1975 Sugar Bowl

1975 Sugar Bowl
42nd edition
1234 Total
Penn State 0033 6
Alabama 3073 13
DateDecember 31, 1975
Season1975
StadiumLouisiana Superdome
LocationNew Orleans, Louisiana
MVPRichard Todd (Alabama QB)
FavoriteAlabama by 13 points[1]
RefereeClint Fuller (Southwest)
Attendance75,212
United States TV coverage
NetworkABC
AnnouncersKeith Jackson, Bud Wilkinson
Sugar Bowl
 < 1974  1977

The 1975 Sugar Bowl, was the 42nd edition of the college football bowl game, played at night in the new Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Wednesday, December 31. Part of the 1975–76 bowl game season, it matched the fourth-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and the independent #8 Penn State Nittany Lions. In the first Sugar Bowl played in the recently completed Superdome, favored Alabama won 13–6.

This was the last of four consecutive editions played at night on New Year's Eve; it returned to January 1 in 1977 as a day game.

  1. ^ "Alabama trio benched for curfew violation". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). Associated Press. December 31, 1975. p. 11.