Bowling Green’s Harold Fannin set the records in the 68 Ventures Bowl on Thursday night, but Arkansas State took the win.

The Red Wolves earned a 38-31 victory at Hancock Whitney Stadium in Mobile, surpassing a record-setting performance by the Falcons’ All-America tight end. Fannin caught 17 passes for 213 yards and a touchdown, setting FBS single-season marks for a tight end in both receptions and yards.

Arkansas State (8-5) won in the Mobile bowl game for the third time in five games, but for the first time on the South Alabama campus. The Red Wolves went 2-2 in bowl games played at the city’s Ladd-Peebles Stadium from 2012 to 2015.

Arkansas State’s Jaylen Raynor passed for 221 yards and two touchdowns, strikes of 79 and 6 yards to Corey Rucker – and also ran for 5 yards. The 79-yard TD pass was the longest in Mobile’s 26-year bowl game history.

The Red Wolves also scored on special teams as Courtney Jackson returned a punt 60 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter. Arkansas State’s Marcus Bradley also blocked a field goal in the second quarter.

Bowling Green (7-6) also scored its first touchdown in the kicking game when backup quarterback Baron May snuck onto the field in punt formation and threw for a 43-yard score to Malcolm Johnson. Regular quarterback Connor Bazelak had a big day in defeat, throwing for 390 yards and three touchdowns — eight yards to Jaison Patterson, 23 yards to Rahkeem Smith and four yards to Fannin, who hauled in a ball deflected by Arkansas State safety Justin Parks as he went fell in the back of the end zone.

Fannin finished the season with 117 receptions for 1,555 yards, both the most in FBS history. The total catches surpassed the record of 111 set by Rice’s James Casey in 2008, while the total yards previously stood at 1,352 by Texas Tech’s Jace Amaro in 2013.

Arkansas State led 24-21 at halftime and then converted a Bowling Green fumble into a touchdown on the first play of the second half. Raynor capped a six-play, 34-yard drive when he hit Rucker for a 6-yard touchdown and a 31-21 lead.

Bowling Green’s Zach Long scored the only other points in the third quarter with a 38-yard field goal. Arkansas State’s Clune Van Andel later fired wide left from 33 yards out – his first miss in 18 straight attempts dating back to early October – to keep the game down to one point early in the fourth quarter.

Bowling Green’s Long missed a 32-yard field goal with 10:19 to play to keep Arkansas State ahead by seven minutes. The Falcons were just 1 of 4 on field goals on the night, including the blocked goal.

Arkansas State took the lead back by two points on Zak Wallace’s 14-yard touchdown run with 3:10 to play, but Bowling Green answered with Bazelak’s 23-yard scoring pass to Smith to make it 38 with 1:42 to play -31. The Falcons then attempted an onside kick, but Hunter Summers recovered and the Red Wolves were able to run out the clock and get the win.

Wallace finished the night with 99 yards on 15 carries, most of them in the second half. In addition to his late touchdown, he also hit a 19-yard run on third down to end the game.

Bowling Green is now 1-3 in bowl games played in Mobile, having beaten Memphis in the 2004 GMAC Bowl and then lost to Tulsa in 2008 and Georgia Southern in December 2015. (Two bowl games were played in Mobile in the 2015 calendar year, with Arkansas State losing the January game to Toledo.)