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                                                                                           BOWL REVIEW



Gators bowled ’em over                                                                                                                                                        Ranking the bowls
                                                                                                                                                                              Staff writer David Thomas watched
                                                                                                                                                                              all 34 bowls and ranks the games
                                                                                                                                                                              from best to worst:
                                                                                                                                                                              1. Fiesta: Texas 24, Ohio State 21 —
                                           The college football bowl schedule almost reached three full weeks in length, with 34 games — including two
By DAVID THOMAS dthomas@star-telegram.com                                                                                                                                     The legend of Colt McCoy grows.
new ones this season — over 20 days. We began with Wake Forest beating Navy in the first EagleBank Bowl and ended with Florida claiming the BCS national                      2. Alamo: Missouri 30, Northwestern
championship by defeating Oklahoma. A look back, from start to finish, at the 2008-09 bowl games.                                                                             23 (OT) — Carroll grad Chase Daniel
                                                                                                                                                                              overcomes three interceptions,
Top bowl rushers                                        Top bowl passers                                         Top bowl receivers                                           throws for winning touchdown in OT.
Player, school                       No.   Yds.   TD    Player, school                   C-A-I     Yds.   TD     Player, school                          No.   Yds. TD        3. Poinsettia: TCU 17, Boise State
Gartrell Johnson, Colorado St.       27    285     2    Colt McCoy, Texas               41-58-1    414     2     Hakeem Nicks, North Carolina             8    217 3          16 — TCU wipes out 13-0 deficit to
Donald Brown, Connecticut            29    261     1    Mark Sanchez, USC               28-35-0    413     4     Dezmon Briscoe, Kansas                  14    201 3          hand Boise State its first loss.
                                                                                                                                                                              4. New Orleans: Southern Miss 30,
Tarrion Adams, Tulsa                 19    207     3    Jimmy Clausen, Notre Dame       22-26-0    401     5     Golden Tate, Notre Dame                  6    177 3
                                                                                                                                                                              Troy 27 (OT) — Southern Miss over-
Jahvid Best, California              20    186     2    Colin Kaepernick, Nevada        24-47-2    370     3     Mike McCoy, Nevada                      13    172 0
                                                                                                                                                                              comes a 10-point fourth-quarter
Da’Rel Scott, Maryland               14    174     2    Graham Harrell, Texas Tech      36-58-2    364     4     Quan Cosby, Texas                       14    171 2
                                                                                                                                                                              deficit, then wins on a blocked field
                                                                                                                                                                              goal in overtime.
                                                                                                                                                                              5. BCS Championship: Florida 24,
                                                                                                                                                                              Oklahoma 14 — If the title had not
                                                                                                                                                                              been on the line, this would have
                                                                                                                                                                              bordered on being a remote-clicker.
                                                                                                                                                                              6. Gator: Nebraska 26, Clemson 21
                                                                                                                                                                              — Nebraska caps a turnaround sea-
                                                                                                                                                                              son with a second-half turnaround.
                                                                                                                                                                              7. Holiday: Oregon 42, Oklahoma
                                                                                                                                                                              State 31 — Another exciting, high-
Baugh                      Harrell
                      AP                           AP
                                                                                                                                                                              scoring Holiday Bowl game, with five
Cotton Bowl then and now                                                                                                                                                      lead changes in the second half.
This marked the 73rd and final Cotton Bowl at                                                                                                                                 8. Meineke Car Care: West Virginia
the Cotton Bowl stadium, with next year’s game                                                                                                                                31, North Carolina 30 — A 35-point
moving to Arlington. Comparing the first Cotton                                                                                                                               first quarter with four of the scoring
Bowl of 1937 and the final one in Dallas (* de-                                                                                                                               plays covering at least 35 yards.
notes bowl record):                                                                                                                                                           9. PapaJohns.com: Rutgers 29,
                 1937             2009                                                                                                                                        North Carolina State 23 — North
                 TCU 16,          Mississippi 47,
Score                                                                                                                                                                         Carolina State leads 17-6 when QB
                 Marquette 6      Texas Tech 34                                                                                                                               Russell Wilson injures a knee. Then
                                                                                                                                                                              pfft.
                 22               81*
Total points
                                                                                                                                                                              10. Emerald: California 24, Miami
Second-half 0                     36
                                                                                                                                                                              (Fla.) 17 — If Cal had a good passing
points
                                                                                                                                                                              game to go with RB Jahvid Best (186
                 17,000           88,175*
Attendance
                                                                                                                                                                              yards) ...
