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.[1] 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.[2]
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.[2] 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.[2]
| National championship game | Nebraska win | Nebraska loss |
| No. | Date | Bowl | Winning team | Losing team | City | Stadium | Attendance | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No. 2 Stanford | 21 | No. 7 Nebraska | 13 | 92,000 | |||||
| 2 | No. 14 Duke | 34 | Nebraska | 7 | 68,750 | |||||
| 3 | 36 | Miami | 34 | 6,166 | ||||||
| 4 | No. 6 | 13 | No. 5 Auburn | 7 | 72,647 | |||||
| 5 | No. 2 Arkansas | 10 | No. 6 Nebraska | 7 | 75,504 | |||||
| 6 | No. 4 Alabama | 39 | No. 3 Nebraska | 28 | 72,214 | |||||
| 7 | No. 3 Alabama | 34 | No. 6 Nebraska | 7 | 82,000 | |||||
| 8 | No. 14 | 45 | Georgia | 6 | 31,176 | |||||
| 9 | No. 3 | 17 | No. 5 LSU | 12 | 80,699 | |||||
| 10 | No. 1 | 38 | No. 2 Alabama | 6 | 78,151 | |||||
| 11 | No. 9 | 40 | No. 12 Notre Dame | 6 | 80,010 | |||||
| 12 | No. 12 | 19 | No. 8 Texas | 3 | 68,500 | |||||
| 13 | No. 8 | 13 | No. 18 Florida | 10 | 67,890 | |||||
| 14 | No. 7 Arizona State | 17 | No. 6 Nebraska | 14 | 51,396 | |||||
| 15 | No. 13 | 27 | No. 9 Texas Tech | 24 | 48,618 | |||||
| 16 | No. 12 | 21 | No. 14 North Carolina | 17 | 49,456 | |||||
| 17 | No. 4 Oklahoma | 31 | No. 6 Nebraska | 24 | 66,365 | |||||
| 18 | No. 8 Houston | 17 | No. 7 Nebraska | 14 | 72,032 | |||||
| 19 | No. 8 | 31 | No. 17 Mississippi State | 17 | 34,723 | |||||
| 20 | No. 1 Clemson | 22 | No. 4 Nebraska | 15 | 72,748 | |||||
| 21 | No. 3 | 21 | No. 13 LSU | 20 | 54,407 | |||||
| 22 | No. 5 Miami (FL) | 31 | No. 1 Nebraska | 30 | 72,549 | |||||
| 23 | No. 5 | 28 | No. 11 LSU | 10 | 75,608 | |||||
| 24 | No. 5 Michigan | 27 | No. 7 Nebraska | 23 | 72,454 | |||||
| 25 | No. 6 | 30 | No. 5 LSU | 15 | 76,234 | |||||
| 26 | No. 3 Florida State | 31 | No. 5 Nebraska | 28 | 72,112 | |||||
| 27 | No. 2 Miami (FL) | 23 | No. 6 Nebraska | 3 | 79,480 | |||||
| 28 | No. 5 Florida State | 41 | No. 6 Nebraska | 17 | 73,953 | |||||
| 29 | No. 2 Georgia Tech | 45 | No. 19 Nebraska | 21 | 73,328 | |||||
| 30 | No. 1 Miami (FL) | 22 | No. 11 Nebraska | 0 | 77,747 | |||||
| 31 | No. 3 Florida State | 27 | No. 11 Nebraska | 14 | 57,324 | |||||
| 32 | No. 1 Florida State | 18 | No. 2 Nebraska | 16 | 81,536 | |||||
| 33 | No. 1 | 24 | No. 3 Miami | 17 | 81,753 | |||||
| 34 | No. 1 | 62 | No. 2 Florida | 24 | 79,864 | |||||
| 35 | No. 6 | 41 | No. 10 Virginia Tech | 21 | 51,212 | |||||
| 36 | No. 2 | 42 | No. 3 Tennessee | 17 | 74,002 | |||||
| 37 | No. 5 Arizona | 23 | No. 14 Nebraska | 20 | 65,354 | |||||
| 38 | No. 3 | 31 | No. 6 Tennessee | 21 | 71,526 | |||||
| 39 | No. 9 | 66 | No. 18 Northwestern | 17 | 60,028 | |||||
| 40 | No. 1 Miami (FL) | 37 | No. 4 Nebraska | 14 | 93,781 | |||||
| 41 | Mississippi | 27 | Nebraska | 23 | 46,096 | |||||
| 42 | No. 22 | 17 | Michigan State | 3 | 56,229 | |||||
| 43 | 32 | No. 20 Michigan | 28 | 63,016 | ||||||
| 44 | No. 10 Auburn | 17 | No. 22 Nebraska | 14 | 66,777 | |||||
| 45 | 26 | Clemson | 21 | 67,282 | ||||||
| 46 | No. 20 | 33 | No. 22 Arizona | 0 | 64,607 | |||||
| 47 | Washington | 19 | No. 17 Nebraska | 7 | 57,921 | |||||
| 48 | No. 10 South Carolina | 30 | No. 21 Nebraska | 13 | 61,351 | |||||
| 49 | No. 6 Georgia | 45 | No. 23 Nebraska | 31 | 59,712 | |||||
| 50 | 24 | No. 23 Georgia | 19 | 60,712 | ||||||
| 51 | No. 24 USC | 45 | No. 25 Nebraska | 42 | 55,789 | |||||
| 52 | 37 | UCLA | 29 | 33,527 | ||||||
| 53 | Tennessee | 38 | No. 24 Nebraska | 24 | 68,496 | |||||
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