In the end, the International Bowl wasn’t even a contest, and mostly that was because of one guy named Ray Rice:
TORONTO (AP) - Ray Rice ran over, around and through Ball State in the International Bowl, giving Rutgers the second bowl win in its long history.
Rice had four touchdowns and 280 yards, including a career-long 90-yard score to lift the Scarlet Knights to a 52-30 win in the International Bowl on Saturday.
Rutgers (8-5), which played the first college football game, hadn’t won a bowl game before last year. Now the program has won two in a row, following a 37-10 win over Kansas State in the 2006 Texas Bowl with another blowout north of the border.
Ball State (7-6), meanwhile, is still waiting for its first bowl win in four tries.
Rice, whose 25 touchdowns this season are a school record, has yet to announce whether he’ll skip his senior season and enter the NFL draft. Players who choose to declare for the draft must do so by Jan. 15.
It’s hard to argue that Rice should stay in school one more year when he clearly has a shot at making major money in the NFL, but if he does he stands a good chance of breaking a few NCAA records so, hopefully, that will be enough to keep him in New Jersey one more season.
