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17 yards for a touchdown to ice the victory … Van Noy finished with eight stops, 3.5 tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks, and added a blocked punt en route to defensive MVP accolades … Hoffman earned offensive MVP honors with 10 grabs for 114 yards. Oklahoma (10-2) The No. 12 Sooners came out on top in yet another shootout with a 51-48 overtime victory over Oklahoma State Nov. 24 … Fifth-year senior quarterback Landry Jones connected on 46 of 71 throws for 500 yards with three touchdowns and one interception … Oklahoma then defeated TCU 24-17 Dec. 1 to earn a share of the Big 12 title … Junior running back Damien Williams had 18 carries for 115 yards and a touchdown … OU was denied a BCS bowl berth when Mid-American Conference champion Northern Illinois earned an at-large bid by finishing 15th in the BCS standings … Instead, the Sooners will reunite with former conference rival No. 10 Texas A&M in the AT&T Cotton Bowl Jan. 4 in Arlington, Texas. Pittsburgh (6-6) The Panthers routed Rutgers 27-6 Nov. 24 and downed South Florida 27-3 Dec. 1 to gain bowl eligibility … Senior running back Ray Graham ran for 113 yards and a score against the Scarlet Knights … Fifth-year senior quarterback Tino Sunseri was 19-of-25 passing for 211 yards with a touchdown and no interceptions, while Graham added 94 yards and two scores on the ground in the victory over the Bulls … Sunseri threw for 3,103 yards and Graham ran for 1,042 yards during the regular season, giving the Panthers a 3,000-yard passer and a 1,000-yard rusher in the same campaign for the first time in school history … Pitt will square off with Mississippi in the BBVA Compass Bowl Jan. 5 in Birmingham, Ala. Boston College (2-10) The Eagles finished their worst season in 34 years with a 27-10 loss at North Carolina State Nov. 24 … Redshirt junior running back Rolandan Finch logged 19 rushing attempts for 144 yards and a score, while fifth-year senior linebacker Nick Clancy registered 18 tackles … BC finished with double-digit losses for just the second time in program history (it was 0-11 in 1978) … Clancy finished the regular season ranked third among all tacklers in the nation (145, 12.1 per game) … Head coach Frank Spaziani, who was 22-29 in four seasons as head coach and had been at the school for 16 years, was fired Nov. 25 … BC tabbed Steve Addazio, who led Temple to a 13-11 record the past two years, as Spaziani's replacement. Wake Forest (5-7) The Demon Deacons suffered a season-ending 55‑21 defeat at the hands of Vanderbilt Nov. 24 and failed to qualify for a bowl game … Redshirt junior wide receiver Michael Campanaro had eight receptions for 98 yards … Wake ended the season on a three-game losing streak for the first time since 2004 and was outscored 130-27 in the three contests … The Deacons have now posted four consecutive losing seasons … Campanaro's average of 7.9 catches per game ranks as the second-best in ACC history behind Torry Holt who notched 8.00 catches per game in 1998 at NC State. USC (7-6) Georgia Tech dealt the Trojans a stinging 21-7 defeat in the Hyundai Sun Bowl Dec. 31 in El Paso, Texas … The Southern Cal offense struggled mightily without injured star senior quarterback Matt Barkley, finishing with just 205 total yards, 10 first downs and eight punts … Redshirt freshman signal-caller Max Wittek completed 14 of 37 passes for 107 yards with one score and three interceptions … Junior running back Silas Redd was on the receiving end of Wittek's a nine-yard touchdown pass and rushed for 88 yards on 17 carries … Meanwhile, the USC defense yielded 294 rushing yards on 63 attempts … USC became the first preseason No. 1 team in the Associated Press poll, which started in 1950, to finish with as many as six losses, and is all but assured of becoming the first school to enter the season on top of the poll and finish unranked since Mississippi (5-5-1) in 1964. Bowl Results/Schedule Thursday, Dec. 20 San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia (at San Diego): BYU 23, San Diego State 6 Saturday, Dec. 29 Kraft Fight Hunger (at San Francisco): Arizona State 62, Navy 28 Buffalo Wild Wings (at Tempe, Ariz.): Michigan State 17, TCU 16 Monday, Dec. 31 Hyundai Sun (at El Paso, Texas): Georgia Tech 21, USC 7 Tuesday, Jan. 1 Heart of Dallas (at Dallas): Oklahoma State 58, Purdue 14 Outback (at Tampa, Fla.): No. 11 South Carolina 33, No. 19 Michigan 28 Rose Bowl Game presented by Vizio (at Pasadena, Calif.): No. 8 Stanford 20, Wisconsin 14 ✦ Page 19 Head coach Lane Kiffin's USC team became the first preseason No. 1 in the Associated Press poll, which started in 1950, to finish with as many as six losses. photo by bill panzica Friday, Jan. 4 AT&T Cotton (at Arlington, Texas): No. 12 Oklahoma vs. No. 10 Texas A&M, 8 p.m., FOX Saturday, Jan. 5 BBVA Compass (at Birmingham, Ala.): Pittsburgh vs. Mississippi, 1 p.m., ESPN Saturday, Jan. 7 BCS National Championship Game (at Miami): No. 1 Notre Dame vs. No. 2 Alabama, 8:30 p.m., ESPN Rankings (Associated Press poll) as of Jan. 3