1982 Aloha Bowl
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| 1982 Aloha Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1st Aloha Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 25, 1982 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1982 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Aloha Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Honolulu, Hawaii | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Jack Gatto (PCAA) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 30,055 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | ESPN/Metrosports | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Harry Kalas (play-by-play) Joe Kapp (Color commentator) Les Keiter (sideline) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 1982 Aloha Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on December 25, 1982 at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The inaugural Aloha Bowl game pitted the Washington Huskies and the Maryland Terrapins. This was the first bowl game played in Hawaii since the Pineapple Bowl in 1952, making this the first-ever bowl game in the State of Hawaii.
After a Rose Bowl championship the year prior, the Huskies began the season ranked #2 in the nation. They responded by winning their first seven games of the season while rising to #1 in the polls after the first week, though they slipped to #2 before a matchup with Stanford. A 43-31 loss to the Cardinal (who finished 5-6 that year) dropped them to #10, but they responded with wins over #9 UCLA and #3 Arizona State to get back to #5 heading into the final game of the year against Washington State in the Apple Cup, with a chance to win the conference title. However, they fell 24-20 to the Cougars (who finished 3-7-1), which dropped them to second in the Pacific-10 Conference behind UCLA (who had a 5-1-1 conference record). Despite this, the Huskies were invited to the Aloha Bowl, their fourth straight bowl game and fifth bowl game in six seasons. Maryland, in its first season with Bobby Ross as coach, rebounded from a 4-6-1 record the previous year to win eight games. Maryland began the season with two losses to ranked opponents (#7 Penn State and #17 West Virginia) by a combined total of nine points. They did not lose another game for two months, winning seven straight games (including a 31-24 win over #10 North Carolina), while rising to #19 in the polls. They lost to #11 Clemson two weeks later, though they did rebound with a win over Virginia in the regular season finale to rise to #16 in the polls while finishing 2nd in the Atlantic Coast Conference. This was their eighth bowl game in 10 seasons.