FORT WORTH BOWL QB Dinwiddie propels Boise State past TCU

The Broncos leader passed for 325 yards and three TDs in the 34-31 win.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Ryan Dinwiddie is leaving Boise State as the most efficient passer in college football, and with maybe the biggest win in school history.
Dinwiddie threw for 325 yards and three touchdowns in the inaugural Fort Worth Bowl on Tuesday night, leading the No. 18 Broncos to a 34-31 win over No. 19 TCU.
After winning its only other bowl games on its blue-turfed home field, Boise State (13-1) beat the Horned Frogs -- a Bowl Championship Series contender until losing their only regular-season game Nov. 20 -- on their campus.
"This is another step for the Boise State program," coach Dan Hawkins said. "It's awesome to go home with a win. I will have an awesome Christmas."
It was only Boise State's second win over a Top 25 team. The Broncos, who have won 24 of their last 25 games, won 11 in a row after a 26-24 loss at Oregon State when they missed a field goal in the fourth quarter.
Their last win wasn't secured until sophomore Mike Wynn was well short on a 51-yard field-goal attempt, the first kick in his college career, with 7 seconds left.
"This shows where we are as a program," Dinwiddie said. "This was the biggest win of the year. We definitely made this one close and exciting."
Frogs streak snapped
The Frogs (11-2) had won a school-record 13 consecutive home games. They ended up playing at home -- in the only non-BCS game matching two 10-win teams -- after turning down an invitation to last week's GMAC Bowl because that game conflicted with exams.
"That was just two teams getting after it," TCU coach Gary Patterson said.
Dinwiddie completed 19 of 35 passes with two interceptions, but his last touchdown was an 18-yarder to Derek Schouman for the winning score with 12:43 left.
Dinwiddie finished the season with 4,356 yards passing. In his career, he threw for 9,818 yards with 82 touchdowns and just 20 interceptions.
T.J. Acree had eight catches for 150 yards, including a 27-yard touchdown in the first quarter just 1:20 after TCU's opening score.
Gabriel Franklin made a diving interception with 5:41 left, cutting in front of receiver Reggie Harrell and snagging the ball just inches off the ground. But Boise State then went three-and-out.
Had a chance to tie
TCU converted two fourth downs, including fourth-and-10 from its 20 when Brandon Hassell passed to Harrell for 28 yards, before Wynn came on instead of senior Nick Browne to try to tie it.
Browne made 28 of 33 field goals this season, including a 22-yarder earlier in the game. But he said a quadriceps muscle he strained in practice last week tightened during halftime.
Two TCU fumbles led to Boise State's 10 second-half points.
On the first play of the second half, Andy Avalos recovered Robert Merrill's fumble at the TCU 26. Three plays later, Tyler Jones kicked a 37-yard field goal to break the 24-24 halftime tie.
The Horned Frogs responded by going 81 yards in eight plays, the last coming on Lonta Hobbs' 7-yard TD run.
But Hobbs, who ran for 117 yards on 23 carries, fumbled early in the fourth quarter when the ball was knocked out by a teammate. Three plays later, Dinwiddie threw the game-winning TD.
"I thought we beat them on both sides of the football. Three big plays beat us," Patterson said.
After falling behind 21-7 on Hassell's 21-yard keeper, Boise State got even with two big plays in two minutes -- Dinwiddie's 54-yard TD pass to Jeff Carpenter and David Mickell's 75-yard run.
Hassell hit 13 of 26 passes for 160 yards and a touchdown, and ran for 110 yards and a score. Harrell had six catches for 107 yards.