1990 Holiday Bowl

1990 SeaWorld Holiday Bowl
Texas A&M Aggies BYU Cougars (8-3-1) (10–2) SWC WAC 65 14 Head coach:  R. C. Slocum Head coach:  LaVell Edwards AP Coaches NR 19 AP Coaches 13 9
1 2 3 4 Total Texas A&M 14 23 7 21 65 BYU 7 0 7 0 14
Date	December 29, 1990
Season	1990
Stadium	Jack Murphy Stadium
Location	San Diego
MVP	Offensive: Bucky Richardson Defensive: William Thomas
Referee	James Sprenger (Pac-10)
Attendance	61,441 [1]
Payout	US$1,200,728 per team [1]
United States TV coverage
Network	ESPN
Announcers	Sean McDonough, Mike Gottfried, and Neil Lomax
Holiday Bowl  ← 1989   1991 →

The 1990 SeaWorld Holiday Bowl was a post-season college football bowl game between the Texas A&M Aggies and BYU Cougars on December 29, 1990, at Jack Murphy Stadium, now known as Qualcomm Stadium, in San Diego, California. The game was part of the 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season and was the final game of the season for both teams. Texas A&M defeated BYU 65–14. ^{[2] [3]}

The game featured BYU's Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer, and marked the last time for more than 20 years that the season's Heisman winner would appear in a bowl before New Year's Day. This would not happen again until the 2011 Alamo Bowl, featuring Baylor's Robert Griffin III. ^[4]

Game summary

• Texas A&M - R. Wilson 1 yard touchdown yard run (Talbot kick)
• BYU - C. Smith 8 yard touchdown yard pass from Detmer (Kauffman kick)
• Texas A&M - D. Lewis 6 yard touchdown yard run (Talbot kick)
• Texas A&M - Richardson 6 yard touchdown yard run (Talbot kick)
• Texas A&M - Safety
• Texas A&M - Richardson 22 yard touchdown pass from D. Lewis (Talbot kick)
• Texas A&M - Garrett 6 yard touchdown pass from Richardson (Talbot kick)
• BYU - Clark 1 yard touchdown pass from Evans (Kauffman kick)
• Texas A&M - Richardson 27 yard touchdown yard run (Talbot kick)
• Texas A&M - D. Lewis 3 yard touchdown yard run (Talbot kick)
• Texas A&M - Paterson 14 yard touchdown yard pass from Pavlas (Talbot kick)
• Texas A&M - Krahl 9 yard touchdown yard pass from Pavlas (Talbot kick)

Texas A&M dominated the Cougars, rushing for 356 yards (while BYU had -12), passing for 324 (while BYU had 197), and forcing four turnovers (with the Aggies only having one), while only punting once and having the ball 38:28 of the game, with 72 return yards. BYU had 207 return yards (in part due to having 10 kickoffs and one punt to return), with a paltry 21:31 possession time. Ty Detemer went 11-of-23 for 120 yards and one touchdown and interception while being sacked twice. He was later replaced by Joe Evans, who went 4-of-9 for 77 yards with one touchdown, while being sacked thrice. Bucky Richardson threw 9-of-11 for 203 yards with one touchdown, while also rushing for 129 yards on 12 carries and 2 touchdowns, along a catch for 22 yards that also was for a touchdown. His four touchdown performance gained him MVP honors. William Thomas had 6 tackles, 2 of them going for sacks while being named defensive MVP. ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

References

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4. "Baylor wins Alamo Bowl shootout". USA Today . Associated Press. December 29, 2011. Retrieved December 30, 2011.
5. "1990 Holiday Bowl – Bowl Games – Tradition - BYU Football Guide". Archived from the original on October 3, 2015. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
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7. "1990 Holiday Bowl: Texas A&M 65, BYU 14". Deseret News . December 4, 2000. Archived from the original on March 4, 2014.
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