1982 Holiday Bowl
| MVP | Offensive: Tim Spencer (Ohio State) Defensive: Garcia Lane (Ohio State) |
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The 1982 Holiday Bowl was a college football bowl game played December 17, 1982 in San Diego, California. It was part of the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season. It featured the seventeenth ranked Ohio State Buckeyes, and the unranked BYU Cougars.
Ohio State scored first on a 47 yard field goal by Rich Spangler, giving the Buckeyes a 3-0 first quarter lead. In the second quarter, BYU quarterback Steve Young threw a 7 yard touchdown pass to Neil Balholm giving BYU a 7-3 lead. Ohio State running back Tim Spencer scored on a 61 yard touchdown run, giving the Buckeyes a 10-7 lead. Buckeye quarterback Mike Tomczak later scored on a 3 yard run making it 17-7 in favor of the Buckeyes. BYU's Kurt Gunther kicked a 39 yard field goal before halftime to make it 17-10 Ohio State.
In the third quarter, Ohio State's Vaughn Broadnax scored on a 1 yard touchdown run giving OSU a 24-10 lead. Tim Spencer added an 18 yard touchdown run, and Rich Spangler a 37 yard field goal to give Ohio State a 34-10 lead at the end of the third quarter.
In the fourth quarter, Ohio State scored a 1 yard touchdown run going up 41-10. Steve Young fired a 13 yard touchdown pass to Gordon Hudson narrowing the lead to 41-17. However, Gayle scored on a 5 yard touchdown run to make the final score Ohio State 48, BYU 17.
External links
References
- ESPN College Football Encyclopedia
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