The 1985 Rose Bowl Game was a postseason college football bowl game between the USC Trojans of the Pacific-10 Conference and Ohio State Buckeyes of the Big Ten Conference, held on New Year’s Day in the Rose Bowl in The game resulted in a victory for the underdog
Scoring summary
First quarter
Ohio State – Spangler 21-yard field goal, 12:08 – OSU 3, USC 0
USC – Jordan 51-yard field goal, 6:52 – OSU 3, USC 3
USC – Cormier 3-yard pass from Green (Jordan kick) 1:54 – USC 10, OSU 3
Second quarter
USC – Ware 19-yard pass from Green (Jordan kick) – USC 17, OSU 3
Ohio State – Spangler 46-yard field goal, 0:00 – USC 17, OSU 6
Third quarter
Ohio State – Spangler 52-yard field goal, 6:37 – USC 17, OSU 9
USC – Jordan 51-yard field goal, 4:05 – USC 20, OSU 9
Fourth quarter
Ohio State – Carter 18-yard pass from Tomczak (Tomczak run), 7:34 – USC 20, OSU 17
Tim Green and Jack Del Rio earned the Rose Bowl MVP awards.
Highlights
With fourth straight win, Pac-10 takes its first lead in the series with the Big Ten, 20–19 Pac-10 has won ten of eleven, and fourteen of the last sixteen meetings Using a swarming defense, USC caused three Mike Tomczak interceptions Tomczak threw 37 passes in the game Ohio State kicker Rich Spangler scored a Rose Bowl-record 52-yard field goal USC kicker Steve Jordan had two 51-yard field goals Big contribution from Trojans' Tim Green and Timmie Ware, Joe Cormier, Fred Crutcher, and Kennedy Pola
Statistics
{ | class=wikitable style="text-align:center" ! Statistics !! USC !! Ohio State |- |align=left|First downs ||16 ||19 |- |align=left|Rushes–yards||42–133||34–113 |- |align=left|Passing yards||128 ||290 |- |align=left|Passes||13–25–0||24–37–3 |- |align=left|Total yards ||261 ||403 |- |align=left|Punts–average||7–42||4–48 |- |align=left|Fumbles–lost ||2–1 ||4–1 |- |align=left|Turnovers by ||1 ||4 |- |align=left|Penalties–yards||4–38 ||4–46 |- |align=left|Time of possession||31:11 ||28:47 |}