December 2005 in Sports - 27 December 2005 (Tuesday)

27 December 2005 (Tuesday)

• NCAA College Football
  • Champs Sports Bowl: Clemson 19, Colorado 10: James Davis rushes for 148 yards and a touchdown as the ACC Tigers survived a game Big 12 Buffaloes comeback.
  • Insight Bowl: Arizona State 45, Rutgers 40: In the long-awaited rematch of the inaugural Garden State Bowl, the de facto host Sun Devils from the Pac-10 — behind Rudy Carpenter's four touchdown passes — rallied to defeat the Scarlet Knights from the Big East in what could very well be the last football game played at Chase Field. Next year's game will move to Sun Devil Stadium on the ASU campus. The teams combined for 1,211 yards total offense, a record for any bowl game.
• NCAA Men's College Basketball
  • (4) Memphis 83, (8) Gonzaga 72: The Tigers win at home to go to 10–1, their best start since 1985–86. The nation's leading scorer, Gonzaga's Adam Morrison, scores 34 points, but goes cold at the wrong time, failing to score in the final 9:31 of the game.
• Rugby Union
  • Jonah Lomu scores his first try since his 2004 kidney transplant. The All Blacks legend crosses the line for the Cardiff Blues early in the second half of a 41–23 Celtic League win over the Newport Gwent Dragons.