1966 Cotton Bowl Classic (January)
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| Date | January 1, 1966 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1965 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Cotton Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Dallas | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | TB Joe Labruzzo (LSU) T David McCormick (LSU) |
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| Attendance | 76,200 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | CBS | ||||||||||||||||||
The 1966 Cotton Bowl Classic was a post-season college football bowl game of the 1965 season with national championship implications between the Southwest Conference champion Arkansas Razorbacks and the LSU Tigers of the Southeastern Conference. With a scoreless second half at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, LSU defeated Arkansas 14–7 in front of 76,200 spectators on Saturday, January 1, 1966.
The top three teams in the polls were all defeated on this New Year's Day.
Arkansas and LSU's rivalry had been discontinued since 1956, and Arkansas had not beaten the Bayou Bengals since 1929. This was the second Cotton Bowl Classic meeting, after the Hogs and Tigers met nineteen years earlier, in January 1947. The game, sometimes referred to as the Ice Bowl, ended as scoreless tie in the rain and subfreezing cold.
Arkansas and LSU had a common opponent in 1965 in Rice, whom both defeated. The Tigers won 42–14 in Baton Rouge in late September, and Arkansas shut out the Owls 31–0 in Houston in early November.
Bobby Burnett tied three others in scoring, with 16 TD's, the fourth-highest total in the nation. Ronny South was second in kick scoring, with 42 extra points and 6 field goals. As an offensive unit, the Hogs had the best scoring offense (32.4 ppg), the eighth-best rushing offense (226.1 ypg), seventh best total offense (360.2 ypg) nationally. The defense was fourth-best against the run (74.9 yards allowed per game). Glen Ray Hines was a consensus All-American.
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