1971 Sugar Bowl
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| Date | January 1, 1971 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1970 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Tulane Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | New Orleans, Louisiana | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | QB Bobby Scott (Tennessee) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Tennessee by 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 75,087 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | ABC | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Chris Schenkel and Bud Wilkinson | ||||||||||||||||||
The 1971 Sugar Bowl was a college football bowl game between the Air Force Falcons and the Tennessee Volunteers.
The Falcons were an NCAA independent in their first Sugar Bowl under long tenured Ben Martin. In his 13th year, he had a 68–57–7 record and made Air Force into national prominence and led the team to a ranking in the AP Poll for the second time in school history. However, the then #10-ranked Falcons lost their final game, 49–19, to Colorado at Colorado Springs after beating Pacific-8 Conference champion Stanford, who later beat Ohio State in the Rose Bowl.
Tennessee from #8 at the time of the invite to #4 under the leadership of 29-year old rookie coach Bill Battle, a member of the national champion 1961 Alabama Crimson Tide football team. This was the Vols' fifth Sugar Bowl appearance and first since the 1957 game. The Vols rolled over Alabama 24–0 at Knoxville in October and gained revenge for a 38–0 loss in 1969 to Ole Miss in November, but an early loss to Auburn in Birmingham wound up costing Tennessee the Southeastern Conference championship, which instead went to LSU.
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