LSU Bowl Games

Neal Golden is a longtime high school computer science teacher in New Orleans, Louisiana whose hobby is sports history.

• Table of ContentsAbbreviationsLSU Bowl Games Facts and FiguresxiiiPrefaceBacardi Bowl vs. University of Havana: LSU invaded Cuba nine years after the ­Spanish-American WarSugar Bowl vs. TCU: Why didn’t you kick a field goal, Bernie?Sugar Bowl vs. Santa Clara: Bronco fans tore down the goal postsSugar Bowl vs. Santa Clara: You don’t often win committing five turnoversOrange Bowl vs. Texas A&M: Steve Van Buren spearheaded LSU’s first bowl victoryCotton Bowl vs. Arkansas: How do you gain 15 first downs to one and not win?Sugar Bowl vs. Oklahoma: The clock struck midnight for the Cinderella TigersSugar Bowl vs. Clemson: It wasn’t supposed to be this tough for the nation’s #1 teamSugar Bowl vs. Ole Miss: The Tigers didn’t want the rematch, and it showedOrange Bowl vs. Colorado: LSU said farewell to Paul Dietzel with a dominating victoryCotton Bowl vs. Texas: “The Battle of Identical Twins” went the Tigers’ wayBluebonnet Bowl vs. Baylor: SEC’s top rushing team vs. nation’s top passing teamSugar Bowl vs. Syracuse: “Their pursuit was terrific”Cotton Bowl vs. Arkansas: “The sickest I’ve ever been in coaching”Sugar Bowl vs. Wyoming: “LSU kept sending in players with nice clean jerseys”Peach Bowl vs. Florida State: “What is the Peach Bowl going to do for an encore?”Orange Bowl vs. Nebraska: Irresistible force vs. immovable objectSun Bowl vs. Iowa State: “Governor, don’t leave. I need to talk to you.”­Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl vs. Tennessee: A tale of two halvesOrange Bowl vs. Penn State: Crusade for Eastern footballSun Bowl vs. Stanford: Top passer vs. top rusherLiberty Bowl vs. Missouri: One good half isn’t enoughTangerine Bowl vs. Wake Forest: “No way possible we were going to lose that football game”Orange Bowl vs. Nebraska: “You just played the No. 3 team to a standoff”Sugar Bowl vs. Nebraska: “You have to play well the entire game, and we didn’t”Liberty Bowl vs. Baylor: Not as close as the score indicatesUSF&G Sugar Bowl vs. Nebraska: “It seemed like everyone wanted to kill us”Mazda Gator Bowl vs. South Carolina: “We should have been favored”Hall of Fame Bowl vs. Syracuse: “We all could have played better”Poulan Weed Eater Independence Bowl vs. Michigan State: The magic is back!Peach Bowl vs. Clemson: Both coaches got the game they wantedPoulan Weed Eater Independence Bowl vs. Notre Dame: Second time’s the charm­Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl vs. Georgia Tech: “He makes you want to go to war”Nokia Sugar Bowl vs. Illinois: Two surprise conference champs meetSBC Cotton Bowl Classic vs. Texas: “It’s the hardest bunch for me to let go”Nokia Sugar Bowl vs. Oklahoma: BCS championship gameCapital One Bowl vs. Iowa: “Somebody in an Iowa jersey has to catch this ball”­Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl vs. Miami: A season that began with hurricanes ended with the HurricanesAllstate Sugar Bowl vs. Notre Dame: “The seniors came to play”­Chick-fil-A Bowl vs. Georgia Tech: What a second half explosion!Capital One Bowl vs. Penn State: A sloppy game on a sloppy fieldAT&T Cotton Bowl Classic vs. Texas A&M: Game of his life in his home state­Chick-fil-A Bowl vs. Clemson: For want of a first downOutback Bowl vs. Iowa: “Old school football”Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl vs. Notre Dame: A disappointing end to a disappointing seasonAdvoCare V100 Texas Bowl vs. Texas Tech: “We just kept running it down their throat”Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl vs. Louisville: “You give Coach Aranda more than a week, it’s going to be hard for you”Citrus Bowl Presented by Overton’s vs. Notre Dame: Notre Dame did it by the bookPlayStation Fiesta Bowl vs. Central Florida: One man can make a big difference­Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl vs. Oklahoma: “Is there an award higher than the Heisman Trophy?”BibliographyIndex

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