PASADENA, Calif. (AP)  Stanford barely missed out on the College Football Playoff, and Christian ...

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<p>PASADENA, Calif. (AP)  Stanford barely missed out on the College Football Playoff, and Christian McCaffrey almost won the Heisman Trophy.</p>
<p>McCaffrey and the mighty Cardinal didn't miss a thing in their Rose Bowl romp over Iowa.</p>
<p>McCaffrey caught a 75-yard touchdown pass on the opening snap and returned a punt 66 yards for another score while setting the Rose Bowl record with 368 all-purpose yards, propelling No. 5 Stanford to a 45-16 victory over the sixth-ranked Hawkeyes on Friday.</p>
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<p>Kevin Hogan passed for 223 yards and three TDs in his final game for the Cardinal (12-2), who won the Rose Bowl for the second time in three trips over the past four years for this unlikely football powerhouse.</p>
<p>McCaffrey was sublime in his debut at the Granddaddy of Them All, breaking the all-purpose yards record set by Wisconsin's Jared Abbrederis in 2012.</p>
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<p>AP College Football website: collegefootball.ap.org</p>
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McCaffrey leads Stanford's 45-16 Rose Bowl romp over Iowa

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Christian McCaffrey 75 yd pass from Kevin Hogan (Conrad Ukropina kick)

Kevin Hogan 8 yd run (Conrad Ukropina kick)

Quenton Meeks 66 yd interception return (Conrad Ukropina kick)

Christian McCaffrey 63 yd punt return (Conrad Ukropina kick)

Michael Rector 31 yd pass from Kevin Hogan (Conrad Ukropina kick)

Matt VandeBerg 36 yd pass from C.J. Beathard (missed kick)

Akrum Wadley 31 yd pass from C.J. Beathard (Marshall Koehn kick)

Michael Rector 42 yd pass from Kevin Hogan (Conrad Ukropina kick)

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(AP) - Iowa and Stanford barely missed out on the College Football Playoff.
The Rose Bowl is a pretty great place to forget your sorrows.

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PASADENA, Calif. (AP)  The first time Christian McCaffrey touched the ball in the 102nd Rose Bowl, he took it 75 yards for a spectacular touchdown. A few hundred yards later, Stanford's sophomore star had smashed the oldest bowl game's record for all-purpose yards while leading the Cardinal to a blowout win over Iowa.
Sure, McCaffrey didn't win the Heisman Trophy, and Stanford barely missed out on the College Football Playoff.

McCaffrey leads Stanford's 45-16 Rose Bowl romp over Iowa

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