose Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Pasadena, California | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Offensive: Vince Young (Texas QB) Defensive: Michael Huff (Texas S) |
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| Favorite | USC by 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | David Witvoet (Big Ten) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 93,987 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$14.998 million | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | ABC | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Keith Jackson, Dan Fouts, Todd Harris and Holly Rowe | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nielsen ratings | 21.7, 35.6M viewers, 35 share | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2006 Rose Bowl Game, played on January 4, 2006 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, was an American college football bowl game that served as BCS National Championship Game. It featured the only two unbeaten teams of the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season: the defending Rose Bowl champion and reigning Big 12 Conference champion Texas Longhorns played Pacific-10 Conference titleholders and two-time defending AP national champions, the USC Trojans.
The game was a back-and-forth contest; Texas's victory was not secured until the game's final 19 seconds. Vince Young, the Texas quarterback, and Michael Huff, a Texas safety, were named the offensive and defensive Rose Bowl Players Of The Game.ESPN named Young's fourth-down, game-winning touchdown run the fifth-highest rated play in college-football history. The game is the highest-rated BCS game in TV history with 21.7% of households watching it, and is often considered the greatest college football national championship game of all time.
Texas's Rose Bowl win was the 800th victory in school history and the Longhorns ended the season ranked third in Division I history in both wins and winning percentage (.7143). It was only the third time that the two top-ranked teams had faced each other in Rose Bowl history, with the 1963 Rose Bowl and 1969 Rose Bowl games being the others.
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