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Date | January 1, 1993 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Season | 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stadium | Joe Robbie Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Miami Gardens, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
MVP | Darrien Gordon (CB), Stanford | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 45,554 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Network | CBS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Announcers | Jim Nantz (Play-by-Play) Randy Cross (Analyst) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 1993 Blockbuster Bowl game was a post-season college football bowl game between the Stanford Cardinal and the Penn State Nittany Lions played on January 1, 1993, at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. It was the third edition of the bowl game, and a Bowl Coalition game.
The legendary status of both head coaches was the pregame focus—Penn State's Joe Paterno was attempting to get his 15th bowl game win, and Stanford's Bill Walsh had won three Super Bowls with the San Francisco 49ers—but the game itself was dominated by Stanford, which scored on its first possession and led the entire game, winning 24–3.[1][2]