Bowling Green State University
7-6
Idaho (HUMANITARIAN BOWL)
8-5
Falcons Come Up Short Versus Vandals in Roady's Humanitarian Bowl, 43-42
December 30, 2009 | Football
Postgame Press Conference - Tyler Sheehan, Freddie Barnes and Angelo Magnone
Photo Gallery
Box Score
The Bowling Green State University football team got a 51-yard touchdown from Freddie Barnes with 32 seconds remaining to take a 42-35 lead but surrendered a late touchdown with four seconds to go, as well as a two-point conversion, to fall 43-42 to the Idaho Vandals in the 2009 Roady's Humanitarian Bowl in Boise, Idaho.
BGSU rallied back from a 28-14 and 35-28 deficits to lead with 32 seconds to go but the Vandals drove 66 yards on three plays, including a 50-yard strike to open the drive to get within one at 42-41. After a timeout the Vandals elected to go for two, converting in the back of the endzone for the winning score.
The Falcons opened the scoring with senior quarterback Tyler Sheehan hooking up with Biletnikoff finalist Freddie Barnes on a 35-yard touchdown. Sheehan would call Barnes' number 16 more times, finishing with a Humanitarian Bowl record 17 receiptions for 219 yards (both Humanitarian Bowl records), while Sheehan completed 33-of-47 passes for 387 yards and four touchdowns.
Barnes would finish the season with 155 receptions, smashing the all-time NCAA mark of 142, held by Manny Hazzard (Houston) since 1989. For his efforts he was named BGSU's Roady's Humanitarian Bowl Most Valuable Player.
Following a Vandal touchdown junior Willie Geter scampered 59 yards for a score to spot the Orange and Brown a 14-7 lead at the end of one quarter. It was Geter's second longest run of the season.
Neither team would get back on the scoreboard until Idaho's Nathan Enderle connected with wide receiver Eric Greenwood on a seven-yard fade route with 19 seconds remaining in the first half to finish the first half at 14 apiece.
Idaho started the second half off with a bang, scoring a pair of touchdowns in a four minute span to go up 28-14 with 5:30 minutes to go in the third quarter, a spot Bowling Green has seen before an answered. Much like the contest with Kent State and Buffalo, BGSU would have to find a way to rally from a double-digit deficit, a deficit they would erase in a hurry.
First, Sheehan connected with fellow classmate Jimmy Scheidler on a 15-yard touchdown with just over three minutes remaining in the third quarter and then found Barnes on an out-route at 12:15 in the fourth to knot the score at 28 apiece.
The Vandals would answer back with a 74-yard drive to once again take the lead, this time, 35-28 with 8:32 to go in the game.
A two-yard Geter touchdown, his second of the game, pushed the score to 35-35 and following a stop by the BGSU defense Sheehan and the Falcons marched 80 yards to take a 42-35 lead with 32 seconds remaining before the final winning drive by Idaho.
Notes
*Freddie Barnes, who entered the Roady's Humanitarian Bowl four catches shy of the NCAA mark for receiptions in a season (142), held by Manny Hazzard, had six grabs in the first quarter alone. The fifth-year senior ended the contest with 17 receptions for 219 yards, both new Humanitarian Bowl records.
*Barnes also extended his scoring streak to eight consecutive games and has 17 touchdowns in his last eight contests. Barnes, who finished the game with three touchdowns ended the year with 19 scores, tops in the nation.
*Barnes also eclipsed the 100-yard mark for the ninth time in 2009, finishing the afternoon with 219 yards receiving, his second 200-yard game of the year.
*For his career the Chicago Heights, Ill., native had 297 receptions for 3,290 yards and 30 touchdown receptions.
*Sheehan, like Barnes ended his Falcon career with one of his best games as a Falcons, completing 33-of-47 passes for 387 yards and four touchdowns, matching a career-best.
*The 300-yard game was his ninth of 2009, setting a new school record. He finished his career with 11 300-yard games, second-most in school history.
*Sheehan threw an interception midway through the third quarter, snapping a streak of 136 straight passes without giving it to the other team. Sheehan finished the season throwing just seven interceptions in 575 passes pass attempts (1:82.1).
*In his career Sheehan can now be found atop nearly every quarterback record in school history, He is first in pass attempts (1,494), completions (966), completion percentage (64.7) and second in passing yards (10,117) and passing touchdowns (70).
*He also finished 2009 with his best year statistically, throwing for 4,051 yards (school record) and 27 touchdowns. Sheehan is one of just two Falcons to throw for 4,000 yards in a season, the last being Omar Jacobs (4,002) in 2004.
*Willie Geter continued his hot streak, scoring a touchdown for the third straight week and now has eight touchdowns in his last five games.
*Jimmy Schediler caught his first touchdown of 2009 late in the third quarter after leading the Falcons in touchdown receptions in 2008 with seven.
Team Stats
BGSU 7, IDAHO 0
BGSU - BARNES, Freddie 35 yd pass from SHEEHAN, Tyler (NORSIC, Matt kick) 3 plays, 50 yards, TOP 1:03
BGSU 7, IDAHO 7
IDAHO - Peter Bjorvik 3 yd pass from Nathan Enderle (Trey Farquhar kick) 7 plays, 78 yards, TOP 3:55
BGSU 14, IDAHO 7
BGSU - GETER, Willie 59 yd run (NORSIC, Matt kick), 1 plays, 59 yards, TOP 0:12
BGSU 14, IDAHO 14
IDAHO - Eric Greenwood 7 yd pass from Nathan Enderle (Trey Farquhar kick) 10 plays, 65 yards, TOP 4:08
BGSU 14, IDAHO 21
IDAHO - D. Woolridge 8 yd run (Trey Farquhar kick), 8 plays, 70 yards, TOP 3:37
BGSU 14, IDAHO 28
IDAHO - D. Woolridge 13 yd run (Trey Farquhar kick), 4 plays, 27 yards, TOP 2:37
BGSU 21, IDAHO 28
BGSU - SCHEIDLER, Ji. 15 yd pass from SHEEHAN, Tyler (NORSIC, Matt kick) 4 plays, 57 yards, TOP 1:50
BGSU 28, IDAHO 28
BGSU - BARNES, Freddie 5 yd pass from SHEEHAN, Tyler (NORSIC, Matt kick) 13 plays, 67 yards, TOP 4:52
BGSU 28, IDAHO 35
IDAHO - Preston Davis 30 yd pass from Nathan Enderle (Trey Farquhar kick) 7 plays, 74 yards, TOP 3:33
BGSU 35, IDAHO 35
BGSU - GETER, Willie 2 yd run (NORSIC, Matt kick), 8 plays, 61 yards, TOP 4:41
BGSU 42, IDAHO 35
BGSU - BARNES, Freddie 51 yd pass from SHEEHAN, Tyler (NORSIC, Matt kick) 8 plays, 80 yards, TOP 1:17
BGSU 42, IDAHO 43
IDAHO - Max Komar 16 yd pass from Nathan Enderle (Preston Davis pass) 3 plays, 66 yards, TOP 0:28
