Stanford's came on a drive that had started on its own 3-yard line and Wisconsin's was set up by a diving catch by Chris Chambers on a 36-yard completion from Brooks Bollinger.
Stanford took a 9–3 halftime lead on a touchdown by full back Kerry Carter, which came on the Cardinal's third consecutive rushing attempt from the Wisconsin 1-yard line.
After both teams exchanged punts two more times, Wisconsin scored its second touchdown of the game, which was aided by a fourth-down completion from Bollinger to John Sigmund, to extend its lead to 17–9 in the fourth quarter.
The Cardinal turned the ball over on downs, however, after committing two false-start and one delay-of-game penalties, and allowing a fourth-down sack of quarterback Todd Husak.
The two teams would go on to face off again exactly thirteen years later in the 2013 Rose Bowl, 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 One Tree Hill, and later as Detective Erin Lindsay on Chicago P.D..