1995–96 NCAA football bowl games

The 1995–96 NCAA football bowl games concluded the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. In the first year of the Bowl Alliance era, the Alliance achieved its goal of matching the two top-ranked teams in the country in the Fiesta Bowl, designated as the Bowl Alliance national championship game for the 1995 season. Top-ranked Nebraska soundly defeated second-ranked Florida 62–24 to repeat as national champions.

1995–96 NCAA football bowl games
Season1995
Number of bowls18
Bowl gamesDecember 14, 1995 –
January 2, 1996
National ChampionshipFiesta Bowl
Location of ChampionshipSun Devil Stadium
Tempe, Arizona
ChampionsNebraska
Bowl record by conference
Conference Bowls Record Final AP Poll
Big Ten 6 2–4 (0.333) 5
SEC 6 2–4 (0.333) 4
Pac-10 5 1–4 (0.200) 2
Big Eight 4 4–0 (1.000) 4
ACC 4 3–1 (0.750) 2
SWC 3 2–1 (0.667) 3
Big East 2 2–0 (1.000) 3
WAC 2 0–2 (0.000) 0
MAC 1 1–0 (1.000) 1
Big West 1 0–1 (0.000) 0

A total of 18 bowl games were played from December 14 through January 2 by 36 bowl-eligible teams.[1] This was one fewer than the 19 bowls played in 1993–94 and 1994–95, as the Freedom Bowl dissolved after 1994.

Adopted for this postseason, overtime was used for the first time in Division I-A in the Las Vegas Bowl on December 14.[2]

Non-Bowl Alliance bowls
Date Time (EST) TV Game Site Result Ref.
Dec 14 9:00 PM ESPN Las Vegas Bowl Sam Boyd Stadium
 · Las Vegas, NV		 No. 25 Toledo 40, Nevada 37 (OT) [2]
Dec 25 3:30 PM ABC Aloha Bowl Aloha Stadium
 · Honolulu, HI		 Kansas 51, UCLA 30
Dec 27 9:00 PM ESPN Copper Bowl Arizona Stadium
 · Tucson, AZ		 Texas Tech 55, Air Force 41
Dec 28 8:00 PM ESPN Alamo Bowl Alamodome
 · San Antonio, TX		 No. 19 Texas A&M 22, No. 14 Michigan 20
Dec 29 2:30 PM CBS Sun Bowl Sun Bowl
 · El Paso, TX		 Iowa 38, No. 20 Washington 18
5:30 PM ESPN Independence Bowl Independence Stadium
 · Shreveport, LA		 LSU 45, Michigan State 26
9:00 PM ESPN Holiday Bowl Jack Murphy Stadium
 · San Diego, CA		 No. 10 Kansas State 54, Colorado State 21
Dec 30 12:00 PM ESPN Liberty Bowl Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium
 · Memphis, TN		 East Carolina 19, Stanford 13
7:30 PM TBS Carquest Bowl Joe Robbie Stadium
 · Miami Gardens, FL		 North Carolina 20, No. 24 Arkansas 10
8:00 PM ESPN Peach Bowl Georgia Dome
 · Atlanta, GA		 No. 18 Virginia 34, Georgia 27
Jan 1 11:00 AM ESPN Outback Bowl Tampa Stadium
 · Tampa, FL		 No. 15 Penn State 43, No. 16 Auburn 14
1:00 PM ABC Florida Citrus Bowl Florida Citrus Bowl
 · Orlando, FL		 No. 4–T Tennessee 20, No. 4–T Ohio State 14[note 1]
1:00 PM NBC Gator Bowl Jacksonville Municipal Stadium
 · Jacksonville, FL		 Syracuse 41, No. 23 Clemson 0
1:30 PM CBS Cotton Bowl Classic Cotton Bowl
 · Dallas, TX		 No. 7 Colorado 38, No. 12 Oregon 6
5:00 PM ABC Rose Bowl Rose Bowl
 · Pasadena, CA		 No. 17 USC 41, No. 3 Northwestern 32
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game. All times are in Eastern Time.[4]

Bowl Alliance bowls
Date Time Game Site Result Ref.
Dec 31 7:30 PM Sugar Bowl Louisiana Superdome
 · New Orleans, LA		 No. 13 Virginia Tech 28, No. 9 Texas 10
Jan 1 8:00 PM Orange Bowl Miami Orange Bowl
 · Miami, FL		 No. 8 Florida State 31, No. 6 Notre Dame 26
Jan 2 8:30 PM Fiesta Bowl
(championship game)		 Sun Devil Stadium
 · Tempe, AZ		 No. 1 Nebraska 62, No. 2 Florida 24
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game. All times are in Eastern Time.[4]

Notes
  1. Tennessee and Ohio State were tied at fourth in the pre-bowl AP Poll.[3]

References
  1. "1995 College Football Bowl Games". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
  2. "Tait's 4 TDs lift Toledo". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. December 15, 1995. p. 5C.
  3. "December 5, 1995 AP Football Poll". College Poll Archive. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
  4. "Bowl Schedule". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. December 4, 1995. p. 43 – via Newspapers.com.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.