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The 1972 Orange Bowl was the 38th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, on Saturday, January 1. [3] The final game of the 1971–72 bowl season, it matched the top-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers of the Big Eight Conference and the #2 Alabama Crimson Tide of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).
The 1971–72 NCAA football bowl games were a series of post-season games played in December 1971 and January 1972 to end the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. A total of 11 team-competitive games were played. The post-season began with the Sun Bowl on December 18, 1971, and concluded on January 1, 1972, with the Orange Bowl.
The 1972–73 NCAA football bowl games were a series of post-season games played in December 1972 and January 1973 to end the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. A total of 11 team-competitive games were played. The post-season began with the Liberty Bowl on December 18, 1972, and concluded on January 1, 1973, with the Orange Bowl.
From 1947 to 1978, the Orange Bowl served as the site of the Orange Blossom Classic, a de facto national championship for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) recently revived in 2021.
The Orange Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played in the Miami metropolitan area. ... 1972 #1 Nebraska: 38 #2 Alabama: 6: 78,151: notes: January ...
“I think [1972] was the most exciting year he ever had,” his wife, Ingrid, told the Herald in 2007. ... In 2007, one year before the Orange Bowl that served as his stage was demolished, he ...
In the 1972 Orange Bowl, the Huskers battled a #2 team for the second time this season, but Alabama hardly posed the challenge that the Oklahoma Sooners had been, as Nebraska sent the Crimson Tide to the locker room at the half trailing by an embarrassing 28-0.
Eugene “Mercury” Morris, who starred for the unbeaten 1972 Miami Dolphins as part of a star-studded backfield and helped the team win two Super Bowl titles, has died, the team said Sunday.