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Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) - Two national powers collide in the 47th annual Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl at the Georgia Dome, as the ninth-ranked Ole Miss Rebels butt heads with the sixth-ranked TCU Horned Frogs on Wednesday, Dec. 31. Ole Miss reach as high as No. 3 in the nation during the regular season, but crucial back-to-back losses against LSU and Auburn set the team back. The Rebels are making their 36th bowl game appearance (23-12 all-time record), and their third in three seasons under head coach Hugh Freeze. TCU had some qualms about the way things ended up in the first-ever College Football Playoff rankings, as the Horned Frogs finished on the outside looking in with an 11-1 record and one loss to Baylor on their resume. This is the first time TCU will play in the Peach Bowl, though the program is making its 30th bowl game appearance overall (13-15-1 all-time bowl record). Ole Miss and TCU have met on the football field just six times in their program histories, with this matchup slated to be the seventh. The Rebels own a 5-1 all-time lead over the Horned Frogs. Its the first time since the 1983 season the two sides will collide. Ole Miss was a well-oiled machine this season, especially on the offensive side of the ball. The Rebels averaged 30.4 ppg under the leadership of quarterback Bo Wallace, who had his name mentioned with the Heisman hopefuls for the better part of the year. Wallace threw for 3,085 yards and 22 touchdowns against 11 interceptions, passing for 257.1 ypg. He also carried the ball into the end zone five times. Wallace was a clear proponent of spreading the wealth through the air. The quarterback found three different receivers for at least five touchdown receptions, connecting with Laquon Treadwell 48 times for 632 yards and five scores. Treadwell missed the teams last three games with a leg injury, and wont play in the Peach Bowl. Vince Sanders and Cody Core each hauled in a team-best six touchdown receptions during the regular season. Like Wallace through the air, Ole Miss running game was also about utilizing multiple options. Jaylen Walton led the team with 583 rushing yards and five touchdowns on 98 carries (Wallace was the only player with more totes, rushing 107 times), while Jordan Wilkins added 358 yards on the ground. The Rebels rushed for an average of 167.7 ypg. While Ole Miss employed a strong offense led by Wallace, the team utilized a stifling defense that allowed just 13.8 ppg to opponents, headed by Mike Hilton and Tony Conner. The Rebels were able to limit the opposition to a mere 321.2 offensive ypg, and made sure strong challengers like Alabama (17 [points) and Mississippi State (17 points) were kept out of the end zone. Hilton led the team with 66 tackles on the season, while Conner was just behind at 64 stops on the year. Conner tallied a team-best nine tackles for loss, while Marquis Haynes wasnt far off the pace with 8.5 tackles for loss and a team-best 7.5 sacks. Ole Miss registered 90 tackles for loss and 25 sacks on the season as a unit, which will come in handy when trying to defend speedy TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin and a high-octane Horned Frogs offense. Its an exciting time in college athletics, and we are thrilled to be one of the teams selected in the first New Years Six bowls, Freeze said. We are honored to accept this great invitation and take on an outstanding TCU team. Atlanta is a place that is very dear to our program, and its important to us that we represent our great university. And what a season it was for Boykin and TCU offensively. The quarterback, who also had his named mentioned among Heisman hopefuls earlier in the year, led his Horned Frogs to a dominant 46.8 ppg, which included 332.8 passing ypg with 33 touchdowns through the air. Boykin accounted for 30 of those passing scores, tossing 3,714 yards on a 60.5 completion percentage, and he only threw seven interceptions all season long. Boykin averaged 309.5 passing ypg in 12 contests played. He got it done in the run game too, gaining 642 yards with eight scores on the ground. But he wasnt the teams leading rusher - it was Aaron Green who topped the Horned Frogs at 854 yards and eight touchdowns on 111 carries. B.J. Catalon, who played in just eight games this season, led the Horned Frogs with 10 touchdowns on the ground. Catalon is questionable to play in the Peach Bowl with an ailing shoulder injury. The Frogs still averaged 209.3 rushing ypg this season. Josh Doctson and Deante Gray were Boykins favorite targets. Doctson topped the team with 59 receptions, and came up just short of 1,000 yards at 959, and also hauled in nine receiving scores. Gray chipped in with eight touchdown catches in 34 receptions. One of Boykins top targets (Kolby Listenbee) is questionable to play in the game with a concussion. TCUs defense played a strong 2014 campaign, and was especially solid down the home stretch in the regular season against Big 12 Conference competition. The Horned Frogs enter this game allowing just 20.3 ppg to opponents, which was boosted by limiting teams like Iowa State (three points), Texas (10 points) and Kansas State (20 points) to minimal scoring late in the year. Linebacker Paul Dawson had an absolutely dominant