1978 Tangerine Bowl

(8–3)

Independent

ACC

Head coach:
Jackie Sherrill

Head coach:
Bo Rein

AP	Coaches
16	13

	1	2	3	4	Total
Pittsburgh	0	0	3	14	17
NC State	7	10	3	10	30

Date

December 23, 1978

Season

1978

Stadium

Orlando Stadium

Location

Orlando, Florida

MVP

Ted Brown, NC State (overall)^[1]
Nathan Ritter, NC State (offensive)^[2]
John Stanton, NC State (defensive)^[2]

Favorite

Pitt by 6^[1]

Attendance

31,356^[1]^[3]

The 1978 Tangerine Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was played on December 23, 1978 at Orlando Stadium in Orlando, Florida. The game matched the Pittsburgh Panthers against the NC State Wolfpack. It was the final contest of the 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season for both teams. The game ended in a 30–17 victory for the Wolfpack.

Teams

The game matched the Pittsburgh Panthers against the NC State Wolfpack of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Panthers had no affiliation to a conference, and the Wolfpack had a conference record of 4–2. The game was the first bowl game featuring the Panthers and the Wolfpack, and was their third overall meeting. Pittsburgh led the series 2–0 heading into the game, and the teams' previous meeting was in 1953, when the Panthers defeated the Wolfpack 40–6.^[4]

Game summary

Statistics

Statistics^[3]	PITT	NCSU
Plays–yards	82–378	69–310
Rushes–yards	34–110	60–207
Passing yards	268	103
Passing: Comp–Att–Int	32–48–4	6–9–0

Scoring summary

Quarter	Time	Drive			Team	Scoring information	Score
Quarter	Time	Plays	Yards	TOP	Team	Scoring information	PITT	NCSU
1	4:44				NCSU	Ted Brown 1-yard touchdown run, Nathan Ritter kick good	0	7
2	11:54	4	0		NCSU	51-yard field goal by Nathan Ritter	0	10
2	8:35	3			NCSU	Buster Ray 55-yard touchdown reception from John Isley, Nathan Ritter kick good	0	17
3	10:47				PITT	37-yard field goal by Mark Schubert	3	17
3	7:17				NCSU	29-yard field goal by Nathan Ritter	3	20
4	14:13		68		NCSU	23-yard field goal by Nathan Ritter	3	23
4	7:55		71		PITT	Freddy Jacobs 1-yard touchdown run, Mark Schubert kick good	10	23
4					NCSU	Interception returned 66 yards for touchdown by Mike Nall, Nathan Ritter kick good	10	30
4	1:35				PITT	Russell Carter 1-yard touchdown run, Mark Schubert kick good	17	30
"TOP" = time of possession. For other American football terms, see Glossary of American football.							17	30

^[1]^[3]

References

1 2 3 4 Greene, Jerry (December 24, 1978). "Wolfpack attack wrecks Pitt". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved March 18, 2017 – via newspapers.com.
1 2 Buchalter, Bill (December 24, 1978). "N.C. State: Ritter's enthusiasm symbolic". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved March 18, 2017 – via newspapers.com.
1 2 3 "1978 Tangerine Bowl Recap". NC State Wolfpack. 23 December 1978. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
↑ "North Carolina State vs Pittsburgh, 1869-1978". Stassen.com. Retrieved 21 January 2014.

1978–79 NCAA football bowl game season
Garden State (Dec. 16) Independence (Dec. 16) Hall of Fame Classic (Dec. 20) Holiday (Dec. 22) Sun (Dec. 23) Liberty (Dec. 23) Tangerine (Dec. 23) Peach (Dec. 25) Fiesta (Dec. 25) Gator (Dec. 29) Bluebonnet (Dec. 31) Sugar (Jan. 1) Cotton (Jan. 1) Orange (Jan. 1) Rose (Jan. 1)

Tangerine / Florida Citrus / Capital One / Citrus Bowl
History & conference tie-ins	History Stadium Broadcasters Big Ten Conference Southeastern Conference Atlantic Coast Conference
Tangerine Bowl	1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1958 1960 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982
Florida Citrus Bowl	1983 1984 1985 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Capital One Bowl	2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Citrus Bowl	2015 2016 2016
Notes	There was a game in January and December of 1958, 1960, and 2016. There was no game in 1959 or 1986.

NC State Wolfpack bowl games

Pittsburgh Panthers bowl games

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