1992 Sugar Bowl

1992 USF&G Sugar Bowl
58th edition
The Cheerios Bowl
1234 Total
Notre Dame 071022 39
Florida 106012 28
DateJanuary 1, 1992
Season1991
StadiumLouisiana Superdome
LocationNew Orleans, Louisiana
MVPJerome Bettis (Notre Dame RB)
FavoriteFlorida by 6.5 points (52.5) [1][2]
RefereeJames Sprenger (Pac-10)
United States TV coverage
NetworkABC
AnnouncersAl Michaels, Frank Gifford, Dan Dierdorf, and Tim Brant
Sugar Bowl
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The 1992 Sugar Bowl was the 58th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Wednesday, January 1. Part of the 1991–92 bowl game season, it matched the eighteenth-ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the #3 Florida Gators of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).

Notre Dame rallied late in the fourth quarter to upset the favored Gators, 39–28.[3][4][5]

The game is also known as "The Cheerios Bowl," due to the comment a waiter supposedly told Irish head coach Lou Holtz at a restaurant that "the difference between Cheerios and Notre Dame is that Cheerios belong in a bowl."

  1. ^ "Orange Bowl Odds". Orange Bowl Odds.
  2. ^ "Betting line". Orange Bowl Odds. p. D7.
  3. ^ "Fighting Irish run wild in second half comeback". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. January 2, 1992. p. 3B.
  4. ^ "Irish give the critics a rebuttal". Pittsburgh Press. news services. January 2, 1992. p. C3.
  5. ^ Shearer, Ed (January 2, 1992). "Irish top Gators on Bettis TDs". Wilmington Star-News. (North Carolina). p. 6B.