Read your link — good stuff, thanks for posting that look back to the before-Genesis time for the BCS.
That game was certainly significant - for a number of reasons. Also the 1994 PSU team cemented the need for another system - arguably still the best offense to ever take the field, and yet they had to go to the Rose Bowl, while UNL went on to play an average Cane team in Miami.
Too bad the system they came up with has evolved into espn having all the control.