It looks like this was posted a while back here.  But, if you're like me, you may have missed the link in the long post.  And, in this endless offseason, it probably wouldn't hurt for us all to read it again.

ESPN's Best BCS Performances 

  1. Texas QB Vince Young vs. USC in 2006 Rose Bowl

 

You remember this one right? It was only one of the greatest individual performances in U.S. sports history. Start with the biggest number, which is mind-blowing: a BCS bowl record 467 total yards in Texas' 41-38 victory. Young rushed 19 times for 200 yards, scoring touchdowns of 14, 17 and eight yards, the final tally providing the game winner on fourth down. That's still the best rushing total in a BCS title game. Oh, and Young didn't lose a single yard against a fast Trojans defense. Nor did he throw an interception while completing 30 of 40 passes for 267 yards. That's the second-highest completion percentage in any BCS bowl game. But it wasn't just the "no-way-he-just-did-that" athleticism. It was his rising to the moment and almost single-handedly ending USC's 34-game winning streak by leading a comeback from a 12-point deficit in the fourth quarter to give Texas its first national title since 1970. It was Young, weeks after failing to hide his disappointment over losing the Heisman Trophy to USC's Reggie Bush, proving to the world that he was college football's biggest star.

 

3. Texas QB Vince Young vs. Michigan in 2005 Rose Bowl

Perhaps we should have seen Young's 2006 Rose Bowl performance coming, considering he'd made a similarly stunning star turn in the same storied venue almost exactly a year before. In Texas' 38-37 victory over the Wolverines, he rushed for 192 yards with touchdown jaunts of 20, 60, 10 and 23 yards. He also passed for 180 yards and a touchdown, and drove the Longhorns for the game-winning kick. And, while not a championship game, there was some unique pressure on Young and his Longhorns teammates. After a controversial lobbying effort by coach Mack Brown, Texas had leapfrogged California in the national polls and received a guaranteed BCS berth, thereby preventing the traditional Pac-10-Big Ten matchup, which didn't make the Longhorns terribly popular in Pasadena. A side note: Young's performance unfortunately marginalized Michigan receiver/return man Steve Breaston's Rose Bowl record of 315 all-purpose yards.

I remember singing the Eyes of Texas at the end of the first Rose Bowl thinking, this can never be topped.  Then, 2006 happened.  Thanks for the memories Vince.