UF: Ike Hilliard 7-150, 3 TDs; Jacquez Green 5-79; Reidel Anthony 4-50; Dwayne Mobley 1-16; Fred Taylor 1-11 When Wuerffel marched the Gators 73 yards in 26 seconds in the second quarter to put Florida in front 17-3, it marked the first time the ‘Noles were behind by more than seven points the entire season. 63rd Annual Sugar Bowl Classic ~ January 2, 1997 WVU scored with a 3-yard touchdown run by Reggie Rembert, who also converted the 2-point conversion, making the score 34–21. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Do you have a sports website? The 1995 IBM OS/2 Fiesta Bowl, played on January 2, 1995, was the 24th edition of the Fiesta Bowl.The game featured the Colorado Buffaloes and Notre Dame Fighting Irish. #3 Florida 52 (Final: 12-1, #1) FSU’s Scott Bentley kicked a 45-yard field goal for the first points of the second half, but that was all the Seminoles wrote. How Florida and Florida State Met for the National Championship in the 1997 Sugar Bowl. Do you have a blog? UF: Terry Jackson 12-118, 2 TDs; Fred Taylor 18-60, 1 TD; Elijah Williams 4-2; B. Schottenheimer 1-0; Eugene McCaslin 2-(-2); Danny Wuerffel 6-(-10) Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. As a matter of policy, Sports Reference only reports the results of games as played on the field. In a deep irony, it was Florida State which forced Steve Spurrier to do something he said he’d never do: go to a shotgun offense. FSU: E.G. He was the game’s MVP after passing for 306 yards and three touchdowns – all to Hilliard – and running for a fourth. FSU closed to 17-10, only watch the Gators’ shotgun go off one more, this time for 65 yards in four plays. WVU quarterback Harris hit Grantis Bell for a 17-yard touchdown pass, cutting the lead to 26–13. Fiesta Bowl - Clemson vs Ohio State Box Score, December 28, 2019 The victory made amends for the blowout defeat to Nebraska the year before in the Fiesta Bowl, after which ‘Husker defensive coordinator Charlie McBride gave symposiums on stopping the vaunted Gator offense. As in 1987, the Fiesta Bowl featured two independents squaring off for the national title. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. The December 2016 and December 2019 editions were, This page was last edited on 3 May 2020, at 22:20. There was a Fiesta Bowl in January and December in 1997, 2014, 2016, and 2019. As it turned out, the Seminoles were sliced, diced and left for dead. Some school's results have been altered by retroactive NCAA penalties. With NBC no longer televising the Rose Bowl, the kickoff for the Fiesta Bowl was moved three hours later, to 2:30 p.m. MST,[2] and the game now had NBC's top broadcast team of Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen. The 1989 Sunkist Fiesta Bowl, played on Monday, January 2, was the 18th edition of the Fiesta Bowl. He later left the game with an injury. Still, Busby was having a good night, too, and, with the Gators in front 24-10, FSU answered with a fast-break of its own, traveling 66 yards in 77 seconds, the last 12 yards coming on a gallop by Warrick Dunn, who had been silent in a half dominated by the pass and by his own leg cramps. Florida’s 12-1 record merited it, although there were four other teams in America with just one loss (Ohio State, 11-1; Brigham Young, 14-1; Arizona State, 11-1; and, of course, Florida State, 11-1).