2011-12 Bowl Schedule & Recaps

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2011-12 College Football Bowl Schedule
Bowl	Matchup	Date/Time	Network
Bernard Pierce ran for two early touchdowns and Coyer threw for 169 yards and the touchdown to help Temple overwhelm Wyoming 37-15 in the New Mexico Bowl -- the first bowl game of the season.
Tyler Tettleton calmly led a 61-yard drive in the final 2:02 and scored on a 1-yard keeper with 13 seconds left to give Ohio U. its first bowl victory, 24-23 over Utah State on Saturday in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.
Brett Baer kicked a 50-yard field goal as time ran out, lifting Louisiana-Lafayette to a 32-30 victory over San Diego State in the New Orleans Bowl on Saturday night
Rakeem Cato threw for 226 yards and two touchdowns to pace a 20-10 Marshall victory over Florida International in the Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl on Tuesday night.
Casey Pachall highlighted a record-setting game with a 42-yard touchdown pass to Skye Dawson with 4:26 left to lift TCU to a 31-24 victory against Louisiana Tech in the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl on Wednesday night.
Kellen Moore threw for 293 yards and two touchdowns leading Boise Stateto an easy 56-24 win over Arizona State on Thursday night. Doug Martin returned the opening kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown, giving Boise State a lead 14 seconds into the game. Martin rushed for 151 yards and another touchdown and was voted the MAACO Las Vegas MVP.
Austin Davis threw two touchdowns, including a 4-yarder late in the game, and Southern Mississippi earned a school-record 12th victory by holding off Nevada 24-17 in the Hawaii Bowl on Saturday night.
James Franklin ran for two touchdowns and threw for another, and Missouri easily beat North Carolina 41-24 in the Independence Bowl on Monday night.
Perhaps empowered by getting a contract extension recently, Danny Hope made the gutsy decision to go for two onside kicks in the first half and both gambles paid off for Purdue in a 37-32 win over Western Michigan on Tuesday night in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl.
Mike Glennon threw for 264 yards and three touchdowns and David Amerson returned an interception 65 yards for a touchdown as North Carolina State defeated Louisville 31-24 in the Belk Bowl.
Air Force lined up to kick the extra point and then ran a fake, going for two to win the game instead of sending it to overtime. Holder David Baska got bottled up trying to run the option. The ball squirted toward kicker Parker Herrington, who chased it until it went out of bounds in the end zone, and Toledo started celebrating its 42-41 victory over Air Force in the Military Bowl Presented By Northrop Grumman Wednesday night at RFK Stadium.
David Ash added his name to the list of quarterbacks who've caught a touchdown pass in the Holiday Bowl and he also threw for one score to lead Texas to a 21-10 victory against California on Wednesday night.
Florida State rallied from a 14-point second-half deficit and used a pair of touchdown passes by EJ Manuel and two field goals from Dustin Hopkins to earn their fourth straight bowl win and second under Jimbo Fisher 18-14 win over Notre Dame in front of a sellout crowd at Florida's Citrus Bowl on Thursday night.
Robert Griffin III wasn't dazzling in possibly his last college game -- and didn't need to be -- yet Baylor still pulled out an incredible Valero Alamo Bowl victory in the highest-scoring regulation bowl game in history, beating Washington 67-56 in the wildest shootout of this bowl season or any other in memory on Thursday night..
Riley Nelson threw three touchdown passes to Cody Hoffman, the last with 11 seconds left, and BYU beat Tulsa 24-21 on Friday in the Armed Forces Bowl for another 10-win season.
Brandon Coleman hauled in an 86-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarterand Jawan Jamison ran for 131 yards and two scores to lead Rutgers to a .27-13 victory over Iowa State at the Pinstripe Bowl on Friday
Vick Ballard ran for a career-high 180 yards, including TD runs of 60 and 72 yards, to lead Mississippi State over Wake Forest 23-17 on Friday night in the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl -- the Bulldogs' fifth straight bowl victory and second consecutive under coach Dan Mullen.
