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1988 Aloha Bowl

American college football game

Field	Value
game_name	Aloha Bowl
title_sponsor	Eagle
date_game_played	December 25
year_game_played	1988
football_season	1988
stadium	Aloha Stadium
city	Honolulu, Hawaii
visitor_school	Washington State University
visitor_name_short	Washington State
visitor_nickname	Cougars
visitor_conference	Pac-10
visitor_record	8–3
visitor_rank_AP	18
visitor_rank_coaches	18
visitor_coach	Dennis Erickson
visitor_1q	0
visitor_2q	24
visitor_3q	0
visitor_4q	0
home_school	University of Houston
home_name_short	Houston
home_nickname	Cougars
home_conference	SWC
home_record	9–2
home_rank_AP	14
home_rank_coaches	14
home_coach	Jack Pardee
home_1q	3
home_2q	6
home_3q	6
home_4q	7
MVP	Victor Wood (WR, WSU)
odds	Houston by 4½ points
referee	John Laurie (Big Eight)
attendance	35,132
us_network	ABC
us_announcers	Keith Jackson, Lynn Swann

The 1988 Eagle Aloha Bowl was a college football bowl game, the fourth of seventeen in the bowl season of the 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season. The seventh edition of the Aloha Bowl, it was played on December 25 at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The game matched the #14 Houston Cougars of the Southwest Conference against the #18 Washington State Cougars of the {{nowrap|Pacific-10 Conference.

Underdog Washington State scored all of its points in the second quarter and forced a last-second Houston turnover in notching a 24–22 win on Christmas Day.

Washington State climbed up to sixteenth in the final AP poll, and Houston dropped to eighteenth.

Scoring

First quarter

Houston – Roman Anderson 27-yard field goal (13:13). 3-0 UH

Second quarter

WSU – Victor Wood 5-yard fumble run (Jason Hanson kick). (13:39). 7-3 WSU
WSU – Wood 15-yard pass from Timm Rosenbach (Hanson kick). (8:39). 14-3 WSU
WSU – Hanson 33-yard field goal (6:31), 17-3 WSU
Houston – Chuck Weatherspoon 1-yard run (kick failed), (4:56), 17-9 WSU
WSU – Rosenbach 1-yard run (Hanson kick), (0:53), 24-9 WSU

Third quarter

Houston – Kevin Mason 53-yard pass from David Dacus (pass failed), (4:25), 24-15 WSU

Fourth quarter

Houston – Weatherspoon 2-yard pass from Dacus (Anderson kick), (13:16), 24-22 WSU

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Statistics

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References

(December 23, 1988). "The latest line". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
(December 24, 1988). "Betting line". Reading Eagle.
Bergum, Steve. (December 26, 1988). "WSU wins Aloha Brawl". Spokesman-Review.
(December 26, 1988). "Defense saves Pac-10's Cougars". Eugene Register-Guard.
Grummert, Dale. (December 26, 1988). "Washington State wins Aloha Bowl". Lewiston Morning Tribune.
Bergum, Steve. (March 6, 1989). "Erickson's air express off to Miami". Spokesman-Review.
Meehan, Jim. (March 6, 1988). "Erickson leaves 'dream'". Idahonian.
(March 6, 1989). "Erickson takes Miami job". Eugene Register-Guard.
(January 4, 1989). "It's not unanimous, but the Irish finish as No. 1". Eugene Register-Guard.

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