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Bowl meetings involving the No. 1- and No. 2-ranked teams in the Associated Press’ college football poll (The No. 1 team is 8-6):

*--* DATE RESULT BOWL Jan. 3, 2003 No. 2 Ohio State 31, No. 1 Miami 24, 2 OT Fiesta Bowl Jan. 4, 2000 No. 1 Florida State 46, No. 2 Virginia Sugar Bowl Tech 29 Jan. 4, 1999 No. 1 Tennessee 23, No. 2 Florida State 16 Fiesta Bowl Jan. 2, 1996 No. 1 Nebraska 62, No. 2 Florida 24 Fiesta Bowl Jan. 1, 1994 No. 1 Florida State 18, No. 2 Nebraska 16 Orange Bowl Jan. 1, 1993 No. 2 Alabama 34, No. 1 Miami 13 Sugar Bowl Jan. 1, 1988 No. 2 Miami 20, No. 1 Oklahoma 14 Orange Bowl Jan. 2, 1987 No. 2 Penn State 14, No. 1 Miami 10 Fiesta Bowl Jan. 1, 1983 No. 2 Penn State 27, No. 1 Georgia 23 Sugar Bowl Jan. 1, 1979 No. 2 Alabama 14, No. 1 Penn State 7 Sugar Bowl Jan. 1, 1972 No. 1 Nebraska 38, No. 2 Alabama 6 Orange Bowl Jan. 1, 1969 No. 1 Ohio State 27, No. 2 USC 16 Rose Bowl Jan. 1, 1964 No. 1 Texas 28, No. 2 Navy 6 Cotton Bowl Jan. 1, 1963 No. 1 USC 42, No. 2 Wisconsin 37 Rose Bowl

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