1959 Sugar Bowl

1959 Sugar Bowl
Clemson Tigers	LSU Tigers
(8–2)	(10–0)
0	7
Head coach: ; Frank Howard	Head coach: ; Paul Dietzel
AP	Coaches
12	13
AP	Coaches
1	1
Date	January 1, 1959
Season	1958
Stadium	Tulane Stadium
Location	New Orleans, Louisiana
MVP	Billy Cannon, LSU
Favorite	LSU by 15 points[1]
Referee	John J. Lynch (ACC); (split crew between ACC & SEC)
United States TV coverage
Network	NBC

The 1959 Sugar Bowl featured the top-ranked LSU Tigers and the 12th-ranked Clemson Tigers. LSU had already secured the national title, as the final editions of both major polls were released a month earlier in early December. With Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon at halfback, LSU was favored to win by fifteen points.[1]

The game's only score came in the late in third quarter, when Cannon threw a 9-yard touchdown pass to Mickey Mangham for a 7–0 lead. LSU had recovered a poor snap from punt formation deep in Clemson territory to set up the score. LSU quarterback Warren Rabb broke his hand on the third play of the game, but it was not discovered until late in the second quarter.[2]

LSU's defense shut out Clemson and Cannon was named Sugar Bowl MVP.[2]

LSU's shutout victory over #12 Clemson was convincing and highlighted LSU as the only team in the country to go undefeated. Army, Auburn, and Air Force did not lose all season but they each had one game that ended in a tie. LSU's total first place votes was 130 to win the 1958 National Championship in the AP poll. LSU received 29 of the 35 first-place votes to win the #1 ranking in the Coaches poll. LSU earned the #1 rankings in the AP and Coaches poll during week 6 and held on to the #1 rankings for the rest of the year to win the 1958 National Championship in both major polls.[3][4]

References

Sargis, Joe (January 1, 1959). "Iowa picked by 18 in Rose Bowl". Reading Eagle. (Pennsylvania). UPI. p. 19.
"Sugar Bowl won by LSU". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. January 2, 1959. p. 4B.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/years/1958-bowls.html
1958 NCAA University Division football rankings#AP Poll

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[iopbei-1] Sargis, Joe (January 1, 1959). "Iowa picked by 18 in Rose Bowl". Reading Eagle. (Pennsylvania). UPI. p. 19.

[sbwblsap-2] "Sugar Bowl won by LSU". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. January 2, 1959. p. 4B.

[3] ttps://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/years/1958-bowls.html

[4] 1958 NCAA University Division football rankings#AP Poll

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Notes	The 2006 game took place in Atlanta, Georgia due to Hurricane Katrina. The game was also the national title game for either the Bowl Coalition, Bowl Alliance, or Bowl Championship Series in 1993, 1997, 2000, and 2004. There was a Sugar Bowl in January and December in 1972 and 1995. The game was a College Football Playoff semifinal in its 2015 and 2018 editions.