1978 Liberty Bowl

American college football game December 2025 August 2023 Liberty Bowl 20th Liberty Bowl December 23 1978 1978 Louisiana State University LSU Tigers 8–3 Charles McClendon SEC 3 0 6 6 University of Missouri Missouri Tigers 7–4 18 Warren Powers Big Eight 7 13 0 0 bg Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium Memphis, Tennessee James Wilder Sr. (RB, Missouri) Robert E. Carpenter (ACC) 53,064 ABC Chris Schenkel, Ara Parseghian and Verne Lundquist The 1978 Liberty Bowl, a college football postseason bowl game, took place on December 23, 1978, at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee.Liberty Bowl sports-reference.com https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/bowls/liberty-bowl.html 2015-12-27 The competing teams in the 20th edition of the Liberty Bowl were the LSU Tigers of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and the Missouri Tigers of the Big Eight Conference. Missouri defeated LSU by a final score of 20–15.Liberty Bowl Results/Attendance libertybowl.org http://www.libertybowl.org/index.php/history/results-attendance 2015-12-27 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20160105163352/http://www.libertybowl.org/index.php/history/results-attendance 2016-01-05 Teams LSU 1978 LSU Tigers football team The 1978 LSU squad finished the regular season with a record of 8–3 and losses against Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi State. The appearance marked the first for LSU in the Liberty Bowl, and the school's 21st overall bowl game. LSU Football Bowl History & Recaps lsusports.net http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=177162 2015-12-27 2015-09-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20150905100530/http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=177162 dead Missouri 1978 Missouri Tigers football team The 1978 Missouri squad finished the regular season with a record of 7–4 and losses against Alabama, Colorado, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. The appearance marked the first for Missouri in the Liberty Bowl, and the school's fifteenth overall bowl game. Game summary Scoring summary LSU Missouri expand 1 Missouri RushTD Earl Gant 15 good Jeff Brockhaus 0 7 1 LSU FG 37 Mike Conway 3 7 2 Missouri RecTD Kellen Winslow Phil Bradley 16 good Jeff Brockhaus 3 14 2 Missouri RushTD James Wilder Sr. 3 no good Jeff Brockhaus 3 20 3 LSU RushTD Charles Alexander 1 no good Mike Conway 9 20 4 LSU RushTD David Woodley 1 - 2 pt attempt no good 15 20 15 20 Source:Mizzou Bowl Recaps 1978 mutigers.com Memphis, TN http://sidearm.sites.s3.amazonaws.com/mutigers.com/documents/2015/5/18/sports_m_footbl_bowl-history.pdf December 27, 2015 PDF Statistics Statistics LSU MU First downs 12 18 Plays–yards 77–364 71–317 Rushes–yards 46–194 50–200 Passing yards 170 117 Passing: Comp–Att–Int 14–31–4 11–21–1 Aftermath Each program later returned to the Liberty Bowl: Missouri lost to Purdue in 1980, then lost to Oklahoma State in 2018, while LSU fell to Baylor in 1985. Missouri joined the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in 2012 after playing 16 seasons in the Big 12, which was formed in 1996 when four schools from the former Southwest Conference combined with the Big Eight. LSU defeated Missouri, 42–7, at Baton Rouge on October 1, 2016, in the first regular season meeting between the schools in what was also Ed Orgeron's first game as LSU head coach. Four years later, Eli Drinkwitz earned his first victory as Missouri coach with a 45-41 decision over LSU at Columbia. The game was originally scheduled for Baton Rouge, but moved three days prior to kickoff due to the approach of Hurricane Delta to the Louisiana coast. The teams are scheduled to meet October 7, 2023 at Columbia. References Liberty Bowl Category:Liberty Bowl Category:LSU Tigers football bowl games Category:Missouri Tigers football bowl games Liberty Bowl Category:December 1978 sports events in the United States