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| 1985 Cherry Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Final edition bowl game | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 21, 1985 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Pontiac Silverdome | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Pontiac, Michigan | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Stan Gelbaugh, QB, Maryland | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Don Baur (MAC) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 51,858 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | Mizlou, USA Network | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Ray Lane and Jim Brandstatter | ||||||||||||||||||
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The 1985 Cherry Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game between the Atlantic Coast Conference's Maryland Terrapins and the Syracuse Orangemen. After an early 10–6 lead, The Orangemen gave up 22 unanswered second-quarter points, falling too far behind for a comeback and allowing the Terps to win with a final score of 35–18.[1]
Although it was only the second edition, the bowl folded after this game when the Cherry Bowl committee found it was more than $2,000,000 over budget. This ended postseason college football in Detroit until 1997, when the Motor City Bowl launched and the MAC Championship Game was first played on a neutral site.
- ^ "Syracuse University Athletics – 1985 Cherry Bowl". Retrieved March 15, 2016.