| 1976 Fiesta Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 25, 1976 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1976 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Sun Devil Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Tempe, Arizona | ||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Thomas Lott (Oklahoma QB) Terry Peters (Oklahoma CB) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Oklahoma by 21 points[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 48,714 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Network | CBS | ||||||||||||||||||||
The 1976 Fiesta Bowl was the sixth edition of the college football bowl game, played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona on Saturday, December 25. Part of the 1976–77 bowl game season, it matched the eighth-ranked Oklahoma Sooners of the Big Eight Conference and the unranked Wyoming Cowboys of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). Heavily favored Oklahoma won in a rout, 41–7.[2][3][4]
This was the first of four consecutive Fiesta Bowls played on Christmas Day.
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