                 Threatening      68, clear and
Weather
                                                                                                                                                                              11. Cotton: Mississippi 47, Texas
                                  beautiful
                                                                                                                                                                              Tech 34 — Texas Tech’s history of
Rushing yds 224                   328                                                                                                                                         bowl comebacks keeps it interesting
                                                        Receiver Quan Cosby delivered the winning points for Texas.
                 283              656
Passing yds                                                                                                                      THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC/ROB SCHUMACHER VIA AP
                                                                                                                                                                              for part of the fourth quarter.
                 3                11*
TDs                                                                                                                                                                           12. Armed Forces: Houston 34, Air
                                                        Staking their claim                         Where was                         With teammates
                 Dutch Meyer Houston Nutt
Winning                                                                                                                                                                       Force 28 — Cougars’ running game,
                                                                                                    the drama?                        like this ...
                                                        How select coaches and players
coach                                                                                                                                                                         not its passing, hurts Air Force most.
                                                        weighed in on the “Who’s No. 1?”            Texas’ game-winning TD            Colorado State running back
                                                                                                                                                                              13. New Mexico: Colorado State 40,
                 Sammy Baugh Graham Harrell
Late-game                                               debate after their games.                   with 16 seconds remaining         Gartrell Johnson rushed for
                                                                                                                                                                              Fresno State 35 — An entertaining
                 reinserted at attempted
fan-pleaser                                                 Florida coach Urban Meyer: “I’ll        in the Fiesta Bowl made           285 yards against Fresno
                                                                                                                                                                              game, but far from a football clinic.
                 quarterback      drop-kick             tell you, we’re going to enjoy a big        the Longhorns the only            State in the New Mexico Bowl
                                                                                                                                                                              CSU’s Gartrell Johnson rushes for
                                                        win, we’re going to enjoy the nation-       team to come from behind          — the second-best rushing
                                                                                                                                                                              285 yards and two TDs.
Making                                                  al championship. Let someone else           to win in the final two           day in bowl history. He also
                                                                                                                                                                              14. Las Vegas: Arizona 31, BYU 21
statements                                              worry about that. Gators are No. 1.”        minutes of a game. Only 11        had 90 yards receiving, for a
                                                                                                                                                                              — After four consecutive Las Vegas
A look at the                                               Utah coach Kyle Whittingham: “I         winning teams trailed at          Division I record 375 total
                                                                                                                                                                              Bowl appearances, you think BYU is
records for states                                      know where I’m voting us. I’m voting        any point in the fourth           yards. But after the game,
                                                                                                                                                                              ready for a different bowl?
with at least three                                     us No. 1. End of story.”                    quarter, and only four of         Johnson was taking plenty of
                                                                                                                                                                              15. Humanitarian: Maryland 42,
bowl teams:                                                 USC coach Pete Carroll: “With all       those were behind in the          heat from teammates for
                                                                                                                                                                              Nevada 35 — Teams combine for 940
4-1 Florida                                             due respect, [Florida and Oklahoma]         final seven minutes of            being caught from behind on
                                                                                                                                                                              yards of offense and almost that
4-1 Texas                                               are two great programs, I don’t think       regulation. Southern Miss,        a 57-yard run and a 57-yard
                                                                                                                                                                              many missed tackles on defense.
2-1 California                                          anyone can beat the Trojans.”               which trailed Troy by 10          reception. “I’m not going to
                                                                                                                                                                              16. EagleBank: Wake Forest 29,
1-2 Oklahoma                                                Texas quarterback Colt McCoy: “I        points, was the only team         give him credit,” teammate
                                                                                                                                                                              Navy 19 — Wake QB Riley Skinner
1-3 North Carolina                                      don’t think there’s anybody in the          to overcome more than an          Tommie Hill joked, “because
                       Florida’s Tim Tebow walked
                                                                                                                                                                              completes all 11 of his passes, and
0-3 Michigan                                            country who can beat us at this             eight-point deficit in the        he got run down twice.”
                       off as a champion.       AP
                                                                                                                                                                              the Demon Deacons score 14 points
                                                        point.”                                     fourth quarter.
                                                                                                                                                                              in the final eight minutes.
The bowl Mendoza line
                                                                                                                                                                              17. Rose: USC 38, Penn State 24 —
Eight teams entered their bowl games with 6-6
                                                                                                                                                                              Nittany Lions score 17 points in the
                                                                                                  By the numbers                 Conference calls
records, and three lost to finish the season be-
                                                                                                                                                                              fourth quarter to make it respect-
                                                                                                                                 s The SEC has won the past three
low .500. How the 6-6 teams fared, with their                                                        games decided by three
                                                                                                  7                                                                           able.
opponents’ final record:                                                                                                         BCS national championships.
