1988 Aloha Bowl

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1988 Eagle Aloha Bowl
1234Total
Washington State0240024
Houston366722
DateDecember 25, 1988
Season 1988
Stadium Aloha Stadium
Location Honolulu, Hawaii
MVPVictor Wood (WR, WSU)
Favorite Houston by 4½ points [1] [2]
Referee John Laurie (Big Eight)
Attendance35,132
United States TV coverage
Network ABC
Announcers Keith Jackson, Lynn Swann
Aloha Bowl
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The 1988 Eagle Aloha Bowl was a college football bowl game, the fourth of seventeen in the bowl season of the 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season. The seventh edition of the Aloha Bowl, it was played on December 25 at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The game matched the #14 Houston Cougars of the Southwest Conference against the #18 Washington State Cougars of the Pacific-10 Conference. [3] [4] [5]

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Underdog Washington State scored all of its points in the second quarter and forced a last-second Houston turnover in notching a 24–22 win on Christmas Day. [3] [4] [5] The bowl appearance was Washington State's second of the 1980s and was the first bowl victory for Washington State since the 1916 Rose Bowl. This was the final game for head coach Dennis Erickson at WSU; he left for the University of Miami in March. [6] [7] [8]

Washington State climbed up to sixteenth in the final AP poll, and Houston dropped to eighteenth. [9]

Scoring

First quarter

Second quarter

Third quarter

Fourth quarter

Source [3] [4] [5]

Statistics

StatisticsWashington
State
  Houston  
First Downs2313
Rushes–yards56–15421–68
Passing yards306241
Passes (C–A–I)19–36–117–40–2
Total yards460309
Fumbles–lost2–12–1
Turnovers by23
Punts–average6–46.08–45.4
Penalties–yards11–959–58
Time of possession37:4322:17
Source [3] [4] [5]

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References

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