List of Nebraska Cornhuskers bowl games

This list of Nebraska Cornhuskers bowl games is a listing of the bowl games the Nebraska Cornhuskers football program has participated in since the inception of college football's bowl system in 1902. Nebraska competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, representing the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the Big Ten Conference. Nebraska has played in fifty-three bowl games, including a then-record thirty-five straight from 1969 to 2003, with a record of 26–27.

Nebraska declined an invitation to play in the second-ever Rose Bowl Game following the 1915 season and did not make its bowl debut until 1941. Twenty-one years later, Bob Devaney's first season ended with the first bowl victory in program history, a 36–34 victory over Miami (FL) in the 1962 Gotham Bowl. During Devaney's tenure, Nebraska began a stretch of thirty-five consecutive seasons with a bowl appearance, a streak that ended in 2004. The program regularly featured in the Orange Bowl due to the Big Eight's bowl affiliations, playing in the game seventeen times between 1954 and 1997, first against SEC opposition and later against the ACC.

List of bowl games

National championship game

Nebraska win

Nebraska loss

No.	Date	Bowl	Winning team		Losing team		City	Stadium	Attendance
1	Jan. 1, 1941	Rose	No. 2 Stanford	21	No. 7 Nebraska	13	Pasadena, CA	Rose Bowl	92,000
2	Jan. 1, 1955	Orange	No. 14 Duke	34	Nebraska	7	Miami, FL	Miami Orange Bowl	68,750
3	Dec. 15, 1962	Gotham	Nebraska	36	Miami	34	New York City, NY	Yankee Stadium	6,166
4	Jan. 1, 1964	Orange	No. 6 Nebraska	13	No. 5 Auburn	7	Miami, FL	Miami Orange Bowl	72,647
5	Jan. 1, 1965	Cotton	No. 2 Arkansas	10	No. 6 Nebraska	7	Dallas, TX	Cotton Bowl	75,504
6	Jan. 1, 1966	Orange	No. 4 Alabama	39	No. 3 Nebraska	28	Miami, FL	Miami Orange Bowl	72,214
7	Jan. 2, 1967	Sugar	No. 3 Alabama	34	No. 6 Nebraska	7	New Orleans, LA	Tulane Stadium	82,000
8	Dec. 20, 1969	Sun	No. 14 Nebraska	45	Georgia	6	El Paso, TX	Sun Bowl	31,176
9	Jan. 1, 1971	Orange	No. 3 Nebraska	17	No. 5 LSU	12	Miami, FL	Miami Orange Bowl	80,699
10	Jan. 1, 1972		No. 1 Nebraska	38	No. 2 Alabama	6			78,151
11	Jan. 1, 1973		No. 9 Nebraska	40	No. 12 Notre Dame	6			80,010
12	Jan. 1, 1974	Cotton	No. 12 Nebraska	19	No. 8 Texas	3	Dallas, TX	Cotton Bowl	68,500
13	Dec. 31, 1974	Sugar	No. 8 Nebraska	13	No. 18 Florida	10	New Orleans, LA	Tulane Stadium	67,890
14	Dec. 26, 1975	Fiesta	No. 7 Arizona State	17	No. 6 Nebraska	14	Tempe, AZ	Sun Devil Stadium	51,396
15	Dec. 31, 1976	Bluebonnet	No. 13 Nebraska	27	No. 9 Texas Tech	24	Houston, TX	Astrodome	48,618
16	Dec. 19, 1977	Liberty	No. 12 Nebraska	21	No. 14 North Carolina	17	Memphis, TN	Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium	49,456
17	Jan. 1, 1979	Orange	No. 4 Oklahoma	31	No. 6 Nebraska	24	Miami, FL	Miami Orange Bowl	66,365
18	Jan. 1, 1980	Cotton	No. 8 Houston	17	No. 7 Nebraska	14	Dallas, TX	Cotton Bowl	72,032
19	Dec. 27, 1980	Sun	No. 8 Nebraska	31	No. 17 Mississippi State	17	El Paso, TX	Sun Bowl	34,723
20	Jan. 1, 1982	Orange	No. 1 Clemson	22	No. 4 Nebraska	15	Miami, FL	Miami Orange Bowl	72,748
