1994–95 NCAA football bowl games

Season

1994

Number of bowls

Bowl games

December 15, 1994 –
January 2, 1995

National Championship

Orange Bowl

Location of Championship

Miami Orange Bowl
Miami, Florida

Champions

Nebraska

Bowl record by conference
Conference	Bowls	Record	Final AP poll
Big Ten	5	4–1 (0.800)	3
SEC	5	3–2 (0.600)	5
ACC	5	3–2 (0.600)	3
Pac-10	4	2–2 (0.500)	4
Big Eight	4	2–2 (0.500)	3
Big East	4	1–3 (0.250)	2
SWC	4	1–3 (0.250)	2
WAC	3	2–1 (0.667)	3
Big West	1	1–0 (1.000)	0
MAC	1	0–1 (0.000)	0

The 1994–95 NCAA football bowl games concluded the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season. In the third and final year of the Bowl Coalition era, the Coalition failed to achieve its goal of a true national championship game between the nation's top two teams. The Coalition's designated championship game for the 1994 season, the 1995 Orange Bowl, pitted No. 1 Nebraska against No. 3 Miami (FL), while No. 2 Penn State was tied to the Rose Bowl as a member of the Big Ten Conference. Nebraska defeated Miami in the Orange Bowl, and was named national champions by both the AP Poll and Coaches Poll, while Penn State defeated Oregon in the Rose Bowl and did not claim a national championship.

A total of 19 bowl games were played between December 14, 1994 and January 2, 1995 by 38 bowl-eligible teams. The number of bowls remained unchanged from the previous year.

Non-Coalition bowls

Date	Time	Game	Site	Result
Dec 15	9:00 PM	Las Vegas Bowl	Sam Boyd Stadium Whitney, NV	UNLV 52, Central Michigan 24
Dec 25	3:30 PM	Aloha Bowl	Aloha Stadium Honolulu, HI	Boston College 12, No. 11 Kansas State 7
Dec 27	9:00 PM	Freedom Bowl	Anaheim Stadium Anaheim, CA	No. 14 Utah 16, No. 15 Arizona 13
Dec 28	8:00 PM	Independence Bowl	Independence Stadium Shreveport, LA	No. 18 Virginia 20, TCU 10
Dec 29	8:00 PM	Copper Bowl	Arizona Stadium Tucson, AZ	No. 22 BYU 31, Oklahoma 6
Dec 30	9:00 PM	Holiday Bowl	Jack Murphy Stadium San Diego, CA	No. 20 Michigan 24, No. 10 Colorado State 14
Dec 31	1:00 PM	Liberty Bowl	Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium Memphis, TN	Illinois 30, East Carolina 0
Dec 31	8:00 PM	Alamo Bowl	Alamodome San Antonio, TX	No. 24 Washington State 10, Baylor 3
Jan 1	8:00 PM	Peach Bowl	Georgia Dome Atlanta, GA	No. 23 NC State 28, No. 16 Mississippi State 24
Jan 2	11:00 AM	Hall of Fame Bowl	Tampa Stadium Tampa, FL	Wisconsin 34, No. 25 Duke 20
	1:00 PM	Florida Citrus Bowl	Florida Citrus Bowl Orlando, FL	No. 6 Alabama 24, No. 13 Ohio State 17
	1:30 PM	Carquest Bowl	Joe Robbie Stadium Miami Gardens, FL	South Carolina 24, West Virginia 21
	4:50 PM	Rose Bowl	Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA	No. 2 Penn State 38, No. 12 Oregon 20
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game. All times are in Eastern Time.

Bowl Coalition bowls

Tier I
Date	Time	Game	Site	Result
Jan 1	8:00 PM	Orange Bowl Championship game	Miami Orange Bowl Miami, FL	No. 1 Nebraska 24, No. 3 Miami (FL) 17
Jan 2	1:00 PM	Cotton Bowl Classic	Cotton Bowl Dallas, TX	No. 21 USC 55, Texas Tech 14
	4:30 PM	Fiesta Bowl	Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, AZ	No. 4 Colorado 41, Notre Dame 24
	8:30 PM	Sugar Bowl	Louisiana Superdome New Orleans, LA	No. 7 Florida State 23, No. 5 Florida 17
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game. All times are in Eastern Time.

Tier II
Date	Time	Game	Site	Result
Dec 30	2:30 PM	Sun Bowl	Sun Bowl El Paso, TX	Texas 35, No. 18 North Carolina 31
Dec 30	7:00 PM	Gator Bowl	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Gainesville, FL	Tennessee 45, No. 17 Virginia Tech 23
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game. All times are in Eastern Time.

References

"1994 College Football Bowl Games". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
^ "College Football Bowl Schedule". Detroit Free Press. December 2, 1994. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.

v t e 1994–95 NCAA football bowl game season
Las Vegas (Dec. 15) Aloha (Dec. 25) Freedom (Dec. 27) Independence (Dec. 28) Copper (Dec. 29) Holiday (Dec. 30) Liberty (Dec. 31) Alamo (Dec. 31) Carquest (Jan. 2) Hall of Fame (Jan. 2) Peach (Jan. 1) Florida Citrus (Jan. 2) Rose (Jan. 2)
Bowl Coalition games: Sun (Dec. 30) Gator (Dec. 30) Orange (Jan. 1) Sugar (Jan. 2) Fiesta (Jan. 2) Cotton (Jan. 2)

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