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Barnett listed on AP All-Bowl team
(AP) — Now that all the postseason games with “bowl” in the
title have been played, it’s time to
reveal the Associated Press 2015
All-Bowl Team.
There were enough standout
performances that we decided to
cheat a little on our team. That’s
why you’ll see 12 men on our
defense and 14 players on our
offense, including two tight ends
from the same school.
OFFENSE
n
Quarterback:
Bram
Kohlhausen, TCU: After the
arrest and suspension of usual
starter
Trevone
Boykin,
Kohlhausen picked up the slack
and rallied No. 11 TCU from a
31-0 deficit in a 47-41, tripleovertime Alamo Bowl victory over
No. 15 Oregon. Kohlhausen
passed for 351 yards and
accounted for four touchdowns.
n Running back: Leonard
Fournette, LSU: Rushed for 212
yards and scored five touchdowns in the 22nd-ranked
Tigers’ 56-27 Texas Bowl triumph over Texas Tech.
Fournette had four touchdown
runs and also scored on a 44yard reception.
Johnny Jefferson, Baylor: Ran
for 299 yards in No. 18 Baylor’s
49-38 Russell Athletic Bowl victory over No. 10 North Carolina.
He rushed for three touchdowns
and also went 1 of 3 for 24 yards
passing.
n Wide receiver: Isaiah Ford,
Virginia Tech: Caught 12 passes
for 227 yards and a touchdown
in Virginia Tech’s 55-52
Independence Bowl victory over
Tulsa.
Jakeem Grant, Texas Tech:
Had 10 catches for 125 yards
and three touchdowns in the Red
Raiders’ Texas Bowl loss to LSU.
Calvin Ridley, Alabama:
Caught eight passes for 138
yards and two touchdowns in No.
2 Alabama’s 38-0 Cotton Bowl
blowout of No. 3 Michigan State.
n Tight end: Hunter Henry
and Jeremy Sprinkle, Arkansas:
Both played major roles in
Arkansas’ 45-23 Liberty Bowl
victory over Kansas State.
Sprinkle had four receptions for
81 yards and a touchdown.
Henry had five catches for 92
yards. Henry’s 43-yard gain on a
third-and-13 play set up the
game-clinching touchdown.
n Line: Pat Elflein, Ohio State:
Both Elflein and teammate
Taylor Decker led a line that
helped No. 7 Ohio State gain 496
yards in a 44-28 Fiesta Bowl win
over No. 8 Notre Dame. Elflein’s
interior blocking at right guard
helped pave the way for Ezekiel
Elliott’s 149-yard rushing performance.
Eric MacLain, Clemson:
Graded out the highest of
Clemson’s offensive linemen as
the top-ranked Tigers rushed for
312 yards in a 37-17 Orange
Bowl victory over No. 4
Oklahoma.
Storm
Norton,
Toledo:
Anchored a line that didn’t give
up a single sack in a 32-17 Boca
Raton Bowl victory over No. 24
Temple, which entered the game
with 33 sacks. That represented
a showcase performance for a
Toledo line that allowed only
four sacks all year.
John Theus, Georgia: Blocked
Penn State’s Carl Nassib and
held the FBS sack leader without a single tackle in Georgia’s
24-17 TaxSlayer Bowl victory
over Penn State.
Laremy Tunsil, Ole Miss: Led
a line that helped No. 16 Ole
Miss gain 554 total yards in a
48-20 Sugar Bowl triumph over
No. 13 Oklahoma State. He also
scored on a 2-yard run.
n All-purpose: Christian
McCaffrey, Stanford: Set a Rose
Bowl record with 368 all-purpose yards in No. 5 Stanford’s
45-16 win over No. 6 Iowa. He
rushed for 172 yards on 18 carries and caught four passes for
105 yards, including a 75-yard
touchdown. He also scored on a
63-yard punt return.
DEFENSE
n Line: Derek Barnett,
Tennessee: Made eight tackles,
recorded his 10th sack of the
season and forced a fumble in
Tennessee’s 45-6 Outback Bowl
blowout of No. 12 Northwestern.
Kenny Clark, UCLA: Had a
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game-high 11 stops in a 37-29
tennessee DeFensIVe enD Derrick Barnett (9) gets set to rush against Northwestern in the
Foster Farms Bowl loss to Outback Bowl. Barnett was named to the AP All-Bowl Team.
Nebraska. He had two tackles
ment for a targeting penalty in Recorded eight tackles, deliv- Clements, Navy: Had two interfor loss and one sack.
regular-season ered three sacks and broke up ceptions and also broke up a
Kyle Kelley, San Diego State: Wisconsin’s
Recorded 3 ½ sacks and nine finale but still had nine tackles two passes in Louisville’s 27-21 pass in No. 21 Navy’s 44-28
tackles in a 42-7 Hawaii Bowl and three sacks in the 23rd- Music City Bowl win over Texas Military Bowl victory over
Pittsburgh.
ranked Badgers’ 23-21 victory A&M.
rout of Cincinnati.
Caleb Williams, Georgia
Scooby
Wright,
Arizona:
After
over
Southern
California.
Aziz Shittu, Stanford: Made
Kamalei Correa, Boise State: injuries limited him to just two Southern: Broke up five passes
10 tackles - 3 ½ for loss - and
delivered 1 ½ sacks in Recorded two sacks and forced a regular-season games, Wright in Georgia Southern’s 58-27
Stanford’s Rose Bowl thrashing fumble for a Boise State defense came back and had 15 tackles - GoDaddy Bowl victory over
that allowed just 33 total yards 3 ½ for loss - and two sacks as Bowling Green. Matt Johnson,
of Iowa.
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