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| Date | January 1, 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1990 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Cotton Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Dallas, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Craig Erickson, QB, Miami (FL) Russell Maryland, DT, Miami (FL) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Jimmy Harper (SEC) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 73,521 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Network | CBS | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Jim Nantz (play-by-play),Tim Brant (color),Andrea Joyce (host),Mike Francesa (host),John Dockery (sideline) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The1991 Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic was a post-seasoncollege football game played on January 1, 1991. It pitted the#3 Texas Longhorns, champions of theSouthwest Conference, against the independent#4 Miami Hurricanes.
Miami entered the game having only lost to BYU and Notre Dame. Texas had stunned Penn State on the road 17-13 to open its season, then lost at home to Colorado 29-22 before winning nine straight games (including wins over then #4Oklahoma and then #3Houston to win theSouthwest Conference championship).
Miami led 19-3 at halftime, but put the game out of reach with two touchdowns within five minutes in the third quarter. The Hurricanes also set Cotton Bowl and school records for most penalties (15) and most penalty yards (202) in a single game, many of which were forunsportsmanlike conduct. Partly as a result of controversy from this game, the NCAA instituted a new rule stipulating that excessive celebration would be a 15-yard penalty.[1] In the pre-Internet era, many established newspaper reporters castigated the Hurricanes' players and coaches for Miami's actions, with some reporters demanding that coachDennis Erickson be suspended or fired and that the game result be vacated and the win given to Texas. These calls were ignored.
The next season,Miami claimed the AP Poll National Championship by going 12-0, ending with a 22-0 victory over Nebraska in theOrange Bowl.
Texas went 5-6 in theirnext season (and fired coachDavid McWilliams), did not play in another New Year's Day bowl game until1995, and did not win another New Year's Day bowl game until the1999 Cotton Bowl victory.
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