Vols, Bulldogs win third straight bowls

Joshua Dobbs ran for three touchdowns and 118 yards and threw for 291 yards and another score and No. 21 Tennessee beat Nebraska 38-24 on Friday in the Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tenn.

The Volunteers (9-4) beat a Big Ten team in a bowl for a third straight year and notched their first win in three tries against the Cornhuskers. It’s the first time Tennessee has won three straight bowls since 1994-96 when Peyton Manning was quarterback for the Vols.

Tennessee took a 14-0 lead in the second quarter and outgained Nebraska 521-318 in total offense.

Nebraska (9-4) lost four of its final six games after rising as high as No. 7 in the rankings.

Liberty Bowl

Georgia 31, TCU 23: Nick Chubb ran for 142 yards and a touchdown as the Bulldogs (8-5) beat the Horned Frogs (6-7) in Memphis, Tenn., to win a bowl game for the third straight year.

The Bulldogs won the Belk Bowl two seasons ago and the TaxSlayer Bowl last year. Georgia’s latest bowl victory sent TCU to only its third losing year in Gary Patterson’s 16 full seasons as coach.

Rodrigo Blankenship put Georgia ahead for good with 13:27 left by kicking a 30-yard field goal. Blankenship’s kick was set up by Chubb’s 48-yard burst on the final play of the third period.

Sun Bowl

No. 18 Stanford 25, North Carolina 23: Bryce Love took over for the absent Christian McCaffrey in the Stanford backfield, running for 119 yards and catching a 49-yard touchdown pass to help the Cardinal (10-3) beat the Tar Heels (8-5).

St a nford hel d on a f te r North Carolina pulled within two with 25 seconds left on Mitch Trubisky’s 2-yard pass to Bug Howard, sacking Trubisky on the 2-point conversion try.

McCaffrey skipped the bowl game to focus on his NFL career.

Arizona Bowl

Air Force 45, South Alabama 21: Arion Worthman threw for 207 yards, Jacobi Owens scored two touchdowns and the Falcons (103) beat the Jaguars (6-7) in Tucson.

Air Force struggled to get its triple-option going, falling into an 18-point first-half hole.

But once the Falcons got rolling, they couldn’t be stopped, scoring 42 straight points to turn it into a rout.