MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE Toledo earns berth in title game

Kent State beat UCF to finish 5-6.
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TOLEDO -- Bruce Gradkowski threw for 338 yards and directed six second-half touchdown drives in Toledo's 49-41 victory Tuesday night over Bowling Green, putting the Rockets in the Mid-American Conference title game.
The Rockets, trailing 27-7 at the half, dominated the third quarter with 28 straight points. They didn't take lead until Gradkowski threw his third touchdown pass, a 20-yard strike to Steve Odom with 2:20 left in the quarter.
Nothing went right for Bowling Green after halftime.
The Falcons, who moved into the Top 25 a week ago then dropped out despite not playing, were stopped on all three of their third-quarter possessions after scoring the first five times they had the ball.
Kicker Steve Suisham's 41-yard field goal try clanked off the left upright and it all came apart when Bowling Green receiver Steve Sanders was stripped of the ball on a short pass play.
Toledo's Tyree Pollard recovered it at the Falcons' 22, setting up Jalen Parmele's 5-yard touchdown run that put Toledo ahead 35-27 on the final play of the third quarter.
Toledo (8-3, 7-1 MAC) will play Miami (Ohio) in the MAC title game at Ford Field in Detroit on Dec. 2. It will mark the fifth time the Rockets have played in the conference championship game since it began in 1997.
Kent St. 41, UCF 24
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Joshua Cribbs threw for a career-high 389 yards and accounted for five touchdowns to lead Kent State to its fourth straight win.
UCF (0-11, 0-8 MAC) finished winless under first-year coach George O'Leary, the only program in Division I-A without a victory this season. The Golden Knights own a 15-game losing streak, the nation's longest.
Cribbs had a hand in all three of Kent State's first half touchdowns and accounted for 253 of his team's 319 yards of total offense in the half.
Down 13-3 early, UCF rallied on a 21-yard touchdown run by Alex Haynes and 5-yard touchdown pass from Steven Moffett to Antonio Eldemire to take a 17-13 lead with 1:27 left in the half.
Cribbs, who had two touchdown passes in the first half, added scoring passes of 66 yards to Darrell Dowery and 11 yards to Derrick Bush in the third quarter to push Kent State's lead to 34-17.