The 1991 Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic was a post-season college football game played on January 1, 1991.
Miami led 19-3 at halftime, but put the game out of reach with two touchdowns within five minutes in the third quarter.
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 coach Dennis Erickson be suspended or fired and that the game result be vacated and the win given to Texas.
The next season, Miami claimed the AP Poll National Championship by going 12-0, ending with a 22-0 victory over Nebraska in the Orange Bowl.