| 1974 Tangerine Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 21, 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Tangerine Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Orlando, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Sherman Smith, Miami (back)[1] Brad Cousino & John Roudabush, Miami (linemen)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Robert Aillet (SEC; split crew: SEC,MAC)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 20,246[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | Mizlou[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
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The1974 Tangerine Bowl was acollege footballbowl game played on December 21, 1974, at theTangerine Bowl stadium inOrlando, Florida. The game featured theGeorgia Bulldogs and theMiami Redskins (located inOxford, Ohio and now nicknamed the RedHawks).
Miami was champion of theMid-American Conference (MAC) for the second straight year, while having a season with no losses for the second straight year as well, earning another Tangerine trip. Georgia finished tied for second in theSoutheastern Conference (SEC), despite losing three of their last four games. This was their first Tangerine Bowl appearance.
Delays with stadium renovation work had led to the previous Tangerine Bowl game being played inGainesville; this year the game returned toOrlando, where it has remained since.
On the first play of scrimmage, the Bulldogs fumbled the ball and Miami recovered it at the Georgia 25. Rob Carpenter scored on a one-yard touchdown run to give Miami a 7–0 lead. Despite driving into Miami territory, Georgia settled for an Allan Leavitt field goal that narrowed the lead to 7–3.Sherman Smith threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to Ricky Taylor to make it 14–3. A fumble at the Bulldogs 22 gave the ball back to the Redskins, who capitalized with a touchdown run by Smith to make it 21–3. All Georgia could do in the second half was make the score 21–10 on aRay Goff touchdown plunge, but Georgia could not get any more points.[3][4]
Miami returned to the Tangerine Bowl the following year, after winning their third straight MAC title. Georgia returned to the Tangerine Bowl ten years later; by then the game had changed names and was the1984 Florida Citrus Bowl.
| Statistics | Miami (Ohio) | Georgia |
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| First downs | 18 | 17 |
| Rushing yards | 228 | 74 |
| Passing yards | 14 | 210 |
| Total yards | 242 | 284 |
| Return yardage | 0 | 0 |
| Fumbles–fumbles lost | 3–3 | 5–2 |
| Punts–average | 5–36.0 | 4–30.0 |
| Penalties–penalty yards | 3–25 | 2–24 |