Coming off 94 years of bad luck in the Rose Bowl, Oregon's scene-stealing fashionistas broke out mirrored helmets that threw off glints of light like sparklers, appropriate for the fireworks show that the Ducks and Wisconsin staged Monday. With the sun below the rim of the stadium and their helmets merely shining in the lights at game's end, the Ducks completed their performance, running up enough yards — 621 to Wisconsin's 508 — to beat the Badgers, 45-38, before 91,245. The victory ended Oregon's seven-game losing streak in the Rose Bowl, from its lone win, against the University of Pennsylvania in 1917, to its latest loss in 2010. Oregon's helmets, of course, came from Nike and the company chairman Phil Knight, an Oregon graduate who furnished the gaudy green-and-gold uniforms that have become the Ducks' trademark. The 83 points broke the Rose Bowl record, with the game ending much as it began, with Wisconsin threatening to send it into overtime for even more yards and points. With 4 minutes 6 seconds left, Wisconsin's Russell Wilson hit Jared Abbrederis on a 29-yard play to the Oregon 27, but the Ducks' Terrance Mitchell punched the ball away. It stayed where it dropped, just inside the field of play, and Oregon's Michael Clay recovered it. Then, after getting the ball at his 13 with 16 seconds left, Wilson hit Abbrederis for 29 yards, then Nick Toon for 33 to the Oregon 25. But with time ticking off between receptions when the ball was spotted, only two seconds remained when Toon was tackled. Wilson spiked the ball, trying to stop the clock, but he was ruled to have done so too late. Outback Bowl At Tampa, Kirk Cousins threw for 300 yards and one touchdown and Dan Conroy kicked a 28-yard field goal in the third overtime to give Michigan State a 33-30 victory over Georgia in college football's Outback Bowl Monday. Georgia missed an opportunity to send the game to a fourth overtime when Blair Walsh's 47-yard field goal attempt was blocked on the final play of the game. Walsh became the Southeastern Conference's career scoring leader with a field goal in the second extra period, but he missed a 42-yarder in the first overtime. Michigan State (11-3) ended a five-game bowl losing streak with its first postseason win since beating Fresno State in the 2001 Silicon Valley Bowl. Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Florida, Andre Debose returned a kickoff 99 yards — the longest scoring play in bowl history — and Chris Rainey blocked a punt that was returned for a touchdown as Florida beat Ohio State 24-17 in the Gator Bowl. Capital One Bowl At Orlando, Florida, Connor Shaw threw two touchdown passes and South Carolina's defense had six sacks as the Gamecocks dominated Nebraska over the final three quarters to win the Capital One Bowl 30-13. The victory gave South Carolina 11 wins in a season for the first time in school history and ended a string of three straight bowl losses. Ticketcity Bowl In Dallas, Case Keenum threw for 532 yards and three touchdowns as Houston beat Penn State to win the TicketCity Bowl 30-14, a dispiriting finish to the Nittany Lions' season following the child sex-abuse scandal that led to the firing of longtime coach Joe Paterno. Fiesta Bowl Brandon Weeden passed for 399 yards and 3 touchdowns — all to Justin Blackmon in his final collegiate game — and Quinn Sharp made a 22-yard field goal in overtime to give No. 3 Oklahoma State a 41-38 win over Andrew Luck and No. 4 Stanford in an entertaining Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Ariz.
