SAN DIEGO - Maybe Mack Brown isn't such a villain, after all.

If No. 4 California was angry and frustrated after being snubbed by the BCS and denied a Rose Bowl berth, it had to have been flat out humiliated after No. 23 Texas Tech pulled a 45-31 upset in the Holiday Bowl Thursday night.

The Golden Bears (10-2), who were 11½-point favorites, simply had no answer against the Red Raiders (8-4) and their efficient spread offense, which uses four wide receivers most of the time.

Tech senior Sonny Cumbie threw for a career-high 520 yards and three touchdowns, including a 60-yarder to Joel Filani, and safety Vincent Meeks set up a score with a 48-yard interception return.

Cumbie was 39-of-60 and broke the Holiday Bowl attempts record of 59 set by BYU's Ty Detmer in 1989. He was short of Detmer's Holiday Bowl record of 576 yards, also set in 1989.

Cal's J.J. Arrington became just the third running back in Pac-10 history to rush for 2,000 yards in a season. The senior from Nashville, N.C., carried 25 times for 173 yards, for 2,018 yards.

Southern Cal's Marcus Allen had 2,427 yards in 1981 and Charles White had 2,050 in 1979. Both won the Heisman Trophy.

Aaron Rodgers was 24-of-42 for 246 yards, with one interception for Cal.

Cal had been in position to go to the Rose Bowl for the first time in 46 seasons, but was leapfrogged in the final Bowl Championship Series standings by Brown's Texas Longhorns, who ended up in Pasadena to face Michigan on Saturday.

At San Francisco, Aaron Polanco ran for three touchdowns and passed for another, and Navy capped the academy's best season in 99 years with a 34-19 win over New Mexico in the Emerald Bowl.Polanco scored on runs of 14, 1 and 27 yards and completed a 61-yard touchdown pass to Corey Dryden, the longest of the season by Polanco and the first career score by Dryden. The Midshipmen's defense was impressive, too, despite the rain-soaked field at SBC Park.The unit forced two first-half turnovers that led to TDs and staged a goal-line stand late in the third quarter. Then Navy kept the ball for the next 14 minutes, 26 seconds, and held New Mexico to only seven plays in the fourth quarter.The Midshipmen (10-2) tied for the most wins in school history, last accomplished when Navy went 10-1-1 in 1905.Polanco finished the season with 16 rushing touchdowns, a record by a quarterback this year. Temple's Walter Washington ran for 15. Polanco gained a Navy bowl record 136 yards on the ground for his fourth 100-yard rushing game and threw for 101 yards. He even caught a 17-yard pass from Frank Divis to set up his second TD - and his two receptions were most by any Navy player.New Mexico quarterback Kole McKamey had nearly as big a day after the Lobos (7-5) lost star tailback DonTrell Moore to a left knee injury late in the first quarter.McKamey threw for 207 yards and also rushed for 138, the first Lobos player to accomplish the feat since Graham Leigh in 1997. But McKamey had two interceptions.

At Charlotte, N.C., Kicker Ryan Ohliger ran 21 yards for a touchdown on a fake field goal one play after quarterback Paul Peterson was taken off the field on a stretcher with a broken leg to lead 25th-ranked Boston College to the 37-24 victory.Before leaving, Peterson went 24-of-33 for 236 yards and two touchdowns, helping Boston College win a bowl game for the fifth straight season. But he wasn't able to return to the field to accept the game's MVP award. Instead, his wife went out to collect the trophy.The Eagles (9-3) gave the Big East its first win in the 3-year-old bowl game. It was BC's final game in the league - it joins the Atlantic Coast Conference next season.Darian Durant threw three scoring passes for North Carolina (6-6), and completed 23 of 41 passes for 259 yards.

At San Jose, Calif., Josh Haldi passed for 146 yards and rushed for two touchdowns to lead Northern Illinois to its first bowl victory in 21 years, 34-21 over Troy in the Silicon Valley Football Classic.The Huskies (9-3) overcame a steady downpour, lighting problems and a delayed kickoff by scoring 34 straight points.Garrett Wolfe, the NCAA's scoring co-leader, rushed for his 21st touchdown of the season for Northern Illinois before leaving with a hip injury. A.J. Harris filled in with 120 yards rushing and another score for the Huskies.Troy (7-5) scored two touchdowns in the first nine minutes of its first bowl game in just its fourth season in Division I-A.D.T. McDowell threw a touchdown pass and rushed for two more scores for the Trojans, but they got stuck in the mud at Spartan Stadium and were unable to move the ball effectively or stop the Huskies' rushing attack.