The Warhawks completed their second consecutive 15-0 season and won his third national championship in four years. They are 57-3 in four seasons as head coach Lance Leipold. The Purple Raiders (14-1), winner of 10 championships in 13 previous trips to the title game coach Larry Kehrer, did all its scoring in less than four minutes in the second quarter.
Coppage scored on runs of 54, 11 and 75 yards, the latter with 2 minutes 34 seconds to play in a third and 6. The Purple Raiders stacked the line, and through an explosion Coppage, sailed through the center of the field for the clinching touchdown. The race also gave a Stagg Bowl record for individual rushing yards, held on 39 carries. The team set a record for each one that appears in the championship game for the sixth consecutive season. They had shared the mark with his fellow member of the Division III Augustana College (Illinois), who played for five straight years from 1982 to 1986, winning the last four games.
B.Y.U. ROLLS IN NEW MEXICO BOWL The freshman Jake Heaps threw four touchdown passes, three of Cody Hoffman, and finished with 264 passing yards to help Brigham Young beat Texas-El Paso (6-7) at New Bowl Mexico in Albuquerque.
It capped a big change for Pumas (7-6), 1-4, whose launch included a rare loss to their rivals in the state of Utah. At that time, B.Y.U. Coach Bronco Mendenhall said his team would be a remarkable achievement to reach a bowl game and win.
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