The 2001 season saw the Miami Hurricanes return to mountain top following an undefeated season and a victory in the Rose Bowl for the BCS Championship following a controversial selection process and a season marred by national tragedy. “The U”, in addition to being the nation’s lone unbeaten, also had the best Score Ratio and 3rd-best SOS for the year, which allowed them to easily surpass everyone else as the top team in the RPR for the season. As a result, no other team fell within the CCT cutoff for the year, although you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone that would be worthy of being considered Miami’s equal this year.

Co-champion Consideration Threshold: 0.0369; CCT Rating Cutoff: 0.7210

Rank	Team	Rating
1	Miami, FL (BCS)	0.7579
2	Florida	0.6982
3	Nebraska	0.6811
4	Tennessee	0.6720
5	Oregon	0.6702
6	Oklahoma	0.6659
7	Texas	0.6641
8	Colorado	0.6375
9	Washington State	0.6338
10	LSU	0.6326
11	Maryland	0.6318
12	Syracuse	0.6304
13	Illinois	0.6293
14	Louisville	0.6293
15	Marshall	0.6239
16	South Carolina	0.6192
17	Fresno State	0.6127
18	Florida State	0.6121
19	Stanford	0.6085
20	Brigham Young	0.6066
21	Virginia Tech	0.6054
22	Michigan	0.5997
23	Hawaii	0.5925
24	UCLA	0.5909
25	Utah	0.5880
26	Georgia	0.5876
27	Texas A&M	0.5838
28	Toledo	0.5835
29	Boston College	0.5823
30	North Carolina	0.5822
31	Arkansas	0.5816
32	Bowling Green	0.5808
33	Texas Tech	0.5806
34	Georgia Tech	0.5804
35	Washington	0.5782
36	Kansas State	0.5782
37	Alabama	0.5737
38	Troy	0.5733
39	Pittsburgh	0.5660
40	South Florida	0.5628
41	Boise State	0.5611
42	Iowa	0.5606
43	Auburn	0.5594
44	Clemson	0.5563
45	Mississippi	0.5524
46	Colorado State	0.5518
47	Ohio State	0.5513
48	Southern California	0.5416
49	NC State	0.5415
50	Northern Illinois	0.5412
51	East Carolina	0.5377
52	Miami, OH	0.5376
53	Michigan State	0.5369
54	Middle Tennessee	0.5328
55	Wake Forest	0.5328
56	UCF	0.5319
57	Iowa State	0.5292
58	Oregon State	0.5263
59	Notre Dame	0.5252
60	Southern Mississippi	0.5206
61	Purdue	0.5196
62	Penn State	0.5182
63	Wisconsin	0.5159
64	Louisiana Tech	0.5137
65	Rice	0.5134
66	New Mexico	0.5124
67	Cincinnati	0.5099
68	UAB	0.5065
69	Indiana	0.5058
70	Western Michigan	0.5016
71	Oklahoma State	0.5008
72	Memphis	0.4985
73	TCU	0.4983
74	Kent State	0.4978
75	Air Force	0.4914
76	Utah State	0.4892
77	Arizona State	0.4871
78	Minnesota	0.4871
79	Virginia	0.4836
80	Missouri	0.4835
81	Arizona	0.4815
82	Mississippi State	0.4730
83	UNLV	0.4650
84	Ball State	0.4626
85	North Texas	0.4624
86	West Virginia	0.4609
87	Northwestern	0.4557
88	Temple	0.4556
89	Kansas	0.4454
90	Kentucky	0.4434
91	Akron	0.4428
92	SMU	0.4428
93	Baylor	0.4418
94	Nevada	0.4319
95	New Mexico State	0.4310
96	Tulane	0.4233
97	San Diego State	0.4143
98	San Jose State	0.4137
99	Vanderbilt	0.4121
100	Central Michigan	0.4119
101	California	0.4012
102	Wyoming	0.3911
103	Buffalo	0.3720
104	Ohio	0.3689
105	Army	0.3685
106	UTEP	0.3658
107	Tulsa	0.3602
108	Louisiana-Lafayette	0.3562
109	Eastern Michigan	0.3550
110	Houston	0.3459
111	Connecticut	0.3440
112	Idaho	0.3437
113	Lousiana-Monroe	0.3415
114	Duke	0.3375
115	Rutgers	0.3342
116	Arkansas State	0.3254
117	Navy	0.3151

Best Win Percentage: Miami, FL
Best SOS: Arkansas
Best Score Ratio: Miami, FL