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1990 Holiday Bowl

Field	Value
year_game_played	1990
title_sponsor	SeaWorld
game_name	Holiday Bowl
football_season	1990
visitor_name_short	Texas A&M
visitor_nickname	Aggies
visitor_school	Texas A&M University
home_name_short	BYU
home_nickname	Cougars
home_school	Brigham Young University
visitor_record	8-3-1
visitor_conference	SWC
home_record	10–2
home_conference	WAC
visitor_coach	R. C. Slocum
home_coach	LaVell Edwards
visitor_rank_AP	NR
visitor_rank_coaches	19
home_rank_AP	13
home_rank_coaches	9
visitor_1q	14
visitor_2q	23
visitor_3q	7
visitor_4q	21
home_1q	7
home_2q	0
home_3q	7
home_4q	0
date_game_played	December 29
stadium	Jack Murphy Stadium
city	San Diego
MVP	Offensive: Bucky Richardson
Defensive: William Thomas
referee	James Sprenger (Pac-10)
attendance	61,441
payout	1,200,728 per team
us_network	ESPN
us_announcers_link	List of announcers of major college bowl games
us_announcers	Sean McDonough, Mike Gottfried, and Neil Lomax

Defensive: William Thomas The 1990 SeaWorld Holiday Bowl was a post-season college football bowl game between the Texas A&M Aggies and BYU Cougars on December 29, 1990, at Jack Murphy Stadium, now known as Qualcomm Stadium, in San Diego, California. The game was part of the 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season and was the final game of the season for both teams. Texas A&M defeated BYU 65–14.

The game featured BYU's Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer, and marked the last time for more than 20 years that the season's Heisman winner would appear in a bowl before New Year's Day. This would not happen again until the 2011 Alamo Bowl, featuring Baylor's Robert Griffin III.

Game summary

Texas A&M - R. Wilson 1 yard touchdown yard run (Talbot kick)
BYU - C. Smith 8 yard touchdown yard pass from Detmer (Kauffman kick)
Texas A&M - D. Lewis 6 yard touchdown yard run (Talbot kick)
Texas A&M - Richardson 6 yard touchdown yard run (Talbot kick)
Texas A&M - Safety
Texas A&M - Richardson 22 yard touchdown pass from D. Lewis (Talbot kick)
Texas A&M - Garrett 6 yard touchdown pass from Richardson (Talbot kick)
BYU - Clark 1 yard touchdown pass from Evans (Kauffman kick)
Texas A&M - Richardson 27 yard touchdown yard run (Talbot kick)
Texas A&M - D. Lewis 3 yard touchdown yard run (Talbot kick)
Texas A&M - Paterson 14 yard touchdown yard pass from Pavlas (Talbot kick)
Texas A&M - Krahl 9 yard touchdown yard pass from Pavlas (Talbot kick)

Texas A&M dominated the Cougars, rushing for 356 yards (while BYU had -12), passing for 324 (while BYU had 197), and forcing four turnovers (with the Aggies only having one), while only punting once and having the ball 38:28 of the game, with 72 return yards. BYU had 207 return yards (in part due to having 10 kickoffs and one punt to return), with a paltry 21:31 possession time. Ty Detemer went 11-of-23 for 120 yards and one touchdown and interception while being sacked twice. He was later replaced by Joe Evans, who went 4-of-9 for 77 yards with one touchdown, while being sacked thrice. Bucky Richardson threw 9-of-11 for 203 yards with one touchdown, while also rushing for 129 yards on 12 carries and 2 touchdowns, along a catch for 22 yards that also was for a touchdown. His four touchdown performance gained him MVP honors. William Thomas had 6 tackles, 2 of them going for sacks while being named defensive MVP.

References

"Holiday Bowl Game History".
"1990 Sea World Holiday Bowl". Texas A&M Athletics.
"THE 1990 SEAWORLD HOLIDAY BOWL". The Pacific Life Holiday Bowl.
(December 29, 2011). "Baylor wins Alamo Bowl shootout". [[USA Today]].
"1990 Holiday Bowl – Bowl Games – Tradition - BYU Football Guide".
"CougarStats: BYU Football: BYU vs. Texas A&M 1990 Holiday Bowl".
(4 December 2000). "1990 Holiday Bowl: Texas A&M 65, BYU 14".
"1990 Holiday Bowl".

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