Reesing, Kansas dissect Minnesota

Posted December 31, 2008 10:00 pm

Associated Press

Dezmon Briscoe caught a game-record 14 passes for 201 yards and 3 touchdowns, and Todd Reesing threw for 4 scores as Kansas (8-5) beat Minnesota 42-21 in the Insight Bowl on Wednesday at Tempe, Ariz. The Golden Gophers (7-6) finished the season on a five-game losing streak

Reesing completed 27 of 35 passes, hitting on a school-record 14 straight passes in the first half. He threw for 313 yards and was intercepted once.

"Unfortunately, we got beat by a better football team today," Minnesota coach Tim Brewster said. "There's no consolation for us. We came here to win the football game."

Chick-fil-A Bowl: Charles Scott ran for 3 touchdowns, and LSU (8-5) took advantage of Georgia Tech's special-teams mistakes in a surprisingly easy 38-3 victory win over the Yellow Jackets (9-4) in the Chick-fil-Bowl at Atlanta. LSU outscored the No. 14 Yellow Jackets 28-0 in the second quarter and led 35-3 at halftime.

Sun Bowl: In the lowest-scoring major bowl game in a half-century, No. 24 Oregon State (9-4) beat No. 18 Pittsburgh 3-0 on Justin Kahut's 44-yard field goal late in the first half at El Paso, Texas. The defensive struggle included 20 punts and 10 sacks. Pittsburgh (9-4) managed just 178 total yards. Pittsburgh kicker Connor Lee tried a 58-yard field goal in the closing minutes but the ball, helped by a steady wind, dropped just short of the crossbar. Not since Air Force and TCU played to 0-0 standoff in the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 1, 1959, had a bowl produced so few points.

Music City Bowl: Vanderbilt (7-6) won a bowl game for the first time in 53 years, beating Boston College 16-14 on Bryant Hahnfeldt's 45-yard field goal with 3:26 left at Nashville, Tenn. Vanderbilt hadn't even played in a bowl since 1982, and the win gave the Commodores their first winning season since then too. Boston College (9-5) snapped the nation's longest bowl winning streak at eight.

Armed Forces Bowl: At Fort Worth, Texas, Case Keenum ran for 2 touchdowns and threw for another score, and Houston (8-5) won 34-28 over Air Force (8-5) for the Cougars' first bowl victory since 1980.