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College football game

2001 Capital One Florida Citrus Bowl

Michigan Wolverines

(8–3)

(9–3)

Big Ten

SEC

31

28

Head coach:
Lloyd Carr

Head coach:
Tommy Tuberville

AP	Coaches	BCS
17	15	16

AP	Coaches
20	20

	1	2	3	4	Total
Michigan	7	14	10	0	31
Auburn	0	14	7	7	28

Date

January 1, 2001

Season

Stadium

Florida Citrus Bowl

Location

Orlando, Florida

MVP

Anthony Thomas (Michigan RB)

Pat Flood (Pac-10)

Attendance

66,928

United States TV coverage

Sean Grande, David Norrie, Chip Tarkenton

Florida Citrus Bowl
< 2000	2002 >

The 2001 Florida Citrus Bowl was a college football bowl game held on January 1, 2001 at the Florida Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida. The Michigan Wolverines, co-champions of the Big Ten Conference, defeated the Auburn Tigers, champions of the Southeastern Conference's Western Division, 31-28. Michigan running back Anthony Thomas was named the game's MVP.

References

External links

Summary at Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Athletics History

v t e 2000–01 NCAA football bowl game season
Mobile Alabama (Dec. 20) Las Vegas (Dec. 21) Oahu (Dec. 24) Aloha (Dec. 25) Motor City (Dec. 27) Galleryfurniture.com (Dec. 27) Humanitarian (Dec. 28) Insight.com (Dec. 28) Music City (Dec. 28) MicronPC.com (Dec. 28) Liberty (Dec. 29) Holiday (Dec. 29) Peach (Dec. 29) Sun (Dec. 29) Alamo (Dec. 30) Silicon Valley (Dec. 31) Independence (Dec. 31) Cotton (Jan. 1) Outback (Jan. 1) Gator (Jan. 1) Florida Citrus (Jan. 1)
Bowl Championship Series games: Rose (Jan. 1) Fiesta (Jan. 1) Sugar (Jan. 2) Orange (Jan. 3)
All-Star Games: East–West Shrine Game (Jan. 13) Senior Bowl (Jan. 20)

v t e Citrus Bowl
Formerly known as the Tangerine / Florida Citrus / Capital One Bowl
History & conference tie-ins	History Stadium Big Ten Conference Southeastern Conference Atlantic Coast Conference
Tangerine Bowl	1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 (Jan.) 1958 (Dec.) 1960 (Jan.) 1960 (Dec.) 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982
Florida Citrus Bowl	1983 1984 1985 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Capital One Bowl	2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Citrus Bowl	2015 2016 (Jan.) 2016 (Dec.) 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 (Jan.) 2024 (Dec.)
There were games in January and December of 1958, 1960, and 2016. As a result, there were no games in 1959, 1986 or 2017.

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Auburn Tigers bowl games

Pound sign (#) denotes national championship game.

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Michigan Wolverines bowl games

# denotes national championship game; † denotes College Football Playoff semifinal game