1990 Holiday Bowl


The 1990 SeaWorld Holiday Bowl was a post-season college football bowl game between the 1990 [Texas A&M Aggies football team|Texas A&M Aggies] and BYU Cougars on December 29, 1990, at Jack Murphy Stadium, now known as Qualcomm Stadium, in San Diego, California. The game was part of the 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season and was the final game of the season for both teams. Texas A&M defeated BYU 65–14.
The game featured BYU's Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer, and marked the last time for more than 20 years that the season's Heisman winner would appear in a bowl before New Year's Day. This would not happen again until the 2011 Alamo Bowl, featuring Baylor's Robert Griffin III.

Game summary

  • Texas A&M - R. Wilson 1 yard touchdown yard run
  • BYU - C. Smith 8 yard touchdown yard pass from Detmer
  • Texas A&M - D. Lewis 6 yard touchdown yard run
  • Texas A&M - Richardson 6 yard touchdown yard run
  • Texas A&M - Safety
  • Texas A&M - Richardson 22 yard touchdown pass from D. Lewis
  • Texas A&M - Garrett 6 yard touchdown pass from Richardson
  • BYU - Clark 1 yard touchdown pass from Evans
  • Texas A&M - Richardson 27 yard touchdown yard run
  • Texas A&M - D. Lewis 3 yard touchdown yard run
  • Texas A&M - Paterson 14 yard touchdown yard pass from Pavlas
  • Texas A&M - Krahl 9 yard touchdown yard pass from Pavlas
Texas A&M dominated the Cougars, rushing for 356 yards, passing for 324, and forcing four turnovers, while only punting once and having the ball 38:28 of the game, with 72 return yards. BYU had 207 return yards, with a paltry 21:31 possession time. Ty Detemer went 11-of-23 for 120 yards and one touchdown and interception while being sacked twice. He was later replaced by Joe Evans, who went 4-of-9 for 77 yards with one touchdown, while being sacked thrice. Bucky Richardson threw 9-of-11 for 203 yards with one touchdown, while also rushing for 129 yards on 12 carries and 2 touchdowns, along a catch for 22 yards that also was for a touchdown. His four touchdown performance gained him MVP honors. William Thomas had 6 tackles, 2 of them going for sacks while being named defensive MVP.