Luke Falk threw two touchdown passes to lead Washington State to a 20-14 victory over Miami at a snowy Sun Bowl in El Paso.
Erik Powell added field goals of 30 and 25 yards to help the Cougars (9-4) win a bowl game for the first time since the 2003 Holiday Bowl.
Miami (8-5) lost its sixth consecutive bowl game.
Washington State led, 20-7, at the half and appeared to be in control, limiting Miami to three first downs over the second and third quarters.
The Hurricanes rallied in a snowstorm in the fourth. Braxton Berrios’s 60-yard end-around run set up Mark Walton’s 5-yard scoring run, which cut it to 20-14 with 13 minutes 10 seconds left.