1980 Orange Bowl
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{{Infobox NCAA football yearly game
|game_name=Orange Bowl
|subheader = 46th Orange Bowl
|title_sponsor=
|date_game_played=January 1
|year_game_played=1980
|football_season=1979
|visitor_name_short=Florida State
|visitor_nickname=Seminoles
|visitor_record=11–0
|visitor_coach=Bobby Bowden
|visitor_conference=Independent
|visitor_rank_AP=4
|visitor_rank_coaches=4
|visitor_1q =7
|visitor_2q =0
|visitor_3q =0
|visitor_4q =0
|MVP=J. C. Watts (Oklahoma QB)
Bud Hebert (Oklahoma FS)
|home_name_short=Oklahoma
|home_nickname=Sooners
|home_record=10–1
|home_coach=Barry Switzer
|home_conference=Big Eight
|home_rank_AP=5
|home_rank_coaches=5
|home_1q =0
|home_2q =17
|home_3q =0
|home_4q =7
|us_network=NBC
|us_announcers=Don Criqui, John Brodie,
and Bob Trumpy
| ratings = 25.1
|odds=Oklahoma by 7½ points {{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uesNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rG0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4606%2C109621|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |title=Latest line |date=January 1, 1980 |page=22}}
|first_game_ever_played=
|type=bg
|stadium=Orange Bowl
|referee = Vincent Buckley (SWC)
|attendance=66,714
}}
The 1980 Orange Bowl was the 46th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday, January 1. Part of the 1979–80 bowl game season, it matched the fourth-ranked independent Florida State Seminoles and the #5 Oklahoma Sooners of the Big Eight Conference. Favored Oklahoma overcame an early deficit and won 24–7.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wSMhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wWcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6362%2C715525 |work=Sarasota Herald-Tribune |location=(Florida)|last=Achenbach |first=Jim |title=Sooners' quick TD's spill FSU 24-7 |date=January 2, 1980 |page=1E}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HsopAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LO4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4950%2C511576|work=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |agency=Associated Press|title=Sooners stifle FSU |date=January 2, 1980 |page=C1}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1ZxjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5OEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4817%2C463966 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |agency=UPI |title=Oklahoma's quickness destroys Florida State passing attack |date=January 2, 1980 |page=4D}}
Teams
{{main|1979 NCAA Division I-A football season}}
=Florida State=
{{main|1979 Florida State Seminoles football team}}
This was Florida State's first major bowl appearance as they attempted to complete a perfect undefeated season; they were on a fifteen-game win streak, which began in October 1978. Their most recent bowl was two years earlier.
=Oklahoma=
{{main|1979 Oklahoma Sooners football team}}
The Sooners' only loss was to Texas in mid-October; they were champions of the Big Eight Conference for the seventh straight year. Oklahoma was appearing in their eleventh Orange Bowl, the third of four consecutive.
Game summary
Mike Whiting gave the Seminoles a lead with his touchdown run, but that was their only score of the night. A fumbled field goal snap, three turnovers, over 100 yards of rushing by quarterback J. C. Watts and halfback Billy Sims, and 24 unanswered points by Oklahoma doomed the Seminoles. It all started with a Watts run for a touchdown in the second quarter to tie the game at seven. After the kickoff, the Seminoles turned the ball over on an interception, giving the ball back to Oklahoma. Stanley Wilson then scored a touchdown run to make it 14–7. Mike Keeling added a field goal late in the quarter to give the Sooners a {{nowrap|17–7}} lead at halftime.
The second half scoring was limited to one Oklahoma touchdown from 22 yards out in the fourth quarter; Watts ran for twelve yards before pitching the ball to Sims, who took it the rest of the way for a {{nowrap|24–7}} lead, the final score.{{Cite web|url=http://www.soonerstats.com/football/games/recap.cfm?GameID=786#.VYMHRPm6eM8|title=1979 Oklahoma vs. Florida State Game Recap - SoonerStats - Historical scores, records, and stats for Oklahoma Sooners football, basketball, baseball, and softball}} The Sooners ran for 411 yards on 59 carries, an average of nearly seven yards per attempt, while having twice as many total yards as the Seminoles.{{cite news |author= |title=Oklahoma rolls, 24-7; Florida State streak ends |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2638009/the_pantagraph/ |newspaper=The Pantagraph |agency=Associated Press |location=Bloomington, Illinois |date=January 2, 1980 |access-date=June 18, 2015 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}{{Cite web|url=http://game.orangebowl.org/orange-bowl-history/the-history-of-the-orange-bowl/1980s/1980/|title = The 1980s | Orange Bowl}}
Free safety Bud Hebert (No. 33) had 3 interceptions in the game - a record that stands to this day.
=Scoring=
;First quarter:
- Florida State – Mike Whiting 1-yard run (Dave Cappelen kick)
;Second quarter:
- Oklahoma – J. C. Watts 61-yard run (Mike Keeling kick)
- Oklahoma – Stanley Wilson 5-yard run (Keeling kick)
- Oklahoma – Keeling 24-yard field goal
;Third quarter:
:No scoring
;Fourth quarter:
- Oklahoma – Billy Sims 22-yard run, lateral from Watts (Keeling kick)
:{{small|Source:}}{{cite web|url=https://www.orangebowl.org/assets/1/7/2019_Capital_One_Orange_Bowl_Media_Guide-proof2.pdf |publisher=2019 Capital One Orange Bowl media guide |title=Game-by-game recaps: 1980 |date=January 2019 |page=38}}
Statistics
Aftermath
Oklahoma climbed to third in the final AP poll and Florida State fell to sixth.
Both teams returned the following year, and Oklahoma won by a point.
References
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