VALERO ALAMO BOWL

dec. 30 1956— The New York Giants win the NFL title with a 47-7 rout of the Chicago Bears.

1962— The Green Bay Packers beat the New York Giants 16-7 to win the NFL title for the second straight year.

1973— The Minnesota Vikings beat the Dallas Cowboys 27-10 to win the NFC championship.

1973— The Miami Dolphins, behind 266 yards rushing, beat the Oakland Raiders 27-10 for an unprecedented third straight AFC title.

1981— In the 39th game of the season, Edmonton’s Wayne Gretzky scores five goals, including his 50th into an empty net, to lead the Oilers to a 7-5 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers.

2000— Nebraska ends a disappointing season by setting a bowl record for points in a 66-17 victory over Northwestern in the Alamo Bowl.

2002— TCU sets an NCAA record for fewest points allowed when the Lady Frogs beat Texas Southern 76-16. The 16 points breaks the Division I record for fewest points. Prairie View scored 19 points against Jackson State in 1983.

2007— Drew Brees sets

an NFL record with 443 completions, passing the previous mark of 418 set by Rich Gannon in 2002. Brees completes 35 of 60 passes for 320 yards with three TD passes in New Orleans’ 33-25 loss to Chicago. Devin Hester of the Bears breaks his own NFL record when he returns a punt 64 yards for a touchdown. It gave him six kick runbacks (two kickoff, four punt) for scores this season.

2010 —Top - ranked Connecticut’s record 90-game winning streak in women’s basketball ends when No. 9 Stanford outplays the Huskies from the start in a 71-59 victory at Maples Pavilion—where the Cardinal have their own streak going. Stanford hasn’t lost in 52 games at home. The Cardinal took an early 13-point lead, never trailed and didn’t let the mighty Huskies back in it.

2011— Blake Bell runs for three touchdowns to help Oklahoma survive a late rally and a crashing camera to beat Iowa 31-14 in the Insight Bowl. A camera, providing overhead shots for ESPN, hanging from a wire over Sun Devil Stadium falls with 2:22 left in the game. The camera bounces off the field around the 20-yard line and narrowly misses Iowa receiver Marvin McNutt Jr., who got tangled in the wire after the camera hit the turf. McNutt isn’t injured and the camera is dragged off the field, causing a delay of about 5 minutes.

—THE ASSOCIATED PRESS