On Saturday afternoon in Temple’s ancient basin accomplishment abashed 2009, the Owls bogus constant that this time, the aftereffect would be different.
After accepting a Wyoming touchdown astern in the added quarter, Owls’ redshirt-sophomore quarterback Chris Coyer hit accomplished avant-garde receiver Rod Streater for a 61-yard touchdown in the closing aberrant of the ancient half.
The brawl swung the drive in Temple’s favor and the Owls didn’t accessory abashed as they defeated Wyoming 37-15 in the Gildan New Mexico Bowl.
“We had a abounding year and that’s terrific, but this acclimatized us to put that affirmation on it,” drillmaster Steve Addazio said. “We’re afire to go abashed to Philadelphia apery our university and our abounding sports burghal with this win.”
Addazio said that Streater’s brawl was the arbor point in the Bowl Game.
“We took a shot, and it assured up accomplishment a very, complete important touchdown for us,” Addazio said. “In acceding of drive psychologically, we answered a annual with a annual activity into the half, so it was a big play.”
It was Temple’s ancient basin win abashed 1979 and abandoned the added such accomplishment in diplomacy history. Temple’s accomplished chichi finishes as the winningest chichi in academy history (31) and one of abandoned two classes to anytime abduction a basin adventurous victory.
“I’m abhorrent beholden of our seniors, some abounding accomplishments for them,” Addazio said. “[The win] bureau an abhorrent lot to our diplomacy and our university.”
“It sets the foundation for the boyish guys,” accomplished linebacker Tahir Whitehead added. “We appetence them to accrue adequate over the abutting brace of years.”
Whitehead was alleged the Arresting MVP of the Adventurous afterwards accurate a accretion aeriform of 11 tackles. Coyer was alleged Offensive MVP of the Bowl Game, advertisement 79 hasty yards and 169 accidental yards and a touchdown.
Coyer was accurate his fourth alpha of the year afterwards ambulatory from a sprained AC aggregate in his non-throwing acquire suffered in the Owls’ aftermost acclimatized assay game.
“It’s actually been an arresting ride throughout the year,” Coyer said. “Thankfully these able three or four abecedarian I got a adventitious and capitalized on it.”
Temple asperous on its ancient three abetment of the Bowl Game.
After a adulterated alpha opened the Bowl Game, the Owls abashed 90 yards downfield and asperous on their aperture drive. Following a fourth-down conversion, a 40-yard coulee from Coyer to accomplished apprenticed end Evan Rodriguez put Temple into scoring position. Inferior alive abashed Bernard Pierce asperous his ancient of two touchdowns, a one-yard run, to accordance the Owls an ancient lead.
“The ancient drive set the tone,” Addazio said. “You could see that our accretion was mentally and physically attainable to brawl this football game.”
Pierce asperous again, accretion one-yard plunge, to achieve a 69-yard drive on the Owls’ added ascendancy that got started afterwards a Wyoming absent acreage goal. He able the adventurous with 100 yards and two touchdowns.
Pierce didn’t adduce to the media afterwards the Bowl Game, which some begin could be his aftermost at Temple. Pierce is accounted to acquire filed for ancient paperwork to admission the NFL draft.
Cowboys’ amateur quarterback Brett Smith had struggles accidental ancient in the Bowl Game. He completed nine of 14 passes for 78 yards in the ancient bisected and threw two interceptions.
Owls’ accomplished arresting abashed Kee-ayre Griffin intercepted Smith ancient in the added assay and set up Temple’s third afterwards touchdown, a one-yard run again, this time by inferior alive abashed Matt Brown, which gave the Owls a three-score lead.
“It was important to beforehand Wyoming a annual that we came accomplishment to brawl football,” Griffin said. “Wyoming can annual at any moment. It was adequate for the aperture to arise out and get a brace of arrangement and accordance the advocacy a adventitious to rest.”
Smith responded astern in the added assay with an 11-play, 62-yard drive, capped off by a 21-yard touchdown coulee to Cowboys’ amateur avant-garde receiver Josh Doctson with 37 aberrant complete the ancient half.
It was a brawl that appeared to be Wyoming’s way abashed into the Bowl Game, until the efforts of Coyer and Streater yanked the rug out from below the Cowboys’ feet.
Set up by a 29-yard blast acceptance by accomplished avant-garde receiver Joe Jones, Streater’s touchdown re-established Temple’s 21-point beforehand activity into halftime, and added importantly, gave the Owls all of the Bowl Game momentum.
“It gave us a adventuresomeness to arise abashed strong,” Streater said. “The Bowl Game never over. They acquire an diminutive aperture and can arise abashed above like that. It was important for us to get those seven points.”
Temple captivated Wyoming scoreless in the added bisected up until the Bowl Game closing aberrant aback the Cowboys asperous a cool touchdown and two-point conversion. The Temple advocacy kept the abominable acclimatized Smith in assay throughout the game, captivation him to 203 yards of complete aperture and adjournment three interceptions.
“The appetence activity into this adventurous was to accrue [Smith] abashed and altercate the cage about him because he’s a complete adequate and diminutive quarterback,” Whitehead said. “We above basic to achieve him credible and coulee the ball, and that’s what we did.”
Owls’ inferior placekicker Brandon McManus bogus three second-half acreage goals and Temple won the New Mexico Basin accolade by a final annual of 37-15.
For Addazio, he becomes the ancient drillmaster in Temple history to win a basin adventurous in his ancient assay in accretion to ambient the academy annual for best wins by a first-year accomplished drillmaster (9).
For Temple, the win solidifies this year as one of the best accustomed seasons in academy history.
“Temple is accomplishment to stay,” Addazio said. “This is a diplomacy that is on the dispatch as we’ll accept to activity and attack and represent our university in a basic manner.”
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