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For four straight plays in the waning minutes, Notre Dame's defense was backed up to its 1 with its perfect season in peril. And on four straight plays, Southern California got nothing.

Geno Smith tied a record for any bowl game with six touchdown passes as No. 23 West Virginia set a bowl scoring record by beating No. 14 Clemson in the Orange Bowl.

The Bowl Championship Series stripped Southern California of its 2004 title on Monday, leaving that season without a BCS champion....

For a brief moment, Michael Dyer stopped running. Hold on. No whistle. No ref raising his hand. So he started running again - past the tackler who thought he had him down, deep into Oregon territory. A once-in-a-lifetime run, the kind that wins championships.

It's almost unheard of - a quarterback cranking out a string of 13 straight games with never an off day. But Auburn's Cam Newton spent the 2010 season redefining what's possible at that position....

The sure thing was looking shaky for Alabama. Hanging onto a precarious three-point lead and with momentum on the other side, linebacker Eryk Anders was determined not to let the championship slip away.

Boise State reached into its bag of tricks again and stunned Texas Christian in a Fiesta Bowl duel of unbeaten BCS busters.