1978_Tangerine_Bowl
1978 Tangerine Bowl
College football game
The 1978 Tangerine Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was played on December 23, 1978 at Orlando Stadium in Orlando, Florida. The game matched the Pittsburgh Panthers against the NC State Wolfpack. It was the final contest of the 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season for both teams. The game ended in a 30–17 victory for the Wolfpack.
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| Date | December 23, 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Orlando Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Orlando, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Ted Brown, NC State (overall)[1] Nathan Ritter, NC State (offensive)[2] John Stanton, NC State (defensive)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Pitt by 6[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 31,356[1][3] | ||||||||||||||||||
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The game matched the Pittsburgh Panthers against the NC State Wolfpack of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Panthers had no affiliation to a conference, and the Wolfpack had a conference record of 4–2. The game was the first bowl game featuring the Panthers and the Wolfpack, and was their third overall meeting. Pittsburgh led the series 2–0 heading into the game, and the teams' previous meeting was in 1953, when the Panthers defeated the Wolfpack 40–6.[4]
Statistics
| Statistics[3] | PITT | NCSU |
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| Plays–yards | 82–378 | 69–310 |
| Rushes–yards | 34–110 | 60–207 |
| Passing yards | 268 | 103 |
| Passing: Comp–Att–Int | 32–48–4 | 6–9–0 |
Scoring summary
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- Greene, Jerry (December 24, 1978). "Wolfpack attack wrecks Pitt". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved March 18, 2017 – via newspapers.com.
- Buchalter, Bill (December 24, 1978). "N.C. State: Ritter's enthusiasm symbolic". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved March 18, 2017 – via newspapers.com.
- "1978 Tangerine Bowl Recap". NC State Wolfpack. December 23, 1978. Archived from the original on January 22, 2015. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
- "North Carolina State vs Pittsburgh, 1869-1978". Stassen.com. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
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