2014 Foster Farms Bowl results: Stanford rolls over Maryland

The 2014 season has been the Year of the Freshman Running Back, with five freshmen among the nation’s top 30 rushers (and 18 of the top 100) heading into Tuesday. And then they raised the bar on Tuesday, which saw bowl wins by Georgia over Louisville (37-14), Notre Dame over LSU (31-28), and Stanford over Maryland (45-21).

Nick Chubb finished his freshman season with 1,550 rushing yards. That’s the largest single-season total for any Georgia Bulldog not named Herschel Walker. Considering he wasn’t even the most touted running back in Georgia’s freshman class -- recruiting services rated Sony Michel slightly higher -- that’s an incredible feat. It’s made even more incredible considering he was a backup to one of the best players in college football, Todd Gurley, for half the season.

Hogan, who earned game offensive MVP honors, improved to 24-8 as a starter in his college career, and coupled with his victory in the 2013 Rose Bowl is the first Stanford quarterback with two bowl wins.

Maryland (7-6) could only muster 222 total yards, including just eight yards on the ground against the Cardinal, which came into the game ranked second in the nation in scoring defense (16.0 points per game) and fourth in total yards allowed per game (287).

It’s really windy in Santa Clara for Tuesday night’s Foster Farms Bowl between Maryland and Stanford.

That’s Maryland’s kicker struggling during pre-game warm-ups.

Coaches will tell you that the bowl is the first game of the next season. Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly took that to a logical extreme in explaining why he has chosen to give quarterback Malik Zaire his first career start in the Music City Bowl.

For Notre Dame, the difference between 7-6 and 8-5 is minimal. You might as well start figuring out what you’ve got for 2015.

The Foster Farms Bowl, now 13 years old, had previously been played as the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, the Emerald Bowl, and the creatively-monikered San Francisco Bowl. Until this season, the game had been played at AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants. The 2014 game is the first to be played at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.

Maryland had a productive first season in the Big Ten, finishing with a 4-4 record in its new conference and reaching a second consecutive bowl game. This marks the first time that the Terps have reached back-to-back bowl games since 2007-08. Maryland is making its second trip to the San Francisco bowl game, having lost to Oregon State in the 2007 Emerald Bowl.

Date and time: Tuesday, Dec. 30, 10 p.m. ET

TV channel: ESPN