1971 Orange Bowl

The 1971 Orange Bowl featured the third-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers, champions of the Big Eight Conference, and the fifth-ranked LSU Tigers, champions of the Southeastern Conference.

Earlier on New Year's Day, the two top-ranked teams lost their bowl games: #1 Texas in the Cotton Bowl and #2 Ohio State in the Rose Bowl. The Huskers were aware when they took the field that night that they could claim the top ranking in the AP writers poll with a victory. An LSU victory would likely have given Notre Dame the national title.

Scoring

Paul Rogers kicked a 25-yard field goal for Nebraska to take an early 3–0 lead. Joe Orduna scored on a 3-yard touchdown run, as Nebraska extended its lead to 10–0. In the second quarter, LSU got a 36-yard field goal to cut the lead to 10–3, the score at halftime.

In the third quarter, the Tigers added a 25-yard field goal to make it 10–6. On the final play of the third quarter, Buddy Lee threw a 31-yard touchdown pass to Al Coffee to put LSU ahead 12–10. Husker quarterback Jerry Tagge scored from a yard out with 8:50 remaining; it was the game's last scoring play and gave Nebraska the 17–12 win.^[1]

National champions

Undefeated Nebraska (11–0–1) was named national champion in the AP poll, released after the bowls in January. With the narrow defeat, LSU (9–3) fell only two spots, from fifth to seventh. The UPI coaches poll was released in early December (before the bowls) through the 1973 season; it had Texas as first as it did not consider the Longhorns' 24–11 loss to Notre Dame on New Year's Day.

Artificial turf

This was the first Orange Bowl played on artificial turf, on Poly-Turf, a competitor to AstroTurf. Super Bowl V, the first on artificial turf, was played on the same field on January 17. It was installed prior to the 1970 season and lasted for just six seasons, removed shortly after Super Bowl X, played in January 1976.

Cigarette advertising

In April 1970, Congress passed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act banning the advertising of cigarettes on television and radio; in order to allow the New Year's Day football games to keep their already-sold cigarette ads, the prohibition was set to begin on January 2, 1971. Airing in prime time on the East Coast, the 1971 Orange Bowl thus became the last televised sporting event to carry cigarette ads, the final one (for Winston) airing at 10:54 p.m.^[2] (The very last tobacco advertisement, for Virginia Slims, was shown at 11:59 p.m. during a break on The Tonight Show).^[3]

Video

You Tube - 1971 Orange Bowl - NBC telecast

References

↑ HuskerPedia.com - 1971 Orange Bowl
↑ http://www.druglibrary.org/Schaffer/LIBRARY/studies/nc/nc2b.htm
↑ "Cigarette Commercials Ended With $1M Fling," The News (Frederick, Md.), January 2, 1972, p1

Orange Bowl Game

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Notes	The game was also the national title game for either the Bowl Coalition, Bowl Alliance, or Bowl Championship Series in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2001, and 2005. There was an Orange Bowl in January and December in 1996 and 2014. The game was a semifinal for the College Football Playoff in its 2015 edition.

LSU Tigers bowl games

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