College football game
The 1981 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl was a college football bowl game, played on December 31, 1981. It was the 23rd Bluebonnet Bowl game. The Michigan Wolverines defeated the UCLA Bruins by a score of 33–14. This was the first bowl game meeting of a Big Ten team and a Pac-10 team outside the Rose Bowl Game and was labeled the "mini Rose Bowl".[2] Both teams were in the running to meet in the 1982 Rose Bowl, but had their seasons spoiled on November 21, 1981, by their arch-rivals.
- ^ Attendance of 50,107 according to the Michigan football media guide, 40,309 according to the UCLA football media guide. From 1965 to 1983, the Astrodome had a capacity of 50,000 for football.
- ^ Michigan Bowl History, 1981 Bluebonnet Bowl. University of Michigan Athletic Department
