TAMU, Utah, Cincinnati, Illini, & Auburn victorious in Day 11

Ryan Tannehill threw for 329 yards & a touchdown and Ben Malena ran for two more scores to lead the Texas A&M Aggies to a 33-22 win over the Northwestern Wildcats at the Meineke Car Care Bowl in Houston, Texas.

Northwestern hasn’t won a bowl game since the 1949 Rose Bowl, a span of nine losses.




John White plowed into the end zone from 8 yards out to give the Utah Utes a 30-27 overtime victory over the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas.

Justin Moore kicked a 34-yard field goal in Georgia Tech’s overtime possession to take a three-point lead, but White finished a 115-yard rushing day with the game-winning score on his 26th carry.




Isaiah Pead ran for 149 yards & 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 the Vanderbilt Commodores, 31-24 at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee.

The Bearcats (10-3) capped the season with their third straight victory by snapping a two-game skid in bowl games. It was their first bowl win since downing Southern Mississippi in the 2007 PapaJohns.com Bowl. They also notched their fourth 10-win season in the last five years, bouncing back from 4-8 in 2010 during Jones’ first season.




Kevin Prince threw a costly interception that Terry Hawthorne returned for a touchdown which finished off the UCLA Bruins' forgettable season with a 20-14 loss to the Illinois Fighting Illini at the Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco, California.

All hope at a non-losing record for the Bruins ended when Nathan Scheelhaase added a 60-yard touchdown pass to A.J. Jenkins midway through the fourth quarter to seal the first victory for Illinois (7-6) since beating Indiana 12 weeks ago.




Hurt by special teams breakdowns, the Virginia Cavaliers could not keep pace with the high-scoring Auburn Tigers as they lost, 43-24 in the Chick-fil-A Bowl at the Georgai Dome in Atlanta.

Onterio McCalebb scored on a 3-yard run and 25-yard catch while starting for Dyer. McCalebb had 109 yards rushing and Tre Mason added 64 yards rushing, including a 22-yard scoring run. Auburn (8-5) ran for 273 yards.