MOTOR CITY BOWL Eagles fly behind St. Pierre's arm

The senior quarterback led Boston College past Toledo with 342 yards and three touchdowns.
DETROIT (AP) -- Brian St. Pierre will go down as one of the best quarterbacks in Boston College history.
He proved why Thursday night in the Motor City Bowl.
The senior, third on the school's career passing yards list behind Doug Flutie and Glenn Foley, threw for a career-best 342 yards and three touchdowns in the Eagles' 51-25 victory over Toledo.
"When the rest of the team is playing as well as our guys did today, playing quarterback is easy," said St. Pierre, who completed 25 of 35 passes and was selected the game's most valuable player.
"People forget that we were second in the Big East in passing, and that was behind Miami, which speaks for itself. I don't know what Toledo thinks, but I don't think they've played any team as good as us all year."
Third straight bowl win
Boston College (9-4) appeared in a bowl game for a fourth consecutive season, winning the past three. The Eagles, 32-17 over that span, finished the season with four straight wins.
Toledo (9-5) wasn't able to take advantage of a partisan crowd at Ford Field, located about an hour north of the Rockets' campus. The bowl's previous five games were played at the Silverdome in suburban Pontiac.
Boston College faced the challenge of the Rockets' unpredictable spread offense, but it was the Eagles who dominated with a more traditional approach.
Boston College scored touchdowns on its first six possessions.
"Our number one objective was to stop the run, but they were able to hit us with some big passing plays," Toledo cornerback Brandon Hefflin said. "I don't think we played poorly. They just made plays."
One of the biggest was St. Pierre's 40-yard touchdown pass to Grant Adams with 5:21 remaining in the first half to make it 35-10.
The score, in which Adams caught St. Pierre's pass across the middle, eluded a defender and raced into the end zone, came one play after Boston College stopped Toledo on a fourth-and-1.
"We've been doing that all year, and we've made it a lot more than we have missed," Toledo coach Tom Amstutz said.
The Eagles' senior class tied the 1981-84 group for the most wins in a four-year span in the past 60 years.
Boston College became the ninth team in school history to win at least nine games and the first since 1993.
"After everything that's happened in the past four years, this is a storybook ending," St. Pierre said. "When I first got here, I would have never believed that we could go to four straight bowls and win the last three."
Set bowl point record
The Eagles set a Motor City Bowl record for most points. The previous record was set in Marshall's 48-29 win over Louisville in 1998. It was the most points the Eagles scored since a 55-3 win over Connecticut on Oct. 7, 2000.
"They just out-executed us. The quarterback was really sharp, and their receivers did a nice job of getting open and catching the ball," Amstutz said. "We didn't make a big play to stop one of their drives."
Brian Jones, who set several single-season Toledo passing records this year, completed 27 of 41 passes for 331 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions.
Carl Ford caught 10 passes for 112 yards, including a 9-yard touchdown pass with 24 seconds to go in the second quarter.