| 1978 Garden State Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 16, 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Giants Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | East Rutherford, New Jersey | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | WR John Mistler (Arizona State) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 33,402[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
The 1978 Garden State Bowl, part of the 1978 bowl game season, took place on December 16, 1978, at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The competing teams were the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, which competed as a football independent, and the Arizona State Sun Devils, representing the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10). In the inaugural edition of the Garden State Bowl, Arizona State came-from-behind to defeat Rutgers 34–18.[2][3]