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The 1987 John Hancock Sun Bowl was the 54th annual Sun Bowl games. The contest featured the West Virginia Mountaineers and the 11th ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys. Oklahoma State edged out West Virginia, 35-33. The game was decided with 1:13 to play. It was arguably one of the most entertaining games of the 1987-88 bowl season. The game was played on snowy, cold Christmas Day of 1987 before a crowd of 43,240 in front of a CBS national television audience. Thurman Thomas still holds three Sun Bowl records: most rushing attempts (33), most points (24) and most touchdowns (4).

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  • The 1987 John Hancock Sun Bowl was the 54th annual Sun Bowl games. The contest featured the West Virginia Mountaineers and the 11th ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys. Oklahoma State edged out West Virginia, 35-33. The game was decided with 1:13 to play. It was arguably one of the most entertaining games of the 1987-88 bowl season. The game was played on snowy, cold Christmas Day of 1987 before a crowd of 43,240 in front of a CBS national television audience. Thurman Thomas still holds three Sun Bowl records: most rushing attempts (33), most points (24) and most touchdowns (4).
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  • The 1987 John Hancock Sun Bowl was the 54th annual Sun Bowl games. The contest featured the West Virginia Mountaineers and the 11th ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys. Oklahoma State edged out West Virginia, 35-33. The game was decided with 1:13 to play. It was arguably one of the most entertaining games of the 1987-88 bowl season. The game was played on snowy, cold Christmas Day of 1987 before a crowd of 43,240 in front of a CBS national television audience. The game featured West Virginia's exciting new quarterback Major Harris, who had defeated Browning Nagle in the offseason for the Mountaineers' starting quarterback position. It was also the final college game for Oklahoma State running back Thurman Thomas, who would go on to a Hall of Fame NFL career. Oklahoma State also featured tailback Barry Sanders. The game featured a lot of offense, with teams trading touchdowns in the first quarter. Cowboys quarterback Mike Gundy and wide receiver Hart Lee Dykes completed a long pass off of a flea flicker to set up a 5-yard touchdown by Thomas. West Virginia's Anthony "A.B." Brown answered with a touchdown to tie the game at 7-7. Thomas would score again on a 9-yard run to take a 14-7 lead for Oklahoma State. West Virginia, however, would then score 17 unanswered points in the second quarter. West Virginia's Brown would score on a 5-yard run to tie the game at 14, and the Mountaineers would extend their lead to 17-14 on a Charlie Baumann field goal. West Virginia defensive lineman Darnell Warren intercepted Mike Gundy to extend the Mountaineer lead to 24-14 at the end of the first half. OSU reverted back to Thomas to begin the second half, and he carried the ball six consecutive times, marching the Cowboys 56 yards down the field and scoring from 5 yards out to pull the Cowboys to within three at 24-21. West Virginia would answer with a Baumann field goal to extend the lead to 27-21. Oklahoma State took at 28-27 lead with 1:43 left in the third quarter, by virtue of a six-yard touchdown pass from Gundy to J.R. Dillard. Thomas's dominance continued in the fourth quarter, as he capped a 13-play, 74-yard OSU drive with his fourth touchdown of the game, giving Oklahoma State a 35-27 lead with time running out in the fourth quarter. With just 1:13 remaining, West Virginia's Craig Taylor scored a touchdown on a 6-yard run to pull the game to within two. West Virginia attempted to tie the game on a two-point conversion attempt. West Virginia quarterback Harris completed his two-point attempt pass to tight end Keith Winn, but Winn was tackled just shy of the goal line by Oklahoma State's Shawn Mackey. With the win, Oklahoma State finished its season 10-2, lost only to No. 1 Oklahoma and No. 5 Nebraska. Thurman Thomas was named the C.M. Hendricks Most Valuable Player, while Sanders would go on to win the Heisman Trophy one year later. West Virginia's Darnell Warren was named the Jimmy Rogers Jr. Most Valuable Lineman. Thurman Thomas still holds three Sun Bowl records: most rushing attempts (33), most points (24) and most touchdowns (4).
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