Question: Kevin Smith was a member of a team that defeated what American Football Conference champions?
Context: The 2013 Rose Bowl, the 99th edition of the annual game, was a college football bowl game played on Tuesday, January 1, 2013, at the same-named stadium in Pasadena, California.  The Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association is the organizer of the game.  The game matched Big Ten Conference Champions Wisconsin Badgers against the Pac-12 Conference Champions Stanford Cardinal, a rematch of the same two teams in the 2000 Rose Bowl.  The Cardinal defeated the Badgers 20–14 for the Rose Bowl Championship.  This was Wisconsin's third consecutive Rose Bowl defeat. Super Bowl 50 was an American football game to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2015 season.  The American Football Conference (AFC) champions Denver Broncos defeated the National Football Conference (NFC) champions Carolina Panthers.  The game was played on February 7, 2016, at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California (located in the San Francisco Bay Area).  As this was the 50th Super Bowl game, the league emphasized the "golden anniversary" with various gold-themed initiatives during the 2015 season, as well as suspending the tradition of naming each Super Bowl game with Roman numerals (under which the game would have been known as "Super Bowl L"), so the logo could prominently feature the Arabic numerals 50. The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American football team that played in the National Football League from 1930 to 1943, and in 1944 as the Brooklyn Tigers.  The team played its home games at Ebbets Field of the baseball National League's team, the Brooklyn Dodgers.  In 1945, because of financial difficulties and the increasing scarcity of major league-level players because of the war-time defense requirements at the height of World War II, the team was merged with the Boston Yanks and were known as the Yanks for that season.  This old NFL franchise was not related to the earlier (second incarnation) American Football League II with a franchise that played as the Brooklyn Tigers for the first half of the 1936 season before moving to Rochester, New York and playing as the Rochester Tigers.  Another NFL team that played in the Brooklyn borough was the Brooklyn Lions (which became the Brooklyn Horsemen after merging with a team from an earlier first incarnation AFL of the same name) in 1926.  Later co-owner and partner Dan Topping (1912–1974), pulled the Tigers team out of the old NFL in 1946 and placed it in the newly established rival professional league – the All-America Football Conference, which shortly lasted until 1949 until several stronger teams from the AAFC merged with and entered a reorganized NFL in 1950.  It lasted until 1970 with the NFL-AFL (third) merger following the establishment of the first "Super Bowl" inter-league national championship game three years before with the old NFL champions playing the victors of the latest rival fourth incarnation of the American Football League IV, formed in 1960 (now the American Football Conference (AFC). The 2012–13 Miami Heat season was the franchise's 25th season in the National Basketball Association (NBA).  They came into the season as the defending NBA champions, back-to-back Eastern Conference champions, the third season playing with the "Big Three" of Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, and Chris Bosh, and the fifth season under head coach Erik Spoelstra.  During the season, the Heat embarked on a 27-game winning streak, which still ranks as the 3rd longest winning streak in a single season in NBA history.  On June 3, 2013, the Heat defeated the Indiana Pacers in game seven of the Eastern Conference Finals to become the first team since the Chicago Bulls in 1998 to Three-peat as Eastern Conference champions.  The Heat then defeated the San Antonio Spurs in an NBA Finals that went the full seven games, handing the Spurs their very first loss in the NBA Finals, and with this victory in the NBA Finals, it echoed the 1997-98 Bulls as they had also been the last Eastern team to repeat as NBA champions. The 2016 North Dakota State Bison football team represented North Dakota State University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season.  They were led by third-year head coach Chris Klieman.  The team played their 24th season in the Fargodome, entering the season as the five-time defending national champions and five-time Missouri Valley Football Conference Champions.  The Bison have been members of the Missouri Valley Football Conference since the 2008 season.  The Bison went 12–2 on the season and won their sixth straight conference title with their lone loss coming on a last-second touchdown versus rival SDSU.  The Bison received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they defeated San Diego and South Dakota State in the second round and quarterfinals before losing to James Madison in the semifinals, ending their five-year championship run. The 2015 Houston Cougars football team represented the University of Houston in the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season.  It was the 68th year of season play for Houston.  The team was led by first-year head coach Tom Herman and played its home games at TDECU Stadium in Houston.  The Houston Cougars football team is a member of the American Athletic Conference in its West Division.  They finished the season 13–1, 7–1 in American Athletic play to win a share of the West Division title.  Due to their head to head win over Navy, they represented the West Division in the inaugural American Athletic Championship Game where they defeated Temple to become American Athletic Conference champions.  As the highest ranked team from the "Group of five", they received an automatic bid to a New Year's Six bowl.  They were invited to the Peach Bowl where they defeated Florida State. Super Bowl XXXI was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Green Bay Packers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1996 season.  The Packers defeated the Patriots by the score of 35–21, earning their third overall Super Bowl victory, and their first since Super Bowl II.  The Packers also extended their league record for the most overall NFL championships to 12.  It was also the last in a run of 13 straight Super Bowl victories by the NFC over the AFC.  The game was played on January 26, 1997 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).  The NFL is one of the four major professional sports leagues in North America, and the highest professional level of American football in the world.  The NFL was founded in 1920.  In the course of its existence, it has merged with the All-America Football Conference and the American Football League (AFL) to create the current NFL.  The All-America Football Conference merged with the NFL in , and the AFL merged with the NFL in .  The history and records of the AFL were incorporated into the NFL. Super Bowl X was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1975 season.  The Steelers defeated the Cowboys by the score of 21–17 to win their second consecutive Super Bowl.  They were the third team to win back-to-back Super Bowls.  (The Miami Dolphins won Super Bowls VII and VIII, and the Green Bay Packers won Super Bowls I and II.)  It was also the first Super Bowl in which both participating teams had previously won a Super Bowl, as the Steelers were the defending champions and the Cowboys had won Super Bowl VI. Kevin Smith (born July 25, 1969) is a former tight end in the National Football League.  Smith spent three seasons with the Los Angeles Raiders.  After a year away from the NFL, he joined the Green Bay Packers for the 1996 NFL season.  As such, he was a member of the Super Bowl XXXI Champion Packers.
Answer: New England Patriots