Blake Bell ran for his third touchdown in the closing seconds and Oklahoma survived a late rally, not to mention a crashing camera, to beat Iowa 31-14 in the Insight Bowl on Friday night.
Ryan Tannehill threw for 329 yards and a touchdown and Ben Malena ran for two more scores to lead Texas A&M to a 33-22 win over Northwestern on Saturday in the Meineke Car Care.
John White plowed into the end zone from 8 yards out to give Utah a 30-27 overtime victory against Georgia Tech on Saturday in the Hyundai Sun Bowl.
Isaiah Pead ran for 149 yards and a touchdown, and Ralph David Abernathy IV's 90-yard kickoff return early in the fourth quarter put Cincinnati ahead to stay as the Bearcats edged Vanderbilt 31-24 in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl on Saturday.
Terry Hawthorne returned an interception 39 yards for Illinois' first touchdown late in the third quarter and the Illini snapped a six-game losing streak by beating UCLA 20-14 in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl.
Onterio McCalebb scored two touchdowns and Auburn overcame the loss of quarterback Clint Moseley to set a season scoring high and beat Virginia 43-24 in the Chick-fil-A Bowl on Saturday night.
Case Keenum threw for 532 yards and three touchdowns in Houston's 30-14 win over Penn State in the TicketCity Bowl on Monday.
Kirk Cousins threw for 300 yards and one touchdown and Dan Conroy kicked a 28-yard field goal in the third overtime, giving Michigan State a 33-30 victory over Georgia in the Outback Bowl on Monday
Connor Shaw threw two touchdown passes and South Carolina had six sacks as the Gamecocks shut out the Nebraska in the final three quarters of 30-13 win in the Capital One Bowl on Monday.
Andre Debose returned a kickoff 99 yards -- the longest scoring play in bowl history -- and Chris Rainey blocked a punt that was returned for a touchdown in the TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl, scoring twice as Florida beat Ohio State 24-17 on Monday in a game between Urban Meyer's old team and his future one.
Darron Thomas passed for three touchdowns, De'Anthony Thomas scored on runs of 91 and 64 yards, and Oregon earned their first bowl victory under coach Chip Kelly, holding off Wisconsin 45-38 on Monday night in the highest-scoring Rose Bowl ever played.
Surviving a missed field goal at the end of regulation and getting a big kick of its own in overtime, Oklahoma State opened the door for the chance at a split national championship with a wildly entertaining 41-38 win over Stanford on Monday night.
Brendan Gibbons drilled a 37-yard field goal down the middle in overtime to lift Michigan to a 23-20 victory over Virginia Tech in the Allstate Sugar Bowl on Tuesday night.
Geno Smith tied the record for any bowl game with six touchdown passes, and West Virginia set a bowl scoring record on Wednesday night with their high-powered offense. But safety Cook made the pivotal play by returning a fumble 99 yards for a touchdown to break the game open and help beat Clemson 70-33.
Tyler Wilson tossed two touchdown passes after Joe Adams' fourth punt return for a TD as Arkansas beat Kansas State by a 29-16 score in the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic on Friday night.
SMU put up three first-quarter touchdowns, including scoring runs and passes by J.J. McDermott, to beat Pittsburgh 28-6 Saturday in the BBVA Compass Bowl.
Northern Illinois trailed 13-0 late in the first quarter, but the Mid-American Conference champions scored 31 unanswered points on the way to their ninth straight victory. It was the third time this season Northern Illinois rallied from a double-digit deficit to win.
Alabama romped to another Allstate BCS Championship against top-ranked LSU with a smothering defensive performance on Monday night, a numbing barrage of field goals and even a long-overdue trip to the end zone. Final score: 21-0. Alabama posted the first shutout in the 14-year history of the BCS, relying on Jeremy Shelley's right leg for most of the points -- he made a bowl record-tying five field goals -- and letting its defense do the rest. It was the Tide's second BCS title in three years.

2011-12 College Football Bowl Schedule