Ash Leads Texas Over Cal in Holiday Bowl at BetLM

Ash Leads Texas Over Cal in Holiday Bowl

SAN DIEGO – The next time Texas coach Mack Brown sees Joey Har­ring­ton, the mem­ory shouldn’t be quite so painful.

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.

Ash caught a 4-yard pass from wide receiver Jaxon Ship­ley in the sec­ond quar­ter to join BYU’s Steve Young, Texas A&M’s Bucky Richard­son and Oregon’s Har­ring­ton as quar­ter­backs who’ve caught touch­down passes in the Hol­i­day Bowl.

The Long­horns had the ball first-and-goal when Ash handed off to run­ning back Mal­colm Brown who then handed off to Ship­ley as if the Long­horns were going to run a reverse. Ash slipped into the end zone and caught Shipley’s pass to give Texas a 7–3 lead. Ship­ley has thrown three touch­down passes this sea­son, all while lin­ing up at wide receiver.

Brown joked on Tues­day how much it still bugged him that Har­ring­ton caught a TD pass in the Ducks’ 35–30 win against Texas in the 2000 Hol­i­day Bowl. The Ore­gon offen­sive coor­di­na­tor then was Jeff Ted­ford, who has been Cal’s coach since 2002. Har­ring­ton now works for the Long­horn Network.

Brown cred­ited the play to co-offensive coor­di­na­tor Bryan Harsin, who pre­vi­ously had coached and played at Boise State.

“Bryan Harsin grew up in that Boise sys­tem and that’s the stuff Jeff did with Ore­gon back in the early 2000s,” Brown said. “And it’s one of the rea­sons why I hired Bryan. He believes in run­ning the foot­ball, he believes in being phys­i­cal, but he’s got toys in the pocket that he’s going to take advan­tage of things when he can.

“If you’re not mov­ing the ball, he’s got some imag­i­na­tion in the offense to make a play,” Brown said.

That play helped sal­vage a lit­tle bit of the Hol­i­day Bowl’s rep­u­ta­tion for high-scoring, wide-open games.

“We knew they were going to throw some­thing like that out there,” Cal defen­sive end Trevor Guy­ton said. “It was only a mat­ter of time before they did it. They got us. No excuses.”

Ash had another impres­sive play in the third quar­ter when he threw a 47-yard touch­down pass to Mar­quise Good­win, who made a nice over-the-shoulder catch in full stride. That gave the Long­horns a 14–10 lead.

The Long­horns (8–5) were even more impres­sive on defense, get­ting five take­aways and sack­ing Cal’s Zach May­nard six times, both sea­son highs.

The Golden Bears (7–6) are win­less in five games against the Long­horns dat­ing to 1959.

Texas put it away on Cody Johnson’s 4-yard touch­down run on the first play of the fourth quar­ter, which was set up when May­nard was sacked and fum­bled, which was recov­ered by Chris Wha­ley at the Cal 44. Good­win ran for 37 yards and John­son had a 3-yard gain before his touch­down run.

Cal briefly took the lead at 10–7 after Isi Sofele’s 6-yard run to cap the open­ing drive of the sec­ond half.

Ash’s long TD pass to Good­win came four plays into the next Texas drive.

“We had our chances and gave the ball away,” Ted­ford said.

Cal fum­bled six times, los­ing four. The other turnover was an inter­cep­tion by Quan­dre Diggs, the younger brother of for­mer Texas star cor­ner­back and cur­rent San Diego Charg­ers starter Quentin Jammer.

“They did a good job of strip­ping it. They got it out today,” Ted­ford said. “They got their hands on the ball, their hats on the ball and stripped it. There’s really no expla­na­tion for some­thing we’ve worked on.”

May­nard was under pres­sure the whole game.

“We kept get­ting caught in second-and-long, third-and-long,” the QB said. “It’s hard to build a decent pass game and run game. … It’s hard to over­come those turnovers. It’s hard to build momentum.”

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