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Monday 4 January 2016
TCU’s record comeback snatches Alamo bowl victory
The Associated Press going ended with an in-
complete pass on fourth
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A down near the goal line.
West Virginia quarterback
touchdown run by Texas Skyler Howard threw for a
Cactus Bowl-record 532
Christian’s fill-in quarter- yards and hit David Sills on
a 15-yard pass for his fifth
back Bram Kohlhausen touchdown with 2:19 left,
lifting the Mountaineers to
in the third overtime car- the 43-42 win over Arizona
State.
ried the Horned Frogs to a The teams combined for
1,196 yards of offense and
stunning 47-41 victory over the 950 yards passing was
the most in the Cactus
Oregon in the Alamo Bowl Bowl’s 27-year history.
Arizona State’s Mike Ber-
on Saturday after having covici threw for 418 yards
and hit Gary Chambers on
trailed 31-0 at halftime. a 58-yard pass in the fourth
quarter for his fourth touch-
The 31-point comeback to down of the game, but the
Sun Devils kicked an extra
win tied the record for a point instead of going for
2, then turned the ball over
bowl game, matching Tex- on downs its last possession.
Arkansas capped its late-
as Tech in the 2006 Insight season surge by beating
Kansas State 45-23 in the
Bowl against Minnesota. Liberty Bowl.
Alex Collins ran for 185 yards
In the day’s other bowl and three touchdowns for
the Razorbacks, who stum-
games, West Virginia bled through a 1-3 start to TCU safety Denzel Johnson (30) breaks up a pass intended for Oregon wide receiver Bralon
the season but they turned Addison (2) during the first half of the Alamo Bowl NCAA college football game, Saturday, Jan. 2,
edged Arizona State 43-42 it around by winning six of 2016, in San Antonio.
their last seven.
in a thrilling Cactus Bowl, Collins had touchdown runs (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
of 22 yards and 13 yards in
Arkansas was too good for the first 17 minutes. He also tackle in the second quar- briefly but was a spectator which he declared he will
had a 68-yard burst on his ter. He stayed in the game in the second half, after enter the NFL draft.
Kansas State in the Liberty first kickoff return of the
season, which set up Jared
Bowl and Georgia won nar- Cornelius’ 13-yard touch-
down. Arkansas’ Brandon
rowly against Penn State in Allen was 20 of 26 for 315
yards with one touchdown
the Taxslayer Bowl. and one interception.
Kansas State’s Kody Cook,
Oregon was guided to starting at quarterback for
the first time after playing
its big early lead early receiver, went 12 of 24 for
163 yards with a touch-
by quarterback Vernon down.
Georgia’s Terry Godwin
Adams Jr., who passed threw a touchdown pass
on a trick play and caught
for 197 yards, scrambled one later, helping the Bull-
dogs beat Penn State 24-
out of several sacks and 17 in the TaxSlayer Bowl.
The Bulldogs (10-3) won
marched his team to four their fifth consecutive
game to close the season.
touchdowns. Penn State (7-6) played
more than half the game
However he was knocked without star quarterback
Christian Hackenberg, who
out of the game late in the landed awkwardly on his
throwing shoulder under a
second quarter after tak-
ing a hard hit to the head
and the Ducks gained only
18 yards in the second half.
Kohlhausen started in
place of TCU’s first-choice
quarterback Trevone
Boykin, who was suspend-
ed after a bar fight two
days earlier. Kohlhausen
passed for 351 yards and
two touchdowns and ran
for two more scores.
TCU scored on all of its pos-
sessions in the second half
and overtime.
Jaden Oberkrom’s 22-yard
field goal with 19 seconds
left tied it, and TCU scored
first in the first overtime
when Kohlhausen hit Em-
anauel Porter for a 7-yard
touchdown. Oregon an-
swered with Royce Free-
man’s third touchdown
run.
After the teams exchanged
field goals in the second
overtime, Kohlhausen
won it when the sneaked
around the right end on an
option. TCU’s 2-point con-
version pass attempt failed,
but Oregon’s final chance
to tie and keep the game
