NEW ORLEANS - Led by New Orleans Bowl MVP Corey Robinson, Troy rolled to 602 yards in a 48-21 rout of Ohio Saturday night at the Louisiana Super Dome that gave the Bobcats their fifth bowl loss in five all-time games.

Just a redshirt freshman, Robinson broke several game records by completing 32 of 42 passes for 387 yards and four touchdowns.

Tebairus Gil caught three touchdown passes, while Jerrel Jernigan caught one and ran for another. DuJuan harris had 105 yards and a touchdown on the ground.

“It’s clear that we had trouble controlling them from the very start in terms of what they were all about,” Ohio coach Frank Solich said. “They pretty much threw at will, they made plays after the catch and that opened up the ground game for them. That’s not what you look for in terms of keeping people from putting points on the board.”

Boo Jackson, in his final game for Ohio, led the team with 209 yards passing, three touchdowns and one interception on a 14-of-21 passing performance.

Riley Dunlop had four catches for 91 yards and a score.

“When we play three-phase football, we take care of the kicking game, don’t turn it over on offense and tackle well on defense, we’re a very difficult team to beat,” Troy coach Larry Blakeney said.

After Troy (8-5) opened scoring, Ohio (8-5) answered with a 34-yard touchdown pass from Jackson to Steven Goulet, but the Trojans scored on every possession until the fourth quarter and came back with 34 consecutive points.

Jernigan scored untouched on a 12-yard run for the game’s first points, and the Trojans took the lead for good when Robinson got a third-down pass just over the defender to Gill for a 31-yard score with 1:57 left in the first quarter.

After a three-and-out, Troy took a two-touchdown lead on a 16-yard touchdown pass from Robinson to Jernigan, and the Trojans went on top 24-7 with a 50-yard Michael Taylor field goal.

Gill scored on a 17-yard touchdown pass, fumbling near the goal line, but video review upheld the score for a 31-7 Troy advantage with 2:56 remaining in the half. Replay also overturned an Ohio fumble recovery in the fourth quarter.

Following a fourth consecutive three-and-out, Robinson had plenty of time to produce his fourth touchdown pass, hitting Gil once more on a 26-yard pass with 36 seconds left.

“I’m not sure what caused it to get out of hand so early,” Solich said. “We thought going in that we were going to be able to play some man-on-man and that backfired on us. We were not able to control their speed by playing man-on-man. We eventually tried to play more zone coverage, and then they did a good job of throwing the ball underneath the coverage.”

After holding Troy to a 33-yard field goal to begin the second half, Ohio finally ended the run of points with a five-yard pass from Jackson to Donte Foster. It was set up by a 51-yard pass completion to Riley Dunlop.

But once again, the Bobcats could not stop the Trojans, who scored on their eight possessions in a row. Harris busted a 50-yard run that set up a two-yard touchdown run for a 48-14 advantage with 6:36 left on the third-quarter clock.

Ohio eventually forced Troy’s first punt on the first play of the fourth quarter and later added a fourth-down 18-yard touchdown pass from Jackson to Dunlop with 5:07 left in the game.

The Trojans racked up 382 passing and 220 rushing yards and 30 first downs, while the Bobcats had 308 yards of offense, including more than 100 in the fourth quarter with the game out of hand.

In an effort to keep Troy’s offense off the field, Ohio tried – but failed – to establish the run game in the first half, starting most of its drives with Phil Bates at quarterback. But Bates was limited to 11 yards on five carries, and the Bobcats had only 99 yards on 30 carries.

“My hat is off to that Troy defense,” Jackson said. “They’re a real good defensive team and we thought we could get us some things that could get us some yards, but unfortunately that didn’t happen for us. They scored quickly we had to start doing something. Toward the end of the game, we did that, but it was a little too late.”

Three runs accounted for 71 of those yards. Ohio’s quarterbacks were sacked five times, while the defense did not produce any sacks or much pressure on Robinson at all, finishing with just one quarterback hurry in 43 pass attempts.

Troy converted 10 of 15 third downs, compared to just 4 of 12 by Ohio.

Senior nickel back Shannon Ballard had a career-high 13 tackles, with linebacker Eric Benjamin and cornerback Julian Posey finishing with nine and eight, respectively.

In Ohio’s final regular season game, it was handled on the road by Kent State, 28-6, losing out on the East Division championship. But even in following that game with the bowl loss, Ohio still accomplished many unprecedented things, including a bowl appearance for the second year in a row. It also came after a rough 1-3 start that included the losses of stars LeVon Brazill and Noah Keller.

“We are building our program,” Solich said. “We are proud of what these seniors and the underclassmen have done through the course of this season, to get us to two bowl games in a row and to be a group of players that, if you came in four years ago, you were a part of three bowl games and on some very, very good football teams. We have to take our football team another step forward. We have to raise it to another level. We’re not to where we need to be. Troy has raised its program up to a level that they are certainly difficult for other teams to handle when they are playing the way they are capable. What we are doing with our program, is that it is headed in the right direction. We are moving forward one step at a time. Obviously we’ve had some setbacks, but not that much program-wise. We have a lot to be proud of.”