The Last Shots

10. Hawaii. June Jones, in his first year as coach, led one of the greatest turnarounds in college football history. With 20 of the 22 starters returning from a team that finished 0-12 in 1998, Jones’ squad went 9-4, won a share of the Western Athletic Conference title, and beat Oregon State in the Oahu Bowl on Christmas Day.

9. Tuiasosuper. On Oct. 30, in a 35-30 win over Stanford in Seattle, Washington junior quarterback Marques Tuiasosopo became the first major college quarterback to throw for 300 yards and rush for 200 in a game. Tuiasosopo finished with 307 yards passing and 202 rushing, despite suffering a deep buttocks bruise on the second play that required him to go to the locker room for treatment.

8. The Mount Union label. On Oct. 16, in Alliance, Ohio, Division III Mount Union College defeated Otterbein College, 44-20, for its 48th consecutive win, eclipsing Oklahoma’s NCAA record of 47 in a row under coach Bud Wilkinson in the 1950s. Mount Union extended the streak to 54 games before losing in overtime to Rowan College in the Division III national semifinals.

7. The slack Pac-10. The conference of Allen, Beban, Haden and Plunkett went ker-plunk in 1999, posting its most dismal season since 1983. The Pacific 10’s decline began Aug. 28 in the Pigskin Classic, when No. 2 Penn State hammered No. 3 Arizona on national television. In key nonconference games, Texas walloped Stanford, Ohio State crushed UCLA, Brigham Young and Air Force beat Washington, Notre Dame beat USC and Arizona State and Michigan State defeated Oregon. To cap it off, the Pac-10 finished 1-4 in bowl games.

6. Aggie pride. On Nov. 26, eight days after 12 current or former students were killed when logs for the team’s annual bonfire collapsed, Texas A&M; defeated archrival Texas, 20-16, before a sellout crowd at Kyle Field.

The tradition of “Bonfire” was started more than 90 years ago by Texas A&M; students to show the school’s “burning desire” to defeat Texas.

5. Bowden bowls a 300. On Oct. 23, at Clemson, Florida State Coach Bobby Bowden became the sixth major college coach to win 300 games. To reach the milestone, Bowden had to defeat his son, Tommy, the first-year coach at Clemson. Tommy gave his daddy all he wanted, as his Tigers held a 14-3 lead in the third quarter before Florida State rallied for a 17-14 win before a crowd of 86,200 at Clemson Memorial Stadium.

4. Peter’s five-finger discount. Florida State star receiver Peter Warrick probably cost himself the Heisman Trophy in late September when he and a teammate were arrested after receiving $421.38 worth of clothes for $21.40 at a Tallahassee department store. Facing a felony charge, Warrick agreed to a misdemeanor plea bargain in which he will do community service. Although he missed two games and finished sixth in Heisman balloting, Warrick could be the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft.

3. Notre Shame. For the first time in the school’s illustrious history, Notre Dame was hit with “major” NCAA sanctions as a result of a tawdry affair that involved a former booster, Kim Dunbar, using money she embezzled from her company to lavish Irish players with gifts and trips. The sanctions will cost the Irish only one scholarship the next two years, but the ruling was a symbolic blow.

2. Great Dayne. In four years at Wisconsin, he wore out shoes, linebackers, opponents, critics and, in the end, Stanford at the Rose Bowl. Ron Dayne exits as college football’s all-time leading rusher with 6,397 yards, breaking the mark Texas’ Ricky Williams held for one season. Dayne was a two-time Rose Bowl MVP and punctuated his career with a 200-yard rushing day Saturday against Stanford.

1. That perfect season. Finally. After winning 300 games, a national championship and almost every accolade a coach could want, Florida State’s Bowden capped his 34th season as a head coach with his first perfect season. Reportedly, Bowden for years has kept an empty picture frame in his Tallahassee office, reserved specifically for a team picture of his first undefeated squad. Now he can fill the frame with a glossy of the 1999 Seminoles. Picture that.

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BOWL LEADERS

RUSHING

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Player, Team Bowl No. Yds. TD M.ANDERSON, Utah Las Vegas 34 254 2 JOHNSON, Colorado Insight.com 15 201 2 DAYNE, Wisconsin Rose 34 200 1 MUNGRO, Syracuse Music City 12 162 2 ALEXANDER, Alabama Orange 25 161 3 SIMONTON, Oreg. St. Oahu 18 157 2

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Player, Team Bowl Att. Comp. Yds. HEUPEL, Oklahoma Independ. 53 39 390 BREES, Purdue Outback 60 36 378 BRADY, Michigan Orange 46 34 369 HENDRICKS, Boise St. Humanit. 39 20 335 WEINKE, Florida St. Sugar 34 20 321 REDMAN, Louisville Humanit. 47 26 314 BONNER, Kentucky Music City 43 30 308 STREETER, Clemson Peach 50 24 301 JOHNSON, Florida Citrus 50 24 288 ROBINSON, Hawaii Oahu 40 23 266 BURKE, Michigan St. Citrus 35 21 257

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RECEIVING

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Player, Team Bowl No. Yds. TD BURRESS, Mich. St. Citrus 13 185 3 WARRICK, Florida St. Sugar 6 163 2 TAYLOR, Florida Citrus 11 156 3 TERRELL, Mich. Orange 10 150 3 WOFFORD, Clemson Peach 6 147 0 LEVERSON, Minnesota Sun 6 126 0 CHAPPELL, E. Carolina Mobile 5 116 0 HARTLEY, Oregon Sun 7 113 0 DANIELS, Oklahoma Independ. 6 109 1 JACKSON, Louisville Humanit. 9 109 1

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DEFENSE

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Player, Team Bowl Statistic LEWIS, Hampton Heritage 3 interceptions ARRINGTON, Penn St. Alamo 14 tackles WEBSTER, Purdue Outback 14 tackles THOMAS, So. Miss. Liberty 3 sacks

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