Original sentence: During his tenure with the Beavers, his name came up for several high-profile college football positions, including the head coaching position at USC (which eventually went to fourth-choice Pete Carroll).During that 11-1 season he snapped a 26-year losing streak to the University of Southern California Trojans, earned the Beavers a share of the Pacific-10 Conference Championship, handily beat the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the Fiesta Bowl 41-9 and barely missed a national title game appearance with a three-point loss earlier in the season
Edited sentence: By the end of the post-season bowl games, many in the college football world viewed Oregon State as a team which would have won the national title had their season record positioned them to play either of the 2000-2001's championship bowl teams (Oklahoma/Florida State).During Erickson's tenure with the Beavers, his name came up for several high-profile college football positions, including the head coaching position at USC (which eventually went to fourth-choice Pete Carroll).During that 11-1 season he snapped a 26-year losing streak to the University of Southern California Trojans, earned the Beavers a share of the Pacific-10 Conference Championship, handily beat the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the 2001 Fiesta Bowl 41-9 and barely missed a national title game appearance with a three-point loss earlier in the season