Georgia Tech coach Mac McWhorter was coaching on an interim basis (his only game as head coach) after coach George O'Leary announced he was resigning to take the same position at Notre Dame. Due to a controversy surrounding O'Leary's resume, and in an odd twist of fate, McWhorter's counterpart Tyrone Willingham ended up as the new Notre Dame coach and thus this edition of the Seattle Bowl was his last game at Stanford.
2001, seattle, bowl, 2001, jeep, seattle, bowl, december, first, edition, named, such, college, football, bowl, game, previously, known, oahu, bowl, played, safeco, field, seattle, washington, game, pitted, georgia, tech, yellow, jackets, from, stanford, cardi. The 2001 Jeep Seattle Bowl December was the first edition to be named as such of the college football bowl game previously known as the Oahu Bowl and was to be played at Safeco Field in Seattle Washington The game pitted the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets from the ACC and the Stanford Cardinal from the Pac 10 The game was the final competition of the 2001 football season for each team and resulted in a 24 14 Georgia Tech upset victory over the 11th ranked Stanford team 2001 Jeep Seattle Bowl2001 Seattle Bowl logoGeorgia Tech Yellow Jackets Stanford Cardinal 7 5 9 2 24 14Head coach Mac McWhorter interim Head coach Tyrone WillinghamAPCoachesBCS111191234 TotalGeorgia Tech 71007 24Stanford 0338 14DateDecember 27 2001Season2001StadiumSafeco FieldLocationSeattle WashingtonAttendance30 144PayoutUS 750 000 per team 1 United States TV coverageNetworkESPN2AnnouncersDave Barnett play by play Bill Curry amp Mike Golic analysts Michele Tafoya sidelines Seattle Bowl lt 2000 Oahu Bowl 2002 gt The game was played at Safeco Field because Qwest Field had not yet been completed Contents 1 Coaches 2 See also 3 References 4 External linksCoaches editGeorgia Tech coach Mac McWhorter was coaching on an interim basis his only game as head coach after coach George O Leary announced he was resigning to take the same position at Notre Dame Due to a controversy surrounding O Leary s resume and in an odd twist of fate McWhorter s counterpart Tyrone Willingham ended up as the new Notre Dame coach and thus this edition of the Seattle Bowl was his last game at Stanford See also editSeattle BowlReferences edit CNNSI com 2001 College Bowls 2001 02 bowl games schedule Thursday January 03 2002 11 38 PM Archived from the original on April 19 2010 Retrieved January 2 2009 External links editBox score and summary of game at CNNSI com Recap of game at CNNSI com nbsp This college football bowl article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 2001 Seattle Bowl amp oldid 1170717566, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
