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The 1981–82 NCAA football bowl games were a series of post-season games played in December 1981 and January 1982 to end the 1981 NCAA Division I-A football season. A total of 16 team-competitive games, [ 1 ] and two all-star games, were played.
The California Bowl (later the California Raisin Bowl) was a post-season college football bowl game played annually at Bulldog Stadium in Fresno, California, from 1981 to 1991. [1] The game featured the champions of the Big West Conference (known prior to 1988 as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association) and the Mid-American Conference .
September 12: The first full week of the season featured two major upsets. No. 1 Michigan was shocked 21-14 by Wisconsin, while No. 2 Alabama fell 24-21 to a Georgia Tech team which wouldn’t win another game all year. No. 3 Oklahoma beat Wyoming 37-20, No. 4 Notre Dame defeated LSU 27-9, and No. 5 USC won 43-7 over Tennessee.
Rose Bowl: Rose Bowl Pasadena, California: NBC No. 5 Michigan Wolverines (9–2) No. 16 Washington Huskies (9–2) Big Ten Pac 10: Michigan 23 Washington 6 Orange Bowl: Miami Orange Bowl Miami, Florida: NBC No. 4 Oklahoma Sooners (9–2) No. 2 Florida State Seminoles (10–1) Big 8 Independent: Oklahoma 18 Florida State 17 Jan. 2: Peach Bowl ...
Pages in category "1981–82 NCAA football bowl games" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The 1981 Sugar Bowl is famous for then-freshman star Herschel Walker leading Georgia football to a win against Notre Dame to clinch the national championship.. President Jimmy Carter and his wife ...
The 1981 Holiday Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 18 in San Diego, California. It was part of the 1981 NCAA Division I-A football season, and was the fourth edition of the Holiday Bowl. [3] The Friday night game was the third of sixteen games in this bowl season and featured the #20 Washington State Cougars of the Pac-10 ...
Gulf of Sidra incident (1981): Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi sends 2 Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets to intercept 2 U.S. fighters over the Gulf of Sidra. The American jets destroy the Libyan fighters. President Ronald Reagan appoints the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor.