The 2000 Rose Bowl was a

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bowl game played on January 1, 2000. It was the 86th

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and was played on January 1, 2000 at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California. The game featured the Wisconsin Badgers defeating the

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by a score of 17–9. Ron Dayne, the Wisconsin running back, was named the Rose Bowl Player of the Game for the second consecutive year.2008 Rose Bowl Program
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. Accessed January 26, 2008.

Pre-game activities

On October 26, 1999, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses selected Sophia Bush, a senior at

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and a resident of

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, to become the 82nd Rose Queen to reign over the 111th Rose Parade and the 86th Rose Bowl Game on the first New Year's Day of the 21st century. The game was presided over by the 2000 Tournament of Roses Royal Court and Rose Parade Grand Marshal Roy L. Disney. Members of the royal court were: Princesses Lauren Beattie, La Canada Flintridge,

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; Caitlin Bogert, Pasadena, Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy; Grace Chen, San Marino,

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; Kellie Handy, South Pasadena, South Pasadena High School; Carol Huang, San Marino,

; and Mariasol Pena, Arcadia, Arcadia High School. The 1999–2000 Tournament of Roses President was Kenneth H. Burrows.

Teams

Wisconsin Badgers

Wisconsin entered the game as the sole champions of the Big Ten Conference, their first untied conference championship season since

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when they played in the

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, although they had been conference co-champions in

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and

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, appearing in the

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and

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s. The Wisconsin offense featured a powerful running game with 1999

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winner Ron Dayne at running back.

Stanford Cardinal

Stanford entered the game as the champions of the

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. It was their first conference championship season since 1971 and their first Rose Bowl since

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Game summary

Scoring

First quarter

*No Score

Second quarter

*Stanford – Mike Biselli 28-yard field goal 13:26 3–0 Stanford *Wisconsin – Vitaly Pisetsky 31-yard field goal 9:19 3–3 *Stanford –

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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

Ron Dayne was named the Rose Bowl MVP for the second time (the first time being the

), becoming only the third player in the history of the Rose Bowl to repeat as MVP. To this day, he is the only player from a Big Ten Conference team to accomplish this feat:

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of the Washington Huskies ( AAWU) was the first,

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(

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) was the second, and Vince Young of the Texas Longhorns ( Big 12) has subsequently become the fourth. The two teams would go on to face off again exactly thirteen years later in the

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, 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 ''

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'', and later as Detective Erin Lindsay on '' Chicago P.D.''.

Cultural references

* The animated series ''

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'' occasionally references this game, as part of a running gag that the mother of

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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 "

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" hat to show loyalty to Wisconsin. ** The episode "

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", in which Fry's mother mentions the day Wisconsin won the Rose Bowl 17–9 in reference to the day Fry disappeared. ** The episode "

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" ends with a dream sequence of Fry and his mother watching the end of the game.

References

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