1979 Holiday Bowl

The 1979 Holiday Bowl was a college football bowl game played December 21, 1979 in San Diego, California. It was part of the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season. It featured the Indiana Hoosiers against the BYU Cougars. Indiana won 38–37.

Game summary
The game, which featured an 11-0 BYU team going against a 7-4 Indiana team coached by future ESPN college football analyst Lee Corso, went back and forth from start to finish. The Cougars held a 37-31 lead late in the fourth quarter when Tim Wilbur took a 62 yard punt back for the go-ahead score to squeak out the upset victory.