                                                                                                     points or fewer.
                                                                                                                                                                              18. Independence: Louisiana Tech
Team              Result            Opponent                                                                                     s The Pac-10 had the best confer-
                                                                                                        games decided by
                                                                                                  16                                                                          17, Northern Illinois 10 — Louisiana
Florida Atlantic W 24-21            C. Mich. (8-5)                                                                               ence record at 5-0.
                                                                                                        seven points or fewer.                                                Tech comes from behind to win for
                                                                                                                                 s The SEC had the most wins of
Kentucky          W 25-19           E. Car. (9-5)
                                                                                                     of five BCS bowl games
                                                                                                  1                                                                           seventh time in ’08.
                                                                                                                                 any conference, going 6-2.
Memphis           L 41-14           S. Fla. (8-5)                                                    (Fiesta) decided by                                                      19. Music City: Vanderbilt 16, Bos-
                                                                                                                                 s Big Ten teams went 1-6 for the
N.C. State        L 29-23           Rutgers (8-5)                                                 fewer than 10 points.                                                       ton College 14 — Vandy’s punt cover-
                                                                                                                                 worst record among the six BCS
No. Illinois      L 17-10           La. Tech (8-5)                                                                                                                            age team scores the Commodores’
                                                                                                     of 12 January games         conferences.
                                                                                                  3
Notre Dame        W 49-21           Hawaii (7-7)                                                                                                                              only touchdown.
                                                                                                                                 s Of the Big 12’s four wins in its
                                                                                                     decided by fewer than
                                                                                                                                                                              20. Sugar: Utah 31, Alabama 17 —
Southern Miss W 30-27 (OT) Troy (8-5)                                                             10 points.                     seven games, only one victory came
                                                                                                                                                                              Undefeated Utes clean up on low Tide.
Vanderbilt        W 16-14           Bos. Coll. (9-5)                                                                             from a South Division team (Texas).
                                                                                                     blocked extra-point
                                                                                                  3                                                                           21. Liberty: Kentucky 25, East Caro-
                                                                                                                                 s Mid-American teams finished
                                                                                                     attempts in the Liberty
                                                                                                                                                                              lina 19 — Replay wipes out Kentucky
                                                                                                                                 0-5 and were outscored by an
Out in the cold                                                                                   Bowl between Kentucky
                                                                                                                                                                              fumble return for the winning TD.
                                                                                                                                 average of 17 points.
It’s no surprise that the Humanitarian Bowl in                                                    and East Carolina.
                                                                                                                                                                              Wildcats return another fumble for a
                                                                                                                                 s Virginia Tech’s win over Cincin-
Boise, Idaho, had the coldest temperature at
                                                                                                                                                                              TD three plays later.
                                                                                                                                 nati in the Orange Bowl broke the
kickoff of the bowl games, at 38 degrees. But
                                                                                                  Streakers                                                                   22. Motor City: Florida Atlantic 24,
                                                                                                                                 ACC’s eight-game losing streak in
Fort Worth’s Armed Forces Bowl and the Sun
                                                                                                  The longest current                                                         Central Michigan 21 — FAU coach
                                                        TCU safety Stephen Hodge                                                 BCS bowls.
                                                                                         AP
Bowl (of all bowls) were among the eight games
                                                                                                  bowl winning streaks                                                        Howard Schnellenberger calls the win
that kicked off with sub-50-degree readings.
                                                                                                  among this season’s                                                         his program’s “most meaningful
                                                        TCU: No running allowed                                                  Odds and trends
Bowl                   Site                Temp.
                                                                                                  bowl teams:                                                                 game.”
                                                                                                                                 s BCS Top 25 teams were 0-5
Humanitarian           Boise, Idaho            38       Consider this the annual “You can’t
                                                                                                  8 Utah                                                                      23. Capital One: Georgia 24, Michi-
                                                        run on TCU in a bowl game” note.                                         against unranked teams. In games
Music City             Nashville               39                                                 5 Oregon State                                                              gan State 12 — Bulldogs dominate
                                                        The Horned Frogs held Boise State                                        between ranked teams, the lower-
EagleBank              Washington, D.C.        40                                                 5 Texas                                                                     the second half after trailing 6-3 at
                                                        to 28 rushing yards on 20 carries in                                     ranked team won six of 10 games.
New Mexico             Albuquerque             41                                                 4 California                                                                halftime.
