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<\/p>\nFresno State (9-4) answered with a methodical 15-play, 82-yard march that ended with Lynch\u2019s 28-yard field goal to tie it 3-3 midway through the second quarter. A blocked punt then put the Bulldogs on Miami\u2019s 10-yard line, setting up Lynch\u2019s 23-yard kick for a 6-3 lead with five minutes left in the half. Lynch added a 25-yard field goal on the final play before intermission to make it 9-3.<\/p>\n
Neither team scored in the third quarter, but Fresno State finally broke through for the game\u2019s lone touchdown early in the fourth. The Bulldogs capped a 13-play, 70-yard drive with E.J. Warner\u2019s 2-yard touchdown pass to Richie Anderson III with 11:12 remaining. The ensuing two-point try failed, keeping it 15-3.<\/p>\n
Miami\u2019s best chance to respond came on the next possession when it drove to the Fresno State 38, but the RedHawks turned the ball over on downs with 8:32 to play.<\/p>\n
Lynch finished the scoring with a 37-yard field goal with 2:56 left.<\/p>\n
Warner completed 15 of 22 passes for 219 yards and a touchdown for Fresno State. Miami quarterback Thomas Gotkowski was held to 72 yards passing on 6-of-22 throwing with an interception as the RedHawks were limited to 192 total yards and went 0 for 2 on fourth down.<\/p>\n
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Credit: AP<\/p>\n
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Credit: AP<\/p>\n
Malcolm McCain made a career-high 13 tackles for Miami, matching Eli Blakey for the game high. Nasir Washington recorded a sack as the RedHawks finished the season with 41.<\/p>\n
Dzioban\u2019s first-quarter kick also added to a closing chapter in his Miami career. He finished 46 of 53 on field goals, a program record for career accuracy, and went 20 of 23 this season to match the school\u2019s second-best single-season accuracy mark.<\/p>\n
Miami, which fell to 9-8 all-time in bowl games, closed its 2025 season after playing its 42nd game over the past three years. The RedHawks defeated Colorado State in last year\u2019s Arizona Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno State (9-4) answered with a methodical 15-play, 82-yard march that ended with Lynch\u2019s 28-yard field goal to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1321,1327,949,112,114,113,127],"class_list":["post-112179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-college-football","tag-college-sports","tag-football","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}