Monangai runs for 163 yards, TD in Rutgers’ win over Miami
Hurricanes win Pinstripe Bowl; Boston College takes Fenway
NEW YORK — Kyle Monangai rushed for 163 yards and a touchdown on 25 carries to help give Rutgers a 31-24 win over Miami in the Pinstripe Bowl on Thursday.
The victory gave the Scarlet Knights (7-6) their first winning season since 2014, when they went 8-4 in their inaugural Big Ten season.
The Scarlet Knights opened this season 6-2 but stumbled in November, losing four straight conference games by an average of 20 points.
Miami (7-6) has dropped five straight bowl games.
Rutgers took the lead for good at 21-17 after Trevor Yeboah-kodie blocked a Miami punt that Timmy Ward recovered in the end zone.
Hurricanes quarterback Jacurri Brown scored on a 1-yard keeper with 27 seconds to play to draw Miami within seven at 31-24, and then the Hurricanes recovered the onside kick, but the rally fell short when Miami turned it over on downs with seven seconds left near midfield.
Brown, who hadn’t taken a snap in 2023, was the only healthy scholarship quarterback on the Miami roster. Tyler Van Dyke entered the portal and transferred to Wisconsin. Fenway Bowl: Thomas Castellanos stood in front of the Red Sox bullpen on his go-ahead touchdown and thought about acting like he was hitting a homer out of Fenway Park
for a moment.
On his second score, he knocked out SMU instead.
Castellanos had two fourth-quarter touchdown runs and Boston College beat No. 17 SMU 23-14 in the Fenway Bowl at the home of the Boston Red Sox, snapping the Mustangs’ nine-game winning streak.
Castellanos rushed for
156 yards and completed 11 of 18 passes for 102 yards. Ky Robichaux also had a scoring run for the Eagles (7-6), who have a main campus that’s located about 4 miles west of Fenway.
Kevin Jennings went 24 of 48 for 191 yards and a TD for SMU (11-3), which finished with its most victories since the 1982 squad also got 11.