                                                                                                                                 s Teams that played in their home
                                                        the Poinsettia Bowl. That makes
Independence           Shreveport              44                                                 4 LSU                                                                       24. Insight: Kansas 42, Minnesota 21
                                                        four consecutive years that TCU                                          state were 9-5, including national
                                                                                                  4 TCU
Las Vegas              Las Vegas               44                                                                                                                             — Gophers can’t handle Reesing to
                                                        has held its bowl opponent to                                            champion Florida.
                                                                                                  4 West Virginia                                                             Briscoe, or Reesing to Meier.
Armed Forces           Fort Worth              47                                                                                s The team that scored first won
                                                        fewer than 35 yards rushing. Over
                                                                                                  ... and the longest bowl                                                    25. Orange: Virginia Tech 20, Cincin-
Sun                    El Paso                 48       those four games, opponents have                                         21 of the 34 games.
                                                                                                  losing streaks among                                                        nati 7 — FedEx should ask for some
                                                                                                                                 s The top-10 finishers in the Heis-
                                                        rushed for a total of 74 yards on
                                                                                                  this season’s bowl                                                          sponsorship money back.
                                                        104 attempts. That is 0.7 yards per                                      man Trophy voting had a 5-5 record.
Milestones tracker                                                                                teams:                                                                      26. International: Connecticut 38,
                                                        carry and 18.5 yards per game.                                           Sam Bradford of Oklahoma was the
Comparing individual milestones from this sea-                                                    6 Northwestern                                                              Buffalo 20 — UConn wins despite
                                                                                                                                 only of the three finalists to lose in a
son’s bowls to the previous two bowl seasons                                                      5 Ball State                                                                being minus-5 in turnovers at halftime.
                                                        Houston: Twice the fun                                                   bowl game. Texas’ Colt McCoy and
(note: there were 32 bowl games in 2006-07 and                                                    4 Georgia Tech                                                              27. Champs Sports: Florida State
                                                        Rice and Houston had never given                                         Florida’s Tim Tebow won.
2007-08):                                                                                         4 Western Michigan                                                          42, Wisconsin 13 — Florida State’s
                                                                                                                                 s Three of the regular season’s top
                                                        their home city two bowl victories
                        ’06-07 ’07-08 ’08-09
                                                                                                                                                                              defense outscores Wisconsin’s of-
                                                        to celebrate in the same season.                                         five rushers — MiQuale Lewis of
100-yard rushers          22      36       24
                                                                                                                                                                              fense, two TDs to one.
                                                                                                Long-drive
                                                        This season, they won bowl games                                         Ball State, Javon Ringer of Michigan
200-yard rushers           0       4        3                                                                                                                                 28. Hawaii: Notre Dame 49, Hawaii
                                                                                                competition
                                                        on back-to-back days. Rice won its                                       State and Kendall Hunter of Okla-
300-yard passers          15      13       15                                                                                                                                 21 — Hawaii outmatched in a match-
                                                        first bowl game since the 1954                                           homa State — rushed for fewer
                                                                                                The longest drive ...
100-yard receivers        26      22       26                                                                                                                                 up of six-loss teams.
                                                        Cotton Bowl, routing Western            For yards: 99, Oklahoma          than 50 yards in their bowl games.
200-yard receivers         3       0        2                                                                                                                                 29. Texas: Rice 38, Western Michigan
                                                        Michigan 38-14 in the Texas Bowl.       State (11 plays, 4:37,           All three of their teams lost.
                                                                                                                                                                              14 — Rice dominates, leads 38-0
                                                                                                                                 s Texas had the worst starting
                                                        The Owls had lost four consecutive      touchdown)
                                                                                                                                                                              midway through the fourth quarter.
Drought breakers                                        bowl games. The next day, Houston       For plays and time: 18           field position of all teams, starting
                                                                                                                                                                              30. Outback: Iowa 31, South Caroli-
Previous bowl wins for some of this year’s win-         won the Armed Forces Bowl 34-28         and 8:37, Air Force (51          on average at its 19-yard line.
                                                                                                                                                                              na 10 — Iowa leads 31-0 entering the
ners (with bowl record since last win in paren-         over Air Force. It was the Cougars’     yards, field goal)               Houston had the best, at its 46.
