Bowl Games
| BOWL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rose Bowl | #3 USC | 17 | #1 Ohio State | 16 |
| Sugar Bowl | #2 Alabama | 24 | #6 Arkansas | 9 |
| Orange Bowl | #5 Oklahoma | 24 | #4 Florida State | 7 |
| Cotton Bowl Classic | #8 Houston | 17 | #7 Nebraska | 14 |
| Bluebonnet Bowl | #12 Purdue | 27 | Tennessee | 22 |
| Peach Bowl | #19 Baylor | 24 | #18 Clemson | 18 |
| Hall of Fame Classic | Missouri | 24 | #16 South Carolina | 14 |
| Gator Bowl | North Carolina | 17 | #14 Michigan | 15 |
| Fiesta Bowl | #10 Pittsburgh | 16 | Arizona | 10 |
| Sun Bowl | #13 Washington | 14 | #11 Texas | 7 |
| Liberty Bowl | Penn State | 9 | #15 Tulane | 6 |
| Tangerine Bowl | LSU | 34 | Wake Forest | 10 |
| Holiday Bowl | Indiana | 38 | #9 Brigham Young | 37 |
| Garden State Bowl | #20 Temple | 28 | California | 17 |
| Independence Bowl | Syracuse | 31 | McNeese State | 7 |
Read more about this topic: 1979 NCAA Division I-A Football Season
Famous quotes containing the words bowl and/or games:
“Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or
the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the
cistern.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit
shall return unto God who gave it.
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. XII, 6–7)
“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)