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Cal vs. Arizona State Ever heard of the Big Three? Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, and Kevin Garnett? How about this Big Three? Jerome Randle, Jamal Boykin, and Patrick Christopher. Those 3 combined for 71 of Cal's 78 points in the Bears 78-70 victory over Arizona State. ASU took an early 14-8 lead, but Cal closed the first half with a bang, taking a 40-33 halftime lead. The Cal defense and Boykin gave Cal a 47-33 lead and didn't allow an ASU bucket until there was 17:11 in the half. Then Jerome Randle hit a 3 and Cal was up 50-35, but with the score at 54-38 Randle was injured and ASU went on an 8-0 run. They then made it 67-66, but Jorge Guitteriz made a three and Patrick Christopher made a 15 footer, and Cal took a 78-68 lead on free throws and an ASU steal and dunk wasn't enough as the Bears held on to win 78-70. Boykin scored a career high 25. Cal plays Arizona at 12:30 PT on sunday and Arizona State plays Stanford. UCLA vs. Oregon On a five game losing streak the Orego...

Orange Bowl recap Ricky Stanzi found his game, Adrian Clayborn had a monster performance and Iowa held off Georgia Tech 24-14 in the 76th annual Orange Bowl. In the first quarter Stanzi found Marvin McNutt for a score, and he threw another TD pass up high, where Colin Sandeman grabbed it for a 21 yard score. But Tech wasn't done yet. Jerrad Terrent undercut a slant pass by Stanzi and he returned the pass 40 yards to the house, making it 14-7. That would remain the score up until the half. On Tech's opening possession of the second half, they missed a FG and Iowa turned that into a FG. But Tech's offesne got rolling again, and Anthony Allen made it 17-14 with a one yard run. But Iowa drove downfield again, but Tech stopped them in the red zone. Iowa faked a field goal and they missed it. Jonathan Dwyer barely escaped a safety, and Tech had to punt it. Ricky Stanzi found Trey Strauss on 3rd and 8 and the Hawkeye running game did the rest, and freshman bac...

Outback: Northwestern vs. Auburn It took a pick-6, 5 interceptions, 3 missed field goals and an injured kicker, but Auburn finally beat Northwestern. Walter McFadden grabbed a tipped ball and returned it 100 yards for a score, making it 14-0 Tigers. Mike Kafka threw a 39 yard TD pass to Andrew Brewer, making it 14-7. Chris Todd found Quadarius Carr for a TD, but Brewer caught another TD to make it 21-14. Then, Mike Kafka threw a pass to Drake Dinsmore, who broke many tackles and scored a 66 yard TD. But an interception set up another Tiger touchdown, and soon it was 35-21. But Mike Kafka scored on a QB sneak, making it 35-27. Ben Tate soon fumbled and Northwestern had new life. On fourth and 3, NW was sacked, but a facemask was called and NW had a first down. Kafka found Sidney Spencer to make it 35-33 and Andrew Brewer found Brendan Mitchell for the 2 point conversion. However, Auburn fumbled the kickoff and Northwestern was set up for a 44 yard field goal. Pat Demos mis...

Armed Forces: Houston vs. Air Force The triple option rushing attack was too much for Houston as Air Force gained 402 yards on the ground in a 47-20 victory over Houston. Jared Tew ran for 173 yards and 2 scores, including a 71 yarder. Asher Clark also ran for 129 yards and 36 and 22 yard TD runs. Tyron Carrier started the second half off with a cutback, 79 yard kickoff return for a score. Jonathan Warzeka of Air Force answered by breaking tackles in his 100 yard kickoff return for a score. 2 kickoff returns for scores in 31 seconds. Sun: Oklahoma vs. Stanford Landry Jones threw for 418 yards and 3 TD's, all to Ryan Broyles as Oklahoma defeated Stanford 31-27 in the 76th Brut Sun Bowl. Broyles kicked his day off with a 30 yard TD reception on 3rd down in double coverage, and he also had TD catches of 13 and 6 yards. DeMarco Murray flipped into the end zone to put Oklahoma up 31-27 late in the third, but Stanford recovered a punt where Broyles was nailed when ca...