                                                                                                                                                                              fourth quarter.
theses):                                                first bowl victory since the 1980
                                                                                                                                                                              31. Chick-fil-A: LSU 38, Georgia
Rice: 1954 Cotton (0-4)                                                                         Quote marks
                                                        Garden State Bowl and ended an
                                                                                                                                                                              Tech 3 — Having a month between
Vanderbilt: 1955 Gator (0-1-1)                          eight-game bowl losing streak.          “I had more confidence in a 58-yard field-goal try than going for
                                                                                                                                                                              games helped LSU figure out ’Jackets’
La. Tech: 1977 Independence (0-2-1)                                                             it on fourth-and-8.”
                                                                                                                                                                              spread-option offense.
Houston: 1980 Garden State (0-8)                        Who else?                               — Pittsburgh coach Dave Wannstedt, explaining his decision
                                                                                                                                                                              32. St. Petersburg: South Florida
Notre Dame: 1994 Cotton Bowl (0-9)                      It figures that Missouri and North-     to try a long field goal in a 3-0 loss to Oregon State in the Sun
                                                                                                                                                                              41, Memphis 14 — Mismatch as ugly
Arizona: 1998 Holiday (last appearance).                western went overtime in the            Bowl.
                                                                                                                                                                              as the patchwork Tampa Bay Rays
Colorado State: 2001 New Orleans (0-3)                  Alamo Bowl. Both entered the
                                                                                                                                                                              home field they played on.
                                                        game having won eight overtime          “I think the turning point in the game was when we lined up and
                                                                                                                                                                              33. GMAC: Tulsa 45, Ball State 13 —
Chick-fil-A nuggets                                     games — tied for the most among         kicked it off.”
                                                                                                                                                                              This was supposed to help us get
LSU’s 38-3 rout of Georgia Tech in the Chick-fil-A      Division I teams. Missouri improved     — Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson on the Yellow Jack-
                                                                                                                                                                              from the Fiesta Bowl to the champi-
Bowl improved LSU to 5-0 in the game. Georgia           to 9-3 in overtime with its 20-17       ets’ 38-3 loss to LSU in the Chick-fil-A Bowl. For the rec-
                                                                                                                                                                              onship game?
Tech dropped to 0-4. Among Georgia Tech’s four          win. Northwestern is 8-2. North-        ord, that opening kickoff landed out of bounds.
                                                                                                                                                                              34. Sun: Oregon State 3, Pittsburgh
losses in the Chick-fil-A (or Peach) Bowl, the          western lost in double overtime at
                                                                                                                                                                              0 — But, hey, CBS showed the Village
