| 1975 Fiesta Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 5th edition | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 26, 1975 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1975 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Sun Devil Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Tempe, Arizona | ||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | John Jefferson (ASU WR) Larry Gordon (ASU LB) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Nebraska by 14 points[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 51,396 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Network | CBS | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Pat Summerall, Tom Brookshier | ||||||||||||||||||||
The 1975 Fiesta Bowl was the fifth edition of the college football bowl game, played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona on Friday, December 26. Part of the 1975–76 bowl game season, it matched the sixth-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers of the Big Eight Conference and the undefeated #7 Arizona State Sun Devils of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC).[1][2] The underdog Sun Devils won, 17–14.[3][4]
Played at ASU's home venue, this was the Fiesta Bowl's first matchup between teams ranked in the top ten; the next was six years later.