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Monday 28 December 2015

College Roundup:

Nebraska beats UCLA in lopsided Foster Farms Bowl

Cotton Bowl. a bowl games for the first came on 2- and 1-yard
Oakes’ try sailed over the time in 12 years. runs in the first quarter and
right upright and was ruled Miami (8-5) lost its sixth con- a 13-yarder in the fourth.
wide. Oakes protested that secutive bowl game. On the 86-yarder, he took
it was good, but the kick Washington’s Myles Gas- a handoff inside, broke to
could not be reviewed. kin broke a third-quarter the left sideline and shook
Washington State’s Luke tie with an 86-yard run off one final defender at
Falk threw two touchdown and had a season-high the Southern Miss 35.
passes to lead the Cougars 181 yards and four touch- Marshall’s Chase Litton
past Miami 20-14 in an iron- downs to help the Huskies completed 23 for 34 passes
ically snowy Sun Bowl. defeat Southern Mississippi for 218 yards and a touch-
Erik Powell added field 41-31 in the Heart of Dallas down in the 16-10 victory
goals of 30 and 25 yards to Bowl. over Connecticut in the St.
help the Cougars (9-4) win Gaskin’s other scores Petersburg Bowl.q

Nebraska quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr., left, celebrates
at midfield with teammate Alonzo Moore after the team’s 37-
29 win over UCLA during the Foster Farms Bowl NCAA college
football game Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015, in Santa Clara, Calif.

(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

SANTA CLARA, California rushing.
(AP) — Nebraska quarter- Josh Rosen threw for 319
back Tommy Armstrong Jr. yards and two touchdowns

threw a touchdown pass for UCLA.

and ran for another score Virginia Tech sent coach
to help the Cornhuskers Frank Beamer into retire-
cap a losing season by ment on a winning note af-

beating UCLA 37-29 in the ter 29 years with the team

Foster Farms Bowl on Satur- by beating Tulsa 55-52 in

day. the Independence Bowl.
Among the other bowl Tulsa (6-7) rallied from a
games, Virginia Tech beat three-touchdown deficit

Tulsa 55-52 in a pulsating in the second half to pull

Independence Bowl, and to 55-52 with 3:47 left. Vir-
Duke beat Indiana in over- ginia Tech’s Dadi L’homme
time to take out the Pin- Nicolas ended Tulsa’s final

stripe Bowl at Yankee Sta- drive with a sack of Dane

dium. Evans on fourth down.

Nebraska found itself in a The 107 points were the
bowl game despite going most in Independence
in with a 5-7 record; there Bowl history. Ford’s 227

were not enough teams yards receiving on 12

with at least 6-6 records to catches set an Indepen-
fill all 80 slots. That record dence Bowl record.
looked like becoming 5-8 Michael Brewer threw for

when the Bruins took an 344 yards and Isaiah Ford

early 21-7 lead. had 227 yards receiving.

But the Cornhuskers scored Duke’s Ross Martin kicked
30 straight points. Stanley a 36-yard field goal in over-
Morgan Jr. gave them the time to give the Blue Devils

lead for good with a one- a 44-41 win against Indi-

handed, 22-yard catch in ana in the Pinstripe Bowl
the third quarter and Imani and their first bowl win in 54
Cross, Terrell Newby and years.

Andy Janovich all ran for After Martin made his kick

scores. on the first possession of the

Armstrong completed 12 extra period, the Hoosiers
of 19 passes for 174 yards kicker Griffin Oakes missed
but Nebraska did most of a 38-yard attempt, hand-

its work on the ground, with ing the Blue Devils their first

a season-high 326 yards bowl victory since the 1961