Yellow Jackets have had halftime deficits of 38-6       TCU in 2004, meaning both of the        “It was just exciting. I’ve never been in the end zone before.”
                                                                                                                                                                              People singing Y-M-C-A at halftime.
(1971 vs. Mississippi), 34-7 (1978 vs. Purdue)          Wildcats’ overtime losses have          — Navy defensive back Rashawn King, on his 50-yard
and 35-3 (2008 vs. LSU).                                occurred in Texas.                      fumble return for a touchdown.

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Bowl Review

  • 1. 8C Sunday, January 11, 2009 www.star-telegram.com M BOWL REVIEW Gators bowled ’em over Ranking the bowls Staff writer David Thomas watched all 34 bowls and ranks the games from best to worst: 1. Fiesta: Texas 24, Ohio State 21 — The college football bowl schedule almost reached three full weeks in length, with 34 games — including two By DAVID THOMAS dthomas@star-telegram.com The legend of Colt McCoy grows. new ones this season — over 20 days. We began with Wake Forest beating Navy in the first EagleBank Bowl and ended with Florida claiming the BCS national 2. Alamo: Missouri 30, Northwestern championship by defeating Oklahoma. A look back, from start to finish, at the 2008-09 bowl games. 23 (OT) — Carroll grad Chase Daniel overcomes three interceptions, Top bowl rushers Top bowl passers Top bowl receivers throws for winning touchdown in OT. Player, school No. Yds. TD Player, school C-A-I Yds. TD Player, school No. Yds. TD 3. Poinsettia: TCU 17, Boise State Gartrell Johnson, Colorado St. 27 285 2 Colt McCoy, Texas 41-58-1 414 2 Hakeem Nicks, North Carolina 8 217 3 16 — TCU wipes out 13-0 deficit to Donald Brown, Connecticut 29 261 1 Mark Sanchez, USC 28-35-0 413 4 Dezmon Briscoe, Kansas 14 201 3 hand Boise State its first loss. 4. New Orleans: Southern Miss 30, Tarrion Adams, Tulsa 19 207 3 Jimmy Clausen, Notre Dame 22-26-0 401 5 Golden Tate, Notre Dame 6 177 3 Troy 27 (OT) — Southern Miss over- Jahvid Best, California 20 186 2 Colin Kaepernick, Nevada 24-47-2 370 3 Mike McCoy, Nevada 13 172 0 comes a 10-point fourth-quarter Da’Rel Scott, Maryland 14 174 2 Graham Harrell, Texas Tech 36-58-2 364 4 Quan Cosby, Texas 14 171 2 deficit, then wins on a blocked field goal in overtime. 5. BCS Championship: Florida 24, Oklahoma 14 — If the title had not been on the line, this would have bordered on being a remote-clicker. 6. Gator: Nebraska 26, Clemson 21 — Nebraska caps a turnaround sea- son with a second-half turnaround. 7. Holiday: Oregon 42, Oklahoma State 31 — Another exciting, high- Baugh Harrell AP AP scoring Holiday Bowl game, with five Cotton Bowl then and now lead changes in the second half. This marked the 73rd and final Cotton Bowl at 8. Meineke Car Care: West Virginia the Cotton Bowl stadium, with next year’s game 31, North Carolina 30 — A 35-point moving to Arlington. Comparing the first Cotton first quarter with four of the scoring Bowl of 1937 and the final one in Dallas (* de- plays covering at least 35 yards. notes bowl record): 9. PapaJohns.com: Rutgers 29, 1937 2009 North Carolina State 23 — North TCU 16, Mississippi 47, Score Carolina State leads 17-6 when QB Marquette 6 Texas Tech 34 Russell Wilson injures a knee. Then pfft. 22 81* Total points 10. Emerald: California 24, Miami Second-half 0 36 (Fla.) 17 — If Cal had a good passing points game to go with RB Jahvid Best (186 17,000 88,175* Attendance yards) ... Threatening 68, clear and Weather 11. Cotton: Mississippi 47, Texas beautiful Tech 34 — Texas Tech’s history of Rushing yds 224 328 bowl comebacks keeps it interesting Receiver Quan Cosby delivered the winning points for Texas. 283 656 Passing yds THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC/ROB SCHUMACHER VIA AP for part of the fourth quarter. 3 11* TDs 12. Armed Forces: Houston 34, Air Staking their claim Where was With teammates Dutch Meyer Houston Nutt Winning Force 28 — Cougars’ running game, the drama? like this ... How select coaches and players coach not its passing, hurts Air Force most. weighed in on the “Who’s No. 1?” Texas’ game-winning TD Colorado State running back 13. New Mexico: Colorado State 40, Sammy Baugh Graham Harrell Late-game debate after their games. with 16 seconds remaining Gartrell Johnson rushed for Fresno State 35 — An entertaining reinserted at attempted fan-pleaser Florida coach Urban Meyer: “I’ll in the Fiesta Bowl made 285 yards against Fresno game, but far from a football clinic. quarterback drop-kick tell you, we’re going to enjoy a big the Longhorns the only State in the New Mexico Bowl CSU’s Gartrell Johnson rushes for win, we’re going to enjoy the nation- team to come from behind — the second-best rushing 285 yards and two TDs. Making al championship. Let someone