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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 ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; ... List of Nebraska Cornhuskers bowl games; 0–9. 1941 Rose Bowl; 1955 Orange Bowl; 1962 ...
The game, a 29–20 Nebraska win, was nearly canceled due to the assassination of John F. Kennedy the day prior. [82] NU defeated Auburn in the Orange Bowl to finish 10–1 and ended the season ranked sixth, the highest final rank in school history. [i] Nebraska's surge into the upper echelon of college football continued through the mid-1960s.
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 . [ 28 ]
Nebraska hired Disney cartoonist Bob Johnson to refine West's design into a costume and Herbie made his first appearance at a Nebraska football game at the 1974 Cotton Bowl Classic, a 19–3 Cornhuskers victory over Texas. [42] Mr. Big Red wasn't officially retired until 1988, but was infrequently seen while coexisting with Herbie. [43]
This is a list of Nebraska Cornhuskers football seasons. Nebraska competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, representing the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the Big Ten. The team has completed 135 seasons and played 1,394 games. Nebraska is among the most storied programs in college football history and has the ...
1996 Big 12 Championship Game; 1997 Big 12 Championship Game; 1999 Big 12 Championship Game; 2006 Big 12 Championship Game; 2009 Big 12 Championship Game; 2010 Big 12 Championship Game; 2012 Big Ten Football Championship Game
The 1964 Orange Bowl was the thirtieth edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, on Wednesday, January 1.Part of the 1963–64 bowl game season, it featured the sixth-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers of the Big Eight Conference and the #5 Auburn Tigers of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).