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| Date | December 29, 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Gator Bowl Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Jacksonville, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Steve Fuller (QB, Clemson) & Art Schlichter (QB, Ohio State)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | James M. Artley (SEC) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 72,011 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | ABC | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Keith Jackson, Ara Parseghian | ||||||||||||||||||||
The 1978 Gator Bowl was a college football bowl game played between the Ohio State Buckeyes and Clemson Tigers on December 29, 1978. Clemson won the contest, 17–15. The game is most remembered for an incident in which longtime Ohio State head coach Woody Hayes punched a Clemson player after a play late in the fourth quarter with two minutes remaining, leading to Hayes being fired the next day.
- ^ "1978". Archived from the original on January 1, 2018. Retrieved December 31, 2017.