Texas becomes first ever college football program to win every New Year’s Six bowl game

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – JANUARY 01: Texas Longhorns players hold up a sign after defeating the Arizona State Sun Devils 39-31 during the second overtime in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on January 01, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Butch Dill/Getty Images)

No team has ever done it … until New Year’s Day 2025. The Texas Longhorns are the first college football program to win all New Year’s Six bowl games. The Longhorns accomplished the feat by outlasting Arizona State 38-31 in double overtime.

For years, conference affiliations determined bowl game participants. The Southwest Conference, and later the Big 12, were tied to the Cotton Bowl. The Pac-10 and Big Ten to the Rose Bowl. The SEC to the Sugar, the ACC to the Orange and so on.

In fact, Texas has never had a chance at playing in the Peach Bowl until the 12-team playoff format came into existence this year. But as a blue blood program with plenty of history, UT had played in and won the other five.

The BCS first opened up some of the rigid bowl ties. That’s how the Longhorns played in the Rose Bowl against Michigan and USC during the Vince Young years.

Texas has a winning record in all but one of the five New Year’s Six bowl games they’ve played in. The Horns (2-3) only have a losing record in the Sugar Bowl.

The feat is mostly thanks to coincidence and circumstance, but that doesn’t make it less special and another feather in the programs collective hat.

Texas Longhorns New Year’s Six Bowl Game Records

Cotton Bowl (11-10-1)

1943 vs. Georgia Tech (W 14–7)

1944 vs. Randolph Field (T 7–7)

1946 vs. Missouri (W 40–27)

1951 vs. Tennessee (L 20–14)

1953 vs. Tennessee (W 16-0)

1960 vs. Syracuse (L 23–14)

1962 vs. Ole Miss (W 12–7)

1963 vs. LSU (L 13-0)

1964 vs. Navy (W 28–6)

1969 vs. Ole Miss (W 36–13)

1970 vs. Notre Dame (W 21–17)

1971…

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Author : Longhorns Wire

Publish date : 2025-01-02 04:12:00

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