#WildCaff

The first time McCaffrey touched the ball in the 102nd Rose Bowl, he took it 75 yards for a spectacular touchdown. A few hundred yards later, he had smashed the oldest bowl game’s record for all-purpose yards while leading the Cardinal to a blowout win over Iowa.

McCaffrey caught a touchdown pass on the opening snap and returned a punt 66 yards for another score while racking up 368 all-purpose yards, propelling No. 5 Stanford to a 45-16 victory over the sixth-ranked Hawkeyes.

McCaffrey was sublime in his Rose Bowl debut, breaking the all-purpose yards record set by Wisconsin’s Jared Abbrederis in 2012. The speedy running back turned in one of the most dynamic performances in the Rose Bowl’s lengthy history.

The world was wide awake to see McCaffrey in Pasadena -- and he scored 11 seconds in. Hogan’s throw to McCaffrey was the second-longest touchdown pass in Rose Bowl history and the longest play given up all season by the stingy Iowa defense.

McCaffrey finished with 172 yards rushing, 105 yards receiving and 91 on kick returns, putting an appropriate cap on the season in which he set the NCAA record for all-purpose yards. He also became the first player ever to rack up more than 100 yards rushing and 100 yards receiving in a Rose Bowl -- and he even became the single-season rushing leader in Stanford history with 2,109 yards on the ground.