1972 Sugar Bowl (December)
The 1972 Sugar Bowl (December) was the 39th edition of the college football bowl game, played at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Sunday, December 31. Part of the 1972–73 bowl game season, it featured the second-ranked Oklahoma Sooners of the Big Eight Conference and the independent #5 Penn State Nittany Lions. It was played for the first time on New Year's Eve, at night, and Oklahoma shut out Penn State, 14–0.
| 1972 Sugar Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 39th edition | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 31, 1972 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1972 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Tulane Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | New Orleans, Louisiana | ||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Tinker Owens (Oklahoma FL) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Oklahoma by 14 points | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 80,123 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | ABC | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Chris Schenkel, Bud Wilkinson | ||||||||||||||||||||
The shutout was the first for Penn State in over six years, and it was their first bowl loss in a decade.
This was the only Sugar Bowl between 1950 and January 1995 without a team from the Southeastern Conference (SEC).
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