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Holiday Bowl 1995
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Miller was motionless until raising his left index finger toward the
crowd as he was wheeled into a tunnel. X-rays taken at the stadium were
negative and he was taken to a hospital. Team officials weren't specific
about the nature of Miller's injury, but said he had full movement.
Backup Brian Kavanagh came on and completed his first seven passes,
finishing 18-of-24 for 242 yards and throwing touchdowns to four
different receivers. He tied Jim McMahon's Holiday Bowl record of four
TD passes set in BYU's wild 46-45 win over Southern Methodist in 1980.
Mike Lawrence added a pair of five-yard TD runs.
The Wildcats (10-2) completed the second 10-win season in school
history (video). The other came in 1910
when they were 10-1. K-State, the first program to lose 500 games, made
its third straight bowl appearance under coach Bill Snyder.
Colorado State (8-4), representing the Western Athletic Conference,
lost its second straight Holiday Bowl. The Rams lost 24-14 to Michigan
last year. Facing the nation's top overall defense, CSU quarterback
Moses Moreno had a horrible night, going 5-of-24 for 91 yards and two
interceptions. The Rams had the best total defense in the WAC this year,
but the 54 points were the most given up in Sonny Lubick's three years
as coach.
Gordon Brown partially blocked Matt McDougal's punt on the next CSU
possession, giving the Wildcats the ball at the Rams' 32. Two plays
later, Dederick Kelly was barely touched on an 18-yard draw for a 19-7
lead.
Raymond Jackson intercepted Kavanagh and returned it 60 yards for an
apparent TD early in the fourth quarter, but the officials brought it
back on an inadvertent whistle. The teams scored on their first possessions, a four-yard run by K-State's Eric Hickson and a two-yard run by CSU's Jaime Blake.
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Attendance- 51,051 |
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SAN
DIEGO- No. 10 Kansas State took control with two quick touchdowns after
quarterback Matt Miller was knocked out of the Holiday Bowl with a neck
injury and routed Colorado State 54-21 Friday night. Miller was knocked
cold after a helmet-to-helmet collision with linebacker Nate Kvamme and
lay on the field for 7 1/2 minutes before being taken off on a
stretcher. His father, Les, a former front-office official with the
NFL's San Diego Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs, was at his side as he
was wheeled off. 
With the score tied 7-7 early in the second quarter, Miller was
flushed out of the pocket on a third-and-13 from the K-State 49. He was
trying to shake free from end Brady Smith when Kvamme came in and
leveled him. Three plays into the ensuing CSU drive, free safety Mario
Smith intercepted Moses Moreno and returned it eight yards to the Rams
24. Jimmy Dean gained 19 yards on an end-around, and Mike Lawrence
scored on a 5-yard run on the next play to put the Wildcats up 13-7. 
