Friday's College Bowl Summary

Posted: 12.31.2010 at 10:45 PM

(AP) -- Meineke Bowl - South Florida 31, Clemson 26.

B.J. Daniels threw two touchdowns passes
and ran for a third and South Florida finished coach Skip Holtz's
first season with a 31-26 victory over Clemson on Friday in the
Meineke Bowl.

Mo Plancher also ran for a score for the Bulls (8-5), who took
control after Tigers quarterback Kyle Parker left at halftime with
broken ribs. South Florida secured its fifth straight eight-win
season and earned its first bowl win over a team from a BCS league.

Parker's final football game before embarking on a baseball
career ended abruptly when tests revealed he broke ribs when
tackled near the goal line at the end of the second quarter.

Backup Tajh Boyd was picked off by JaQuez Jenkins on the first
play of the fourth. His 48-yard return set up Daniels' 8-yard TD
run to make it 31-13 and gave the Tigers (6-7) their first losing
season in 11 years.

Sun Bowl - Notre Dame 33, Miami 17.

Freshman Tommy Rees passed for 201 yards
and two touchdowns to Michael Floyd as Notre Dame beat Miami 33-17
in the Sun Bowl, making Brian Kelly the first Fighting Irish coach
to win a bowl game in his first season.

Notre Dame (8-5) reached the end zone on three of its first four
possessions. Rees tossed TD passes of 3 and 34 yards to Floyd and
Cierre Wood broke free on a 34-yard scoring run before David Ruffer
added field goals from 40, 50 and 19 yards.

The Irish closed with four victories to cap an up-and-down
season under Kelly. After a 1-3 start, they endured the death of
the team's student videographer and the loss of quarterback Dayne
Crist to a season-ending injury during a stunning 28-27 loss to
Tulsa in South Bend, Ind.

The Hurricanes (7-6) trailed 30-3 going into the fourth quarter,
completing a season in which their coach was fired with an ugly
loss.

Liberty Bowl - Central Florida 10, Georgia 6.

Latavius Murray scored on a 10-yard
touchdown run with 9:01 left, and Central Florida held on to beat
Georgia 10-6 in the Liberty Bowl and cap the best season in school
history with the program's first postseason victory.

The Knights (11-3) had never won more than 10 games in a season
and had lost their first three bowl games, including their last
visit here in 2007. The Conference USA champs made this win even
sweeter by knocking off a Southeastern Conference team in the
process.

Georgia (6-7) snapped a four-game bowl winning streak with its
first loss since the 2006 Sugar Bowl. Worse for the Bulldogs is
notching their first losing season since going 5-6 in 1996.

The Bulldogs had the ball last and converted two fourth downs
before Kemal Ishmael knocked down Aaron Murray's final long throw
into the end zone as time expired.

Chick Fil-A-Bowl - No. 23 Florida State 26, No. 19 South Carolina
17.

EJ Manuel threw a fourth-quarter touchdown pass
to stop a South Carolina rally and lead Florida State to a 26-17
victory over the turnover-plagued Gamecocks in the Chick-fil-A Bowl
on Friday night.

Chris Thompson ran for 147 yards and a touchdown and Dustin
Hopkins kicked four field goals for the No. 23 Seminoles (10-4),
who reached 10 wins for the first time since 2003.

Manuel took over for senior quarterback Christian Ponder, who
left early in the second quarter with a concussion. No. 19 South
Carolina lost running back Marcus Lattimore when he was hit hard on
the Gamecocks' first drive.

South Carolina (9-5) was seeking its first 10-win season since
1984.