Bowl Records Fall in Baylor’s 67-56 Win at BetLM

Bowl Records Fall in Baylor’s 67–56 Win

SAN ANTONIO – A thrilling, back-and-forth, record-shattering Alamo Bowl had barely ended when Heis­man Tro­phy win­ner Robert Grif­fin III already started hear­ing the chants.

“One more year! One more year!”

One more year? There’s still the crazi­ness of what hap­pened Thurs­day night to get through first.

Grif­fin wasn’t daz­zling in pos­si­bly his last col­lege game– and didn’t need to be– yet No. 15 Bay­lor still pulled out an incred­i­ble 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.

If this was RG3-s final show­case before jump­ing to the NFL, it was a grip­ping good­bye to watch. One of the nation’s most elec­tri­fy­ing play­ers was upstaged by an even more excit­ing nail-biter that shat­tered the pre­vi­ous record for points in reg­u­la­tion set in the 2001 GMAC Bowl.

“We went out in style!” Grif­fin shouted to his team­mates. He paraded the Alamo Bowl tro­phy around the field before tak­ing it to the front row of the stands and his mother, who’s already been look­ing at her son’s NFL draft prospects.

Grif­fin said he was still catch­ing his breath after this one.

“I want Bay­lor nation to enjoy this,” Grif­fin said. “It’s not about me. I’ve got about two weeks. I’ll enjoy this the next day, and then the next day, and then I’ll make it.”

The pre­vi­ous bowl record for a reg­u­la­tion game was 102 total points set in the 2001 GMAC Bowl between Mar­shall and East Car­olina. That game went to dou­ble over­time and ended with a com­bined 125 points– which still stands as the over­all bowl record.

Bay­lor, which won its first bowl game since 1992, and Wash­ing­ton (7–6) also set a bowl record for total offense in a game with 1,397 yards.

Grif­fin had an unre­mark­able night, throw­ing just one touch­down pass and run­ning for another. But Ter­rance Gan­away starred ably in his place, rush­ing for 200 yards and five touch­downs. His last was a 43-yard run with 2:28 left to seal Baylor’s first 10-win sea­son since 1980.

Wash­ing­ton quar­ter­back Keith Price out­played his Heis­man coun­ter­part, going 23 for 27 with 438 yards and four touch­downs. He also ran for another three scores.

“I think we’ll have a hard time this bowl sea­son to see a quar­ter­back play as well as he did,” Wash­ing­ton coach Steve Sarkisian.

Grif­fin was 24 of 33 for 295 yards– and his only touch­down throw came on the game’s open­ing drive.

Blown out in four other games against ranked oppo­nents this sea­son, the Huskies finally made one inter­est­ing. Not that it started that way after Bay­lor ran up 245 yards of offense alone in the first quar­ter– awful even by the stan­dards of Washington’s defense, which is among the nation’s worst.

Then the most award-winning QB in the coun­try sud­denly stopped look­ing like even the best one in the Alamodome.

Price, a sopho­more who threw a school-record 29 touch­downs in his first year as the starter, began cut­ting into a 21–7 deficit with a 12-yard scor­ing strike to James John­son. Seven min­utes later he tied the game when Devin Aguilar som­er­saulted over the goal line after catch­ing a 1-yard lob.

The over­whelm­ing crowd of Bay­lor fans– decked in green-and-gold Heis­man shirts and armed with signs such as “Super­man wears RG3 socks”- stood in stunned silenced. That gave way to dis­be­liev­ing gasps on the next series, when the typ­i­cally sure-handed Grif­fin fum­bled after get­ting popped by Andrew Hudson.

After that, it was prac­ti­cally a free-for-all of big plays.

A 56-yard touch­down dash by Chris Polk. An 80-yard touch­down catch by Washington’s Jer­maine Kearse two plays into the sec­ond half. An 89-yard scor­ing rum­ble by Baylor’s Ter­rance Gan­away. Kearse again, catch­ing and dart­ing for 60 yards before get­ting dragged down, set­ting up Price’s fourth touch­down toss the next play.

Back and forth, back and forth. One after another. In all, five plays cov­ered 50 or more yards, three of them for scores.

“That was crazy,” Bay­lor coach Art Briles said.

For an Alamo Bowl short on drama and light on matchups in recent years, it was a thrilling scor­ing spree that over­shad­owed the mere nov­elty of fea­tur­ing the Heis­man win­ner. And that in itself was a rar­ity for a bowl of this stature: Not since Ty Det­mer took BYU to the Hol­i­day Bowl in 1990 had a Heis­man win­ner played in a bowl before New Year’s Day.

Plenty came to see this one.

Antic­i­pat­ing a surge of Heis­man gawk­ers, Alamo Bowl offi­cials added 800 tem­po­rary seats and opened up oth­ers with obstructed views that required ticket-buyers to sign a form acknowl­edg­ing the poor sight­lines. Those seats sold, any­way, and the announced atten­dance of 65,256 was the fifth-largest in the bowl’s history.

Oth­ers had bet­ter seats.

That includes Miami Dol­phins gen­eral man­ager Jeff Ire­land, who kicked for Bay­lor in the late 1980s but was here on busi­ness scout­ing Grif­fin in case the fourth-year junior enters the draft. Griffin’s par­ents, two sis­ters and fiancee watched the nail-biter with front-row seats.

Grif­fin acknowl­edged this week his par­ents are look­ing at his draft prospects but denies hav­ing any sub­stan­tial talks with them.

Win or lose, it was an impres­sive finale for Wash­ing­ton after stum­bling into the post­sea­son los­ing four of its last six. Par­tic­u­larly against a ranked team after then-Top 25 oppo­nents Nebraska, Stan­ford, Ore­gon and USC all crushed the Huskies by an aver­age of 24 points.

BetLM's sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services. This arti­cle was dis­trib­uted by Syn­di­cated Sports news wire and aggre­ga­tion ser­vice, For more col­lege foot­ball news see: Bowl records fall in Baylor’s 67–56 win .

Stay informed with our real-time col­lege foot­ball lines and all the most recent col­lege foot­ball news. In addi­tion to NCAA foot­ball bet­ting lines, we offer play­ers wager­ing on the reg­u­lar sea­son and Col­lege Bowls, 1st quar­ter and half time lines and count­less CFB prop bets every week­end. BetLM also fea­tures in game bet­ting for NCAA foot­ball matches so the bet­ting doesn’t end when the action starts. When bet­tors look for CFB lines and all other sports bet­ting lines, BetLM is amongst the most trusted resources for online sports betting.

Estab­lished in 1999, BetLM has a a lengthy his­tory among the world’s pre­miere web­sites for pro­vid­ing sports bet­ting lines and a secure, depend­able and sim­ple to use online bet­ting website.

Related Posts:

• Pats’ Gronkowski Defends Work Ethic, Isn’t Over Super Bowl Loss
• Jaworski: Man­ning Needs to Go to a Super Bowl Contender
• Play­off Push: Caps Fall Short in Carolina
• Ex-Fiesta Bowl CEO Expected to Plead Guilty to Felony
• Solomon, Inte­gral to Two 49ers Super Bowl Titles, Dies at 59

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
•