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Nebraska in Bowl Games (24-23)
NU/Opp. AP Rank Result
Year Bowl Opp. (Biff Jones 0-1) 1941* Rose Stanford 7/2 L, 13-21 (Bill Glassford 0-1) 1955* Orange Duke –/14 L, 7-34 (Bob Devaney 6-3) 1962 Gotham Miami –/– W, 36-34 1964* Orange Auburn 6/5 W, 13-7 1965* Cotton Arkansas 6/2 L, 7-10# 1966* Orange Alabama 3/4 L, 28-39# 1967* Sugar Alabama 6/3 L, 7-34 1969 Sun Georgia 14/– W, 45-6 1971* Orange Louisiana St. 3/5 W, 17-12# 1972* Orange Alabama 1/2 W, 38-6# 1973* Orange Notre Dame 9/12 W, 40-6 (Tom Osborne 12-13) 1974* Cotton Texas 12/8 W, 19-3 1974* Sugar Florida 8/18 W, 13-10 1975 Fiesta Arizona State 6/7 L, 14-17 1976 Astro-BB Texas Tech 13/9 W, 27-24 1977 Liberty North Carolina 12/14 W, 21-17 1979* Orange Oklahoma 6/4 L, 24-31 1980* Cotton Houston 7/8 L, 14-17 Sun Miss. State 8/17 W, 31-17 1980 1982* Orange Clemson 4/1 L, 15-22# 1983* Orange Louisiana St. 3/13 W, 21-20 1984* Orange Miami 1/5 L, 30-31# Sugar Louisiana State 4/12 W, 28-10 1985* 1986* L, 23-27 Fiesta Michigan 7/5 1987* Sugar Louisiana State 6/5 W, 30-15 L, 28-31 1988* Fiesta Florida State 5/3 1989* Orange Miami 6/2 L, 3-23 L, 17-41 6/5 1990* Fiesta Florida State 1991* Citrus Georgia Tech 19/2 L, 21-45# 1992* Orange Miami 11/1 L, 0-22# 1993* Orange Florida State 11/3 L, 14-27 1994* Orange Florida State 2/1 L, 16-18# 1995* Orange Miami 1/3 W, 24-17# 1996* Fiesta Florida 1/2 W, 62-24# Orange Virginia Tech 6/10 W, 41-21 1996* 1998* Orange Tennessee 2/3 W, 42-17# (Frank Solich 2-3) 1998 Holiday Arizona L, 20-23 14/5 2000* Fiesta Tennessee 3/6 W, 31-21 Alamo Northwestern 9/18 W, 66-17 2000 2002* Rose Miami 4/1 L, 14-37# Indepen. Mississippi L, 23-27 2002 –/– (Bill Callahan, 1-1) 2005 Alamo W, 32-28 Michigan –/20 2007* Cotton Auburn 22/10 L, 14-17 (Bo Pelini, 3-1) 2003 Alamo** Michigan St. W, 17-3 22/– 2009 Gator* Clemson –/– W, 26-21 2009 Holiday Arizona 20/22 W, 33-0 2010 Holiday Washington L, 7-19 17/– 2012 Cap. One* South Carolina 21/10 # winner won or shared national championship * year is when game was played–not season; **-interim coach Bold indicates conference champion teams
NU Bowl Summary
» 47 Bowls (fourth all-time): 24-23 » vs. SEC schools in bowl games: 12-5 » Bowl games in Florida: 8-10
NU in the Bowls
» Alamo: 3-0 » Astro Bluebonnet: 1-0 » Cotton: 1-3 » Fiesta: 1-4 » Florida Citrus (Capital One): 0-1 » Gator: 1-0 » Gotham: 1-0 » Holiday: 1-2 » Independence: 0-1 » Liberty: 1-0 » Orange: 7-9 » Rose: 0-2 » Sun: 2-0 » Sugar: 3-1
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Husker Bowl History
Nebraska Making 48th All-Time Bowl appearance in Orlando
Nebraska is participating in its 48th all-time bowl game with its appearance in the Capital One Bowl. The Huskers have played in the postseason in 41 of the past 43 seasons, including an NCAA-record 35 straight bowl games from 1969 to 2003. Nebraska has won two of three bowl games during Bo Pelini’s four full seasons as head coach and owns a 24-23 all-time bowl record. All-Time Bowl Appearances The Huskers’ 48 all-time bowl appearances overall tie for 1. Alabama 58 fourth, trailing only Alabama (59), Texas (50), and Tennessee Texas 2. 50 (49), and tying with USC (48). Nebraska’s 24 bowl victories rank 49 3. Tennessee eighth nationally. 4. Nebraska 48 Nebraska played the first of its 47 bowls in the Rose Bowl, USC 48 when No. 7 Nebraska lost to No. 2 Stanford, 21-13, following the 1940 season. Nebraska’s 35 consecutive bowls began with All-Time Bowl Victories a 45-6 win over Georgia in the 1969 Sun Bowl, and ended 1. Alabama 32 following its appearance in the 2003 Alamo Bowl. The Huskers 31 2. USC have been successful in recent years, winning 10 of their last 3. Penn State 27 4. Georgia 26 15 bowl games since the 1994 season. Oklahoma 26 Nebraska’s Capital One Bowl opponent, South Carolina, 6. Texas 25 will be making its 17th all-time bowl appearance and enters Tennessee 25 the game with a 4-12 record in bowl games. This will be the 8. Nebraska 24 Gamecocks’ sixth postseason appearance in seven seasons under Head Coach Steve Spurrier.
