Twenty bowl games have been played in the last 11 days, but the 2015-16 bowl season is not even half over with yet. Twenty-one games remain, and at least 10 of them will include a team from the SEC.
Here are the top 2015-16 bowl marks SEC players will be chasing this postseason.
PASSING YARDS
Brandon Doughty, Western Kentucky, 461
Jeff Driskel, LA Tech, 458
Nate Sudfeld, Indiana, 389
Western Kentucky had a day against South Florida in the Miami Beach Bowl, posting 612 yards of offense. Doughty accounted for 476 of those yards.
RECEIVING YARDS
Isaiah Ford, Virginia Tech, 227
Michael Thomas, Southern Mississippi, 190
Corey Davis, Western Michigan, 183
RECEPTIONS
Isaiah Ford, Virginia Tech, 12
Hunter Sharp, Utah State, 11
Joshua Atkinson, Tulsa, 11
Mitchel Paige, Indiana, 11
Ford, a sophomore, set new career-highs in receiving yards and receptions against Tulsa in the Camping World Independence Bowl. It was the first 200-yard, 12-catch game of his college career.
RUSHING YARDS
Devine Redding, Indiana, 227
Jamauri Bogan, Western Michigan, 215
Favian Upshaw, Georgia Southern, 199
Redding rushed a career-high 35 times and gained 227 yards in a losing effort against Duke in the New Era Pinstripe Bowl. There was, however, some controversy with the final field goal attempt.
TOTAL TOUCHDOWNS
Lamar Jordan, New Mexico, 4
Kenneth Dixon, LA Tech, 4
Favian Upshaw, Georgia Southern, 4
Jamauri Bogan, Western Michigan, 4
Myles Gaskin, Washington, 4
Dane Evans, Tulsa, 4
Keenan Reynolds, Navy, 4
Upshaw, Bogan and Gaskin scored all their touchdowns on the ground. The other players had at least one throwing score. Will an SEC player record five touchdowns?
INTERCEPTIONS
Tevin Carter, Utah, 2
Brendon Clements, Navy, 2
These are the other two defensive players with multiple picks this bowl season. Carter took one of his interceptions back for a touchdown.
POINTS
Georgia Southern, 58
Boise State, 55
Virginia Tech, 55
Tulsa, 52
There wasn’t much defense in the Camping World Independence Bowl. Virginia Tech beat Tulsa, 55-52.
POINTS ALLOWED
Boise State, 7
San Diego State, 7
Marshall, 10
Boise State has the greatest margin of victory this bowl season with a 48-point thrashing of Northern Illinois in the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl.
Dave covers SEC football for Saturday Down South.
