SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) â€" James Franklin's tough using and timely flitting led Missouri to an easy win in a final persion as a member of a Big 12. It also gives a Tigers copiousness of wish streamer into their new home in a Southeastern Conference.
Franklin ran for dual touchdowns and threw for another, and a Tigers simply kick North Carolina 41-24 in a Independence Bowl on Monday night.
Missouri (8-5) ends a deteriorate on a four-game winning strain for a initial time given 1965. The Tigers will join a SEC subsequent tumble and showed one reason they should be a cause immediately: The 6-foot-2, 225-pound Franklin, a sophomore who generally did as he gratified in both a using and flitting games.
Missouri manager Gary Pinkel pronounced Franklin has only started to comprehend his potential.
"After a game, we gave him a cuddle and pronounced congratulations," Pinkel said. "Then we went behind and asked 'What happens when we get unequivocally good?' ... He kind of gave me a look, though that's a outrageous compliment."
Franklin, named a game's descent Most Valuable Player, rushed for 142 yards and threw for 132 notwithstanding reduction than ideal conditions in a cold and sleet during Independence Stadium. He led a Tigers to 31 first-half points â€" an Independence Bowl record.
For North Carolina (7-6), a deteriorate that started with a earnest 5-1 record ends with a unilateral loss. The Tar Heels mislaid 5 of their final 7 underneath halt manager Everett Withers, who leaves to turn defensive coordinator during Ohio State underneath Urban Meyer.
North Carolina had a Atlantic Coast Conference's second-best rushing defense, giving adult only 106.2 yards per game. But a Tigers found copiousness of using room with Franklin and Kendial Lawrence, regularly gashing a Tar Heels for large gains.
"(Frankin) is only such a energetic man using and throwing that we have to honour both," Withers said. "I always count a quarterback as an additional using behind in a widespread and that's accurately what he was."
Lawrence rushed for 108 yards and a touchdown as a Tigers racked adult 337 yards on a ground.
North Carolina's bad invulnerability squandered a prolific persion by quarterback Bryn Renner, who threw for 317 yards, 3 touchdowns and an interception. But Renner couldn't equivalent a Tar Heels' malnutritioned using game, that constructed only 36 yards.
Freshman using behind Giovani Bernard rushed for 31 yards â€" some-more than 70 yards reduction than his deteriorate average.
Withers pronounced he didn't consider a program's arriving coaching change had any temperament on a outcome. The Tar Heels hired Southern Mississippi's Larry Fedora final week.
"We've had issues for dual years so we don't know because tonight would be any distraction," Withers said.
Missouri's mascot â€" Truman a Tiger â€" cracked many of a strange Independence Bowl prize before a persion started in a pre-game accident. The Tigers were some-more than happy to explain a replacement.
Pinkel didn't bashful pided from a significance of a game, observant a outcome would be "a trivia doubt after I'm prolonged gone."
North Carolina scored first, with Renner attack Dwight Jones for a 22-yard touchdown pass with 12:12 left in a initial quarter. That would be a high indicate for a Tar Heels.
Missouri responded with a 40-yard touchdown pass from receiver T.J. Moe to Wes Kemp after a parallel from Franklin. Moe hadn't thrown a touchdown pass given his days as a high propagandize quarterback in suburban St. Louis, and it was only his second finish pass of a season.
"I saw a dilemma punch and we only let her go," Moe said.
The Tigers scored again on Franklin's 2-yard run to take a 14-7 lead late in a initial quarter. The touchdown was set adult by Franklin's 16-yard pass to L'Damian Washington that put a Tigers during a 2-yard line. Washington grew adult in Shreveport, only a few miles from Independence Stadium.
And Missouri only kept pier on.
The Tigers scored dual touchdowns and a margin idea during a second entertain to take a 31-10 halftime lead.
North Carolina had a spark of wish late in a third when Jheranie Boyd held a 44-yard touchdown pass from Renner to lift a Tar Heels to 34-17, though Missouri responded mins after with Franklin's second touchdown run and a subjection continued.
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