Tulane 得点する／非難する／２０s 16 late points, （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域s USC 46-45 in Cotton Bowl
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Alex Bauman knew 権利 away he had 得点する／非難する／２０d probably the biggest touchdown in Tulane history, even after the true freshman tight end's contested 6-yard catch at the end of the Cotton Bowl was 最初 支配するd incomplete.
"I kept my 手渡すs under the ball," he said.
The long replay review 証明するd Bauman made the catch with 9 seconds left, even with linebacker Eric Gentry draped over him as they rolled over in the end zone. That capped a frantic finish for the 14th-階級d Green Wave in a 46-45 勝利，勝つ over Heisman トロフィー 勝利者 Caleb Williams and No. 8 Southern California on Monday.
"I might have had a heart attack," Tulane coach Willie Fritz said on the field moments after the game ended.
"If you told us before the game that we had one 運動, one 適切な時期 to go 負かす／撃墜する there and 勝利，勝つ the game, then we´d take that 10 out of 10 times," quarterback Michael Pratt said.
The Green Wave (12-2) 得点する／非難する／２０d 16 points in the final 4:07, the game-winning touchdown coming after they got the ball 支援する に引き続いて a safety, to 完全にする an FBS-記録，記録的な／記録する 10-勝利，勝つ turnaround after going 2-10 last season.
"抱擁する 勝利，勝つ for the program, 抱擁する 勝利，勝つ for the university, 抱擁する 勝利，勝つ for the city," Fritz said.
Williams was 37-for-52 passing for 462 yards and a Cotton Bowl-記録，記録的な／記録する five touchdowns, 正確に／まさに one month after 苦しむing a hamstring 傷害 in USC's loss to Utah in the Pac-12 選手権 game that kept the Trojans (11-3) from making the four-team College Football プレーオフ.
Tyjae Spears ran for 205 yards, his FBS-best eighth 連続した 100-yard game. His career-best fourth touchdown started the final 得点する／非難する／２０ing 殺到する for American Athlet ic 会議／協議会 支持する／優勝者 Tulane, which was in the New Year's Six game as the highest-階級d Group of Five team.
The Green Wave played in their most 重要な bowl since the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Day in 1940, when they were still in the Southeastern 会議／協議会, and it was their biggest bowl 勝利，勝つ since the 1935 Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, where their campus is 位置を示すd.
After Spears' 4-yard TD run with 4:07 left, the Green Wave 選ぶd to kick 深い instead of trying an onside kick. Mario Williams signaled for a fair catch, but fumbled the ball out of bounds at the 1. Two plays later, 防御の 取り組む Patrick Jenkins met Austin Jones in the end zone and smothered him for a safety.
"We were 審議ing whether or not to onside kick," said Fritz, the seventh-year Tulane coach. "明白に it was 広大な／多数の／重要な that we got it on the 1 and got the safety."
Pratt 完全にするd only 8 of 17 passes for 234 yards, but had two 24-yard 完成s on that final 運動 after the safety. He also 緊急発進するd 8 yards on a fourth-and-6 play.
The first 24-yard 完成 to Bauman 変えるd a fourth-and-10. ジュース ワットs then held on にもかかわらず a 鎮圧するing 攻撃する，衝突する from a defender that left both of them on the ground after a 24-yard 伸び（る） to the 6 with 18 seconds left.
After Williams followed coach Lincoln Riley from Oklahoma, the Trojans matched the biggest turnaround in school history にもかかわらず the coach's first loss in six games at AT&T Stadium. Their debut was a seven-勝利，勝つ 改良 over last season's 4-8 記録，記録的な／記録する.
"I´ve rarely at the end of the year felt so 衝突d," Riley said. "On one 手渡す, sick about the way we finished the season. ... We lost three games this year. We lost two of them on the last play of the game. And we lost one in the fourth ４半期/4分の1 in the 選手権 game when we had a chance to go to the College Football プレーオフ."
The Trojans never 追跡するd until that final touchdown. Williams threw TD passes on each of their first two 所有／入手s. A 9-yarder to Michael Jackson III capped the game-開始 9-minute 運動, the longest by time for USC this season, and Terrell Bynum´s 3-yard catch capped a 95-yard 運動 早期に to make it 14-0 in the second ４半期/4分の1.
Tulane tied the game at 14 on Pratt´s touchdown pass to Jha´Quan Jackson, an 87-yard catch-and-run. But USC 得点する／非難する／２０d twice in the final 2:21 of the first half, on Raleek Brown´s 39-yard run and Brenden Rice´s 4-yard catch with 12 seconds left.
Rice, the son of プロの／賛成の Football Hall of Fame receiver Jerry Rice, had career bests with six catches for 174 yards and two touchdowns. Tahj Washington had five catches for 109 yards.
Williams got 傷つける on a 59-yard run 早期に in the Pac-12 選手権 game loss to Utah on Dec. 2, but still threw for 363 yards and three TDs while finishing that game. USC's only other loss was also to the Utes, who had a game-winning 2-point 転換 at home in 中央の-October.
The Cotton Bowl was Williams´ third game this season with five TD passes. His only interception 始める，決める up Tulane´s long game-tying TD. On a 緊急発進する with open field in 前線 of him, Williams instead threw off his 支援する foot and was 選ぶd off by Jarius Monroe.
"It´s going to ぐずぐず残る. You lose the last game of the season, go into the offseason, 燃やすs," Williams said. "Don´t have another game after. It´s going to 燃やす."
GOING LONG
There were 11 plays of at least 30 yards - six by Tulane (two passes and four runs) and five by USC (four passe s, one run). The 87-yard catch-and-run by Jackson for the Green Wave matched the longest touchdown in the 87 Cotton Bowl games played.
UP NEXT
Tulane opens next 落ちる with 支援する-to-支援する home games, Sept. 2 against South Alabama and Sept. 9 against SEC team Ole 行方不明になる.
USC gets an 早期に start to Riley´s second season, Aug. 26 at home against San Jose 明言する／公表する.
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