Top 20 Bowl Appearances
Huskers Return to Florida For Bowl
Nebraska’s trip to Orlando for the Capital One Bowl returns the Huskers to their most frequent bowl destination state. The game will mark Nebraska’s 19th bowl game in Florida, but only its second in its last 12 bowl appearances. The Huskers played in the 2009 Gator Bowl in Bo Pelini’s first season as head coach, defeating Clemson, 26-21. That win gave Nebraska an 8-10 record all-time in Florida bowl games. The Huskers are 0-1 at the Capital One Bowl, losing to Georgia Tech on Jan. 1, 1991, in what was known as the Citrus Bowl at that time. Nebraska also owns a 7-9 record in the Orange Bowl, most recently appearing in that game following the 1997 season. Nebraska played in the Orange Bowl 11 times in 20 seasons from 1978 to 1997. The Capital One Bowl is one of 14 bowl destinations in Nebraska’s 48 all-time bowl appearances.
NU Hopes to Get Back On Winning Bowl Track
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School All-Time Alabama 59 Texas 50 Tennessee 49 Nebraska 48 USC 48 6. Georgia 47 7. Oklahoma 45 8. Penn State 44 9. Ohio State 43 Louisiana State 43 11. Michigan 41 12. Georgia Tech 40 Florida State 40 14. Arkansas 39 Florida 39 16. Auburn 37 17. Miami 34 Texas Tech 34 Clemson 34 20. Mississippi 33 Texas A&M 33 *NCAA record
Consecutive Most Current 25 8 12 1 16 -- *35 4 9 -- 15 15 13 13 13 7 15 12 12 12 33 2 15 15 30 30 6 3 21 21 9 3 12 -- 11 -7 7 15 -5 3
Nebraska dropped its Holiday Bowl matchup with Washington last season, but has won 10 of its last 15 bowl games, including a 3-1 mark under Head Coach Bo Pelini. By coach in bowl games, Nebraska was 0-1 under Biff Jones, 0-1 under Bill Glassford, 6-3 under Bob Devaney, 12-13 under Tom Osborne, 2-3 under Frank Solich, 1-1 under Bill Callahan, and 3-1 under Pelini who served as the interim coach in the 2003 Alamo Bowl win over Michigan State, and guided NU to wins over Clemson (Gator) and Arizona (Holiday) in his first two full seasons as head coach before last year’s setback. Pelini could join Osborne as the only Nebraska coaches to win four of their first five bowl games. Five of Nebraska’s nine bowl games from 1993 to 2001 were for at least a share of the national title, with the Huskers on the winning end in three of those games.
Huskers vs. Top 10 Opponents in Bowl Games
Nebraska enters the Capital One Bowl ranked 21st by the Associated Press and 20th according to the coaches. South Carolina will come into the bowl ranked 10th by AP and No. 9 in the coaches poll. The No. 10 AP ranking for the Gamecocks marks the highest-ranked team Nebraska has played in a bowl game since dropping a 17-14 decision against 10th-ranked Auburn in the 2007 Cotton Bowl. 4 While Nebraska has faced just one top-10 opponent in its previous seven bowl games, South Carolina will mark the 18th top-10 foe for Nebraska in its past 25 bowl games overall. Nebraska faced a top-10 foe in 15 straight bowl games from the 1986 Fiesta Bowl to the 2000 Fiesta Bowl. 4 Nebraska owns an 11-20 record against AP top-10 opponents in bowl games, with 17 of those setbacks against top-five opponents.
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