else to win in the final two day in bowl history. He also 14. Las Vegas: Arizona 31, BYU 21 statements worry about that. Gators are No. 1.” minutes of a game. Only 11 had 90 yards receiving, for a — After four consecutive Las Vegas A look at the Utah coach Kyle Whittingham: “I winning teams trailed at Division I record 375 total Bowl appearances, you think BYU is records for states know where I’m voting us. I’m voting any point in the fourth yards. But after the game, ready for a different bowl? with at least three us No. 1. End of story.” quarter, and only four of Johnson was taking plenty of 15. Humanitarian: Maryland 42, bowl teams: USC coach Pete Carroll: “With all those were behind in the heat from teammates for Nevada 35 — Teams combine for 940 4-1 Florida due respect, [Florida and Oklahoma] final seven minutes of being caught from behind on yards of offense and almost that 4-1 Texas are two great programs, I don’t think regulation. Southern Miss, a 57-yard run and a 57-yard many missed tackles on defense. 2-1 California anyone can beat the Trojans.” which trailed Troy by 10 reception. “I’m not going to 16. EagleBank: Wake Forest 29, 1-2 Oklahoma Texas quarterback Colt McCoy: “I points, was the only team give him credit,” teammate Navy 19 — Wake QB Riley Skinner 1-3 North Carolina don’t think there’s anybody in the to overcome more than an Tommie Hill joked, “because Florida’s Tim Tebow walked completes all 11 of his passes, and 0-3 Michigan country who can beat us at this eight-point deficit in the he got run down twice.” off as a champion. AP the Demon Deacons score 14 points point.” fourth quarter. in the final eight minutes. The bowl Mendoza line 17. Rose: USC 38, Penn State 24 — Eight teams entered their bowl games with 6-6 Nittany Lions score 17 points in the By the numbers Conference calls records, and three lost to finish the season be- fourth quarter to make it respect- s The SEC has won the past three low .500. How the 6-6 teams fared, with their games decided by three 7 able. opponents’ final record: BCS national championships. points or fewer. 18. Independence: Louisiana Tech Team Result Opponent s The Pac-10 had the best confer- games decided by 16 17, Northern Illinois 10 — Louisiana Florida Atlantic W 24-21 C. Mich. (8-5) ence record at 5-0. seven points or fewer. Tech comes from behind to win for s The SEC had the most wins of Kentucky W 25-19 E. Car. (9-5) of five BCS bowl games 1 seventh time in ’08. any conference, going 6-2. Memphis L 41-14 S. Fla. (8-5) (Fiesta) decided by 19. Music City: Vanderbilt 16, Bos- s Big Ten teams went 1-6 for the N.C. State L 29-23 Rutgers (8-5) fewer than 10 points. ton College 14 — Vandy’s punt cover- worst record among the six BCS No. Illinois L 17-10 La. Tech (8-5) age team scores the Commodores’ of 12 January games conferences. 3 Notre Dame W 49-21 Hawaii (7-7) only touchdown. s Of the Big 12’s four wins in its decided by fewer than 20. Sugar: Utah 31, Alabama 17 — Southern Miss W 30-27 (OT) Troy (8-5) 10 points. seven games, only one victory came Undefeated Utes clean up on low Tide. Vanderbilt W 16-14 Bos. Coll. (9-5) from a South Division team (Texas). blocked extra-point 3 21. Liberty: Kentucky 25, East Caro- s Mid-American teams finished attempts in the Liberty lina 19 — Replay wipes out Kentucky 0-5 and were outscored by an Out in the cold Bowl between Kentucky fumble return for the winning TD. average of 17 points. It’s no surprise that the Humanitarian Bowl in and East Carolina. Wildcats return another fumble for a s Virginia Tech’s win over Cincin- Boise, Idaho, had the coldest temperature at TD three plays later. nati in the Orange Bowl broke the kickoff of the bowl games, at 38 degrees. But Streakers 22. Motor City: Florida Atlantic 24, ACC’s eight-game losing streak in Fort Worth’s Armed Forces Bowl and the Sun The longest current Central Michigan 21 — FAU coach TCU safety Stephen Hodge BCS bowls. AP Bowl (of all bowls) were among the eight games bowl winning streaks Howard Schnellenberger calls the win that kicked off with sub-50-degree readings. among this season’s his program’s “most meaningful TCU: No running allowed Odds and trends Bowl Site Temp. bowl teams: game.” s BCS Top 25 teams were 0-5 Humanitarian Boise, Idaho 38 Consider this the annual “You can’t 8 Utah 23. Capital One: Georgia 24, Michi- run on TCU in a bowl game” note. against unranked teams. In games Music City Nashville 39 5 Oregon State gan State 12 — Bulldogs dominate The Horned Frogs held Boise State between ranked teams, the lower- EagleBank Washington, D.C. 40 5 Texas the second half after trailing 6-3 at to 28 rushing yards on 20 carries in ranked team won six of 10 games. New Mexico Albuquerque 41 4 California halftime. s Teams that played in their home the Poinsettia Bowl. That makes Independence Shreveport 44 4 LSU 24. Insight: Kansas 42, Minnesota 21 four consecutive years that TCU state were 9-5, including national 4 TCU Las Vegas Las Vegas 44 — Gophers can’t handle Reesing to has held its bowl opponent to champion Florida. 