1980 Sugar Bowl

The 1979 College Football Season’s Road To The Major Bowls

At first it looked like another year to argue over Alabama and USC, the way 1978 ended. Then it looked like a second straight year with co-national champions when Ohio State got in the mix. But in the end, the 1979 college football season proved to be about celebrating Alabama, as the Tide rolled to a second straight national championship, this one outright.

The Road To The 1980 Sugar Bowl: Alabama & Arkansas

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The 1980 Sugar Bowl saw a national title settled in New Orleans for the second year in a row and once again the team doing the claiming was Alabama. After a winning a co-national championship the prior year, the Crimson Tide won it all again. The team standing in their way was Arkansas, coached by Lou Holtz. Let’s look back on the paths Alabama and Arkansas took through the 1979 college football season to reach New Year’s Day 1980 in the Bayou.