The 1990 Sunkist

Sunkist Growers, Incorporated

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 Fiesta Bowl

Fiesta Bowl

The Fiesta Bowl, now sponsored by Frito-Lay and named with their Tostitos brand, is a United States college football bowl game played annually at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Between its origination in 1971 and 2006, the game was hosted in Tempe, Arizona at Sun Devil...

, played on January 1, 1990, was the 19th edition of the Fiesta Bowl. The game featured the Nebraska Cornhuskers

1989 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team

The 1989 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was coached by Tom Osborne and played their home games in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.-Schedule:...

, and the . The game was completely dominated in favor of the Seminoles.

Nebraska scored the only points of the 1st quarter, when quarterback Gerry Gdowski threw a 9 yard touchdown pass to Morgan Gregory for an early 7-0 lead, with 11:19 left in the quarter. Florida State got on the board in the second quarter following a 14 yard touchdown pass from Peter Tom Willis

Peter Tom Willis

Peter Tom Willis is a former college and professional American football quarterback. From 1998-2008 he served as the radio color commentator for the Florida State University Seminoles, where he played his collegiate football....

 to wide receiver Terry Anthony, tying the game at 7 with 13:42 left in the second quarter. Nebraska's Chris Drennan responded with a 39 yard field goal, giving the Huskers a 10-7 lead with 12:15 left in the half.

Peter Tom Willis connected with wide receiver Reggie Johnson

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 for a 5 yard touchdown pass, and a 14-10 Seminole lead with 6:55 left in the half. He later connected with Dexter Carter

Dexter Carter

Dexter Anthony Carter is a former running back who played for the San Francisco 49ers and the New York Jets in the National Football League. He was drafted in the first round in the 1990 NFL Draft...

 for a 10 yard touchdown pass with 24 seconds left in the half, as the Seminoles took a 21-10 lead into the locker room.

With 6 minutes left in the third quarter, Paul Moore scored on a 1 yard touchdown run. A blocked extra point left the score at 28-10. With 3:37 left in the quarter, Tom Willis threw his fourth touchdown pass of the game, an 8 yard strike to Reggie Johnson, widening the gap to 34-10. With 2 seconds left in the quarter, Tom Willis threw a 24 yard touchdown pass to Terry Anthony, making the score 41-10. In the second and third quarters, Florida State had outscored Nebraska 41-3. Nebraska scored its final points with 1:16 left on a Mickey Joseph

Mickey Joseph

Mickey Joseph is a former starting quarterback for the University of Nebraska. He led his team to a 9-2 regular season record as a junior in his only season as the team's starting signal caller in 1990 under the direction of head coach Dr. Tom Osborne...

touchdown run.

External links

• http://huskerpedia.com/games/1989/12floridastate.html