4 West Virginia Briscoe, or Reesing to Meier. Armed Forces Fort Worth 47 s The team that scored first won fewer than 35 yards rushing. Over ... and the longest bowl 25. Orange: Virginia Tech 20, Cincin- Sun El Paso 48 those four games, opponents have 21 of the 34 games. losing streaks among nati 7 — FedEx should ask for some s The top-10 finishers in the Heis- rushed for a total of 74 yards on this season’s bowl sponsorship money back. 104 attempts. That is 0.7 yards per man Trophy voting had a 5-5 record. Milestones tracker teams: 26. International: Connecticut 38, carry and 18.5 yards per game. Sam Bradford of Oklahoma was the Comparing individual milestones from this sea- 6 Northwestern Buffalo 20 — UConn wins despite only of the three finalists to lose in a son’s bowls to the previous two bowl seasons 5 Ball State being minus-5 in turnovers at halftime. Houston: Twice the fun bowl game. Texas’ Colt McCoy and (note: there were 32 bowl games in 2006-07 and 4 Georgia Tech 27. Champs Sports: Florida State Rice and Houston had never given Florida’s Tim Tebow won. 2007-08): 4 Western Michigan 42, Wisconsin 13 — Florida State’s s Three of the regular season’s top their home city two bowl victories ’06-07 ’07-08 ’08-09 defense outscores Wisconsin’s of- to celebrate in the same season. five rushers — MiQuale Lewis of 100-yard rushers 22 36 24 fense, two TDs to one. Long-drive This season, they won bowl games Ball State, Javon Ringer of Michigan 200-yard rushers 0 4 3 28. Hawaii: Notre Dame 49, Hawaii competition on back-to-back days. Rice won its State and Kendall Hunter of Okla- 300-yard passers 15 13 15 21 — Hawaii outmatched in a match- first bowl game since the 1954 homa State — rushed for fewer The longest drive ... 100-yard receivers 26 22 26 up of six-loss teams. Cotton Bowl, routing Western For yards: 99, Oklahoma than 50 yards in their bowl games. 200-yard receivers 3 0 2 29. Texas: Rice 38, Western Michigan Michigan 38-14 in the Texas Bowl. State (11 plays, 4:37, All three of their teams lost. 14 — Rice dominates, leads 38-0 s Texas had the worst starting The Owls had lost four consecutive touchdown) midway through the fourth quarter. Drought breakers bowl games. The next day, Houston For plays and time: 18 field position of all teams, starting 30. Outback: Iowa 31, South Caroli- Previous bowl wins for some of this year’s win- won the Armed Forces Bowl 34-28 and 8:37, Air Force (51 on average at its 19-yard line. na 10 — Iowa leads 31-0 entering the ners (with bowl record since last win in paren- over Air Force. It was the Cougars’ yards, field goal) Houston had the best, at its 46. fourth quarter. theses): first bowl victory since the 1980 31. Chick-fil-A: LSU 38, Georgia Rice: 1954 Cotton (0-4) Quote marks Garden State Bowl and ended an Tech 3 — Having a month between Vanderbilt: 1955 Gator (0-1-1) eight-game bowl losing streak. “I had more confidence in a 58-yard field-goal try than going for games helped LSU figure out ’Jackets’ La. Tech: 1977 Independence (0-2-1) it on fourth-and-8.” spread-option offense. Houston: 1980 Garden State (0-8) Who else? — Pittsburgh coach Dave Wannstedt, explaining his decision 32. St. Petersburg: South Florida Notre Dame: 1994 Cotton Bowl (0-9) It figures that Missouri and North- to try a long field goal in a 3-0 loss to Oregon State in the Sun 41, Memphis 14 — Mismatch as ugly Arizona: 1998 Holiday (last appearance). western went overtime in the Bowl. as the patchwork Tampa Bay Rays Colorado State: 2001 New Orleans (0-3) Alamo Bowl. Both entered the home field they played on. game having won eight overtime “I think the turning point in the game was when we lined up and 33. GMAC: Tulsa 45, Ball State 13 — Chick-fil-A nuggets games — tied for the most among kicked it off.” This was supposed to help us get LSU’s 38-3 rout of Georgia Tech in the Chick-fil-A Division I teams. Missouri improved — Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson on the Yellow Jack- from the Fiesta Bowl to the champi- Bowl improved LSU to 5-0 in the game. Georgia to 9-3 in overtime with its 20-17 ets’ 38-3 loss to LSU in the Chick-fil-A Bowl. For the rec- onship game? Tech dropped to 0-4. Among Georgia Tech’s four win. Northwestern is 8-2. North- ord, that opening kickoff landed out of bounds. 34. Sun: Oregon State 3, Pittsburgh losses in the Chick-fil-A (or Peach) Bowl, the western lost in double overtime at 0 — But, hey, CBS showed the Village Yellow Jackets have had halftime deficits of 38-6 TCU in 2004, meaning both of the “It was just exciting. I’ve never been in the end zone before.” People singing Y-M-C-A at halftime. (1971 vs. Mississippi), 34-7 (1978 vs. Purdue) Wildcats’ overtime losses have — Navy defensive back Rashawn King, on his 50-yard and 35-3 (2008 vs. LSU). occurred in Texas. fumble return for a touchdown.