Curt Warner(Penn State RB) Leo Wisniewski (Penn State NT)
Favorite
USC by 2 points[1]
Referee
John A. McClintock (Big Eight)
Attendance
71,053
United States TV coverage
Network
NBC
Announcers
Charlie Jones, Len Dawson
Fiesta Bowl
< 1980
1983 >
The 1982 Fiesta Bowl was the eleventh edition of the college football bowl game, played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona on Friday, January 1. Part of the 1981–82 bowl game season, it matched the seventh-ranked independent Penn State Nittany Lions and the #8 USC Trojans of the Pacific-10 Conference. A slight underdog,[1] Penn State won, 26–10.[2][3]
This was the first Fiesta Bowl played in January, in light of the bowl game's increasing popularity due to the sunny climate which had games with a team ranked in the top ten appearing in the eight of the first ten editions. It was the second Fiesta Bowl with both teams in the top ten; the first was six years earlier, and the third was in 1986.
^ ab"The latest line". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. January 1, 1982. p. 27.
^Keidan, Bruce (January 2, 1982). "PSU stuffs USC, 26-10". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 9.
^"Penn State saddles the Trojan horse, 26-10". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. January 2, 1982. p. 3B.
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