1965 Sugar Bowl
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| 1965 Sugar Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 31st Sugar Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||
 Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, hosted the Sugar Bowl. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 1, 1965 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Tulane Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | New Orleans, Louisiana | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | LSU by 5½ points[1][2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Francis P. Brennan (ECAC) (split crew between ECAC & SEC) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 65,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Network | NBC | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Bill Flemming, Terry Brennan | ||||||||||||||||||||
The 1965 Sugar Bowl was the 31st edition of the college football bowl game, played at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Friday, January 1. Part of the 1964–65 bowl season, it matched the seventh-ranked LSU Tigers of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and the unranked independent Syracuse Orangemen.[1][2] Favored LSU rallied in the second half to win, 13–10.[3][4] The game is notable for being the first time a racially integrated team played in the Sugar Bowl since the 1956 Sugar Bowl. Syracuse had two black players, Jim Nance and Floyd Little.