[2] Nebraska had practiced the play a number of times in the week leading up to the game and according to Crouch it had gone poorly enough that it was taken out of the playbook before Saturday.
[3] However, the game between the longtime rivals was a hard-fought, defensive battle, with the Cornhuskers leading 13–10 as they went into the fourth quarter.
[5][3] The Cornhuskers lined up in a formation they had used twice already that ended with Crouch pitching the ball to I-back Thunder Collins for a run.
Nevertheless, Crouch became the first true option quarterback to win the Heisman trophy, edging out Florida’s Rex Grossman and Miami’s Ken Dorsey.
2 in the BCS Rankings, earning a bid to play for the national title in the 2002 Rose Bowl where they lost to the Miami Hurricanes 37–14.