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| Date | January 2, 1965 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Gator Bowl Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Jacksonville, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | SEFred Biletnikoff (Florida State) QBSteve Tensi (Florida State) LBCarl McAdams (Oklahoma) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | R.P. Williams (SEC; split crew: SEC,SWC) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | ABC | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Curt Gowdy, Paul Christman | ||||||||||||||||||
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The1965 Gator Bowl (January) was an Americancollege footballbowl game played on January 2, 1965, atGator Bowl Stadium inJacksonville, Florida. The game pitted theFlorida State Seminoles and theOklahoma Sooners.
Florida State started the season with five straight wins (including one against #5 Kentucky) to get to #10 in the rankings before a loss to Virginia Tech dropped them out. They went 3-0-1 the rest of the way, while being invited to a bowl game for the first time since1958.
Oklahoma started the season ranked at #2, but went 1-3 to start the season, with losses to USC, #1 Texas, and Kansas. They went 5-0-1 the rest of the season (including a win at #4 Nebraska), to finish in second place in theBig Eight Conference to qualify for their sixth bowl game in 11 years.
For Florida State, Steve Tensi threw 23-of-36 for 303 yards and five touchdowns. Fred Biletnikoff caught four of those passes for touchdowns, along with nine more for a total of 192 yards. Florida State outrushed Oklahoma 217 to 71, outthrew them 303 to 209 while only punting once in the game.[1]
Florida State would reach three more bowl games in the decade; Oklahoma would reach two more in the decade.
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