1978 Liberty Bowl
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| 20th Liberty Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 23, 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | ABC | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Chris Schenkel, Ara Parseghian and Verne Lundquist | ||||||||||||||||||
The 1978 Liberty Bowl, a
Teams
LSU
The 1978 LSU squad finished the regular season with a record of 8–3 and losses against Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi State. The appearance marked the first for LSU in the Liberty Bowl, and the school's 21st overall bowl game. [3]
Missouri
The 1978 Missouri squad finished the regular season with a record of 7–4 and losses against Alabama, Colorado, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. The appearance marked the first for Missouri in the Liberty Bowl, and the school's fifteenth overall bowl game.
Game summary
Scoring summary
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Source:[4]
Statistics
| Statistics[4] | LSU | MU |
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| First downs | 12 | 18 |
| Plays–yards | 77–364 | 71–317 |
| Rushes–yards | 46–194 | 50–200 |
| Passing yards | 170 | 117 |
| Passing: Comp–Att–Int | 14–31–4 | 11–21–1 |
Aftermath
Each program later returned to the Liberty Bowl: Missouri lost to Purdue in 1980, then lost to Oklahoma State in 2018, while LSU fell to Baylor in 1985.
Missouri joined the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in 2012 after playing 16 seasons in the Big 12, which was formed in 1996 when four schools from the former Southwest Conference combined with the Big Eight.
LSU defeated Missouri, 42–7, at Baton Rouge on October 1, 2016, in the first regular season meeting between the schools in what was also
References
- ^ "Liberty Bowl". sports-reference.com. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
- ^ "Liberty Bowl Results/Attendance". libertybowl.org. Archived from the original on January 5, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
- ^ "LSU Football Bowl History & Recaps". lsusports.net. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
- ^ a b Mizzou Bowl Recaps (PDF). Memphis, TN: mutigers.com. 1978. Retrieved December 27, 2015.