Middle Tennessee wore their home blue jerseys, Southern Mississippi wore their away white jerseys. The star of the game was MTSU quarterback
Dwight Dasher, who rushed for 201 yards, the most ever by a quarterback in a bowl game. He broke the
quarterback bowl rushing record of 200 yards set by Texas'
Vince Young in the
2006 Rose Bowl against Southern California. Dasher also rushed for 2 touchdowns and passed for 2 more. Southern Miss quarterback
Martevious Young completed 18 of 34 passes for 271 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions. Southern Miss running back
Damion Fletcher ran for 78 yards. He finished the season with 1,015 to become the ninth player in major college football to reach 1,000 in all four seasons. With 5,302 yards rushing overall, Fletcher passed
Herschel Walker (5,259) and
LaDainian Tomlinson (5,263) for eighth on the NCAA's career list.
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