21	Jan. 1, 1983		No. 3 Nebraska	21	No. 13 LSU	20			54,407
22	Jan. 2, 1984		No. 5 Miami (FL)	31	No. 1 Nebraska	30			72,549
23	Jan. 1, 1985	Sugar	No. 5 Nebraska	28	No. 11 LSU	10	New Orleans, LA	Louisiana Superdome	75,608
24	Jan. 1, 1986	Fiesta	No. 5 Michigan	27	No. 7 Nebraska	23	Tempe, AZ	Sun Devil Stadium	72,454
25	Jan. 1, 1987	Sugar	No. 6 Nebraska	30	No. 5 LSU	15	New Orleans, LA	Louisiana Superdome	76,234
26	Jan. 1, 1988	Fiesta	No. 3 Florida State	31	No. 5 Nebraska	28	Tempe, AZ	Sun Devil Stadium	72,112
27	Jan. 2, 1989	Orange	No. 2 Miami (FL)	23	No. 6 Nebraska	3	Miami, FL	Miami Orange Bowl	79,480
28	Jan. 1, 1990	Fiesta	No. 5 Florida State	41	No. 6 Nebraska	17	Tempe, AZ	Sun Devil Stadium	73,953
29	Jan. 1, 1991	Citrus	No. 2 Georgia Tech	45	No. 19 Nebraska	21	Orlando, FL	Florida Citrus Bowl	73,328
30	Jan. 1, 1992	Orange	No. 1 Miami (FL)	22	No. 11 Nebraska	0	Miami, FL	Miami Orange Bowl	77,747
31	Jan. 1, 1993		No. 3 Florida State	27	No. 11 Nebraska	14			57,324
32	Jan. 1, 1994		No. 1 Florida State	18	No. 2 Nebraska	16			81,536
33	Jan. 1, 1995		No. 1 Nebraska	24	No. 3 Miami (FL)	17			81,753
34	Jan. 2, 1996	Fiesta	No. 1 Nebraska	62	No. 2 Florida	24	Tempe, AZ	Sun Devil Stadium	79,864
35	Dec. 31, 1996	Orange	No. 6 Nebraska	41	No. 10 Virginia Tech	21	Miami Gardens, FL	Joe Robbie Stadium	51,212
36	Jan. 2, 1998	Orange	No. 2 Nebraska	42	No. 3 Tennessee	17	Miami Gardens, FL	Joe Robbie Stadium	74,002
37	Dec. 30, 1998	Holiday	No. 5 Arizona	23	No. 14 Nebraska	20	San Diego, CA	Qualcomm Stadium	65,354
38	Jan. 2, 2000	Fiesta	No. 3 Nebraska	31	No. 6 Tennessee	21	Tempe, AZ	Sun Devil Stadium	71,526
39	Dec. 30, 2000	Alamo	No. 9 Nebraska	66	No. 18 Northwestern	17	San Antonio, TX	Alamodome	60,028
40	Jan. 3, 2002	Rose	No. 1 Miami (FL)	37	No. 4 Nebraska	14	Pasadena, CA	Rose Bowl	93,781
41	Dec. 27, 2002	Independence	Mississippi	27	Nebraska	23	Shreveport, LA	Independence Stadium	46,096
42	Dec. 29, 2003	Alamo	No. 22 Nebraska	17	Michigan State	3	San Antonio, TX	Alamodome	56,229
43	Dec. 28, 2005	Alamo	Nebraska	32	No. 20 Michigan	28	San Antonio, TX	Alamodome	63,016
44	Jan. 1, 2007	Cotton	No. 10 Auburn	17	No. 22 Nebraska	14	Dallas, TX	Cotton Bowl	66,777
45	Jan. 1, 2009	Gator	Nebraska	26	Clemson	21	Jacksonville, FL	EverBank Stadium	67,282
46	Dec. 30, 2009	Holiday	No. 20 Nebraska	33	No. 22 Arizona	0	San Diego, CA	Qualcomm Stadium	64,607
47	Dec. 30, 2010	Holiday	Washington	19	No. 17 Nebraska	7	San Diego, CA	Qualcomm Stadium	57,921
48	Jan. 2, 2012	Citrus	No. 10 South Carolina	30	No. 21 Nebraska	13	Orlando, FL	Florida Citrus Bowl	61,351
49	Jan. 1, 2013	Citrus	No. 6 Georgia	45	No. 23 Nebraska	31	Orlando, FL	Florida Citrus Bowl	59,712
50	Jan. 1, 2014	Gator	Nebraska	24	No. 23 Georgia	19	Jacksonville, FL	EverBank Stadium	60,712
51	Dec. 27, 2014	Holiday	No. 24 USC	45	No. 25 Nebraska	42	San Diego, CA	Qualcomm Stadium	55,789
52	Dec. 26, 2015	San Francisco	Nebraska	37	UCLA	29	Santa Clara, CA	Levi's Stadium	33,527
53	Dec. 30, 2016	Music City	Tennessee	38	No. 24 Nebraska	24	Nashville, TN	Nissan Stadium	68,496
54	Dec. 28, 2024	Pinstripe	Boston College		Nebraska		New York, NY	Yankee Stadium