season for TCU, as he enters the Peach Bowl leading the team in tackles (128) and tackles for loss (18.5), adding in five sacks, four interceptions and three fumble recoveries. Between Dawson, Marcus Mallet (10.5 tackles for loss) and James McFarland (20 tackles for loss, six sacks), the Ole Miss run game should be well accounted for. Chris Hackett (six interceptions) and Sam Carter (four interceptions) will be spying Wallace to make sure the Ole Miss passing game goes nowhere. We feel like this is a playoff game, TCU coach Gary Patterson said. Ole Miss is a team that was as high as third in the nation, that played at a very high level, that could have been in the playoffs, lost a couple heartbreakers -- exactly what I would want as a coach. The kids are going to practice hard because they know the competition level. Cheap Air Force 1 China . On Wednesday night, they showed that stellar defence and a little small ball can get the job done too. With pinch-runner Kevin Pillar aboard after Dioner Navarro opened the bottom of the ninth with a single, Anthony Gose dropped down an excellent bunt along the first-base line. Cheap Air Force One China . 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HOUSTON -- Jeremy Lin impressed his teammates with his first career triple-double in Houstons win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday night. The Rockets were even more surprised that he achieved the feat coming off the bench. Lin tallied 15 points, a career-high 11 rebounds and 10 assists and James Harden returned from injury to score 28 points to help the Rockets to their third straight victory, 106-92. Dwight Howard added 26 points and Terrence Jones had 17. "Thats hard to do," Harden said of collecting a triple-double as a reserve. "Its just hard to be able to score the basketball, grab rebounds and pass the ball and get your teammates involved off the bench as a point guard. Its tough. But hes talented enough to do it and he did it." Lin is the first Rocket to have a triple-double off the bench since Cedric Maxwell did it on March 31, 1988, against Indiana. Two years removed from "Linsanity" with the New York Knicks, the undrafted player from Harvard is thriving in a backup role in Houston, averaging 13.4 points and 4.5 assists. "Its kind of humbling to think about the whole journey and now this," he said. "Its another cool thing." Harden sat out the last two games with a bruised left thumb. It showed no signs of bothering him Saturday, when he also had four assists and three rebounds. He made 10 of 17 shots after hitting just eight of 24 shots in his previous two games combined. "I need to injure my hand more often," he joked. "I shot it better than Ive been shooting before. I havent been shooting the last couple of days so I didnt know how it was going to react to it, but I just had confidence in my abilities and just went out there and did it." Patrick Beverley didnt score, but helped the Rockets everywhere else with 10 rebounds, eight assists and a career-best five steals. "You have to give credit to their two guards," Cavaliers coach Mike Brown said. "Patrick Beverley and Jeremy Lin played a heck of a game between those guys. Twenty-one rebounds is phenomenal. They just got after it and weent after every loose ball and rebounded.dddddddddddd" Houston led by as many as 19 points in the first half before Cleveland opened the second half with an 11-0 run to take a 63-61 lead, its first since the opening minutes of the game. Clevelands lead was short-lived as the Rockets roared back by scoring the next 11 points to go back on top 72-63 and hold on for the win. Luol Deng had 24 points and Kyrie Irving added 21 with seven assists as Cleveland dropped its fourth in a row. The Rockets used 3-pointers by Lin and Jones to fuel a 7-2 run early in the fourth quarter that made it 93-78. A layup by Howard followed by an alley-oop dunk by Harden with less than a minute to go pushed the lead to 106-90. Lins 10th assist came on Howards layup. Houston was up by six a few minutes after it regained the lead in the third when another run -- this one 8-0 -- stretched the advantage to 82-68. Harden had a one-handed dunk before a two-handed slam by Howard on the next possession ended the run, brought the crowd to its feet and had Brown yelling for a timeout. The Rockets led 84-73 entering the fourth quarter. Five straight points by the Cavaliers got them within seven points early in the second quarter. The Rockets answered with a 14-2 spurt to push their lead to 49-30 midway through the quarter. Lin made six consecutive points in that stretch and Omri Casspi added six points in the run. The Cavaliers missed shots, committed turnovers and fouled on possession after possession as Houston extended its advantage. Cleveland finally got back on track when Deng scored five quick points, including a 3-pointer, as the start of a 17-6 run that got the Cavaliers within 55-47. Deng had another 3 near the end of that run and Dion Waiters also hit a 3-pointer. Another 3 by Waiters with just a few seconds left in the quarter cut the lead to six, but Harden knocked down a 3 just before the buzzer to leave Houston up 61-52 at halftime. NOTES: Houston G/F Francisco Garcia missed his eighth straight game with a sore left knee. ... Irving has scored at least 20 points in eight of his last nine games. ' ' '