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January 1, 2009 at 12:00a.m.

Chick-fil-A Bowl

LSU 38, No. 14 Georgia Tech 3

ATLANTA — Charles Scott ran for three touchdowns and LSU took advantage of Georgia Tech’s special teams mistakes in a surprisingly easy victory. LSU outscored the No. 14 Yellow Jackets 28-0 in the second quarter and led 35-3 at halftime. Scott, who had 65 yards rushing, had two touchdowns in the decisive quarter. A year after winning the national championship, LSU (8-5) lost three of its last four regular-season games but regrouped for its dominant bowl victory. The biggest special teams plays all fell in LSU’s favor. LSU recovered an onside kick and a Georgia Tech fumbled punt return and made a fourth-down stop on the Yellow Jackets’ surprising fake punt from Tech’s 22. LSU turned the fumbled punt and stop on the fake punt into quick touchdowns while outscoring Georgia Tech 28-0 in the second quarter. As if to affirm its mastery of special teams, LSU pulled off a successful fake punt in the fourth quarter, with punter Brady Dalfrey running for 21 yards for the first down. LSU led 38-3 when coach Les Miles called for the fake. Georgia Tech (9-4) was denied its first 10-win season since 1998. LSU freshman quarterback Jordan Jefferson, making only his second start, was 16 of 25 passing for 142 yards and a touchdown. Jefferson, who completed his first nine passes, added nine carries for 33 yards. Scott scored on runs of 1, 2 and 4 yards.

Music City Bowl

Vanderbilt 16, Boston College 14

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt won a bowl game for the first time in exactly 53 years, beating Boston College on Bryant Hahnfeldt’s 45-yard field goal with 3:26 left. Vanderbilt hadn’t even played in a bowl since 1982 and the win gave the Commodores (7-6) their first winning season since then, too. Boston College (9-5) snapped the nation’s longest bowl winning streak after eight straight games in its 10th consecutive bowl appearance. The Eagles also missed a chance at finishing with at least 10 wins for a third straight season. The Eagles got the ball twice after Hahnfeldt’s third field goal, but had to punt the first time, then Myron Lewis picked off Dominique Davis’ pass with 1:36 left.

Insight Bowl

Kansas 42, Minnesota 21

TEMPE, Ariz. — Dezmon Briscoe caught a game-record 14 passes for 201 yards and three touchdowns, and Todd Reesing threw for four scores for Kansas. Reesing completed 27 of 35 passes, hitting on a school-record 14 straight passes in the first half. He threw for 313 yards and improved to 20-6 as a starter. Kerry Meier caught one touchdown pass and threw another for the Jayhawks (8-5), who have won three straight bowl games for the first time. Eric Decker caught eight passes for 149 yards and a touchdown for the Golden Gophers (7-6), who finished the season on a five-game losing streak and have lost their last three bowl games.

Armed Forces Bowl

Houston 34, Air Force 28

FORT WORTH, Texas — Case Keenum ran for two touchdowns and threw for another score and Houston (8-5) wrapped up coach Kevin Sumlin’s first season by beating Air Force (8-5) for its first bowl victory since 1980. Houston ended an eight-game bowl losing streak, avoiding a record the Cougars didn’t want to share with Notre Dame. The Irish won the Hawaii Bowl last week to end an NCAA-record bowl losing streak at nine. In a rematch of a hurricane-disrupted game 31‚Ñ2 months ago that Air Force won, Houston never trailed after the Falcons fumbled the opening kickoff, and Bryce Beall scored on a 1-yard run 11‚Ñ2 minutes into the game.

Associated Press