This was the first Sun Bowl game to have all tickets be sold.
LSU scored early on two Jay Michaelson field goals, but Iowa State responded with a field goal of their own to make it 6–3.
Iowa State responded late in the quarter with a Dean Carlson 30-yard touchdown pass to Larry Marquardt to make it 19–9.
Jones responded with his third touchdown pass, this time to Michaelson, to make it 26–15.
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