| 1988 Freedom Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Freedom Bowl V | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 29, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Anaheim Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Anaheim, California | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Colorado by 3 points[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 35,941 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | Mizlou | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Mike Haffner, Jim Grabowski | ||||||||||||||||||||
The 1988 Freedom Bowl in Anaheim, California, pitted former Mountain States Conference rivals BYU and Colorado for the first time in a bowl game. It was only the second time the two teams met one another in football since the Buffaloes joined the Big Eight forty years earlier; the Buffaloes were favored in this bowl by three points.[1]
BYU (8–4, 5–3 WAC, third) came into the game in a bit of a tailspin after losing three of its final four regular season games.[2] Colorado (8–3, 4–3 Big 8, fourth) was a program on the rise, but a year away from becoming a fixture in the top ten.