LSU 3 6 15 Season 1978 Champion Missouri Tigers football | 6 6 13 0 Attendance 53,064 Date 23 December 1978 | |
Location Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, Memphis, Tennessee, United States Stadium Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium Announcers Chris Schenkel, Ara Parseghian, Verne Lundquist Similar 1997 Independence Bowl, 2014 Music City Bowl, 2015 Texas Bowl | ||
The 1978 Liberty Bowl, part of the 1978 bowl game season, took place on December 23, 1978, at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee. The competing teams were the LSU Tigers of the Southeastern Conference and the Missouri Tigers of the Big Eight Conference. Missouri defeated LSU by a final score of 20–15.
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LSU
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.
Missouri
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.
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