Snow day

Clemson rolls past La. Tech in Humanitarian Bowl

Clemson receiver Roscoe Crosby breaks free for a 53-yard second-quarter TD pass from Woodrow Dantzler. AP

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Even in the snow, Woodrow Dantzler was dazzling.

Dantzler tied a school record with four touchdown passes and Clemson coach Tommy Bowden got his first postseason victory as the Tigers beat Louisiana Tech 49-24 in the Humanitarian Bowl on Monday.

With snow falling from kickoff into the third quarter, Dantzler completed 15 of 23 passes for 218 yards. He ran 15 times for 57 yards before leaving with the Tigers leading 42-10 after the third quarter.

This fall, Dantzler became the first Division I-A player to pass for 2,000 yards and rush for 1,000 in the same season.

He went out with a bang in his final performance, throwing two scoring passes in the first six minutes of the third quarter as the Tigers (7-5) extended a 14-10 halftime lead.

Dantzler found tight end Ben Hall for a 5-yard score. Later, he threw in the flat to Bernard Rambert, who was almost stopped short of a first down near midfield but broke away from a mass of tacklers and sprinted 62 yards for a TD.

The Bulldogs (7-5), champions of the Western Athletic Conference in their first season in the league, tackled poorly in the cold weather and quarterback Luke McCown's two third-quarter interceptions led to two Clemson TDs.

Dantzler was voted Clemson's most valuable player.

Everything went right for the Tigers in the third. They made it 42-10 when receiver Airese Currie hid a handoff from Dantzler, stood still while the play flowed deceptively to the right and then raced left for a 19-yard score.

The 32-degree weather was better suited for the Winter Olympics than a college bowl game, with the blue turf at Boise State's Bronco Stadium looking more like a frozen hockey pond.

It was the Clemson's first game in the snow since 1936. Louisiana Tech's last snow game was the 1968 Grantland Rice Bowl in Murfreesboro, Tenn., when Terry Bradshaw directed a victory over Akron.

The Tigers made the best of it. Someone built a snow-statue replica of Howard's Rock, the good luck charm that Clemson players touch before each home game. They did it in Idaho, too, although the "rock" fell after too much contact.

Bowden is the first Clemson coach to reach bowl games in his first three seasons, but he was 0-2 until this year. The Tigers also snapped a string of five straight bowl losses.

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