DALLAS (AP) -- Even though LSU's offense was on the field for all but three plays in the first quarter of the Cotton Bowl, the Tigers didn't make the most of it.

Their inability to capitalize early and two third-quarter turnovers hurt the Tigers, who had their streak of five straight bowl wins end in a 35-20 loss to Texas on Wednesday.

LSU (8-5) had 187 total yards and Texas (11-2) had none in the first quarter, yet the Tigers managed only a 10-7 lead.

Texas went three-and-out on its only first-quarter possession, but led 7-3 after Lee Jackson picked up quarterback Marcus Randall's fumble and ran 46 yards for a touchdown.

The Tigers had four first downs in a five-play span on the game's first drive to the Texas 13 before stalling and having to settle on John Corbello's 36-yard field goal.

"We really took the tempo and moved the ball, then we got bogged down,'' said Tigers coach Nick Saban. "It would have helped our momentum if we were able to score. Then, the next series, we got the ball taken out of our hands. We ended up with two great drives and they had only three offensive plays, and we're down.''

LSU did bounce right back, going 87 yards on 10 plays to take a 10-7 lead on Randall's 20-yard TD pass to LaBrandon Toefield on the last play of the first quarter, but trailed 21-17 by halftime.

"We just didn't capitalize when we had the chances to do so,'' Toefield said.

Especially in the third quarter, after Texas missed two field goals that could have stretched the lead to 10 points.

Still within a touchdown, the Tigers picked up momentum when Domanick Davis ran 44 yards on third-and-22 from the 8. They got to the Texas 34 when Randall fumbled again, and three plays later Texas scored.

Randall drove LSU right back to the Longhorns 27 before he was intercepted by Derrick Johnson.

"We came out trying to get things rolling early and we did,'' said Randall, who passed for 193 yards and ran for 85 more. "In the second half, we just couldn't get things rolling the way we did in the first half.''

The Tigers finished with 441 yards on 95 offensive plays, but managed just two touchdowns.

"They had a couple of big plays and then the turnovers caught up with us,'' Saban said. "We got after them early. They were in a tough situation and persevered.''

LSU's last bowl loss had been 23-10 to Syracuse in the 1989 Hall of Fame Bowl.

The Tigers' five-game bowl winning streak matched Miami and North Carolina as the longest active streaks. It began with a 45-26 win over a Michigan State team coached by Saban in the 1995 Independence Bowl.