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30th Cotton Bowl Classic | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Date | January 1, 1966 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Season | 1965 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Stadium | Cotton Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Dallas | ||||||||||||||||||||
MVP | TB Joe Labruzzo (LSU) T David McCormick (LSU) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Referee | James Artley (SEC; split crew: SEC, SWC) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 76,200 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Network | CBS | ||||||||||||||||||||
The 1966 Cotton Bowl Classic was a post-season college football bowl game of the 1965 season with national championship implications[1] between the Southwest Conference champion Arkansas Razorbacks[2] and the LSU Tigers of the Southeastern Conference. With a scoreless second half at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, LSU defeated Arkansas 14โ7 in front of 76,200 spectators on Saturday, January 1, 1966.[3][4][5][6]
The top three teams in the polls were all defeated on this New Year's Day.