FOOTBALL GAMEDAY MAGAZINE - of College Football Games
FOOTBALL GAMEDAY MAGAZINE - of College Football Games
FOOTBALL GAMEDAY MAGAZINE - of College Football Games
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SPartan<br />
BOwl hiStOry<br />
• Michigan State football teams have appeared in 19 postseason bowl games, including eight New<br />
Year’s Day games, after earning a bid to the 2009 Capital One Bowl against No. 16 Georgia. The<br />
Spartans are 7-12 in bowl games.<br />
• Mark Dantonio, who led the Spartans to the 2007 Champs Sports Bowl, became just the third<br />
first-year coach in MSU history to earn a postseason bowl bid, joining Nick Saban (1995 Independence<br />
Bowl vs. LSU) and John L. Smith (2003 Alamo Bowl vs. Nebraska).<br />
• Michigan State’s 37-34 win over No. 10 Florida in the 2000 Florida Citrus Bowl marked its first<br />
New Year’s Day bowl victory since the 1988 Rose Bowl.<br />
• Michigan State has made four appearances in the Rose Bowl, posting a 3-1 record. The Spartans<br />
defeated UCLA in 1954 and 1956, and USC in 1988.<br />
• During his 12-year tenure (1983-94), George Perles took Michigan State to seven bowl games,<br />
including four straight trips from 1987-90 (1988 Rose, 1989 Gator, 1989 Aloha and 1990 Sun).<br />
• Coach Charles Bachman’s 1937 team earned Michigan State’s first bowl invitation, losing to<br />
Auburn, 6-0, in the 1938 Orange Bowl.<br />
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2009 Capital One Bowl<br />
1987 Rose Bowl<br />
2000 Citrus Bowl<br />
Year Date Bowl opponent result score<br />
1938 Jan. 1 Orange Auburn L 0-6<br />
1954 Jan. 1 Rose UCLA W 28-20<br />
1956 Jan. 2 Rose UCLA W 17-14<br />
1966 Jan. 1 Rose UCLA L 12-14<br />
1984 Dec. 22 Cherry Army L 6-10<br />
1985 Dec. 31 All-American Georgia Tech L 14-17<br />
1988 Jan. 1 Rose Southern Cal W 20-17<br />
1989 Jan. 1 Gator Georgia L 27-34<br />
1989 Dec. 25 Aloha Hawai’i W 33-13<br />
1990 Dec. 31 Sun Southern Cal W 17-16<br />
1993 Dec. 28 Liberty Louisville L 7-18<br />
1995 Dec. 29 Independence Louisiana State L 26-45<br />
1996 Dec. 31 Sun Stanford L 0-38<br />
1997 Dec. 25 Aloha Washington L 23-51<br />
2000 Jan. 1 Citrus Florida W 37-34<br />
2001 Dec. 31 Silicon Valley Fresno State W 44-35<br />
2003 Dec. 29 Alamo Bowl Nebraska L 3-17<br />
2007 Dec. 28 Champs Sports Bowl Boston <strong>College</strong> L 21-24<br />
2009 Jan. 1 Capital One Bowl Georgia L 24-12
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