Record breakdown

Opponent

No.	Opponent	Record
6	Miami (FL)	2–4
4	LSU	4–0
4	Florida State	0–4
3	Georgia	2–1
	Tennessee	2–1
	Alabama	1–2
2	Florida	2–0
	Arizona	1–1
	Auburn
	Clemson
	Michigan
1	Michigan State	1–0
	Mississippi State
	North Carolina
	Northwestern
	Texas
	Texas Tech
	UCLA
	Virginia Tech
	Arizona State	0–1
	Arkansas
	Georgia Tech
	Houston
	Oklahoma
	Ole Miss
	South Carolina
	USC
	Washington

Bowl

App.	Bowl	Record
17	Orange	8–9
6	Fiesta	2–4
4	Sugar	3–1
	Cotton	1–3
	Holiday	1–3
3	Alamo	3–0
3	Citrus	0–3
2	Gator	2–0
	Sun	2–0
	Rose	0–2
1	Bluebonnet	1–0
	Gotham
	Liberty
	San Francisco
	Independence	0–1
	Music City	0–1

Coach

No.	Coach	Tenure	Record
25	Tom Osborne	1973–1997	12–13 (.480)
9	Bob Devaney	1962–1972	6–3 (.667)
7	Bo Pelini	2008–2014	4–3 (.571)
5	Frank Solich	1998–2003	2–3 (.400)
2	Bill Callahan	2004–2007	1–1 (.500)
2	Mike Riley	2015–2017	1–1 (.500)
1	Biff Jones	1937–1941	0–1 (.000)
	Bill Glassford	1949–1955
	Barney Cotton	2014

Notes

Bo Pelini served as interim head coach for the 2003 Alamo Bowl
Barney Cotton served as interim coach for the 2014 Holiday Bowl

References

"Nebraska vs. Missouri 1962". HuskerMax.
^ "NEBRASKA'S RICH BOWL HISTORY". Husker Athletics. 18 June 2020. Retrieved 20 May 2024.

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1941 Rose Bowl 1955 Orange Bowl 1962 Gotham Bowl 1964 Orange Bowl 1965 Cotton Bowl Classic 1966 Orange Bowl 1967 Sugar Bowl 1969 Sun Bowl 1971 Orange Bowl 1972 Orange Bowl # 1973 Orange Bowl 1974 Cotton Bowl Classic 1974 Sugar Bowl 1975 Fiesta Bowl 1976 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl 1977 Liberty Bowl 1979 Orange Bowl 1980 Cotton Bowl Classic 1980 Sun Bowl 1982 Orange Bowl 1983 Orange Bowl 1984 Orange Bowl 1985 Sugar Bowl 1986 Fiesta Bowl 1987 Sugar Bowl 1988 Fiesta Bowl 1989 Orange Bowl 1990 Fiesta Bowl 1991 Florida Citrus Bowl 1992 Orange Bowl 1993 Orange Bowl 1994 Orange Bowl # 1995 Orange Bowl # 1996 Fiesta Bowl # 1996 Orange Bowl 1998 Orange Bowl # 1998 Holiday Bowl 2000 Fiesta Bowl 2000 Alamo Bowl 2002 Rose Bowl # 2002 Independence Bowl 2003 Alamo Bowl 2005 Alamo Bowl 2007 Cotton Bowl Classic 2009 Gator Bowl 2009 Holiday Bowl 2010 Holiday Bowl 2012 Capital One Bowl 2013 Capital One Bowl 2014 Gator Bowl 2014 Holiday Bowl 2015 Foster Farms Bowl 2016 Music City Bowl 2024 Pinstripe Bowl Pound sign (#) denotes national championship game.

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